Liberals:

President Barack Obama: “We’ve already seen change take pace.  2012 is about reminding the American people how far we’ve traveled.”

Barack Obama campaign manager Jim Messina on a video for the Barack Obama YouTube channel: “People have speculated this is a billion dollar campaign, that’s bullsh*t.”

President Barack Obama: “I just called Reggie [Love, the former Duke University basketball player who had been his constant companion and presidential "body man"]; I miss him.”

Obama: “One of my New Year’s resolutions is to get out of Washington and spend time with folks like you.”

Obama: “Part of what 2012 is about is both reminding the American people of how far we’ve traveled and the concrete effects that some of our work. . . but part of it is also framing this larger debate about what kind of country are we going to leave for our children and our grandchildren.”

White House press secretary Jay Carney: “There are more things that need to be done.  There are elements of the jobs act that we believe, as we did from the beginning, merit bipartisan consideration and support. This country is in crying need of work on its infrastructure.”

Obama: “When Congress refuses to act, and, as a result, hurts our economy and puts our people at risk, I have an obligation as President to do what I can without them.  I’ve got an obligation to act on the behalf of the American people and I’m not going to stand by while a minority in the Senate puts party ideology ahead of the people that we were elected to serve—not with so much at stake, not at this make-or-break moment for middle class Americans—we’re not gonna let that happen.”

House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson: “It’s a new year; we’re going to give our colleagues the benefit of the doubt.  That’s why we’re here, sleeves rolled up and ready to work.  It has been suggested to me by the New York Times that, last week, in the science section, that what may, in fact, be impacting our colleagues on the other side of the aisle,  is that they have prosopagnosia.  Now that, for you out there in the audience, means this: It’s a blindness that they have. It is a blindness that also works in a way that you don’t recognize people’s voices. How else can you not hear the plea of 14 million Americans that are out of work who need to be put back to work?”

Released statement from Nancy Pelosi: Republicans have held the House majority for more than 230 days and here is their record:

Have failed to pass a single piece of legislation to create jobs.

Have actually voted to pass legislation that would destroy nearly 2 million jobs, including:
•    Passed the “So Be It” spending bill to slash investments in our economic future like education, college aid, life-saving medical research, infrastructure, and clean energy, and cut 700,000 jobs.
•    Passed a budget that would cost Americans 1.7 million jobs by 2014, with 900,000 jobs lost next year, according to Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.
•    Passed GOP Patients’ Rights Repeal bill puts insurance companies back in charge of health care and repeals the Affordable Care Act, thereby destroying more than 300,000 jobs.”

House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi: “I simply will not have us engage in a this that last August, ten years ago. This is about the here and now and the highly unusual circumstances that we are in because of the of the Republican failed economic policies of President George Bush took us to a financial meltdown, took us into near depression, took us into deep deficits that we still have to deal with! Are they just too tired to come to work? I hope not!”

Joe Biden on op-ed: “[Presidential candidate Mitt] Romney appears satisfied to settle for an economy in which fewer people succeed, while the majority of Americans are left to tread water or fall behind. His proposal would actually double down on the policies that caused the greatest economic calamity since the Great Depression and accelerated a decades-long assault on the middle class.”

Obama recess appointee Richard Cordray: “The court has held that, any legislation that affects the national economy, even if it affects matters that are not economic themselves but have incidental effects on the economy—and healthcare insurance clearly does—is [a] valid exercise of Congressional authority.”  In other words, this means that, in his opinion, Congress should be able to legislate anything they want.

DNC Chief Wasserman Schultz: “Frankly, the collection of Republicans that are running for president really are pretty unremarkable. They all embrace extremism and embrace the Tea Party.”

DCCC fund-raising letter from Steve Israel: “[Give me $3 and] I’ll be able to tell Leader Pelosi, the Republicans, the media, and anyone else who’ll listen that half-a-million Americans are fed up with these Tea Party extremists “  And the last TEA party rally was when…?

Representative Joe Crowley, in a DCCC fund-raising letter “Democrats are fighting for jobs, for the middle class, for women’s rights. Republicans are busy groveling to the Koch Brothers and Grover Norquist’s wealthy buddies.”

Email from Jim Messina, campaign manager for Obama for America: “The path ahead for Romney – or whichever of the Republican candidates is going to emerge from this process – is sadly and starkly very clear: to run even further to the extreme right, and make even more dangerous promises that threaten not only the progress we’ve made but the fundamental fabric of American society.”

Email from James Kraal, the National Policy Director of Obama for America: “So today the President appointed former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. For months, Senate Republicans – with Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum right behind them – have fought this bureau every step of the way, and their latest strategy is to refuse to allow even an up-or-down vote on this nomination.”

Email from Jim Messina, of BarackObama.com (subject line: This is not a joke: “The extremist Tea Party agenda won a clear victory [in Iowa].”  Interesting, simply because the establishment (read, non-TEA party) candidate, Mitt Romney, won the Iowa caucus.

Email from Mitch Stewart, BarackObama.com: “I know you’ve been pretty bombarded with messages from us lately.”

Former Vice President Al Gore on the Iowa caucus: “I think this was a good night for Barack Obama.”

DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “You know, I’m a hundred percent confident that the people of Iowa and the American people will win the day on November 6th of this year when President Obama is re-elected because of his policies, because of the fact that he has brought this country out of the worst economic disaster that we faced since the Great Depression and the people of America know.”

Attorney General Eric Holder: “Too many guns have fallen into the hands of those who are not legally permitted to possess them.”  He was not talking about Operation Fast & Furious.

Rep. Barney Frank quipped a slogan suggestion for 2012 Democratic candidates: “We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who previously held pro forma sessions to block recess appointments by President George W. Bush, said Wednesday of President Obama’s decision to ignore those sessions to push through one of his key nominees: “I support President Obama‘s decision.”

Columnist Eugene Robinson on how Rick Santorum and his wife mourned their stillborn child: “He’s not a little weird, he’s really weird.  And some of his positions that he has taken are just so weird that I think that some Republicans are off-put. Not everybody is not going to be down, for example, with the story of how he and his wife handled the stillborn child. It was a body that they took home to kind of sleep with it, introduce it to the rest of the family. It’s a very weird story.”  However, it should be noted that a Boston Herald columnist takes up for Santorum.

Kalle Lasn editor-in-chief of Adbusters magazine and senior editor Micah White: “[The Occupy movement in 2012 will be] marked [by an] escalation of surprise, playful, precision disruptions, rush-hour flash mobs, bank occupations, `occupy squads’ and edgy theatrics…this means escalation, pushing us one step closer to a revolution.”

Al “Resist we much” Sharpton: “The Republican party has been in a mad rush to its extreme white wing.”

Hank Johnson is the congressman who thought Guam would tip over.

Haim Saban is an Egyptian born Israeli-American and Chairman of Univision, the Hispanic television station “The fact that Rubio and some Republican Presidential candidates have an anti-Hispanic stand that they don’t want to share with our community is understandable but despicable.”  That’s right; Marco Rubio is anti-Hispanic.

George Clooney: “I’m disillusioned by the people who are disillusioned by Obama.”

Actor Don Cheadle: “I think he inherited an impossible situation. I wish he had not been so much of a consensus-seeker. I just wanted to see a more `gangsta’ president.”

Republican Senator Scott Brown: “I’m the most bipartisan senator in the entire delegation if not the most bipartisan senator in the entire Senate.”  Great….

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who is suffering from cancer, in a nationally televised speech to the military: “It’s very difficult to explain, even with the law of probabilities, what has been happening to some of us in Latin America.  Would it be so strange that they’ve invented technology to spread cancer and we won’t know about it for 50 years?”

Hugo Chavez: “Obama, mind your own business and devote yourself to rule your country which you have turned into a disaster…I am sorry for you, Obama.  Ask the black communities and the porr of your country what you mean to them—the biggest frustration.”

Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro: “Many dangers threaten us, but two of them, nuclear war and climate change, are decisive and are drifting further away from a solution.”

The Compliant Obama Press Corps:

NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams on President Obama’s shirtless photos from his Hawaiian vacation: “The photos that come out today may make it tougher for men of a certain age who go to the beach for summer vacation this year because a lot of guys are now going to be expected to dive for every football that comes remotely close to them. This is the 50-year-old President of the United States on New Year’s Day in what appears to be a hardcore beach football game.”

ABC World News anchor Diane Sawyer on Obama’s controversial nominee: “Consumer champion. Can this brand new man in town help you with your mortgage, your car loan, your credit cards?”  By the way, if you are a liberal reading this, and you do not see the biased reporting here…

CBS’s Leslie Stahl, setting the table for a 60 Minutes segment with Eric Cantor: “2011 will be remembered as a year of perpetual gridlock in Washington and open combat between the President and the Republicans in Congress. There was a litany of standoffs: from three near government shutdowns, to a stalemate over raising the debt ceiling, to the latest skirmish over extending the payroll tax cut. There seems to be more finger-pointing than governing and the public is fed up.  President Obama‘s nemesis throughout the year was 48-year-old Congressman Eric Cantor of Virginia, the Majority Leader of the House, who played a major role in the Republican strategy. The White House blames Eric Cantor, more than anyone else, for disrupting the President’s first term. Especially for scuttling one set of deficit reduction talks after another.”

“Good Morning America’s” John Berman (on ABC) asks this question, looking forward to their Republican debate: “How mean for Mitt Romney? Will Romney go after his new chief rival, Rick Santorum, or leave that to his new friend John McCain?”

Huge ABC graphic showing a picture of Romney next to bold lettering: “How mean will he get?”

Newsweek‘s Andrew Romano: headline “Team Obama has quietly built a juggernaut re-election machine in Chicago.”

New York Times’ Opinion writer Andrew Rosenthal: “There has been a racist undertone to many of the Republican attacks leveled against President Obama for the last three years, and in this dawning presidential campaign.”

Washington Post Opinion writer Courtland Milloy: “Watching television coverage of the Republican caucuses in Iowa, I noticed that nearly everybody was white: white people smiling over coffee, white people applauding at candidate forums, white people singing praise songs at church. True, Iowa has so few blacks that it would probably take a hawk’s eye to spot one. But the GOP caucuses could have been held in any state, and the crowd would look the same…Which made me wonder: In a country as large and diverse as ours, how is it that one of the two major political parties has become, in essence, a white people’s party?”  Observations which are both distorted and were never made of the various occupy movements.

Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson: “Maybe, I understand Chris Christie‘s really popular in Iowa, he plays well out there, it just, the optics, to see it from a distance, to watch him essentially threaten the good folks of Iowa with some sort of Jersey-ness if they don’t do what he says.”

Time Magazine’s Joe Klein: “…we’re probably not going to be able to stop Iran from getting a bomb…Those guys don’t want to go to war again. If they got a bomb it would just be to deter Israel and Pakistan.”

Donna Brazile, who is a commentator for CNN, NPR and ABC, in a fund-raising letter for the DCCC (Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee): “I’d like to know what middle class Americans did to the Republican Party.  For that matter, what did seniors, women, students, folks that breathe air and drink water, and anyone who puts in an honest day’s work do to make Tea Party Republicans so angry and determined to attack us?”

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman: “And I think Newt’s rise is speaking to us. And what it says to me is, is that I think there’s a lot of Republicans who are starved for a candidate for their party who would be able to debate Obama head-to-head, they think is as smart and mellifluous as the president.”

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: “I think Newt is like Freddy Krueger. He keeps coming back. You know? The guy does not die, there’s always going to be a sequel.”

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: “Well, I think the Republican Party has, unfortunately for it, built itself over the droppings of the Democratic Party for about 50 years. First of all, they picked up all the Dixiecrats, all the segregationists who went from the Democratic Party after the civil rights bill of ’64 and the Voting Rights Act.  Their mind is closed because of these droppings they’ve picked up from the Democratic Party. The neocons have closed down their mind just like the segregationists closed down their mind about civil rights and the moral majority closed down their minds about social issues. The party is dying of this intake, effluent from the Democratic Party. That’s my thought.”

Former Newsweek writer Jonathan Alter on MSNBC about Michele Bachmann: “It doesn’t matter whether she does. You know, correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t she not standing for re-election to the House? Is it possible that finally we will be rid of this woman for good?”

MSNBC’s Martin Bashir: “There’s nothing subtle about Newt Gingrich or Mr. Santorum. Their comments are clearly targeted at the President, who’s black, and at other members of society, who haven’t made millions of dollars from lobbying. But while sticks and stones may break your bones, the public inquiry into the life and death of Stephen Lawrence shows that words can and do cause irreparable damage to a culture and a society. Newt Gingrich is never going to win the Republican nomination, but he could badly damage race relations in the process. So here is a simple plea: Let’s cut out the food stamps rhetoric right now before things get any worse.”  In other words, Gingrich and Santorum are to blame for racists murdering black people.

Daily Kos’s Troubadour article title: “Barack Obama: Best President Ever.”

Huffington Post:

Liberals from the past:

Oprah Winfrey, from 2008: “I’m in his [Obama’s] corner for whatever he needs me to do.”

NY Times reporter Shaila Dewan when jobs were being lost in 2009, wrote a story entitled:  “Weren’t we working too much, anyway?”

Statement from House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi in 2005:  “The President’s decision to circumvent the Senate and use a recess appointment naming John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations is a mistake.  John Bolton‘s record provides no evidence of the kind of diplomatic skill, temperament and judgment that ought to be prerequisites for this critical position. There are serious unanswered questions about whether Mr. Bolton improperly used sensitive intelligence information for political purposes, which contributed to the lack of support he had in the Senate.  For President Bush to use a recess appointment for such a controversial nominee not because there was a compelling case that Mr. Bolton was the best person for the job, but merely because the President had the power to do it subverts the confirmation process in ways that will further harm the United States reputation in the eyes of the international community. The American people deserve better.”

Barack Obama in 2008: “The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion dollars for the first 42 presidents — number 43 added $4 trillion dollars by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. It’s irresponsible. IT’S UNPATRIOTIC!”  Today, that debt is $48,873.84 for every man, woman and child.

Senator Obama on the stump in 2008: “[the president should not attach] a letter [to legislation that he signs] saying `I don’t agree with this part’ or `I don’t agree with that part.’  Congress’s job is to pass legislation. The president can veto it or he can sign it.”  So far, President Obama used 20 signing statements.

Media Headlines:

The Telegraph: Rick Santorum is a big government conservative. He’d be a disaster in the White House

National Review OnLine: Santorum’s Big-Government Conservatism

CBS News: Will Santorum’s big government conservatism resonate?

New York Times

Liberal civility:

Former CNN reporter Bob Franken on MSNBC talking on Republican candidates who talk about blacks and government dependency: “I think this is very intentional. I think it is part of a hateful campaign that is being very methodically run in the hope it`s going to appeal to voters who would love to see us return to the good old days of Jim Crow.”

Crazy Muslims:

Rally organizer on Al-Aqsa TV : “Praise be to you, our Lord. You have made our killing of the Jews an act of worship, through which we come closer to you.  Allah’s prayers upon you, our beloved Prophet [Muhammad]. You have made your teachings into constitutions for us – the light with which we dissipate the darkness of the occupation, and the fire with which we harvest the skulls of the Jews.  Yes, our beloved brothers, even though the entire world moves closer to Allah through fasting, through hunger, and through tears, we are a people that moves closer to Allah through blood, through body parts, and through martyrs.”

