Liberals:

First Lady Michelle Obama: “I guess it’s more interesting to imagine this conflicted situation here and a strong woman. But that’s been an image that people have tried to paint of me since the day Barack announced. That I’m some angry black woman.”

Barack Obama: “We can make sure that we are doing right by our environment and, in fact, putting people back to work all across America.  When we put in place new common-sense rules to reduce air pollution, we create new jobs building and installing all sorts of pollution-control technology.  When we put in place new emissions standards for our vehicles, we make sure that the cars of tomorrow are going to be built right here in the United States of America, that we’re going to win that race.”  Keep increasing regulations, and there will be jobs, jobs, jobs for those we need to enforce them.  Sadly, many liberals believe that.

President Obama: “I’m not a perfect man. I’m not a perfect president, but I’ve kept this promise: I’ll always tell you what I believe in. I’ll always tell you where I stand. So if you’ve still got that energy, if you’re still fired up … if you want to keep reaching for that vision you hold in your hearts, I promise you, change will come.”

Obama webpage: “Republican candidates for president Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich all say they would cut foreign aid to Israel — and every other country — to zero. Stand up to this extreme isolationism and join the call to reject the Romney-Perry-Gingrich plan.”  Even the liberal Politifact gives this a “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire” rating.

Barack Obama: “By the way, you won’t meet harder working folks than some of the folks in these federal agencies. They devote countless hours to trying to make sure that they’re serving the American people, but they will tell you their efforts are constantly undermined by an outdated bureaucratic maze.”  This explains, I guess, why they get paid far more than those in the public sector.

Obama: “So, with or without Congress, I’m going to keep at it.  But it would be a lot easier if Congress helped.”

Oprah Winfrey on Barack Obama: “I think he is, uh, a masterful leader and I think that what it takes to be able to do that on a daily basis and to stand up in a world where everybody is open to attacking you all the time, very hard job…I’m proud of him.”

Oprah Winfrey: “No, I don’t think it’s necessary because my endorsement is that I am a 100% supporter of him. And if he or his office called me tomorrow and said that they needed me I would do whatever I thought would be of service.”

President Obama, to a crowd of supporters: “This will be my last campaign.”

Obama at a Chicago fundraiser, according to transcripts: “The first bill I signed – a bill that said that we’re going to have equal pay for equal work because I want my daughters treated the same way as my sons.”

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “The president has responsibility for the green jobs programs where he made investments.  But the decisions that were made at Solyndra that ultimately led to their bankruptcy were those of the people who worked at Solandra.”

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “There is a reason that the Democratic Party is far more diverse than the Republican Party, because the natural home, politically on major issues to Hispanics, to women, to Jews, to Asian-Americans, the diverse spectrum – to African Americans.”  She forgot to mention that any woman or minority who reaches a high ranking in the Republican party or as a conservative is savaged by the Democrats and/or by the media: Sarah Palin, Herman Cain,  Clarence Thomas, Miguel Estrada and Alberto Gonzales.

Victoria Nuland, the State Department spokeswoman, of an Iranian nuclear scientist who was assassinated: “We condemn any assassination or attack on an innocent person, and we express our sympathies to the family.”

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: “We need to make sure that we tone things down, particularly in light of the Tucson tragedy from a year ago where my very good friend, Gabby Giffords, who is doing really well by the way, and I know everybody is so thrilled, as I am, to hear that, making tremendous progress.  But the discourse in America, the discourse in Congress in particular, to answer your question, very specifically, has really changed.  And I’ll tell you, I hesitate to place blame, but I have noticed it take a very precipitous turn towards edginess and a lack of civility with the growth of the Tea Party movement.”  Giffords was shot a year ago, and within hours of the shooting, editorials, blogs and even news articles were blaming Sarah Palin, the TEA party or “ramped-up TEA party rhetoric.”  Even NPR this week still blames TEA party rhetoric for this shooting.  However, behind the scenes, emails were being sent back and forth between those in the justice department, panicked that she may have been shot by a gun let loose in Operation Fast&Furious. Liberal Democrats have an interest in power, but no interest in the truth.  If a lie, a misstatement or a half-truth gains them additional votes, then they have no problems offering it up as the truth.

