Do Republicans Listen To Themselves Speak?
“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”
– Sarah Palin, Friday
“There are many disturbing details in the current bill that Washington is trying to rush through Congress, but we must stick to a discussion of the issues and not get sidetracked by tactics that can be accused of leading to intimidation or harassment. Such tactics diminish our nation’s civil discourse…”
– Sarah Palin, Sunday
I’d Respond, But I Think I’m Coming Down With Something
“What better way to create a nation of hypochondriacs?”
– Eustace Davie, Free Market Foundation, contemplating a publicly funded health system for South Africa similar to that of Canada
This Will Hopefully Help Us With Our Second Priority: Not Getting Our Asses Sued Off For Our Role In The Debacle
“Our first priority as a government is obviously to see her get on a flight back to Canada.”
– Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Suaad Hagi Mohamud, a Canadian citizen stranded in Kenya for three months
And, They Haven’t Died Of Exhaustion?
“They’ve been dancing non-stop for the past three months.”
– Toronto Star writer Debra Yeo on contestants on So You Think You Can Dance Canada
Do Republicans Listen To Themselves Speak? The Sequel
“It is horrific to know that in the African American community, 50 percent of all African American pregnancies in the United States end in abortion, 50 percent. That is a genocide of African Americans of the United States. It should not be. There are Americans all across this country who would love to adopt African American babies, but they can’t because 50 percent of all African American pregnancies today are ending in abortion.”
– Republican Representative Michele Bachmann, abortion opponent
“That’s why people need to continue to go to the town halls, continue to melt the phone lines of their liberal members of Congress and let them know, under no certain circumstances will I give the government control over my body and my health care decisions.”
– Republican Representative Michele Bachmann, choice advocate
Let Them Eat White Phosphorous!
“Israel’s only crime is that it does not have an automatic majority in the UN.”
– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Kyl, The Messenger
“I really reject the notion that the American people oppose [health-care reform] because somebody on the Republican side has deliberately spread misinformation about the plan.”
– Senate minority whip Jon Kyl
Their Record On Telling The Truth To Congress, On The Other Hand…
“The CIA has a strong record in terms of following legal guidance and informing the Department of Justice of potentially illegal conduct.”
– CIA Director Leon Panetta
It’s A Problem We Can All Sympathize With
“The problem many face is that their healthy incomes have shaped lifestyles that involve annual spending to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars.”
– Michael Nairne, National Post
Talent, Apparently, Is Nothing
“Leafs Nation: spirit is everything.”
– radio ad for the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team
Like Shark Wrestling?
“These new rules may drive the best and brightest out of the banks into less regulated institutions.”
– Wall Street Journal editorial on Washington’s plans to reregulate the banking industry
Talking About Himself In The Third Person (Bob Dole Ego Dissociation Syndrome) Is One Of Harry Reid’s Serious Problems
“Joe Lieberman is the least of Harry Reid’s problems.”
– Harry Reid
Proper English Grammar. It’s Our Estranged Uncle.
“Integrity. It’s Who We Are.”
– advertisement for the Holy Trinity School
You And What Armey?
He “dismissed regional concerns as ‘parochial’ issues that would not determine the outcome of the election.”
– Dick Armey supports Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman in New York’s 23rd district before the election
“The fact of the matter is, he didn’t pay enough attention to the local concerns, and they were able to tag him as being unaware of the local needs and concerns.”
– Dick Armey supports Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman in New York’s 23rd district after he lost
And, Keeping Your Powder On Fire
“I’m asking people to come to Washington D.C. by the carload, and next Thursday at noon I’ll be at a press conference on the steps of the Capitol. I’d love to have every one of your viewers join me so we can go up and down through the halls, find members of Congress, look at the whites of their eyes and say, ‘Don’t take away my healthcare!'”
– who else? Representative Michele Bachmann
Only When You’re Trying To Figure Out How To Pay For It All
“Buying things is and can and should be a form of creative expression.”
– Lee Eisenberg, author, Shoptimism
Common Wisdom, As Usual, Is More Common Than Wise
“I think what this signaled this weekend is that the public option is dead. It’s not coming back.”
– Dana Perino
“The big federal insurance apparatus isn’t going to happen.”
– Bill O’Reilly
“The wascally wabbit is dead. It doesn’t have a chance.”
– Charles Krauthammer
“The real ‘public option’ is to scrap the current grandiose plans and to start over. There is no health care crisis, and doing no harm is far preferable to doing real damage to a good health care system.”
– Bill Kristol
“Wolf, I think it’s now clear that a robust public option, the type supported and proposed by Senator Rockefeller today, is dead. They simply do not have the votes.”
– David Gergen
“The public option in health care is dead. So go buy the health care stocks. But what else does President Obama have up his sleeve?”
– Jim Cramer
“Is the public option really dead? Probably.”
– Nate Silver
“There’s, first of all, the people who still want the public option. I think they’ve unconsciously capitulated; they don’t realize it yet.”
– David Brooks
“Snowe’s support in committee virtually ensures that the public option won’t wind up in the final bill as she is on the record opposing such a move and it’s hard to see the White House giving up her support after they won it once.”
– Chris Cillizza
“Nancy Pelosi firmly believes that when the moment comes, she can gather her caucus together, tell them that she fought harder for the public option than Barack Obama did, than Harry Reid did, than any senator did. No one fought harder for it than Nancy Pelosi, and she is now telling her troops they’re going to have to go forward without it. That moment is going to come.”
– Lawrence O’Donnell