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Israeli attempts to “Judaize” Jerusalem: “This ridiculous move is in fact the continuation of the colonialist polices of oppressors, which will not save the Zionist regime, but also take the regime closer to the endpoint of its existence.”

Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi-Golpaygani, a senior cleric in Iran: “Basically, going to any website which propagates immoralities and could weaken the religious belief is un-Islamic and not allowed, and membership in it [facebook] is therefore haram (a sin),”

Habibulah Sayari, Iranian Navy Commander: “We are able to announce that our shore-to-sea missile systems are so powerful that we can hit any target, any time, if it’s necessary.”  Their range is 124 miles, which puts U.S. Naval vessels outside of their capabilities.

The Mauritanian Hamada Ould Mohamed Kheirou, presumed leader of an armed Islamist group active in west Africa: “We again declare war on France, which is hostile to the interests of Islam.”

Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniyeh: “The armed resistance and the armed struggle are the path and the strategic choice for liberating the Palestinian land, from the [Mediterranean] sea to the [Jordan] river, and for the expulsion of the invaders and usurpers [Israel]. . . We won’t relinquish one inch of the land of Palestine.”

Afghan President Hamid Karzai: “I am very happy that the American government has announced that the Taliban are not their enemies.  We hope that this message will help the Afghans reach peace and stability.”

Turkish Imam Suleiman Eniceri of Santa Claus: “If he was an honest person he would come through the door as we do.”

Liberals making sense:

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz “When is a win a loss? It’s a loss when you’re Mitt Romney, and you spent the most and only beat the guy who spent the least in the state by 8 votes.”

Moderates/Affiliation Unknown:

Talking car on The Simpson: “Hello, I’m an electric car—I can’t go very fast or very far.”

New York Times columnist David Brooks on President Obama (Brooks voted for Obama, in part, because he like the crease in his pants): “I still like him and admire him personally, but he’s certainly more liberal than I thought he was…He’s more liberal than he thinks he is. He thinks he’s just slightly center-left, but when you get down to his instincts, they’re pretty left. And his problem is that he can’t really act on them, because it would be political disaster. And so that means, I think right now he’s doing very little, proposing very little.”

In a random act of journalism, the Washington Post (writers Joe Stephens and Carol D. Leonnig): “Obama‘s green-technology program was infused with politics at every level, The Washington Post found in an analysis of thousands of memos, company records and internal -e-mails. Political considerations were raised repeatedly by company investors, Energy Department bureaucrats and White House officials.  The records, some previously unreported, show that when warned that financial disaster might lie ahead, the administration remained steadfast in its support for Solyndra.”

Washington Post writer Charles Lane: “I think one of the amazing thing that this all shows is that Republican Party might be about to crown winner of the Iowa caucuses someone (Ron Paul) with the foreign policy views of Jeremiah Wright. remember that?”

Former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke: “Again, I go back to that, you know, traditional topic that I always talk about, you know, the powers of international Zionism – a power in banking, a power in media, a power in government influence, in campaign finance – a power that’s, you know, hurting the values of this country on behalf of Israel.  So, I would vote for Ron Paul at this moment because he’s one of the few candidates who have policies in this regard and this realm that I wholeheartedly support, and that’s why I’d vote for him.”  Should I have put this quote with the crazy Muslims?

Megyn McCain: “If Rick Santorum becomes the nominee of this party, I mean, it is going to be bedlam and hysteria like you have never seen.”

Megyn McCain: “If he [John McCain, her father] had endorsed Santorum, I mean, I would be like slitting my wrists on the table right now.”

Steve Kolesczar, school board chairman for school where 3rd graders supposedly wrote lyrics about the 99% movement as a part of being taught to be imaginative and artsy fartsy by the Kid Pan Alley group: “They don’t censor what the kids write, they [Kid Pan Alley] don’t shape what the kids write, it all comes out of the kids’ own mouths and the kids’ own words…the kids choose the topic…and those are their words.”  The lyrics are featured in Conservative Review #210.

Crosstalk:

Diane Sawyer: “Governor Romney?”

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney: “Do you have a question, or should I just—?”
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MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: “Let me tell you what he [Rick Santorum] said. He’s said `My religion should dominate, should trump issues of the Constitution.’ He was saying, `Bill O’Reilly, you and I are of the same religion, therefore we should deny a woman’s constitutional right to buy birth control or a male to buy birth control.’ Isn’t that what he said? We just showed the tape.”

Traynham: “I don’t think he said that.”

Matthews: “He just did. Okay? He just did. And that’s what scares me. He thinks we should have a theocracy.”
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Piers Morgan: “Have you been happy with the way that Obama has been runnin’ the country?”

Actor Matt Damon: “Uhhh, no; no; I really think he misinterpreted his mandate.”

Conservatives:

Michele Bachmann, bowing out of the Republican race: “Last night, the people of Iowa spoke with a very clear voice, and so, I have decided to stand aside.”

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum: “Game on.”

Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich: “The American people create jobs, not government.”

Presidential candidate Rick Perry: “We have a president that’s a socialist.  I don’t think that our founding fathers wanted American to be a socialist country.”

Walter E. Williams: “The big problems of the United States are Congress exceeding its authority.”

Ben Steyn: “Unemployment hits a few people, but inflation hits everyone.”

Sarah Palin: “The GOP would be so remiss to marginalize Ron Paul and his supporters as we come out of Iowa tonight and move down the road to New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida, et cetera. If we marginalize these supporters who have been touched by Ron Paul and what he believed in over these years, well, then, through a third party run of Ron Paul’s or the Democrats capturing those independents and these libertarians who supported what Ron Paul’s been talking about, well, then the GOP is going to lose. And then there will be no light at the end of the tunnel…So, the worst thing that the GOP machine can do is marginalize Ron Paul and his supporters.”

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum on President Obama’s appointment of Richard Cordray during a Senate pro forma session: “What the president did was wrong – pretty scary stuff.  I hope that the United States Senate does what they’re supposed to do, and they should go and even take the president to court. This is not something that the president should get away with.”

Rick Santorum: “We will degrade those facilities [in Iran] through airstrikes, and make it very public that we are doing that.”

Santorum: “On occasion, scientists working on the nuclear program in Iran turn up dead. I think that’s a wonderful thing, candidly.”

Dick Morris, former advisor to Bill Clinton: “Conservatives like the conservatism of Newt but know that Romney can win.”  [quoted from memory]

Brent Bozell: “How’s this for a number: 1,289 network news stories on Barack Obama in 2008, only six ever mentioned his position on the Born Alive Bill, which is a bill to save the life of a baby that survives a partial-birth abortion and he stopped even that…. No one ever called that extreme. “  Obama’s position is to allow the doctor or nurse to kill the baby who was accidentally born alive.

Bill Kristol, Editor, the Weekly Standard, on Obama’s proposed military cuts: “Look at how much trouble we had doing the surge in Iraq. Look at how much of a strain that put on our military. What? Five years ago or so, we had to have 15-month tours for the army, we’re now going to have a much smaller Army and Marine Corps. But luckily, nothing’s ever going to happen anymore. You know what, there’s never gonna be a case we’re gonna have to intervene, we’re never gonna be attacked. Al Qaeda is never going to set up safe havens, there’s never gonna be a surprise like Korea. And so we can go ahead and blindly do this.”

Iowa voter on Rick Perry’s plan to cut the salary and time in session for Congress: “I don’t know they need a full year to make that many mistakes.”  [quoted from memory]

Charles Krauthammer on the same topic: “Under John Kennedy, whom I don’t remember liberals ever attacking as a man who overspent on defense, half of the budget of the federal budget was on defense. Today it’s a fifth. Under Kennedy, we spent 9.5 percent of our economy on the military. Today it’s headed to four percent and shrinking. As a percentage of our economy it’s going to get a lot smaller.”

Ed Rollins on Obama: “This is a tired president who doesn’t like his job.”

FoxNews commentator Kimberly Guilfoyle on Obama: “Here’s the problem: he’s got a record now.  He’s got actually something which is like an albatross around him that he can’t escape: the reckless spending, our deficit, the unemployment numbers, the lack of jobs.”

Kimberly Guilfoyle on Obama’s appearance on his video to Iowa: “Somebody give him some geritol, vitamins and an I.V.”

Kimberly Guilfoyle’s child on Obama: “He always talking, mom.”

Andy Levy, comedian/commentator for FoxNews: “There’s a big difference between Jon Stewart and Bill Maher—one is that, he’s [Stewart] funny.”

Weasel Zippers headline: “Obama Photographed Shirtless In Hawaii, Tingles [Chris Matthews] Seen Hyperventilating Into a Paper Bag.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Mitt Romney never laid off half a million people at Bain Capital. How come there’s no outrage at Obama laying off all these military people? We want to talk about the electability of these Republicans, how about the unelectability of Barack Obama?”

Rush Limbaugh: “Perception is reality in politics. It frustrates me, too. Really does.”

Rush Limbaugh: “I may get to the point where I will pay somebody to write a story in the mainstream media suggesting the Democrats better tone it down or else they’re gonna tick off the independents. I just want to see that story one time.”

Rush Limbaugh: “We do not have a media that is in any way focused on news, truth, anything of the sort. They are totally focused on how much fun it is to flummox the opposition and how when the White House does it how wonderful that is and how the media will help do that.”

Rush Limbaugh: “There is no economic growth taking place and that’s the truth that’s not being reported and that’s what underlies the myth and the fraud that’s being reported today.”

Rush Limbaugh: “I could sit here all day and tell you how these jobs numbers are not accurate. It’s not gonna matter. The news is Obama’s policies are working. The news is it’s finally kicking in. The news is the economy is growing. The news is jobs are being created.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Capitalism was not in play during the TARP bailout, during Obama stimulus, and it’s not at play here with this potential mortgage bailout, either. If capitalism were really in play, none of this would be going on.  Capitalism’s getting a bad rap.”

Rush Limbaugh: “I wanted to remind you, this is an election year and there is no news.  The fact that the media does news is a misnomer.  The media is an arm of the Democrat Party of the Obama administration.  They have an agenda and the whole point here is to spread propaganda.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Obama is not confronting the Republicans.  He’s confronting the Constitution.  The Republicans are not Obama’s obstacle.  The Constitution is Obama’s obstacle.”

Rush Limbaugh: “If big government anything was a winner, then they’d be running around calling Obama a big government guy, not Santorum.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Now the media is telling us they’re afraid of Romney. That’s strategic so that we think we should support Romney. But the left is never gonna tell us what they really want us to do, and the left is never looking out for our best interests.”

Rush Limbaugh: “‘Big government’ has a specific meaning today, and it means welfare state. It means redistribution. It means high taxes. It means command-and-control of the economy.”

Conservatives from the Past:

Rick Santorum, from March of last year: “Jihadism is evil and we need to say what it is.  We need to define it and say what it is. And it is evil. Sharia law is incompatible with American jurisprudence and our Constitution.”

Republican Infighting:

Newt Gingrich: “Romney would buy the election if he could.”

Rick Santorum on Ron Paul:  “I mean he’s out in the Dennis Kucinich wing of the Democratic Party.”

Dick Morris: “Forget Rick Perry; he’s done.”

Conservatives not making any sense:

Michael Krull, campaign director for New Gingrich, about not getting on the ballot in Virginia: “Newt and I agreed that the analogy is December 1941 [Pearl Harbor].  We have experienced an unexpected setback, but we will re-group and re-focus with increased determination, commitment and positive action”

Very moderate Republican Senator Scott Brown of Newt Gingrich’s desire to reign in rogue judges and rogue courts: “[Speaker Gingrich is] blissfully unaware that the Founding Fathers deliberately established our government with three co-equal branches of government, or he is fully aware of that elementary fact and yet is pandering to the right-wing extreme element in our own party.”

Presidential candidate Ron Paul: “Last week, I believe, we had a rally and people on the staff were worried. You know: Occupiers are there, occupiers are there. They’re in the front row. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? Should we call the police? I said no: Just relax a little bit. And there was no ruckus, and afterwards I shook a lot of hands. They come up to me and they say: We are from the Occupy movement but we support you. So, I figure that, you know, an open viewpoint about the Constitution and freedom and attacking some of the things that they don’t like – they don’t like the bailouts, and I don’t like the bailouts. So, there are some things that we can agree on. I think the Tea Party movement and the Occupy movement are motivated for different reasons, but they come together because they don’t trust government anymore and that’s why I think I can connect with both groups.”

Ron Paul on Obama’s enemy combatant doctrine: “As bad as they were, you know even Adolf Eichmann finally when he was captured he was taken to Israel. Israel gave him a trial. What did we do with the Nazis – war criminals – after World War II? They got trials. Yeah, and they got what was deserving: they got hung,” Paul told more than 700 voters during a campaign speech at a convention center in western Iowa.  This year has not been good for the cause of personal liberty because about a year ago the president announced there are so many bad people around that he has to really go after them to protect us.  There are some dangerous people out there. There’s a lot of ‘em. Most of them get a trial, but he changed the rules. He [Obama] says now it is proper for the president to decide to assassinate an American citizen without a trial, without charges, because he thinks they’re that dangerous.”

Ron Paul: “There’s a lot of people unhappy, and they’re not so happy with the two-party system because we have had people go in and out of office, congress changes, the presidency changes, they run on one thing, they do something else. Nothing ever changes.”

Jon Huntsman: “They pick corn in Iowa, they actually pick Presidents here in New Hampshire.”

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Liberals:

President Barack Obama: “I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln.”

President Obama: “I wanna make sure they [diplomats and workers in Iraq] come home [safely], because they’re not soldiers.”

President Obama: “I do think those dynamics are making it more difficult to get things done.  And it’s not unusual, after such a severe economic crisis like this, for the politics to be impacted by that, for people to lurch into extremes, or to get more combative.”

President Obama: “No matter how well we’re steering the ship, if the boat’s rocking back and forth and people are getting sick and, you know, they’re being buffeted by the winds and the rain … if you’re asking, ‘Are you enjoying the ride right now?’ folks are  going to say, ‘No.’  People are  going to say, ‘You know what? A good captain would have had us in some smooth waters and sunny skies at this point.’ And I don’t control the weather.”

President Obama: “I mean if you look at the trend lines, essentially what’s happened is that because of automation, because of globalization, you had a lot of manufacturing move out of the United States. Business got more efficient. They needed fewer workers. They had more leverage over workers. And all this added up to a tougher time for middle class families.  Over the last decade, between 2000 and 2008, the wages and income were flatlined even though the costs from everything from energy, to food, to healthcare were going up. And that problem was being papered-over through consumer debt – home equity loans, credit cards. And then the bubble burst.  So now, I think we’re having to squarely address problems that had been building up over time.”  Note the time frame as well as Obama blaming technological advances.

Obama: “I do think that right now at least, in the Republican Party there are a couple of notions. Number one is that compromise is a dirty word. Number two, anything that Obama’s for, we’re against.”

President Obama: “It’s hard to remember a time when the administration gave more support to the security of Israel. Don’t let anyone to tell you otherwise. It’s a fact.”

President Obama: “I am confident that the vision that we believe in so deeply and that we’ve worked so hard for is the vision that is truest to our history and most representative of the core decency of the American people.”

Obama car czar Steve Rattner: “We never said taxpayers would get auto bailout money back…[because this saved jobs], I think the taxpayers got a good deal.”