Alan Krueger, chairman of President Obama‘s Council of Economic Advisers explaining why there is great economic inequality): “There have also been important institutional changes that have contributed to the rise in income inequality, including the decline in union membership and fall in the real value of the minimum wage.  Tax policy has played a role in rising inequality. Although our tax code is still progressive, tax changes in the early 2000s benefited the very wealthy by much more than other taxpayers, compounding the widening gap in pre-tax earnings.”

Former US president Jimmy Carter: “They have pledged to me and to the world that they will take an objective point of view, the Muslim Brotherhood, and that they will govern as one of the major parties in the new parliament in a balanced way and respect the human rights of others who might have a different approach to religion.”

House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson of Connecticut: “[I would] prefer everything happen in regular order…Of course, we’d love to see regular order, and I dare say so with the president, but when you block these people, when you can’t fill these positions and there seems to be more than a veiled attempt to prevent people from doing their job in terms of the oversight that needs to take place on Wall Street, then of course it was a timely thing for the president to do.”

Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said on MSNBC: “I think it’s a shame that people will be so sophomoric about the questioning of activities with wealth development. I have no problem with Mitt Romney or anybody else making millions, or even billions.  What my problem is, is that if you question things done in the name of capitalism, then he calls it being ‘envious.’ I don’t think anybody was envious or fearful of being envious when they fail to question what Bernard Madoff was doing. he did all of that in the name of capitalism. We can question what people are doing and the way they do it and to make sure that people adhere to fair play. This whole issue is about fundamental fairness.”

House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi: “I have a great deal of respect for Ron Paul.  He acts upon his convictions and he’s a nice fellow in the Congress of the United States. He’s a gentleman.”

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland concerning the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood that it would “not recognize Israel under any circumstances”: “We’ve seen this press report. I would say that it is one member of the Muslim Brotherhood. We have had other assurances from the party with regard to their commitment not only to universal human rights, but to the international obligations that the Government of Egypt has undertaken.”

Liberal movie maker Michael Moore: “And that’s younger people also, because they’re not as racist as the previous generation. I mean, can I just, can I just throw out one statistic? The only white age group that President Obama won was 18 to 29 year olds. He lost every other white age group. So, I know that may sound depressing, but the hopeful part of it is our young people. They are going to fix this. You know this. Those of us my age, our kids, they’re not bigots, they’re not homophobes. They don’t look at it the way that the grandparents and the great-grandparents did. This is going to get better with the next generations, I believe it.”

Former Vice President Al Gore: “In a moment when the future of civilization is at risk, we need to find a way to talk about how we deal with [global warming].”

Question on a 3rd grade worksheet for some Georgian students: “Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?”  Got to be a lib teacher here.

Obama is losing his far, far left:

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez: “[The United States is] not going to be able to dominate this world.  Forget about it (President Barack) Obama, forget about it. It would be better to think about the problems in your country, which are many.”

Fidel Castro: “[Obama is] hopelessly immersed in seeking re-election.”

The Compliant Obama Press Corps:

Political analyst Goldie Taylor to CNN Newsroom host Don Lemon concerning “recent racially-insensitive incidents among several GOP candidates.”: “Let’s be clear, these are not stumbles or miscues, these are absolutely planned, seeded, on-purpose stuff.”

Politico‘s Evan Thomas (previously at Newsweek): “It’s interesting that Perry stayed in because there is still this angry, white, middle class male out there that is a seething force, and Romney is not really their guy. It’s not clear who is, I’m not sure, I mean, Santorum for the moment, but in some ways, that is a force to be tapped, and nobody’s really found a way to do it.”

Newsweek‘s Allison Samuels to liberal New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor, who did not portray the first lady reverently enough in her new book: “Surely it would be impossible to ignore the grace, charm and intellect of the 5’11″ Chicago native, with her Harvard Law degree, committed marriage, and two young daughters.  Society would come to realize that Michelle Obama was not the exception but more often the rule in the black community.”

