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Quote of the “Make My Day”

Wow – Imagine What Canada Would Have Been Like If He Had Shown That Kind Of Passion When He Was In Office!


“This country is not going to be dumbed down by a federal government that doesn’t care if in fact we make good policy based on good evidence. This is not the way to run a democracy.”

– former Prime Minister Paul Martin


I Thought Getting Out Of Control And Levelling Baseless Charges Was Your Job Description


“If I get out of control and start levelling baseless charges…guess what happens? I’m fired.”

– Glenn Beck


Haven’t You Been Saying His Very Existence Did That, Rush…?


“Our words really do matter. There is this vast echo chamber, and the words fall on the serious and delirious alike.”

– former President Bill Clinton asking that the violent rhetoric in American discourse be toned down

Bill Clinton “just gave the kooks in this country an excuse to go be violent.”


– Rush Limbaugh


Okay, That’s One Explanation For The Republican Party


“The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.”

– Marquis of Halifax


The World Cup Of Stupidity Has A Winner!


“Hopefully, with all Torontonians fleeing, we’ll have lots of rooms at pubs” to watch the World Cup of soccer during the G20 summit

– Courtney Battistone, head of media and public affairs at the UK High Commission in Ottawa


A Serious Case Of Gas Pump In Mouth Disease


“But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives.  And that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country.  (Applause.)  It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development.”

– President Obama in his State of the Union Address

“For too long…there has been a cozy relationship between the industry and the [regulators] that permit them to drill. That cannot and will not happen any more.”


– President Obama in his state of the oil spill disaster address


She Was Just A Kid From The Sticks Who Traveled To The Big City To Find Her Fame And Fortune, Caught Her Big Break When The Star Got Ill AND THEN WAS OUTED AS A CIA AGENT!


“This isn’t one of those films you see like The Cove, where you instantly want to send a text message to give $10 to save the dolphins… I’m a realist and I understand how we got to a position where the press parroted what the White House told them to say because that’s how you got access to the White House.”

– Doug Liman, director of Fair Game, about Valerie Plame


Or, Until The Evidence Becomes Overwhelming, Whichever Comes First


“As long as I live I will deny it.”

– seven time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong on allegations of fraud and doping


Silly Me! I Thought It Was Because Of All The Things They Do That Are Hateful


“We hate the oil companies because they don’t do anything to make us love them.”

– John Hofmeister, former head of Shell Oil, author of Why We Hate The Oil Companies


You, Sir, Are Clearly Beyond Any Snark I Could Direct Your Way


“You should never raise taxes in order to cut taxes. Surely Congress has the authority – and it would be right – if we decide we want to cut taxes to spur the economy, not to have to raise taxes in order to offset those costs. You do need to offset the cost of increased spending. And that’s what Republicans object to. But you should never have to offset the cost of a deliberate decision to reduce tax rates on Americans.”

– Arizona Republican Senator John Kyl


Not That That Will Stop Us From Opposing Gay Marriage…


“The state has no place in the bedrooms of Canada.”

– Conservative MP Maxime Bernier, channelling his inner Pierre Trudeau to justify scrapping the long-form census


Sit On The Mushrooms All You Want, Newt, But, For Heaven’s Sake, Stop Eating Them!


The Obama administration and its treacherous Congressional allies of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi constitute a “secular-socialist machine [which] represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.”

– Newt Gingrich


Sure – As Soon As Any Of Its Reporters Start Practicing Journalism


“Will Fox News get that seat?”

– Fox commentator Brian Kilmeade, on Helen Thomas’ front-row seat in the White House press corps


So I Can Get Back To My Financial Sandbox And Play


“People need to tone down the rhetoric around financial services and stop the populism and be adults.”

– GE CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt


It’d Beat The Ass Off A Jim DeMint Inaction Figure!


“Another thing we can do for jobs is make toys of me, especially for the holidays. Little dolls. Like maybe little action dolls. Me in an army uniform, air force uniform, and in my suit. That’s something that would create jobs. So, you see, I think out of the box like that.”

– Alvin Greene, South Carolina Democratic Senate nominee


I Said It Until I Stopped Saying It And Then I Didn’t Say It Any More


“It’s always funny because I’ve been in public life and not been afraid to speak my mind for probably twenty-some-odd years. And so people always say, you know, ‘Did you say this?’ And it’s like, ‘Well, I don’t know, it’s been 20 years of me popping off and saying what I thought.'”

– Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul


But, Wasn’t Extremism What Got Us Into That War In The First Pla – Oh, You Meant Their Extremism, Not Ours


“If the rush to the exits takes hold as the new prevailing orthodoxy, it will mean extremism has won an important victory.”

– Liberal Bob Rae


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