Vice President Joe Biden: “The biggest thing that’s happened, the president has been able to unite the world including Russia and China. In continuing to ostracize and to isolate Iran. So the truth is, and I really mean this, Rachel, the talk about the projection, the capacity of [Iran] to project power in the Gulf is actually diminished. They are less feared. They are less – they have less influence than they have had any time, I would argue, in the last 20 years. And there will be a relationship between Iraq and Iran because they have a very long border. They will trade. They should have a normal relationship. But they are not allies.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: “Millionaire job creators are like unicorns.  They are impossible to find and don’t exist.”

California Governor Jerry Brown, who helped to take California over a financial cliff back in the 1970′s and 80′s: “The main thing we have to deal with in climate change is the skepticism, the denial and the cult-like behavior of the political lemmings that would take us over the cliff.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.): “The payroll tax cut that the president proposed would put $1,500 in the pockets of 160 million Americans.  The unemployment insurance extension is not only good for individuals. It has a macroeconomic impact. As macroeconomic advisers have stated, it would make a difference of 600,000 jobs to our economy.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: “[Today’s legislature] can clearly be labeled the Republican do-nothing Congress. It’s a year of missed opportunities and made-up crises.”

California Democratic Congressman Mike Honda, a member of the Budget and Appropriations Committees: “The stimulus bill, which was under the other administration, was put together because we didn’t know what the hell was going on and you know, and we were trying to do things that we thought might help stimulate the economy.”  Bush’s fault again!

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) on Republicans of pushing legislation that would delay the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) industrial boiler regulations: “They have attached a poison pill – literally, colleagues – because it will kill 8,100 more people more than would have otherwise been killed from pollution.”

Maxine Waters: “This economy went into a tailspin and a meltdown because of what was going on on Wall Street.  Simply all of these exotic products that they put into the housing mortgage market caused this meltdown.  And so we have to work at getting the economy back on-line.  It’s not the president’s fault.  Don’t forget, the President of the United States came into office with a previous administration who had given, you know, unreasonable tax breaks to the wealthiest people in this country; they had allowed Wall Street to damage the housing market with exotic products, whether we’re talking about all of these different kinds of loans that came on the market, and so, it is not his fault.”  Interestingly enough, Ms. Waters was identified while spewing this nonsense as a Republican by MSNBC.  The same Waters who warned oil executives that she wanted to nationalize the oil industry.

Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas on the Occupy movement: “I want to passionately say that I do not see them as divisive…I think they are pushing fairness, justice and equality.”

New York Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel: “No matter what you think about the people who are exposing themselves out there in protesting, there’s one thing that’s abundantly clear, and that is the issues that we’re talking about are about economic justice, about moral justice.”  By exposing themselves, I don’t think Rangel meant exposing themselves.

Black activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson to an Occupy camp in London:  “Jesus was an Occupier, born under a death warrant, a Jew by religion, born in poverty under Roman occupation.  Gandhi was an Occupier, Martin Luther King was an Occupier, (Nelson) Mandela was an Occupier.”  It is so nice that Jackson is in the Christmas spirit.

Joe Phelps, columnist and liberal pastor: “The church should celebrate the Occupy movement, the group that picked up the social justice mantle dropped by the majority of today’s church, and offer our stories of divine justice.  Like the story of Pharaoh, symbol of the monopoly of wealth held by the few, and what happens when leadership fears of scarcity turn Israelites into slaves…The demands of today’s Occupy movement may seem less divine, at least from our close-up point of view.  But I wonder if, from a distance, say from heaven, the demands for justice don’t look a lot like those old, old stories.”

Russell Simmons tweet, after calling for a boycott of Lowe’s: “[I will] sic every civil rights agency on (Lowe’s) until they straighten this out.”  Lowe’s decided not to advertise on the TLC reality show, All-American Muslim, bowing to pressure from a conservative evangelical group.

California state Sen. Ted Lieu: “Lowe’s action is bigoted, shameful, and un-American.  I call on Lowe’s to rescind its action and apologize to Americans who are Muslim. If Lowe’s continues its religious bigotry, I will encourage boycotts of Lowe’s and look into legislative remedies.”

73-year old actress Jane Fonda: “[The Republican candidates] all scare me frankly.  I get depressed and scared when I look at the Republican debates.  I’m worried about anybody getting elected to office who says we have to do away with or privatise social security, we have to reduce medical health insurance, we have to not raise taxes.  And, oh, there’s no problem with the environment, this is all made up by the left, the scientists don’t really know what they’re talking about – this worries me…I think he’s [President Obama] going to be reelected. I think he’s a good man, but I wish that he was tougher on the issues that I care about and that a lot of people care about.”

Jane Fonda: “And that’s just fine by me and all the rich people I know, like Ted Turner and Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, you’re, they’re all saying, Tax us.”

Country singer Willie Nelson: “Thanks to the Occupy Wall Street movement, there’s a deeper understanding about the power that corporations wield over the great majority of us. It’s not just in the financial sector, but in all facets of our lives. The disparity between the top 1 percent and everyone else has been laid bare — there’s no more denying that those at the top get their share at the expense of the 99 percent. Lobbyists, loopholes, tax breaks… how can ordinary folks expect a fair shake?”  Nelson is worth $15 million.

Rabbi Joshua Hammerman: “If Tebow wins the Super Bowl, against all odds, it will buoy his faithful, and emboldened faithful can do insane things, like burning mosques, bashing gays and indiscriminately banishing immigrants.”  Tim Tebow is an NFL football quarterback who is very demonstrative about his faith in Jesus Christ.

Paul “Bear” Vasquez, the stoned, double-rainbow guy on Obama being reelected:  “Once he’s really geared up, he’s going to be hard to beat. They say any Republican can beat him, but I think that when he really gears up, people are just going to re-elect him.  I think he’s had a tough job. I think he was left with a big mess, so I think that, overall, he’s done a pretty good job. Do I think he could have done better? Yeah, everyone can always do better…I think he deserves to keep going because I think the alternative – getting a Republican back in office – is scary.”

Obama campaign job posting for “quantitative analysts”: “The Obama for America analytics department analyzes the campaign’s data to guide election strategy and develop quantitative, actionable insights that drive our decision-making.  We are a multi-disciplinary team of statisticians, mathematicians, software developers, general analysts and organizers – all striving for a single goal: re-electing President Obama.”

You may have been a Democrat from birth, but these are the voices of your party today.  These people are light years away from Presidents John Kennedy and Harry Truman.

The Compliant Obama Press Corps:

Liberal radio pundit and former CNN host Bill Press: “.And you know what I want to say, S.T.F.U. I’m tired of hearing Tim Tebow and all this Jesus Talk.”  S.T.F.U. means shut the f** up.

Environmental photojournalist Jenny Ross about a polar bear carrying the dead and mauled body of a polar bear cub: “This type of intraspecific predation [cannibalism] has always occurred to some extent…However, there are increasing numbers of observations of it occurring, particularly on land where polar bears are trapped ashore, completely food-deprived for extended periods of time due to the loss of sea ice as a result of climate change.”

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews:  “Let Me Finish tonight with this: Think about Newt Gingrich with tens of thousands of nuclear weapons at his disposal. Interesting thought, isn’t it? A man known to be a bomb thrower with real live bombs in his hands…Newt was hardly the sort of individual you’d give license to over the world’s greatest stockpile of nuclear weapons. You don’t give WMD to someone known even by his old former allies to be in a crunch, or even whenever things get edgy, to be himself a weapon of mass destruction.  America needs many things but a nuclear armed Newt Gingrich is not one of them.”

Joan Walsh from Salon.com, speaking on MSNBC: “You know, it’s a tough thing to talk about, Ed, but you and I both know a segment of the white working class did go over to Ronald Reagan, did abandon the Democratic party. Some of it was [because of] race and some of it was just believing that government was out of control and some people were getting something for nothing. And it was kind of a tragic thing that happened to the Democrats.””

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: “And they talked about the uprisings in the Middle East, and I just had to get a little line in there, folks, it started at the capital in Madison, Wisc.”  They don’t even care if their facts are anywhere close to being correct.

Liberals from the past:

Although Car Czar Steve Rattner this week said that no one expected for taxpayers to recoup any monies from their “investment” in GM, Ron Bloom, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner‘s senior adviser on the auto industry, in 2010, said,  “We don’t like having this investment but we’re not going to sell it at a fire sale.”

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs in 2010 also promised, “The money that this administration invested, about $60 billion, we believe we’re on the path to recouping all of that.”

Senator Obama in 2002: “I don’t oppose all wars, what I am opposed to is a dumb war…What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income, to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression.”  And since Obama has become president, there has been a huge rise in the poverty rate, a big drop in the median income, many more corporate scandals (if you include all of the green companies who receive federal dollars that are headed by Obama bundlers and donors), and a stock market that is so erratic that more and more people have put their money on the sidelines.

Then candidate Obama: “I am the only candidate who opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning.”

President Obama in 2008: “Generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs for the jobless. This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

Liberal civility:

Radio talker Thom Hartman: If evil is people pursuing policies that lead to the death of other people, yes, Karl Rove is evil.

Caller: On a comparison with Josef Goebbels?

Hartmann: No, I don’t think he’s anywhere near as bad as Goebbels. Goebbels was responsible for killing six million people. Karl Rove killed maybe 20, 30, 40, 50, maybe 100,000 people, or was responsible for policies that led to the death of those people.

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: “For the right price and a presidential nomination is his [sic], Newt is ready to jump on a dime and hit any opponent where he shows weakness. Why are they on the verge of enlisting in the army of Newt? Because he voices in cold, nasty, deadly tones the words of their contempt, because he’s an opportunist ready to seek any route to his opponent’s heart and thereby kill it. He’s a political killer, a gun for hire. But he offers a price so precious, he cannot be resisted.  This. This is the Faustian deal at hand: Newt Gingrich’s promise of a vision of which they on the right have set their hearts, the few minutes of national television in which the President and his wife stand before them in defeat. That’s why they’re offering up their partisan souls, why they’re ready to bow down before this false god of hatred.”

Gregg Doyel, CBS Sports: “If Tebow had more class he’d just kill dogs or get drunk and run over somebody and maybe end their life. You know, he’s got a lot of nerve talking about some higher power in his life.”  When asked about the harshness of this remark, Doyel said: “I’m sorry, I’m so sarcastic and dry, my humor’s not any good. I was joking.”

Chris Matthews: “It’s rare we get – this is a real morality play, the way these two guys – this isn’t complicated. One guy wants to be civilized [Romney] and the other guy wants to be a troglodyte [Gingrich] or, you know, a caveman. It’s really different approaches, to be – it isn’t hard to be a pundit this year, is it?”

Fishbowl DC’s Peter Ogburn: “ALL of the [Economic] videos with the women feature shots above the waist. Some even go out of their way to show off cleavage. Because when I think Keynesian economics, I think Titty City. Pretty weird, I know.  What’s weirder? The latest video is hosted by Michelle Fields, from the Daily Caller. It’s no secret that Michelle knows that she is gorgeous and has great hair, but this is super weird. The camera work seems to be largely inspired by the early works of the Al Qaeda hostage tapes. A nervous and awkward Fields, who clearly has NO IDEA what she is talking about, rattles on about “How the New Deal Was a Failure.” We get it, Michelle. You think you’re hot. But, if you want to be taken seriously, maybe just be good at reporting and stop showing off your legs and cleavage. Do you remember that time Diane Sawyer showed off a bunch of cleavage while reading the news? No? Because it didn’t happen!” To see what set off Ogburn’s anger, this is Michelle’s low budget Skinemax video.

Crazy Muslims:

Famous Salafi preacher Sheikh Abu Ishaq al-Huwainia in Egypt: “[The] Face of a woman like her vagina,” which necessitates all women to wear the niqab [veil].

Muslim Brotherhood female candidate, Azza al-Jarf: “Tourists don’t need to drink alcohol when they come to Egypt; they have plenty at home.”

Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah on the Day of Ashura, which aired on Al-Manar TV: “Brother and sisters, on the Day of Ashura, we renew our commitment and our pledge of allegiance. Wait a few minutes, and I will appear on the screen. Don’t go away. We will renew our commitment to Hussein, may he rest in peace.  Oh Arabs and Muslims, oh the people and the political forces, do not be misled by the US administration. It is this administration “

Police spokesman Colonel Abdullah Al Sarani  said, of a Saudi woman who was beaten and tortured with fire until she fell unconscious and died later at hospital: “We have determined that the woman beat herself up and tortured herself with fire because she is gripped by jinn…Investigation showed the other members of her family are also controlled by jinn . . . we closed the case as no criminal act is involved.”  Jinn is apparently some sort of demonic force.  “Investigation showed the other members of her family are also controlled by jinn . . . we closed the case as no criminal act is involved.”

Liberals making sense:

Senator Joe Machin: “Let me tell you right now what I can’t understand. We only have one topic on the table that everyone sort of agrees with, and it should be the template, which is Bowles-Simpson [a plan for fiscal responsibility].  Why doesn’t our leadership, why doesn’t our president, why don’t our leaders in the Senate take this template and put it together in bill form?”

President Obama: “The war in Iraq will soon belong to history, and your service belongs to the ages.  Never forget that you are part of an unbroken line of heroes spanning two centuries – from the colonists who overthrew an empire; to your grandparents and parents, who faced down fascism and communism; to you – men and women who fought for the same principles in Fallujah and Kandahar, and delivered justice to those who attacked us on 9/11.”
AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka and Obama supporter:  “I pay more than my fair share [of taxes], I’m sure.”

Time Magazine’s Ezra Klein on a graph that shows that people’s fear of Big Government is peaking: “But so far as liberalism goes, this is a pretty devastating graph.”

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: “During the 11AM hour on MSNBC, we reported on a blog item that compared a phrase used by the Romney campaign to one used by the KKK in the 1920s.  It was irresponsible and incendiary of us to do this and showed an appalling lack of judgment. We apologize, we really do, to the Romney campaign.”

MSNBC’s Al Sharpton: “One note.  One note before I go. I want to say this.  NB–MSNBC apologized tonight for reporting earlier today on a blog attempt that compared a phrase used by Mitt Romney to one once used by the Ku Klux Klan-something I’m passionate about.  But as someone who’s been a victim of unproven innuendo and half-truths, I agree the report was not proper if you could not nail down all the facts. And this network did the right thing by apologizing.”

Kelly Bingel, who served as former Sen.Blanche Lincoln‘s (D-Ark.) chief of staff until 2005: “Democrats should reject Occupy Wall Street as the spokesmen for the 99 percent.  The chance of those guys going out and voting or encouraging anyone else to vote is very low.”

Moderates/Affiliation Unknown:

Rapper Jay-Z: “I wouldn’t mind paying more taxes if it went to the things that really mattered. If it went to education and people in poverty and, you know, if it went to the right things. You know, I wouldn’t mind.  I think it — I think it should be more — it should be clearly defined, you know, clearly defined, where all the money is being allocated. Because you can understand paying so much for taxes and then things not improving. You’re like where is everything going to?”

Audi of America President, Johan de Nysschen: “[The Chevy Volt] a car for idiots….No one is going to pay a $15,000 premium for a car that competes with a (Toyota) Corolla. So there are not enough idiots who will buy it…[electric vehicles are] for the intellectual elite who want to show what enlightened souls they are.”