Time Magazine’s Ideas blog: A number of justices long for a fairytale world where “government can insist on a certain modicum of decency,” as Justice Antonin Scalia archly observed. Chief Justice John Roberts, a father of young kids, plaintively noted that “all we are asking for is a few channels” where kids won’t be exposed to profanity and sexual acts. Justice Elena Kagan opined that “it seems to be a good thing to have a safe haven” during prime time.  A safe haven on television? How quaint. Leaving aside the availability of profanity and sex to anyone with cable or a laptop, the Supreme Court justices – and most Americans – are kidding themselves if they think keeping F-bombs off TV will keep children safe. It’s like taking your car to be detailed when the brake pads are worn out: it deflects attention from what really matters.

Bob Shieffer on CBS News on Mitt Romney’s statement, “I like to fire people”: “You know, his people are saying it was taken out of context but, you know, when people are out of work, there are certain words that you just avoid—saying, I like to fire people is just one of them, whatever the context that was taken in.”  This 3½ minute story never once mentions what the context is.

Bill Moyers (from PBS), after praising George Soros, adds: “He has been the victim, of course, of Glenn Beck and the right wing, the Fox News assassins.”

MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry: “Well, I think there is a lot of things that they (Republicans) like about 1860. Obviously, part of it is a clear kind of racial discourse. This is about states’ rights and states’ rights are all kinds of discriminatory possibilities. One is certainly about African-Americans, about voting rights, but the other piece of it has been this profound anti-immigration legislation that states have passed, these marriage equality — states rights becomes a cover for talking about the ability to remove the rights of some American citizens because those citizens’ rights exist in the states rather than as national rights.”  At the bottom of the screen was a large banner which read “Party Like It’s 1860″ and there were the faces of 3 Republican candidates on it.  Yep, that is what Republicans want, segregation, Jim Crow laws, and voter restrictions for the coloreds.  Does this have anything at all to do with news?  She has not even the slightest interest in the truth.  Essentially these people get on MSNBC and just make stuff up.  This one came with graphics.

Liberals from the past:

Che Guevara: “To establish Socialism rivers of blood must flow.”

January 2009 report by the Obama administration: “In the absence of stimulus, the economy could lose another 3 to 4 million more [jobs].  Thus, we are working to counter a potential total job loss of at least 5 million. As Figure 1 shows, even with the large prototypical package, the unemployment rate in 2010Q4 is predicted to be approximately 7.0%, which is well below the approximately 8.8% that would result in the absence of a plan.”

Liberal civility:

David Axelrod: “Governor Romney may be rooting for slips and falls here [in the economy]. We’re concentrating on moving this economy forward.”

Bill Press: “[Newt Gingrich] is the suicide bomber of the Republican party; he knows he’s not going to win…he’s not in it to win it anymore, he’s in it to take down as many people as he can as he goes down, and he has that same silly grin on his face as he pulls the plug as the suicide bomber.”

Bill Press : “I couldn’t believe it and then I looked up at the screen and there he was on his knees with his hand up to his head in the pose that he has now made famous. It was Tebow doing the Tebow and I just wanted to throw up,”

Wasserman-Schultz on candidate Rick Santorum’s support of a federal marriage amendment, which would annul same-sex marriages: “That would be un-American, undemocratic and entirely inappropriate and unacceptable.”

Leftist talk radio host Mike Malloy continuously wishes for the death of conservatives: “I think he’s Catholic, right? What you ought to do is call Francis Cardinal George out in Chicago and maybe you and he can get together for a cup of — hemlock.”

Malloy: “I hate to see an organization like the Catholic Church –  that has been one of the bloodiest, most suppressive, most oppressive, most violent organizations in the history of not just religion but of the entire human race try to claim victim status because a bunch of queers want to march a parade down the g*d*m street! That’s what drives me crazy!”

Bill Maher about what he said to Herman Cain: “I don’t, like, hate your f—— guts…like I hate Newt Gingrich.”

Crazy Muslims:

Thousands of Iranian mourners chanted “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” over nuclear scientists who have been assassinated.

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In Tunisia:
Crowd: “The people want the liberation of Palestine.

The people want the liberation of Palestine.”

Crowd member: “Killing the Jews.”

Crowd: “.is a duty.”

Crowd member: “Killing the Jews.”

Crowd: “.is a duty.”

Crowd member: “Driving out the Jews.”

Crowd: “.is a duty.”