WVEC’s David Alan to President Obama: “Do you take any personal responsibility for your administration creating economic conditions?”

Chief foreign NBC correspondent Richard Engel:  “Did America prevail? Iraq’s future remains uncertain….What was conspicuously absent today, Brian, there were no parades among Iraqis, no victory celebrations, no thank you’s.”

Crosstalk:

Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer who voted for the $1 trillion omnibus bill: “I rise in strong support of this bill. I urge my colleagues to support this piece of legislation. None of them have read it. Not one of us has read every page in this bill.”

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) Who voted against this bill: “Not one member of this body has read the 1,221 pages of this bill representing $915 billion of the taxpayers’ money. Here we are with 15 minutes to consider a document representing $915 billion of taxpayers’ money filled with unauthorized, unrequested spending.”

Senator Tom Coburn: “Although we have an earmark ban, there are thousands of earmarks in this bill….It’s not just wrong, it’s immoral. [W]e have either taken a stupid pill or a corruption pill.”

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President Obama, December 2011: “I think we understood that it [the economy] was bad, but we didn’t know how bad it was, I think I could have prepared the American people for how bad this was going to be, had we had a sense of that.”

Obama Dec. 2011: “At a time when people have been battered by the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, it is understandable if people aren’t feeling as chipper as they were in 2008.”

Paul Volcker, a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama, in 2009: “I don’t remember any time, maybe even the Great Depression, when things went down quite so fast.”

Candidate Obama in 2008: “We are in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and a lot of you I think are worried about your jobs, your pensions, your retirement accounts.”  I could continue with pages of our president claiming that this recession was every bit as bad or nearly as bad as the Great Depression before and after he became president.

Declan McCullagh on EconWatch in 2009: “Comparisons with the Great Depression have become commonplace.”

Bradley R. Chiller from 2009 from a Wall Street Journal article: “President Barack Obama has turned fearmongering into an art form. He has repeatedly raised the specter of another Great Depression. First, he did so to win votes in the November election. He has done so again recently to sway congressional votes for his stimulus package.”
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Reps. Judy Chu (D-Calif.), Robert “Bobby” Scott (D-Va.) and Mike Honda (D-Calif.) sent a joint letter to the attorney general Eric Holder: “The NYPD has engaged in conduct that has singled out Muslims for police contact – stops and investigations – based upon their race, ethnicity or national origin…This surveillance allegedly included targeting mosques, student groups, restaurants and even motorists in both NYC and outside the NYPD‘s jurisdiction.”

Reps. Pete King (R-N.Y.) and Bob Turner (R-N.Y.) then sent their own letter: “A recent ‘Dear Colleague’ from three members of Congress attacking the NYPD was embarrassingly uninformed and shamefully misleading.  The reality is that the NYPD is the leading police department in the country with the largest and most effective counterterrorism force, dedicating 1,000 officers to protecting New York from terrorist attacks.”

From:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/199709-congress-members-clash-over-call-to-investigate-nypd
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Barbara Walters: “Does that suggest that the American people find you a mediocre president?”

President Obama: “I think what it suggests is that we’ve gone through a very difficult time. And, in order for us to move forward, we’re going to have to do more work.”

Walters: “So, you won’t be a mediocre two-term president?”

Obama: “I want to be a really good two-term president.  I think that the choices we’ve made have made America stronger, and have made the American people. . . put them in a better position in order to succeed over the long term. Short term, folks are still hurting.”

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Fox News host Gretchen Carlson: “Unemployment has gone up precipitously since he [Obama] took office.”

DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: “That is simply not true. In fact, unemployment has now dropped below 9%. It’s continuing to drop.”
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Chris Matthews, from a simulcast program for MSNBC and an Iowan radio station: Well, Simon Conway is an Iowa radio talk show host who has spoken to each of the Republican presidential candidates, except Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, who’s not competing in Iowa. Simon, thank you so much for coming on and doing this simulcast. I see you at the mic there. What’s it smell like to you out there? What’s the sense? Just, if I’d ask you to do a little peroration now on which way it’s going, what’s it feels like? What is it?

Simon Conway (Iowa talk radio host): Well, first of all, it’s always a pleasure to welcome a Democrat to the Simon Conway Show, Chris. So, you’re very welcome.

Matthews: Well, what is that? Are we all giving our party labels out here? Are you giving me yours or what? Or you don’t want to give one? No, you want to give me one but don’t give yourself one. That’s fair enough.

Conway: No- Chris, I’m not a Republican, never have been and never will be. I’m keeping my independence.

Matthews: So you give out labels, but you don’t assign one to yourself. That’s very clever.

Conway: Well, there isn’t one. There isn’t one. I just want to make sure we’re starting with some honesty. You’re clearly working for the re-election of Barack Obama.

Matthews: No, I want to make sure-

Conway: -and that’s okay.

Matthews: This isn’t going to go very long here if you’re going into this game of assigning- What is your political voting record, then? How’d you go last time?

Conway: I’ve only voted once, I’m a fairly new citizen to the United States, and I voted for John McCain while holding my nose.

Matthews: You voted Republican.

Conway: I voted Republican.

Matthews: So, that is how we should identify you, sir, based upon your record.

Conway: If you wish to do that, but, look, the bottom line-

Matthews: No, no. You’re doing it to me. So, why don’t we do it to you and have some fun?

Conway: Fine! If you want to do that, Chris, you can go ahead and do it. It’s untrue, but you can go ahead and do it. But, that’s okay. I just want to be clear that we’re going to be honest. You’re clearly working for the re-election of Barack Obama and I’m okay with that. I just want some honesty here.

Matthews: Well, what are you working for, sir?

Conway: I’m working for the election of a conservative.

Matthews: And who would that be?

Conway: Well, we don’t have an individual yet. We’ve still got an open field, and it’s very interesting, and certainly Iowa is not, is not done yet. I think we’ve got plenty of time, I think we can still see this race change.

From:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2011/12/15/radio-host-nails-chris-matthews-your-clearly-working-re-election-bar#ixzz1ghgt6v7g

Conservatives:

Former Republican presidential candidate John McCain on President Barack Obama on handling of Iraq. “All I will say is that, for three years, the president has been harvesting the successes of the very strategy that he consistently dismissed as a failure.  I imagine this irony was not lost on a few of our troops at Fort Bragg today, most of whom deployed and fought as part of the surge.  Over 4,000 brave young Americans gave their lives in this conflict. I pray that their sacrifice is not in vain. I hope that their families will not mourn the day that their sons and daughters went out to fight for freedom for the Iraqi people. Unfortunately, it is clear that this decision of a complete pullout of United States troops from Iraq was dictated by politics, and not our national security interests. I believe that history will judge this president’s leadership with the scorn and disdain it deserves.”  McCain was referring to the surge which then senator Obama opposed in 2007.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), after telling about a Palestinian woman who was treated for burns at an Israeli hospital, and then later returned for a follow-up visit wearing a suicide belt.  “What kind of culture leads one to do that? Sadly, it is a culture infused with resentment and hatred.  If the Palestinians want to live in peace in a state of their own, they must demonstrate that they are worthy of a state.”

Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.): “If Joseph Goebbels was around, he’d be very proud of the Democrat Party, because they have an incredible propaganda machine,”  Joseph Goebbels was the head of the Minister of Propaganda in Germany while it was under the control of the Nazi party from 1933 to 1945.

Greg Gutfeld: “Looking to NPR for facts on capitalism is like looking to the protestors for advice on hygiene.” [quoted from memory]

Presidential candidate Rick Perry: “I’m kinda getting to where I like these debates.  I hope Obama and I debate a lot. I’ll get there early. We will get it on, and we will talk about our differences…I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.”

Presidential candidate Ron Paul at the FoxNews debate: “Fortunately for the Republican party, almost anyone up here could beat Obama.”

Christian Conservative Spectator: “Arab Spring, Sharia Harvest”

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), on the $1 trillion omnibus spending bill that he and 146 other House Republicans voted for: “I have consistently said throughout my time in Washington that the American people deserve more from their government.  This bill is a crap sandwich! You definitely do not want to bite into it, you cannot stand the taste, but you know you have to eat it.”

Weasel Zippers on Meghan McCain: “One-celled organisms outscore Meghan in IQ tests and yet MSNBC still hired her.”

Rush Limbaugh: “The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended a ban on all cell phone use in the car by the driver. Not Congress, not lawmakers, but a bureaucracy.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Our guys don’t want to go Trump‘s debate but they’ll let Stephanopoulos ask them this stupid question about fidelity from the guy who covered ‘em all up for Clinton.”

Rush Limbaugh: “I never once asked myself what I think you want to hear. It never even crosses my mind. But a politician who does is essentially saying that they make calculations, and they will deviate from their core if necessary in order to have an audience hear what they want to hear.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Conservative primary voters want a conservative — it’s really not complicated — and the Republican establishment doesn’t. It’s not complicated. They don’t like conservatives, they are scared to death of conservatives on a host of levels.”
Rush Limbaugh: “Chelsea Clinton is dutifully learning the inner workings of television in order to learn how to manipulate it later. That’s all this is. Nobody starts at the top like this unless they’re the daughter of an ex-president who can call in some chits. Nobody starts at the top like this.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Notice Obama is threatening to veto a bill that would both lower taxes and create jobs. Aren’t those two of the things that he claims to want, that he claims to be focused like a laser on?”

Rush Limbaugh: “You ever notice Tim Russert is the only news figure that the media can cite as being somewhat objective? Whenever the news media wants to tell us about somebody in their ranks that calls ‘em down the middle, it’s always Tim Russert.”

Rush Limbaugh: “The Democrat led government is taking over. The Democrat led government is becoming the family. Three meals at school all year, breakfast, lunch, and dinner? So when summertime comes, ‘Well, where they gonna eat?’ You gotta keep the schools open to feed them, creating more dependency on government. Fifty years of socialism, feminazi-ism, the American family’s breaking up.”

Rush Limbaugh: “The Republican establishment likes to deny that they exist. They like to say that there really isn’t a Republican establishment.”

Rush Limbaugh: “The state of public education is pathetic. I don’t mean this as an attack on the individuals in it from the standpoint of teachers. I’m just telling you: The whole education system has been corrupted by liberalism. It’s not even an education system anymore. It is an indoctrination, a series of indoctrination camps.”

Rush Limbaugh: “The fastest growing segment of an investment structure, business, is compliance software to keep you compliant with government regulations. Stop and think of that.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Romney’s attacking Newt for being rich and Newt’s not that rich, and Newt’s attacking Romney for being rich, and Romney is that rich. But it’s usually the Democrats that do that kind of stuff.”

Rush Limbaugh: “This whole cultural attitude the country has made towards a majority position on the pro-life side of this is one of the things that constantly gives me faith that the country isn’t lost.”

Rush Limbaugh: “The elites look at conservatives as a bunch of Tim Tebows that really, when you get down to it, can’t play the game. All they can talk about’s God. So it’s a threat.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Obama wants class warfare where he plays judge and jury as to how much money we have to spend. We are to have limited information about where our money is spent, sort of like Jon Corzine’s.”

Rush Limbaugh: “What is called poor today would have been considered upper-middle class just a generation, two generations ago. The truth is, wealth does trickle down.”

Republican Infighting:

Conservative radio host Michael Savage: “Newt Gingrich is unelectable. Mitt Romney is the only candidate with a chance of defeating Barack Obama, and there is nothing more important than that for the future health, safety, and security of the United States of America.  Therefore I am offering Newt Gingrich one million dollars to drop out of the presidential race for the sake of the nation.”

Radio host Mark Levin: “I see ‘Weiner Nation’ is trying to get his ratings back. That won’t happen. He wants to offer Newt a million dollars to get out of the race… I’ll offer $100,000 if “Weiner Nation” gets off the air on every single station and resigns forever from radio tomorrow.”

Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul of Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann: “She doesn’t like Muslims, she hates Muslims, she wants to go get them.”

Conservatives not making any sense:

Ann Coulter: “[the Tea Party rejecst Romney because] “they’re not looking at the substance, they’re looking at who is going to go around bombastically demanding to see Obama’s birth certificate or calling him a Kenyan.”

Dick Morris: “The Democrats are trying to nominate Gingrich.”

Presidential Candidate Ron Paul: “How would I deal with the threat or the so-called threat of the Iranians, that they are going to disrupt the oil supply?  Well I’d be provoking them a lot less because they’re reacting to the provoking of the West saying “we’re gonna put on sanctions”. We have them surrounded with nuclear weapons and we’re claiming that they’re gonna build a nuclear weapon and there’s no evidence for this.  So we’re just looking for trouble. We’re building the war propaganda against Iran just as we did against Iraq.  And people want to go to war against Iran. And I think they’re reacting to the provocations of so many other people saying that “we’re liable to bomb you because you are building a nuclear weapon.” But our CIA doesn’t confirm that nor does the UN confirm that.”

Vanessa Gibbs, was detained for a long time at the airport because her purse had a gun design on it: “And she [the TSA agent] was like, well, you know this is a federal offense because it’s in the shape of a gun; I’m like, but it’s a design on a purse.  How is it a federal offense?  …common sense, it’s a purse, not a weapon.”  Although a well-placed duh may have been appropriate, Vanessa still made her point (and missed her flight).

Liberals:

President Barack Obama on the campaign trail: “I’m going to need another term to finish the job.”

President Barack Obama: “The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term.  If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.  I’m not going to remind people of what I said not just during the campaign, but even on the night we won. I said real change, big change is hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It may take more than a single president.”

President Obama: “Tonight, Senate Republicans chose to raise taxes on nearly 160 million hardworking Americans because they refused to ask a few hundred thousand millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share.”

Obama on the payroll tax cut: “Let’s just be clear: if they vote no, your taxes go up; if they vote yes, you get a tax cut.”

Obama: “Tell them [the republicans] not to vote to raise taxes on working Americans during the holidays. Tell them to put country before party. Put money back in the pockets of working Americans. Pass these tax cuts.”

Barack Obama: “We still have a health care system that has to get more efficient and that has to improve its quality.  And so we’re going to have to implement the Affordable Care Act in 2014, and that means I’ve got to win in 2012.”

Obama on his kids: “Our kids are going to be fine. And I always tell Malia and Sasha, look, you guys, I don’t worry about you – I mean, I worry the way parents worry – but they’re on a path that is going to be successful, even if the country as a whole is not successful. But that’s not our vision of America. I don’t want an America where my kids are living behind walls and gates, and can’t feel a part of a country that is giving everybody a shot.”

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From: Michelle Obama
Subject: Drew, I want to meet you
Date: December 1, 2011 11:14:22 AM EST
To: Drew

Drew -

I’m excited for the chance to meet you and whoever you decide to bring to dinner.

I really hope you give this a shot.

Give $3 or whatever you can to be automatically entered for you and a guest to have dinner with Barack and me.

Hope to see you soon,

Michelle

First of all, is this real?  What if this was a text message from Herman Cain to his latest accuser?  Would he not be considered having an affair with a message like this?

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Vice President Joe Biden on Iraq: “We’re not claiming victory.  What we’re claiming here is we’ve done our job the administration said it would do. To end a war we did not start, to end it in a responsible way.”