Crowd member: “Driving out the Jews.”

Crowd: “.is a duty.”

Crowd member: “Crushing the Jews.”

Crowd: “.is a duty.”

Crowd member: “Crushing the Jews.”

Crowd: “.is a duty.”

Prior to the Arab Spring, this would have never occurred.

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Egyptian cleric Salem Abu Al-Futuh, in a sermon given on Al-Nas TV: “They are doing all kinds of things so that people keep suffering. They send Christian missionaries in the form of doctors and nurses, who caress and embrace the child, like they do in the West.  They give him a very beautiful toy, and all of a sudden, they snatch it away from him. When the child screams: ‘Where is my toy?!’, they say to him: ‘Muhammad stole it from you.’ Thus, from infancy, they make the child hate Muhammad. That’s what they do in Spain.”  Not even a passing interest in the truth, which is why I used to lump Muslims in with the liberals.

Liberals making sense:

Chris Matthews: “Here it is, Hardball, coming back in just a moment on MBSNBC.”

Christian Dorsey (economic commentator for FoxNews): “It may not be the Volt that sets the world afire.”  He did not fully realize what he had said.

Moderates/Affiliation Unknown:

Meghan McCain, the daughter of Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain on the book on the Obama in the White House: “They can write whatever they want; they’re still in office—I have no problem with this type of thing being written when they are out of office.  I think some small emoticon of privacy .  And granted, I’m no fan of the Obama’s, but in general, I’m a Republican—but I’m just saying, they deserve some small emoticon, I mean it’s okay for her, I mean continue.”

Meghan McCain: “I’m a big proponent of gay marriage; It has isolated me in Republican circles. People don’t think I’m Republican enough because I’m a big advocate of marriage equality in this country. But I’m very proud to do it. My mother joined me. You know, I just – it’s one of the reasons why love being in politics. I just think this is my generation’s civil rights issue…I think if Ronald Reagan were running today, he would be called a dirty moderate like me, unfortunately.”

Mercedes-Benz Chairman of the Board of Management Dieter Zetsche: “Some colleagues still think that car-sharing borders on communism.  But if that’s the case, viva la revolucion!”  A picture of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara loomed large over Zetsche and Che‘s signature beret sported a Mercedes logo. Mercedes-Benz has since privately apologized for this commercial.

Ted Nagengast, the New Jersey Bay Shore schools athletics chair, of devices that will be used to monitor some overweight kids: “It’s a great reinforcement in fighting the obesity epidemic. It tells kids, in real time, `Am I active? Am I not active?’ We want to give kids the opportunity to become active.”

Crosstalk:

Warren Buffett to Time magazine: “It restores my faith in human nature to think that there are people who have been around Washington all this time and are not yet so cynical as to think that [the deficit] can’t be solved by voluntary contributions. And, I’ll even go three for one for McConnell.”

Mitch McConnell spokesman Don Stewart: “And since some, like President Obama and Mr. Buffett want to pay higher taxes, Congress made it possible for them to call their own bluff and send in a check. So I look forward to Mr. Buffett matching a healthy batch of checks from those who actually want to pay higher taxes, including Congressional Democrats, the President and the DNC.”  Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway, still owes taxes back to 2002
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Newsman George Stephanopoulos, moderating a debate: “Senator Santorum?”

Rick Santorum: “What’s the question?”
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Neil Cavuto, leading a panel discussion on FoxNews: “Ben Stein?”

Ben Stein: “What?”
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Interviewer: “Some people say they’re disappointed in Barack Obama’s presidency, that is hasn’t accomplished all that they thought that  it would or all that he said it would.”

Michelle Obama: “They don’t know.  They don’t know all that.  You know, this campaign is going to be all about making sure that people understand all that’s been accomplished.  I think people are confused about, some may be confused by how much have been [sic] accomplished.”
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Bill Maher: The other is what he said, you know, he says things that at almost every Republican debate, the rest of the people in the audience and on the stage who look at him like he has three heads. And one of the things he says is, “We got an empire, and we should bring all the troops home.” He’s the one who is really in my heart on foreign affairs, not Barack Obama.

[Tepid applause]

Rob Reiner: Only a smattering you got on that, Bill. You notice that? It was a small smattering.