When asked if he would run for president in 2016, Joe Biden answered: “I am never ready to close the door on anything. I am intent on reelecting Barack Obama president of the United States of America. The rest will take care of itself.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: “I don’t know what the middle class ever did to the Republicans that they’re so out to get them…whether it’s job creation, economic growth, the tax code and the rest – the deck is getting stacked against the middle class.”

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta: “National security is not just dependent on military power; It’s also dependent, [among other things], on the quality of life in this country – to educate our kids, to provide health care. All of that is part of our national security.”

DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “[Republicans] know they can’t win elections on the merits, so they’re trying to rig elections by blocking people’s access to the polls.”  By blocking access, she means requiring a picture ID in order to vote, a measure which has recently been passed in several states.

Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis: “Last year the unemployment rate was at 9.8%, this time around it’s at 8.6. Can we do better? Absolutely. That’s why I think the president’s plan to come up with some alternatives like extending the payroll tax, extending U.I. (unemployment) benefits are all going to help put people back to work.”

Former SEIU Chief Andy Stern who Obama had appointed to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility: “The conservative-preferred, free-market fundamentalist, shareholder-only model-so successful in the 20th century, is being thrown onto the trash heap of history in the 21st century. In an era when countries need to become economic teams, Team USA’s results-a jobless decade, 30 years of flat median wages, a trade deficit, a shrinking middle class and phenomenal gains in wealth but only for the top 1%-are pathetic.  This should motivate leaders to rethink, rather than double down on an empirically failing free-market extremism. As painful and humbling as it may be, America needs to do what a once-dominant business or sports team would do when the tide turns: study the ingredients of its competitors’ success. ”

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius: “[The nation's health] really is an issue of national security…[a healthy, productive work force] is an essential part of our prosperity.”  Again, only a problem that government can conceive of and therefore only a problem that government can solve.

Recently homeless woman with 12 children in Tampa, her husband having been arrested: “Somebody needs to pay, all my children…Somebody needs to be held accountable, and they needs to pay.”  There is one organization which pays for her rent now and her furniture, but according to the news report, that is not enough.

Democrat Congresswoman Donna Edwards to Occupy D.C. people, as part of a chant: “It’s not fair, it’s not right; It’s time for us to occupy America.”

Occupy D.C. protestor leading a chant: “I just rode the elevator.”

Handwritten sign of a solitary protester perched on a railing at the edge of Zuccotti Park: “You Can’t Occupy An Idea.”

The Compliant Obama Press Corps:

Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, who poses as a “conservative blogger” for WaPo: “Well, I think part of the conservative media operates in opposition to what they see as the liberal media. That is their cause, that’s the way they gather an audience. That’s entertainment for many of their viewers, and I think sometimes that overrides their other function or their other role which is news coverage, news analyzation, and the rest. So, I think we’ve had a lot of sort of defensive media from the right. I actually think that is changing however somewhat over the last few weeks. And the last few days, rather. And I think you see a more critical vein now that he is rising in the polls, now that there is a lot of questions about his past, now that his past representation of Freddie Mac, now that his positions on global warming, on the individual mandate are coming out, you’re seeing a much more critical voice begin to emerge.”
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PBS’s Mark Shields: “The Republican field – Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman – stand between a landslide reelection victory of Barack Obama if Newt Gingrich is the nominee. If Newt Gingrich is the nominee, it will not be a competitive race. It will be a landslide. It will be a walk to reelection at a time when the nation needs a major debate.”

Colby King, Washington Post: “I like everything that is going on right now [in the Republican primarry].  God answers Democratic prayers.  And so, I hope if we just hold on, Newt will make it, and make it to the nomination.  That would be just beautiful [because Newt can be easily defeated by Obama, was his point, agreeing the Shields].”
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Time Magazine columnist Joe Klein: “Newt probably is a more serious contender than Herman Cain was.  Cain was clearly just a parking place, and especially after we started to attack Cain; then, you know, Republicans — populist Republicans — decided to support Cain just to send us a message.”
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ABC’s David Kerley on Herman Cain possibly ending his campaign: “[Cain] called himself the CEO of self. Is he about to fire himself?  Has the Cain train made its last run?  We are getting some indications from supporters and some staff members that he may end his campaign, no final word. One Web site is suggesting that Mrs. Cain wants him out, and he has said that Mrs. Cain could decide to reduce the Republican field by one candidate.”  This is “news” with a heavy insertion of ridicule.
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MSNBC’s Martin Bashir: “But if Herman Cain is proven to be lying and drops out of the race, doesn’t that also disqualify him from holding a position in the local church? …[The church doctrine says this] ‘Nothing prevents the salvation of the greatest sinner on earth but his own determined depravity and voluntary rejection of the Gospel.’  If Mr. Cain withdraws from politics, then he must surely resign his position in the church, because one thing is for certain: Hypocrites can lie in the pew, but they should never lead from the pulpit.”
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ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: “And, Jake, stand by, because we also have some news from Herman Cain. Yesterday, he gave this interview to the Manchester Union Leader where he said, and this was a surprise, that his wife didn’t know anything about Ginger White, the girlfriend that we spoke to earlier this week.”  In case you do not get this, Ms. White has never been proven to be Cain’s girlfriend.   If text messages and emails make someone your girlfriend, then Stephanopoulos has a several dozen of them.
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MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, reacting to Herman Cain suspending his campaign: “Well, first of all, what is the fundamental strategic goal to the entire bizarre charade? . . . Fundamentally, this entire bizarre song-and-dance was about making sure he could keep getting donations and for making an exit from this campaign that preserves his status as a highly-paid [more derisive laughter] motivational speaker . . . Herman Cain is really sort of the perfect example of what, I think it was Mark Halperin, called the freak show.”
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NBC’s Brian Williams: “The Newt Gingrich that a lot of folks will remember from his speakership days back in the ’90s was back on display making statements about controversial issues that left some of his critics slack-jawed. Our report from NBC’s Chuck Todd.”

NBC’s Chuck Todd: “Former Speaker Gingrich was quintessential Newt in Iowa today, making broad assertions and diving into issues that haven’t been front and center, like child labor laws and the work habits of the poorest Americans.”

Newt Gingrich on video: “Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works.”

Todd: “Those remarks came as Gingrich tried to clarify his claim at Harvard two weeks ago that child labor laws are quote, truly stupid.”

Yeah, that’s exactly what is going on; Newt Gingrich is out to overturn the child labor laws.
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CBS‘s Jan Crawford: “Now, Gingrich is going to be hit hard for his ties to corporate interests, the ethics allegations, and charges he faced when he was Speaker of the House- you know, even his personal relationships- his adulterous affairs. So this ad just shows what he’s got to face in the weeks ahead, and his opponents are ready to attack, to start eroding that frontrunner status.”  This was only one of several Republican and Newt bashing quotes during this relatively short segment.
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Chris Matthews to Barney Frank: “Let me ask you about good and evil…do you believe that there’s some people like Newt Gingrich that personify one side of this Manichean struggle in our life?”

Barney Frank: “I really dislike Gingrich and disapprove of him…I wouldn’t call him evil…in Gingrich’s case, there is an unusually preponderance of the bad qualities.”
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New NPR President Gary Knell: “I think the important thing here is that our audience does not feel that we are promoting a political agenda. So these questions come in whether there is going to be an impression of a political agenda if reporters, journalists or producers are also advocating political positions.  And I think part of joining a news organization is the need, I think, to present a fair and balanced view and not have that sacrificed in some way, where people can perceive bias.”

As an aside, I listened to NPR Saturday morning, and Obama’s agenda and point-of-view was promoted clearly and without any sort of criticism; while Herman Cain, in the next segment, was presented in a very negative light.
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Former secretary of state Zbigniew Brezinski: “The West today is somewhat corrupt, uneasy about its own value system.  The United States is becoming rapidly one of the most socially unjust societies in the world. And that is raising basic questions about the relevance of the West to a world that is now universally awakened.”
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MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell: “I agree with just about everything that Dr. Brzezinski has said, except that I’m not as optimistic as you are about the Eurozone [Brzezinski had predicted that Europe will solve its financial crisis]. The disparities between rich and poor is this country are the underlying tension.  You see the exaggerated forms of it on both sides. With what we saw with the Tea Party, the objection to a social compact on health care a couple of years ago.  And then, the emergence of the Occupy movement.  That’s a real movement.  There is real passion and anger there.”
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Kevin Boyle, from the New York Times this week: “Imagine a political movement created in a moment of terrible anxiety, its origins shrouded in a peculiar combination of manipulation and grass-roots mobilization, its ranks dominated by Christian conservatives and self-proclaimed patriots, its agenda driven by its members’ fervent embrace of nationalism, nativism and moral regeneration, with more than a whiff of racism wafting through it.  No, not that movement. The one from the 1920s, with the sheets and the flaming crosses and the ludicrous name meant to evoke a heroic past. The Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, they called it. And for a few years it burned across the nation, a fearsome thing to -behold.”
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Markos “Kos” Moulitsas: “For a while, Republicans were talking about class war. ‘We can’t have class war.’ But what they’re realizing is that people kind actually do want a class war, they want to go after the rich. So that wasn’t working, so this is, I guess, Plan B.”

Keith Olbermann: “Yeah, to say nothing of the fact that there has been a class war in progress for 30 years and it was waged by the rich on the poor.”

Liberals from the past:

President Obama, from 2009: “I will be held accountable.  I’ve got four years and . A year form now, I think people are going to see that we’re starting to make some progress, but there’s still going to be some pain out there . If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.”

President Obama, in November 2009: “I think that we’ve restored America’s standing in the world, and that’s confirmed by polls.”

From Grrlmissbhaven (typical liberal blog) almost immediately after Gabby Giffords was shot: “It appears that Sarah Palin and Glen Beck‘s rhetoric really does work. Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D) was shot in the head by terrorist Jared Loughner. She is still in critical condition. A nine-year-old girl was shot, a Federal Judge, and a few on-lookers were shot and killed, with an additional amount of others injured. The gunman is (not surprisingly) tied to a White Nationalist group known as the American Renaissance, an anti-immigration, anti-semitic, anti-anything that isn’t white and stupid kind of group…This tragedy is a clear example of partisanship gone too far. Right-wing media is demanding that its angry white citizens “take America back” from the supposed leftists in our country (ironically Gabrielle Giffords was considered more of a Blue Dog Dem.) The prayers of Sarah Palin and Glen Beck have been answered. “Don’t retreat- reload” has trumped political debate and compromise. What these kind of people want is another Civil War. It also makes one wonder what this means for the election of 2012. How can Republicans redeem themselves when their party has been tainted racists and bigots who use the 2nd Amendment as an excuse to rid the country of those who don’t believe in their views? How long before someone else entranced by Fox News decides to take matters into their own hands and decide what’s right for America not only by killing a politician, but American citizens all together?”

And, of course, there was a large map of the districts that were “targeted” for takeover, which was, of course, code, that white conservatives should take up arms and go kill the Democratic representatives and senators in that district.
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From Rmuse in 2010 posted on Politics USA: “For the past 21 months, and during this election cycle, there is an increase in hate and vitriol from groups like the Tea Party (led by Jim DeMint et al) that are directly tied to the Ku Klux Klan`s ideology. There are members of the Tea Party who are not blatant racists, but for the most part, teabaggers espouse a return to a white-only America that is in direct contrast to the Constitution and freedoms it guarantees for all Americans.  Unlike the KKK, teabagger groups mask their bigoted philosophy with notions of protecting liberty and returning to the strictest interpretation of the Constitution. Regardless the teabag rhetoric, at the core is a hatred of gays, immigrants, Jews, people of color, and non-Christians, which is exactly the same philosophy of the KKK.”

The Rev. Walter Fauntroy, a former non-voting delegate who represented the District of Columbia: “We are going to take on the barbarism of war, the decadence of racism, and the scourge of poverty, that the Ku Klux — I meant to say the Tea Party.  You all forgive me, but I — you have to use them interchangeably.”

Rachel Maddow, of MSNBC on the TEA party’s response to Tom Tancredo calling for literacy tests for voters: “[However] it was hard to tell exactly what the sounds meant because they were sort of a little bit muffled by the white hoods [they were wearing].”

Liberal civility:

Radio personality Randi Rhodes: “Gingrich, of course, is identified by the Washington Post as a man of ideas – oh yeah, he’s got ideas. Uh -so do ax murderers, so do Dick Cheney, so did George Bush – but so what?  I’ve been railing on this piece of human waste for the past couple of nights now because I know Gingrich! You know- I – I spent enough time around this freak when he was a member of Congress from um the congressional district right next door to us and I’ve been to enough public functions in Atlanta over the past 20 years to have gotten, in a sense, to know what this smelly bastard is like. And he really is vile! I say smelly because he’s got breath that would knock a buzzard off a crapwagon from 100 yards. He really is a bad man!”

Mike Malloy, previously employed by CNN: “Republicans really don’t wanna be talking about character, ’cause when it comes to Mitt Romney, it raises questions of why did he tie his dog to the roof of his car…When you’re talking about Newt Gingrich, it has to do with being a serial adulterer…When it comes to Herman Cain, it has to do with all of this stuff that’s coming out. When it comes to Rick Santorum, strange things like bringing home a miscarriage and putting it on the mantel for the kids to look at. Strange character stuff in the Republican Party.”

Retiring Rep. Barney Frank: “Mitt Romney is the tin woodman without the heart, and Rick Perry is the scarecrow [who has no brain]…Newt’s the Wizard of Oz.”

Liberal civility (a blast from the past)

Chant leader: This is what civility looks like.

Chanters: This is what civility looks like.

See:
http://teresamerica.blogspot.com/2011/01/vitriolic-rhetoric-by-which-party-and.html

Crazy Muslims:

Iranian cleric Sharif: “Today, 70% of married American women say that they would be happier if they had a dog and a Toyota instead of a husband…[some Americans] would rather marry animals and robots than a human being.”

Kuwaiti preacher Sheik Nayef Hajjaj Al-Ajami, on Kuwait TV: “Brothers and sisters, you should read history books, so you my know the history of this people, and so you may know that the Jews of the past were evil, and the Jews of today are even worse.  They are ungrateful, they distort the word [of Allah], the worshipers of the golden calf, the slayers of the prophets, the enemies of the divine prophecies, the scum of mankind, who incurred the curse and wrath of Allah, and whom Allah transformed into apes and pigs and into taghut worshipers.”

Liberals making sense:

President Obama: “It has been three wrenching years for this country.”

President Barack Obama: “More than 2,000 years ago, a child was born to two faithful travelers who could find rest only in a stable, among the cattle and the sheep.  But this was not just any child.  Christ’s birth made the angels rejoice and attracted shepherds and kings from afar. He was a manifestation of God’s love for us.”

Bill Clinton: “[Gingrich is] articulate and he tries to think of a conservative version of an idea that will solve a legitimate problem…I think he’s doing well just because he’s thinking, and people are hungry for ideas that make some sense.”  Dick Morris suggests that this is an orchestrated quote because Democrats want Newt to be running against Obama.
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Two liberals, in the news field, making sense (this is a shock to me):

MSNBC host Chris Matthews: “In terms of just a pleasant outlook for the year, this President, Barack Obama, would want to prefer, it seems to me, looking forward to a series of genteel debates with Gov. Romney where he’s sort of predictable and he’ll throw his Sunday punch but you know what it’s going to be. Whereas Newt will have 40 or 50 follow-up punches, you won’t know where they’re coming from, and they may be thought up on the spot. Go ahead. Your thoughts.”

Jennifer Donahue, Huffington Post: “I totally agree. I think that Newt Gingrich turns on a dime. He’s a great debater. He’s not afraid to really go for the jugular. But he doesn’t do it in a very negative way either. So I think he actually could do it and dismantle Obama and make it very difficult for Obama to be, to defend his record. And I also think that Gingrich has the capacity to lead on television which Romney doesn’t. And Romney also doesn’t connect in person.”

Moderates/Affiliation Unknown:

Mehgan McCain comparing Michel Bachmann to Sarah Palin (there is no reason to list Mehgan as a conservative): “I actually think she is more, just more smarter, I think that she’s more, um, you know, on foreign policy, I just think all of the things she’s done the debates I’m just very impressed.  And I just think she’s older and more established and, you know, she’s been a member of Congress for a very long time.”

Adam Carolla about the Occupiers: “We are now dealing with the first waves of participation trophies. . . `I feel so f- good about myself. Everybody’s a winner, no one’s a loser…There’s something coming up in this country that didn’t used to exist, and it’s envy…They’ve been shamed by life because they haven’t been prepared for life. They’ve had so much smoke blown up their collective a–, by the time they get out in the real world and they realize the real world doesn’t give a f- where you’re from or what your mommy said you were or how pretty you are…we’ve created a bunch of f___in’ self-entitled monsters.”

Crosstalk:

President Obama at a fundraiser with a preponderance of Jewish donors: “I try not to pat myself too much on the back, but this administration has done more in terms of the security of the state of Israel than any previous administration. And that’s not just our opinion, that’s the opinion of the Israeli government. Whether it’s making sure that our intelligence cooperation is effective, to making sure that we’re able to construct something like an Iron Dome so that we don’t have missiles raining down on Tel Aviv, we have been consistent in insisting that we don’t compromise when it comes to Israel’s security. And that’s not just something I say privately, that’s something that I said in the U.N. General Assembly. And that will continue.”

An unnamed pro-Israel insider: “The problem with the president is that he’ll say anything to donors for the sake of a couple bucks.  But fortunately most Americans aren’t living on Mars–and they’ll be aghast at the ridiculousness of the president’s remarks.”

Charles Krauthammer:”It is not and I’m sure Obama knows it.  If he doesn’t, he’s delusional. And this is really chutzpah. This president has done more to delegitimize and undermine Israel’s position in the world than any other president and he did it by arriving on the scene and imposing and demanding of Israel a freeze on settlements, including the building of the Jewish homes in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem of all places, something that had never been precondition in 17 years of negotiations.”

Conservatives:

Tax pledge guy, Grover Norquist: “The idea that if you take a dollar out of the economy and then — from somebody who earned it, either through debt, or through taxes — and give it to somebody who’s politically connected, that there are more dollars around, that if you stand on one side of the lake and put a bucket into the lake, and walk around to the other side in front of the TV cameras, pour the bucket back into the lake and announce you’re stimulating the lake to great depths. We just wasted $800 billion on stimulus spending that added to debt, that killed jobs”

Grover Norquist: “[the Democrats believe that] the peasants aren’t sending enough cash in for the king to spend.”

Sarah Palin on the corruption of Congress trading on stocks based upon legislation that has not yet been passed: “It’s an entire system of public servants feathering their own nests.”  Palin was very instrumental in removing corruption from both the left and the right in her home state of Alaska.

Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich: “Can you really stand four more years of this?”

Newt Gingrich: “Obama can’t get elected in a clean, direct, honest campaign.”

Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich: “[President Obama is] legitimately and authentically a Saul Alinsky Radical.”

Rick Santorum: “America is a moral enterprise.”

Retired Israeli Major-General and former national security chief Giora Eiland on explosion in Iranian nuclear site: “There aren’t many coincidences…When there are so many events, there is probably some sort of guiding hand, though perhaps it’s the hand of God.”

Allen West: “The first thing I got sworn into was the Congressional Black Caucus. Now you talk about being fun – being the only black Republican in the Congressional Black Caucus, but I did kind of get a warm welcome. John Lewis . . . John Lewis from Atlanta, Georgia – same neighborhood that I grew up in down there . . . great time. And so I’m walking up behind John Lewis and he really let me feel like this is a family man, because I kept hearing him talk about some guy named Uncle Tom.  There was Maxine Waters and I thought, “Man, Maxine Waters must really have a sweet tooth because she kept talking about Oreos. and Double Stuffs at that.  So I figured this was gonna be nice. I’ve got a family oriented guy here with John Lewis. I got someone who likes Oreo Cookies with Maxine Waters, but I’ll tell you what, it’s been a good experience being there with the Congressional Black Caucus.”

NJ Governor Chris Christie on Obama and the Super-Committee: “I was angry this weekend, listening to the spin coming out of the administration, about the failure of the super-committee, and that the president knew it was doomed for failure, so he didn’t get involved. Well then what the hell are we paying you for?  It’s doomed for failure so I’m not getting involved? Well, what have you been doing, exactly?”

[Obama fundraising events compared to those of Clinton and Bush at the same time]

Herman Cain on reassessing his campaign: “Since I’ve been campaigning all week, I haven’t had an opportunity to sit down with her [his wife] and walk through this with my wife and my family. I will do that when I get back home on Friday.  I am not going to make a decision until after we talk face to face.”

Caller on the Dennis Miller program on the Herman Cain train: “There’s too much steam on the windows and not enough in the engine.”  Quoted from memory.

NewsBusters senior editor Tim Graham: “We have a media elite that wants to run the presidential nominating process and not let the people make the decisions. I’m tired of that, I think that a lot of people are tired of that.  They ought to let the process unfold and they ought to actually do journalism instead of constantly — All they’ve done for the last three days, they haven’t advanced the story about who is Ginger White? Is she a viable person, somebody we can understand? They haven’t been doing the journalism. All they do is have these horse race conversations about who’s up, who’s down, and who’s going to get out. It’s tiresome. People want more than that.”

Dennis Miller on Barney Frank: “I think he’s Nancy Pelosi with a spittle problem.”  Okay, with Miller, may I ought to have a Conservative Civility subgroup.

Rush Limbaugh: “Every policy Obama has is designed to grow government and shrink the economy.”
Rush Limbaugh: “The assumption wherever you go — ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, USA.com, wherever you go, the assumption is Obama’s gonna be reelected and the assumption is that the Republican nominee, whoever it is, is an idiot, is a flawed character, something terribly wrong about every one of them.”

Rush Limbaugh: “That’s all the Sunday shows are about, is which Republican can we pick apart with negative ads or opposition research to make it easier for Obama to win.”

Rush Limbaugh: “If everybody could just come to grips with who liberals are, what they do, how they operate, it would be over. But somehow they’ve cornered the market on the fact they are compassionate. They’ve cornered the market on appealing to people with emotion, which is a much easier link to establish than thought.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Reagan‘s negatives? He was a bumbling buffoon; he was dangerous; he was a cowboy; he was a bad actor; he was unproven; he was unstable. He was everything that they’re saying about every one of our candidates except Romney.”

Rush Limbaugh: “I have the hardest time coming to grips with the fact that people born in this country hate it. I just can’t get my arms around that. Of all the other places in the world you could be, of all the other places in the world that need to be changed, improved, this is the last place. It’s not perfect. Nothing ever is.”

Rush Limbaugh: “American exceptionalism is not a braggadocious term. American exceptionalism is not a superiorist term. American exceptionalism is an acknowledgement that this country was an exception to the way people lived, to the way people were forced to live.”

Rush Limbaugh: “There’s no news anymore. The media don’t even make any pretense. There’s not even any mainstream press. It’s just a giant White House public information office.”

Rush Limbaugh: “The short answer of what’s happening in Europe: it’s the war between the takers and the makers, and it’s the same thing happening here, folks.  It is a forerunner of what we face, faster than we think, if something doesn’t change.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Who would have ever believed that we would have elected a president who could literally pass such a freedom-killing piece of legislation called Obamacare? Who would have believed that we would have elected a president who has purposely, systematically destroyed how many millions of jobs in the private sector for one reason, to grow the government.”

Rush Limbaugh: “This election is about the individual versus the state. This upcoming election is about the public sector versus the private sector. This upcoming election is about state control of property versus individuals controlling their own private property. This is an election of the makers versus the takers, and what hangs in the balance really is the American way of life.”

Rush Limbaugh: “This is serious. There are people in our country who think that this election will determine, in the long run, whether we remain a free people or not.”

Rush Limbaugh: “The Founders were not perfect. There is no human being who is perfect. There’s no perfect plan. Just like there’s no utopia. Yet these standards somehow end up being applied to us, our candidates, conservatives, where does this come from, where does this start?”

Rush Limbaugh: “The Constitution’s premise is that human beings with too much power will abuse it and imprison and tyrannize people. The whole point of it was based on the imperfection of people, and yet here we are apparently looking for the perfect — and I’m not running, so it’s not gonna be findable.”

Rush Limbaugh: “We finally reached a point here, ladies and gentlemen — and this is something I have been warning you people about for two-plus decades — where liberals are comfortable citing communism as the endgame.”

Rush Limbaugh: “What has been going on in this country since 2008 is not capitalism. Capitalism is not responsible for what’s happened to this country since 2008. Barack Obama is. Capitalism does not need to be defended. Capitalism is not responsible for all of this unemployment and economic degradation. Capitalism has not been tried the last three years.”

Rush Limbaugh: “The job universe from January, 2009 when Obama was immaculated to the present is down about 2.5 million jobs. There are 2.5 million fewer jobs in our country in the two and a half, almost three years now, that Obama has been in orifice — and that’s the dirty little secret.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Would somebody explain to me where is the valor in sitting on your butt taking money from other people? Where is the honor, where is the greatness, where is this entitlement that allows people to get up every day and think they are owed something because of some mysterious crime against them that’s gone on all of their lives.”

Rush Limbaugh:  “The New York Times today in an article on Barney Frank called him ‘prickly,’ and I think they probably meant that as a compliment given that the New York Times said it. Can you imagine what would happen if I described Barney Frank as ‘prickly’?”

Rush Limbaugh: “We have articles out there all over the place today in the conservative world again about Newt and Cain and how horrible they are. We don’t have any stories anywhere about how bad Obama is, how bad Obama has been. We don’t have any story about how bad Pelosi and Reid or any of that is.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Why are we sending kids to college if work is such a tainted concept? We’re sending them to college for indoctrination. We’re educating then with worthless degrees. They come out not knowing how to do anything, and they blame people who have gone a different route.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Somebody tell me what is wrong with wanting to teach somebody the concept of work and being paid for it. What’s wrong with it?”

Rush Limbaugh: “Work in the old days was something honorable. To want to get a job… I shined shoes when I was 13. That was my first job. I made $50 in three months shining shoes at a barber shop, and my dad was beside himself with pride. He was excited.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Look at Occupy Wall Street, look at who they’re mad at. They’re mad at the people that build things, they’re mad at the people that accomplish things, they’re mad at the people that achieve things, and think those people somehow ought to be made to give it all up. When it used to be that those were the people that were admired.”

Republican Infighting:

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, going on the attack on behalf of Mitt Romney: “Speaker Gingrich has never run anything.  And he’s been a legislator. I have to tell you, I don’t think being a legislator is the best calling card. Look at the guy we have in the White House now. He never ran anything and was a legislator.”

Conservatives not making any sense:

Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney: “I am proud to announce the support of Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski.”  Ms. Murkowski has a 68% American Conservative Union voting record (by comparison, John McCain’s is 96%).

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Liberals:

President Barack Obama: “We’ve made steady progress to stabilize the economy.”

President Obama on the Solyndra loan guarantees: “It went through the regular review process and people felt that it was a good bet…If you look at the overall portfolio . overall it’s doing well.”

Former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi: “I don’t remember being ever disappointed in the president.”

President Obama: “I don’t think they’re [the American people] better off than they were four years ago. They’re not better off than they were before Lehman’s collapse, before the financial crisis– before this extraordinary recession we’re going through. I think that– what we’ve seen is that we’ve been able to make steady progress to stabilize the economy. But the unemployment rate is still way too high. ”

President Barack Obama: “The question, then, is, will Congress do something?  If Congress does something, then I can’t run against a do-nothing Congress. If Congress does nothing, then it’s not a matter of me running against them. I think the American people will run them out of town, because they are frustrated.”

President Obama: “I think most wealthy Americans would agree with that if it helps us grow the economy and it helps to bring down our deficits.  Now, this notion that folks are inherently selfish, that’s just not true. But you’ve got to ask them, right? (Laughter.) People don’t voluntarily pay taxes. But if you ask, most wealthy folks here in Dallas or around the country, they’ll tell you, you know what, I want to make sure that I’m doing my share for America to succeed. But somebody has got to ask.  Now, some Republicans in Congress, they’re already dusting off the old — their old records. “That’s class warfare.” Let me tell you something, 26 years ago — some of you may have seen this on television, clips have been circulating — 26 years ago, another President said that some of these tax loopholes, and I quote, “made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing while a bus driver was paying 10 percent of his salary, and that’s crazy. It’s time we stopped it.” That was 26 years ago. You know the name of that President? Ronald Reagan. (Laughter.)  So was that class warfare? By the way, taxes are much lower now than they ever were when Ronald Reagan was President. I know a lot of folks have short memories, but I don’t remember Republicans accusing Ronald Reagan of being a socialist — (laughter) — or engaging in class warfare, because he thought that everybody should do their fair share. (Applause.)  Things have just gotten out of whack. (Laughter.) I’ll tell you what, if asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a plumber or a teacher or a bus driver makes me a warrior for the middle class, I will wear that charge with honor. (Applause.) Because the only warfare I’ve seen is the battle waged against middle-class Americans for a decade now. And they’re hurting and they need some help.”

Senator Chuck Schumer on Obama’s 5% tax on millionaires: “Drawing the line at a million dollars is the right thing to do.”

Vice President Joe Biden: “There’s a lot of people in Florida that have good reason to be upset because they’ve lost jobs, even though 50 some percent of the American people think the economy tanked because of the last administration, that’s not relevant.  What’s relevant is, we’re in charge. And right now, we are the ones in charge, and it’s gotten better but it hasn’t gotten good enough. And in states like Florida it’s even been more stagnant because of the real estate market.  And so I don’t blame them for being mad. We’re in charge, so they’re angry.”

Joe Biden: “We are in charge.  We have turned it [the economy] around.”

Joe Biden, answering a question to a class of 5th graders: “Because things got really bad before we came into office and an awful lot of companies said `there’s no more jobs for you here.’”

Joe Biden: “I don’t disrespect the Tea Party.  I think the Tea Party and the Van Jones folks are different hats of the same concern. There’s an overwhelming frustration. There’s a great frustration here in America that the two parties haven’t been able to get very much moving. We have been in this period where there’s just nothing but fighting. So, you have, on the one hand, Van Jones’ guys – whoever he is – the point is, talking about the excesses of Wall Street and there’s some truth in what he says and there’s truth in what the Tea Party says.”

Obama: “I had a chance to meet a young man named Robert Baroz. He’s an English teacher in Boston[.] … In the last few years, he’s received three pink slips because of budget cuts. Why wouldn’t we want to pass a bill that puts somebody like Robert back in the classroom teaching our kids?”  Except, the president never met this man; and, even though he got a pink slip, he is presently teaching.