Maher: Because they’re brainwashed liberals.
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Amanda Peyton of Slash blog calling Senator Charles Schumer’s (D) office: “Why does the Senator support this [internet] legislation?”

The guy on the other end of the phone said: “well, he’s a co-sponsor so he’s not changing his position.”

Peyton asked the same question again. This time the reply was: “Senator Schumer is in favor of censoring the internet.”

This conversation is according to Peyton’s site.

Conservative Media:

Weasel Zipper headline: “Matt Drudge, Wordsmith”

Speaking of Drudge’s photo headline.

Conservatives:

Former Army lieutenant colonel Rep. Allen West: “I have sat back and assessed the incident with the video of our Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. I do not recall any self-righteous indignation when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through Mogadishu. Neither do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.  All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?”

Sarah Palin, when told that her husband came out in support of Newt Gingrich: “First dude went rogue.”

Sarah Palin, after seeing a clip of Michelle Obama saying that most people were confused about what the president has accomplished: “Oh, Lord. Oh, Lord – what are we—just a bunch of numbskulls out here in the heartland of America?  Just a bunch of numbskulls who can’t read the unemployment numbers and see that 5 trillion dollars in new debt later under her husband, President Obama. 5 trillion dollars more! And we have fewer jobs today than we had before we took over, but, no, we’re numbskulls out here and we don’t know what the numbers actually represent!”

Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie: “Those who underestimate the Barack Obama underestimate him at their own peril. He is as good a politician as I’ve ever seen.”

Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, the hawkish former ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush: “I think Gov. Romney is the person who can best lead the party, best articulate our conservative principles and is most likely to beat Barack Obama.”

John Bolton explained why President Obama ought not to take any credit for the killing of Usama Bin Laden: “It’s because navy seal team 6 killed Usama bin Laden. that’s his definition of success. as somebody pointed out, in 1969 when Americans landed on the moon, it’s like Richard Nixon taking for credit for that, because it happened to occur during his presidency.”

Mitt Romney: “This election is a choice between two very different destinies.  President Obama wants to ‘fundamentally transform’ America. We want to restore America to the founding principles that made this country great.  He wants to turn America into a European-style entitlement society. We want to ensure that we remain a free and prosperous land of opportunity.  This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America.”

Greg Gutfeld: “Capitalism is the tide that raises all boats.  Socialism attempts to legislate the tide.”

Mitt Romney: “I want individuals to have their own [healthcare] insurance.  That means the insurance company will have an incentive to keep you healthy. It also means if you don’t like what they do, you can fire them. I like being able to fire people who provide [inadequate or unsatisfactory] services to me.”

Jon Huntsman, coming in 3rd in New Hampshire: “We only go south from here.”
Jodi Miller: “The Grand Warlock of Mexico is predicting that President Obama will not be reelected, and he should know—he’s also Obama’s immigration advisor.”

Jodi Miller: “The Obama campaign is looking for a theme song.  Actually, the campaign already has 3 theme songs: the opening music for the ABC, NBC and CBS newscasts.”

Rush Limbaugh: “People getting fired is part of life. It’s nothing unique to capitalism. It’s nothing unique to humanity.”

Rush Limbaugh: “In the so-called conservative media establishment, I know there are people who think that the view that the country’s in peril and that we are facing a forever transformation from which we can’t come back, they don’t think that. To them, $16 trillion of national debt’s no different than five trillion. As long as we keep making the interest payments we’re cool.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Rush Limbaughisms? So this babe thinks that this is forcing Romney to parrot me? If Romney were parroting me he would have the nomination sewn up!”

Rush Limbaugh: “I’m all for vetting candidates — I’m all for finding out just exactly who they are and I’m all for finding out if they can defend themselves — but I don’t think you tear down the engine of freedom or any other conservative principle in the process of doing all this.”

Rush Limbaugh: “The Democrat Party has made a lifetime career out of bashing every successful corporate entity in this country. Big Oil, Big Drug, Big Pharmaceutical, Big Walmart, Big Retail, ‘Big’ whatever. Look at their enemies list.”