Jim Messina, Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, emailed this message to supporters: “President Obama is in Dallas today urging Americans who support the American Jobs Act to demand that Congress pass it already…But here’s something you can do: Find Republican members of Congress on Twitter, call them out, and demand they pass this bill.”  This was sent out shortly after Republican Mitch McConnell introduced the bill in the Senate and Senate leader, Harry Reid, blocked the vote.  Although the context of this email was House Republicans, a similar email will not be sent out to urge Senate Democrats to pass the bill.

Representative Keith Ellison, when asked if regulations kill jobs: “I think the answer is no, and here is why: When we talked about increasing fuel efficiency standards, the industry responded, and they need engineers and designers and manufacturers, and they need actually more people to help respond to the new requirement.”

Senator Dick Durbin on Bank of America: “Vote with your feet, get the heck out of that bank,”  Durbin specifically limited one set of fees that banks could charge, so that Bank of America is instituting a new charge.   This is amazing.  A senator telling you which businesses you ought (or ought not) patronize; and blaming Bank of America for reacting to Durbin’s amendment (if there was no Durbin amendment, there would be no additional charge by BofA).

Al Sharpton, MSNBC: “[Herman Cain] had the right not to be involved [in the civil rights movement]. What he does not have the right is to rewrite history by saying that blacks were brainwashed by becoming Democrats, because when blacks became Democrats, my parents were Republicans. As I said, Dr. King’s family was. I’m nine or ten years younger than Mr. Cain, and I joined the movement later on in the ’60s when I was still a teenager.  I don’t begrudge him for not making my choice, but I do begrudge him for acting like we’re brainwashed because we went with a Party that stood up for the Civil Rights Act of ’64 and Voting Rights Act of ’65. There’s a reason blacks did not stay with the Republican Party. So I think when he stepped in to calling people brainwashed and totally discarded the fact that it was based on public policy that people made their political choices, and, in fact, changed their choices from the Party of Lincoln.”  See By the Numbers.

Bill Maher: “And what is the Republican solution to these outrageous [racial] inequalities? There isn’t one. And that’s the point. Denying racism is the new racism…And that is the unwritten rule about being a black Republican. You’re welcome in the party as long as you never, ever, ever mention race.”

Wall Street Protesters chanting: “What do we want? We’re not really sure! When do we want it? Now!”  I think this was real.

“Burn this Bank” written on the side of bank during Wall Street protest.

Occupy Wall Street organizer Malini (?): “[We’re] trying to change the capitalist system that we have today because it’s not working for any of us…how do we really reform and bring revolutionary change to the United States”

“Wall Street” protestor in Houston: “My brother has $25,000 in student debt; why is this allowed to happen?”

White protest organizer about the Hispanics who are with him: “Some of them are volunteers. Some of them aren’t.  I can’t identify them. I’m not going to get into an identification game.”

Nancy Pelosi: “God bless [corporations] for their success, God bless the shareholders who participate in that success. But let’s not forget the workers who contributed to that success. And as long as productivity and wages continue to go like that – productivity up, wages not rising in any relation to productivity – we’re going to have an erosion of the middle class. We’re going to have people slipping down from it. Most people in the country, no matter how poor they are, believe they are in the middle class, and that’s where they want to be, and we have to honor that aspiration.  So we think they can say all they want to say about class warfare.  Am I missing something here?  Perhaps you will tell me in the Q & A as to why that is an illegitimate charge in a country that has life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in its founding documents. ”   Say what??

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Jim Wallis on the Wall Street Protesters:
Here are a few things I do know about the Occupy Wall Street protesters:

When they stand with the poor, they stand with Jesus.

When they stand with the hungry, they stand with Jesus.

When they stand for those without a job or a home, they stand with Jesus.

When they are peaceful, non-violent, and love their neighbors (even the ones they don’t agree with and who don’t agree with them), they are walking as Jesus walked.

When they talk about holding banks and corporations accountable, they sound like Jesus and the biblical prophets before him who all spoke about holding the wealthy and powerful accountable.

Pray for those out on the streets.

Think of ways that you or your church can be Jesus to them.

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Dan Rather: “The real moving force behind this, what’s happening in the Wall Street protesters and the efforts to spread it around the country, is a woman operating out of her apartment in New York”

The Compliant Obama Press Corps:

Jake Tapper: “You can hear them [Republican voters] make their peace with Romney.”

Liberals from the past:

Senator Barack Obama: “Sub-prime lending started out as a good idea, helping Americans buy homes that they previously could not afford to.”

Liberal civility:

NPR host Michelle Martin cued up Cain‘s remarks suggesting the Occupy Wall Street protests are “planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration.”

Then sports columnist and ESPN regular Kevin Blackistone said to Martin: “It sounds like to me what people who used to run the White Citizens Councils used to say in the South during the civil rights movement, that it was outside agitators who were coming in and stirring up black folks down there.”  Sure nuff; that Herman Cain is just like some southern racist.  Don’t forget, we, as taxpayers help to pay for this “analysis.”

What should have followed would be the opinion of almost any person who would say, “That has to be about the stupidest thing I have ever heard.”  Or words to that effect.  Not on NPR.
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MSNBC‘s Martin Bashir on Steve Jobs and Sarah Palin: “We’ve marked two important stories:  the tragic and sad passing of a true creative genius at the age of just 56 and hopefully the end of a charade that’s been going on for three years. One individual represents the very best of American exceptionalism- brilliant, determined, creative. The other represents the very worst form of American opportunism- vacuous, crass, and according to almost every biographer, vindictive, too.”

Head of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blanfein impalted on a stick

Occupy Portland protester: “Today’s TEA party…they’re a bunch of losers; they’re crazy people.”  To be fair, if I recall, he added Democrats and others into this evaluation.

Occupy New Orleans protester: “Kill the cops!”

Liberals making sense:

GE CEO and Obama Jobs Czar Jeffrey Immelt wanders off the reservation on 60 Minutes tonite: “I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the UK – everybody else has, which is a tax rate in the mid-20s and no loopholes. Zero.  The U.S. has the most antiquated tax system. And that means some people are going to pay more taxes, and some people are going to pay less…Personally, I think [lowering taxes] will create jobs.”

Michelle Williams, concerning Democrat John Lewis who was not allowed to speak at the Atlanta “Occupy Wall Street” gathering: “I am angry because this is not what democracy is all about. This is Marxist more Stalin like. Your movement, you’re just riff-raff. You’re an organized mob.”

Moderates/Affiliation Unknown:

CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson telling what happend when she was trying to get some information on Operation Fast and Furious: “In between the yelling that I received from the Justice Department yesterday, the spokeswoman – who would not put anything in writing – I was asking for her explanation so there would be clarity and no confusion later over what had been said. She wouldn’t put anything in writing.”

Stefan on Bulls and Bears: “Walmart is not going to expand its hiring practices next year because they feel bad over these [Wall Street] protestors.”  [quoted from memory]

Barbara Walters to Herman Cain: “You are certainly not Obama.”

Mike Murphy: “On every defeated president, the political tombstone reads, ‘I screwed up the economy.’ ”

Scott Brown, after finding out that his opponent, Elizabeth Warren did not take off her clothes to get through school: “Thank God.”

Moderates from the Past:

President Richard Nixon: “In any organization, the man at the top must accept the responsibility.”

Crosstalk:

President Obama October 2011: “The reason I keep going around the country talkin’ about this jobs bill is because people really need help right now.  Our economy really needs a jolt right now.”

President Obama Feb. 2009, selling the Stimulus Bill: “At this particular moment, with the private sector so weakened by this recession, the federal government is the only entity left with the resources to jolt our economy into life.”
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Newsman Jake Tapper: “Can he [Obama] get reelected if the economy is not significantly improved and does he deserve to?”

WH Spokesman Jay Carney: “Yes, and here’s why: because what the election will be about is whose vision for America’s future is best, whose ideas for moving America forward are best. And what we confidently believe is that the American people will see in President Obama’s view for the future the right answers.  What we also believe is that if the Republican nominee, once he or she emerges, runs on the proposals that have been generated so far, which are essentially mirror images – not mirror images but exact replications of the policies that got us into this mess, the American people won’t think that is the right answer.”

Conservatives:

Herman Cain about the Wall Street protesters: “It’s coordinated to create a distraction so people won’t focus on the failed policies of this administration…I don’t have a lot of patience for people who want to protest the success of somebody else.”

George Will about gridlock in Washington: “What debacle?  We raised the debt ceiling, we set up the supercommittee, we avoided doing what the president wanted, which was pass the debt ceiling increase cleanly without any cuts in spending. Washington is in gridlock? Washington, in recent years, has passed TARP, the stimulus, Obamacare – big things. Now the country doesn’t like a lot of what they did, but you can’t say Washington has been gridlocked.”

George Will: “In 1916, before we entered World War I and federal spending exploded, the richest man in America, John D Rockefeller could have written a personal check and retired our national debt. Today, the richest man in America, Bill Gates, could write a personal check of his entire net worth and not pay two months interest on the national debt.”

Herman Cain: “We’ve got some alterin’ and some abolishin’ to do.”

Peggy Noonan [of Obama]: “What is it you want me to give him credit for?  I’m not being sarcastic.”

Speaker of the House John Boehner: “Nothing has disappointed me more than what’s happened over the last five weeks – to watch the president of the United States give up on governing, give up on leading and spend full-time campaigning.  We’re legislating, he’s campaigning. It’s very disappointing.”

Columnist Peggy Noonan: “A leader leads. Part of the president’s problem is that he has never, from day one, been able to really pull in bipartisan support, either make Republicans afraid of him or want to follow him. He’s never been able to do it. Part of the reason people are talking about Chris Christie is that he’s in a Democratic state, he’s a Republican governor, but he has made progress on deficits, spending, pensions, property taxes with a Democratic legislature. It’s never an excuse that washes to say, “Oh, the other team, the other party are bad guys. They wouldn’t follow me.” If you’re a leader, you make them…”

Noelle Nikpour about Obama and leader of the New Black Panthers together in a picture: “The media is pretty much left-wing this is their baby.  Barack Obama was no more than a brand.  The left-wing media made him popular, like BMW cars, Gucci.  Anyone who is negative, anyone who is in the background of a photo [with Obama], they’re going to push it out of the way, as they are doing now.”

Darrell Issa to assistant Attorney General Ronald Welch about Operation Fast and Furious, on the pages and pages of emails, each of which is about 95% blacked out: “The pages go on like this forever.  How dare you make an opening statement of cooperation.  We had to subpoena again and again.  Your representatives of the executive branch have discouraged witnesses from coming forward.”

Darrell Issa on Holder’s answers to Fast and Furious questions: “We certainly know he failed to meet the duty of candor.”

Mark Steyn: “Iran-Contra didn’t rack of that kind of body count. Watergate didn’t rack up that kind of body count. Sarah Palin’s daughter’s boyfriend’s mother, or whatever stupid story they were chasing around Wasilla for months, that didn’t rack up a body count. There were hundreds of dead Mexicans from a gun running program run by the United States.”

Newt Gingrich: “The elite media tried to pick the candidates. The elite media, they spent weeks, I mean, there were something like 115 articles that said, this is now a two-man race. And the country looked up and said, you don’t have the right to tell us who is in the race.”

Bill Bennett Suggests the Bumper Sticker: “If you voted for him the last time to prove you are not a racist, you must vote against him this time to prove you are not an idiot.”

Former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaking about Obama’s political strengths: “He’s going to have a billion dollars up against the Republican candidate and he is going to have about 90% of the media in his back pocket.”

Noelle Nikpour: “This is going to be the year of endorsements: Palin’s endorsement, Christy’s, Rubio’s, DeMint’s and Trump’s.”

Tracey Byrnes, after seeing a particularly pathetic young Wall Street protestor: “If that was my child, I’d smack her 6 weeks to Sunday.”

Commentator and radio host Neil Bortz: “If you took fair share, millionaires and billionaires and pass this bill out of his [Obama’s] vocabulary, he’d be unable to deliver a speech.”

Dick Morris: “My head is for Romney, my heart is with Cain, my brain is with Gingrich and my feet have not voted yet.” (Quoted from memory).

Greg Gutfeld, about some Wall Street protestors were paid to be there: “How ironic is this, you have to pay someone to protest capitalism?”

Herman Cain: “I would make it a priority to upgrade all of our Aegis surface-to-air ballistic missile defense capabilities of all of our warships, all the way around the world.  Make that a priority, and then say to Ahmadinejad, `Make my Day.’”

Rush Limbaugh: “Liberals want to talk about corporations and profits. Well, how about rich unions that don’t pay one penny in federal income tax? And they make lots of profit. They shouldn’t be tax exempt.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Sharyl Attkisson once invited me to be her guest at the White House Correspondents Dinner, which I graciously turned down. She thought it would raise the roof off the place, which it would have. I didn’t want to sit at the CBS table.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Here you have Barack Obama who wants to raise taxes and he’s going out and he’s quoting Ronald Reagan, who everybody knows is famous for what? Cutting taxes.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Bernanke’s out there saying that the economic recovery is close to faltering.  There is no recovery.  They want to pretend that there is. How’s that recovery working for you?”

Rush Limbaugh: “The Durbin amendment was tacked onto the already stupid Dodd-Frank bill at the last minute and that’s what caused these debit card fees to increase at Bank of America in the first place.  So if you object to this new $5 fee, your real target should be to send Dick Durbin home.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Government doesn’t have any money until it goes and gets it from other people.”

Rush:  “No liberal will ever win a national election being honest about who they are.”

Rush: “If a conservative black’s ever elected president, folks, you’re gonna see genuine racism every day from the highest institutions of the media and the Democrat Party.”

Rush: “Ronald Reagan created more jobs, including in the black community, than Obama ever has or ever will.”

Rush: “We used to talk about welfare queens, now we now have welfare punks.”

Rush: “Obama’s jobs bill was never intended to be signed, the bill was never intended to be passed. It’s there for the express purpose of allowing Obama and the Democrats to say the Republicans are the obstructionists. ”

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Liberals:

News reporter Chris Matthews on the Japan disaster: “Was this sort of a good opportunity for the President to remind everybody that he grew up in the United States and Hawaii?  That’s the first thing that I thought of.”

Senate leader Harry Reid on the Republicans budget which cuts too much from the budget: “The mean-spirited bill, H.R. 1, eliminates National Public Broadcasting.  It eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts. These programs create jobs. The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.”

Paul Krugman: “[T]he nation is not, in fact, “broke.” The federal government is having no trouble raising money, and the price of that money – the interest rate on federal borrowing – is very low by historical standards. So there’s no need to scramble to slash spending now now now; we can and should be willing to spend now if it will produce savings in the long run.”

CNN’s Ali Velshi: “Let’s put aside Peter King’s seemingly strange obsession with Islam and Islamists, or whatever you want to call it. I don’t quite understand how when you put an -ist at the end of it, it changes the subject.”

Mark Potok, Spokesman, Southern Poverty Low Center, when asked about the threat of radical Muslims: “Well, I think, well, it’s not our biggest domestic terror threat. I think that pretty clearly comes from the radical right in this country.”

Jesse Jackson: “Governor Wallace believed in state’s rights against worker’s rights and blocked school doors.  So, from Wallace to Walker, same tactics…very undemocratic…the whole idea is a kinda confederate agenda.”

Michael Moore: “I mean really, this is really, this is war. This is a class war that’s been leveled against the working people of this country and at some point people are just going to have to stand up and say – nonviolently – `This is enough, we’re not taking it anymore.’”

I recognize that if you are a liberal, you may think to yourself, taking quotes from Michael Moore is like shooting fish in a barrel.  Nobody takes him seriously.  So let me add a quote from CNN reporter Joe Johns, commenting on Moore’s speech: “Well, it was a speech and it was really pretty incredible….I mean, it was riveting, whether you’re a supporter or a critic or somewhere in between, and it’s really gotten enormous buzz on the Internet…[He had] very big audience, well received by a supporting crowd…..he’s just sort of added his voice to those on the left who say Wisconsin’s the start of something really big and, you know, one of the lines that’s been quoted a lot from him there is that Wisconsin has aroused a sleeping giant.”

NPR executive Ron Schiller: “The current Republican Party, particularly the Tea Party, is fanatically involved in people’s personal lives and very fundamental Christian – I wouldn’t even call it Christian. It’s this weird evangelical kind of move.”

Ron Schiller: “Tea Party people” aren’t “just Islamaphobic, but really xenophobic, I mean basically they are, they believe in sort of white, middle-America gun-toting. I mean, it’s scary. They’re seriously racist, racist people.”

Schiller: “Well frankly, it is clear that we would be better off in the long-run without federal funding.”

Schiller on the firing of Juan Williams: “What NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news and our feeling is that if a person expresses his or her opinion, which anyone is entitled to do in a free society, they are compromised as a journalist.  They can no longer fairly report.”

Keith Ellison’s tearful testimony about Mohammed Hamdani, a genuine Muslim hero during 9/11: “After the tragedy some people tried to smear his character solely because of his Islamic faith. Some people spread false rumors and speculated that he was in league with the attackers only because he was Muslim. It was only when his remains were identified that these lies were fully exposed.”  This would have been an excellent point, had it not been completely false.

Mike Papantonio: “Well, not really. Let me ask you, no, this is interesting, Brad. Do you think, you think you’re going to replace those teachers with National Guard armory? You think you’re going to bring in the National Guard to teach physics and biology? It was like, it’s like the PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization) strike. Do you realize how many deaths there almost were because of the PATCO strike because you had an old senile man who was owned by corporate America wanting to prove that he was the toughest guy on the block, wanting to bust strikers?”

Ann Alehouse: “Do you wonda who won, duh, in the rotunda; we won, duh.  Let me say it in the rotunda, in case you wonda, we won, duh, in the rotunda.”

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More from the civil left; an email sent to the mean Republicans in Wisconsin:

From: XXXX
Sent: Wed 3/9/2011 9:18 PM
To: Sen.Kapanke; Sen.Darling; Sen.Cowles; Sen.Ellis; Sen.Fitzgerald; Sen.Galloway; Sen.Grothman; Sen.Harsdorf; Sen.Hopper; Sen.Kedzie; Sen.Lasee; Sen.Lazich; Sen.Leibham; Sen.Moulton; Sen.Olsen
Subject: Atten: Death threat!!!! Bomb!!!!

Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explain to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell. Read below for more information on possible scenarios in which you will die.

WE want to make this perfectly clear. Because of your actions today and in the past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with me have decided that we’ve had enough. We feel that you and the people that support the dictator have to die. We have tried many other ways of dealing with your corruption but you have taken things too far and we will not stand for it any longer. So, this is how it’s going to happen: I as well as many others know where you and your family live, it’s a matter of public records. We have all planned to assult you by arriving at your house and putting a nice little bullet in your head. However, we decided that we wouldn’t leave it there. We also have decided that this may not be enough to send the message to you since you are so “high” on Koch and have decided that you are now going to single handedly make this a dictatorship instead of a demorcratic process. So we have also built several bombs that we have placed in various locations around the areas in which we know that you frequent.

This includes, your house, your car, the state capitol, and well I won’t tell you all of them because that’s just no fun. Since we know that you are not smart enough to figure out why this is happening to you we have decided to make it perfectly clear to you. If you and your goonies feel that it’s necessary to strip the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives, making them unable to feed, clothe, and provide the necessities to their families and themselves then We Will “get rid of” (in which I mean kill) you. Please understand that this does not include the heroic Rep. Senator that risked everything to go aganist what you and your goonies wanted him to do. We feel that it’s worth our lives to do this, because we would be saving the lives of 300,000 people. Please make your peace with God as soon as possible and say goodbye to your loved ones we will not wait any longer. YOU WILL DIE!!!!”

The Associated Press: “A bill to legalize gay marriage in Maryland fell short Friday after supporters failed to find enough votes to overcome Republican opposition and misgivings by some Democrats in the deeply Catholic state.”

Liberals from the past:

Barack Obama on the economy and unemployment: “It’s an epidemic that demands relentless and sustained response from us. I won’t rest until we are doing just that helping out the middle class.”

Liberals making sense:

Senator Joe Manchin on Democratic and Republican budget proposals: “Why are we doing all this when the most powerful person in all these negotiations, our President, has failed to lead this debate.”

Bill Maher (interviewing Keith Ellison): “Let me give you the reasons why I jotted down why. One, it’s been going on a thousand years this problem between Islam and the west. We are dealing with a culture that is in its medieval era. It comes from a hate-filled holy book, the Koran, which is taken very literally by its people. They are trying to get nuclear weapons. I don’t think Tim McVeigh would ever have tried to get a nuclear weapon because I think right-wing nuts they think they love this country and they are not trying to destroy this country. They want to get it away from the people they see as hijacking it. That’s different than Muslim extremists who want to destroy it. And also, it’s a culture of suicide bombing, which is hard to deter from people who want to kill themselves.”

Lindsay Lohan in her eHarmony profile: “So, if you think you can handle a redhead with a little bit of sass—by that I mean, a redhead who’s crazy—I mean, don’t pretend like you don’t know me; we’ve all read about it.”

Crosstalk:

Bob Garfield, NPR media show co-host: “As a practical political matter, if you hired Roger Ailes himself and brought Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck in to host All Things Considered, do you think that you have the capacity to change anybody’s perceptions?”

Joyce Slocum, NPR’s General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Legal Affairs: “Well there are hardened critics who are never going to change their perception. but the really amazing thing that happens with a lot of people who have misperceptions about NPR.is all it takes to change that perception is to turn on their local member station and listen for a couple of hours.”

Out of NPR’s 17 or 18 on-air news persons, one is moderate Republican David Brooks, who just said, “”I thought it [NPR] was really biased ten years ago, but now I think it’s pretty straight.”

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Brooke Gladstone, `On the Media’ Co-host, NPR: About 25 years ago, I was asked to do a piece, “Is NPR Biased to the Left?” And I couldn’t find a metric to apply to the question in order to answer it.

Ira Glass, `The American Life’ Host, NPR: I don’t know the methodology somebody would use, but I feel like public radio should address this directly, because I think anybody who listens to our stations knows that what they’re hearing is mainstream media reporting. We have nothing to fear from a discussion of what is the news coverage we’re doing.

Conservatives:

Mitch McConnell: “If government spending would stimulate the economy, we’d be in the middle of a boom”

Rick Santorum, possible Presidential candidate: “Jihadism is evil and…We need to define it and say what it is. And it is evil. Sharia law is incompatible with American jurisprudence and our Constitution.”

Judge Andrew Napolitano: “Would you own, invest in, or voluntarily patronize a business that operates the way the government does?”

Napolitano: “They sold this package of big government to the public by calling it progressive as if to suggest that this was progress. I like Professor Thomas Sowell’s explanation of that word. He’s remarked that the progressive income tax is progressive the way a disease is progressive: the longer it’s around, the worse it gets.”

Charles Krauthammer: “In Washington, a gaff is when politician actually tells the truth.” (From memory)

Krauthammer: “[Obama’s reversal on Gitmo trials] exposes how irresponsible and hypocritical he and Democrats were in the early years of the war on terror, attacking everything that the Bush administration had done, the Patriot Act, Guantanamo, military commissions, rendition, detention without trial, all of which, once in office after hearing the reports of the intelligence agencies and having their hair stand on end, all of which, the Democrats have now adopted as national law and policy.

George Will: “We learned this week redundantly that NPR is run by people who don’t like people like me. Which is fine. The problem is there are 14,000 radio stations in this country. The government shouldn’t be subsidizing neither entertainment, certainly not journalism. In fact, this is a solution in search of a problem.”

Will continues: And it’s also a kind of homage to the Bush administration. It created this entire infrastructure out of nothing, out of 9/11. Where we were caught off-guard, we had no infrastructure. It created Guantanamo and commissions, it improvised. And with some tweaks and amendments that the Supreme Court indicated were required, essentially it got it right. And that’s what the Obama administration is admitting after all of these irresponsible and hypocritical attacks in the past.”

Senator Jim DeMint: “Now, I love poetry and cowboys as much as anyone else. But we’re looking at bankrupting our nation.”

In support of his national right to work bill, Jim DeMint said, “No American should be forced to join a union and pay dues to get a job in this country.”

Dick Morris: “They [the White House] have reduced unemployment by convincing 5 million people to stop looking for work and they have slashed immigration by destroying their jobs.” (Quoted from memory).

Krauthammer: “If the product [the NPR broadcast] is so superior, why does it have to live on the tit of the state?”

Bill O’Reilly: “We are 7 months away from the end of this [fiscal] year and we don’t have a budget—that’s ridiculous!” (Quoted from memory).

Alan Simpson, co-chair of Obama’s debt commissions, suggests why some grandparents are not that concerned about the future debt of their grandchildren: “If they care at all about their children or grandchildren, and sometimes I doubt that–I think, you know, grandchildren now don’t write a thank-you for the Christmas presents, they’re walking on their pants with the cap on backwards listening to the enema man and Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dogg, and they don’t like them!”

Jodi Miller: “Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are trying to start a revolution by using Facebook.  Even their women are joining in by posting on can-show-our facebook.”

Rush Limbaugh: “If they had polling data that suggests that the Democrats won big in Wisconsin, that would have been 90% of the content of this presser. And it didn’t even come up. Napoleon didn’t have a press conference either after Waterloo.”

Limbaugh: “Did you hear what Obama said? Obama issued a statement where he referred to our alliance with Japan as ‘unshakable’. What a tin ear.”

Limbaugh: “You people at Mediaite, do not misquote me on this. If you want to misquote me, wait until what I said is on my website so you can misquote me accurately.”

Limbaugh: “Obama said the United States has to stop funding programs that don’t work. Now, that is truly radical, because if he meant it, what would be left? And I’m only 10% joking here.”

Limbaugh: “Sarah Palin has more courage in her little finger than our presidential field. Same thing with Michele Bachmann. The gonads on our team happen to be wearing skirts.”

Limbaugh: “Why does anybody believe Obama when he talks about caring about private sector jobs?  Why does anybody believe Obama when he talks about wanting economic growth?  Where’s the evidence?  Why does anybody believe anything Obama says about his stated goals and intentions?  Because, folks, if he had been honest he wouldn’t have been elected.”

Limbaugh: “How did I know they weren’t gonna close Gitmo?  My answer is not gonna satisfy anybody, but it’s not complicated.  They’re liberals and they lie.  It was simply a campaign talking point.  It was simply a bone they were throwing to their base.”

Limbaugh: “So Obama says he took a course in international relations as an undergrad. Fine. Okay. My mom made me take out the trash, so I know about waste removal.”

Limbaugh: “The payment of unemployment benefits is almost as high as Social Security in this country. Folks, we are not going to survive as a nation — not with this kind of sloth and laziness and feeding at the public trough.”

Conservatives who are wrong:

Senator Lisa Murkowski, making Alaskans proud that they voted her in as a write-in candidate: “I believe Planned Parenthood provides vital services to those in need and disagree with their funding cuts in the bill.”

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I’ve been chuckling over the last few days as I listened or watched Bubba go off on one reporter or another. The very same reporters he so very much loved when he was lying his way through his Presidency. The latest one (see above video) has received some press, most of it bad.

Here is the wifey response:

Hillary Rodham Clinton, defending her husband’s increasingly vocal role in her presidential effort, sidestepped questions about whether Bill Clinton’s suggestion that Barack Obama had put a “hit job” on him was language befitting a former president. …

The former president also reacted angrily upon being told that Dick Harpootlian, a former South Carolina Democratic chairman and Obama supporter, had called the Clinton campaign “reprehensible” and suggested it had borrowed tactics from Lee Atwater, the late South Carolina GOP strategist who famously practiced negative campaigning.

In response, Bill Clinton noted that there had been no outcry from reporters when Obama put out a “hit job” on him.

He didn’t elaborate on what he meant, and Hillary Clinton refused to speculate in the interview.

Ahhhh, the tried and true tactic of blaming it all on some vast conspiracy instead of answering the damn question. No one cares what you talked about at that symposium Bill. They care about your undignified attacks on an opponent of your wifes. It’s undignified because you were a President for gods sake. You and Jimmy Carter have done more to drag the office of President of the United States through the mud then anyone.

What happened to all the calls about Bubba being the master campaigner? Now his wife has to defend his reprehensible behavior. But wait a minute…..is this all a campaign tactic? Dick Morris thinks it is and I may have to agree with him:

Blacks in Nevada overwhelmingly backed Obama and will obviously do so again in South Carolina, no matter how loudly former President Clinton protests. So why is he making such a fuss over a contest he knows he’s going to lose?

Precisely because he is going to lose it. If Hillary loses South Carolina and the defeat serves to demonstrate Obama’s ability to attract a bloc vote among black Democrats, the message will go out loud and clear to white voters that this is a racial fight. It’s one thing for polls to show, as they now do, that Obama beats Hillary among African-Americans by better than 4-to-1 and Hillary carries whites by almost 2-to-1. But most people don’t read the fine print on the polls. But if blacks deliver South Carolina to Obama, everybody will know that they are bloc-voting. That will trigger a massive white backlash against Obama and will drive white voters to Hillary Clinton.

Obama has done everything he possibly could to keep race out of this election. And the Clintons attracted national scorn when they tried to bring it back in by attempting to minimize the role Martin Luther King Jr. played in the civil rights movement. But here they have a way of appearing to seek the black vote, losing it, and getting their white backlash, all without any fingerprints showing. The more President Clinton begs black voters to back his wife, and the more they spurn her, the more the election becomes about race — and Obama ultimately loses.

If true, and it works….wow, he may very well be the master campaigner.

One thing the Republicans better be getting geared up to do is defend against this kind of manipulation by either Hillary or Obama because we can be sure it’s going to come…

Oh, and Ace found another tall tale emitting from Bill’s lips in the above video:

about halfway through his story about overhearing a conversation in a casino about pro-Hillary union workers not being allowed to caucus for her (see the Jon Stewart clip below) transforms into something quite a bit more extravagant: Now he’s no longer “overhearing” any such conversation, but escorting six Hispanic women somewhere where they each tell him they were prevented from signing up to attend the caucus. And he adds he’s heard “hundreds” of similar stories.

Well! That little fib seems to have grown into a Paul Bunyan-style tall tale in just a couple of days.

Bill embellish a story or tell a fib? Get outta here!