Rush Limbaugh: “All capitalism is, is the American dream, for crying out loud! Without capitalism, there is no American dream. Sorry. There cannot be an American dream to pursue without capitalism.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Everything to practically everyone who works in Washington, the Gospel of Wealth is why they are there. The Gospel of Wealth is why they want to get the Senate and the committee chairmanships! They want to be in charge of the money.”

Rush Limbaugh: “The Government does not have to make a profit running anything. I give you the Volt. They don’t care! The Volt ends up costing $250,000 per car when you account for all the subsidies and everything else.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Reagan defended conservatism. This is the thing that people forget. Reagan taught conservatism. When he talked about cutting taxes, he explained how it benefited the middle class, how it benefited everybody. And everything Reagan taught was oriented around reducing the size and role of government in people’s lives, which equals more and more freedom.”

Conservatives not making any sense:

Jon Huntsman told Politico. “I believe we are in one such cycle. I think that cycle ultimately takes us to a sane Republican Party based on real ideas.”

Jon Huntsman: “I’d say third place is a ticket to ride, ladies and gentleman.”

Ron Paul on the 3 assassinations of nuclear scientists in Iran: “Well, obviously, if we’re doing this, we shouldn’t be doing it.  This is an act of terrorism.  I can empathize with them; these are victims of terrorism and we have condemned all terrorism…we should have great empathy for ‘em.“

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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:

First lady Michelle Obama to her husband: “You had BBQ?  You didn’t tell me you had BBQ.”

President Obama on 60 Minutes : “I’m not in the job of prognosticating on the economy. I’m in the job of putting in place the tools that allow the economy to thrive and Americans to succeed. Sometimes when I’m talking to my team, I – describe us . . . as . . . I’m the captain and they’re the crew on a ship, going through really bad storms. And no matter how well we’re steering the ship, if the boat’s rocking back and forth and people are getting sick and . . . they’re being buffeted by the winds and the rain and . . . at a certain point – if you’re asking, “Are you enjoying the ride right now?” Folks are going to say, “No.” And are they going to say, “Do you think the captain’s good – doing a good job?” People are going 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.”

Jake Elwood (played by John Belushi): “I ran out of gas.  I had a flat tire.  I didn’t have enough money for cab fare.  My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners.  An old friend came in from out of town…there was an earthquake, a terrible flood, IT WASN’T MY FAULT!”

President Obama: “Too many children can no longer expect to join the middle class, the president said, no matter if they work hard and play by the rules.”  It is difficult to determine if these are his exact words.  They are attributed to him, but without quotes.  However, what this means is, what he has done so far for Americans has not worked.

President Barack Obama: “But I have a different vision.”

President Obama [file this under, it’s still Bush’s fault]: “The reason they still support me is because they understand what an incredible mess had been made as I was coming into office and we’ve been spending the last three years cleaning it up. The good news is that the economy is starting to strengthen. We’ve seen some positive signs. The unemployment rate has ticked down.”

President Obama: “Layoffs too often became permanent, not part of the business cycle. And these changes didn’t just affect blue collar workers. If you were a bank teller or a phone operator or a travel agent, you saw many in your profession replaced by ATMs and the internet,”

President Obama on Supply-side economics: “It’s a simple theory – one that speaks to our rugged individualism and healthy skepticism of too much government. It fits well on a bumper sticker. Here’s the problem: It doesn’t work.  It’s never worked.”  Apparently the president was still living in Kenya during the 1980′s and 90′s and 2000′s?

President Obama: “I would not ask anybody to do something that I’m not willing to do myself. I know that some of you might have been looking forward to some sun and sand. But the bottom line is that we are going to stay here as long as it takes to make sure that the American people’s taxes do not go up on January 1st.”

President Obama, making another don’t call this a fund-raiser speech: “Congress can’t end the year by taking money out of the pockets of working Americans. Now is not the time for playing politics. Now is the time to do what’s right for the American people.”

Department of Justice Attorney General Eric Holder: “We don’t hire people on the basis of political or ideological affiliations.”

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi: “It’s not about what the American people are thinking; they support a payroll tax cut, whether they’re Democrats or Republicans or Independents,” she added. “It’s about the extremism of the Republicans in the House of Representatives that remains the obstacle to this tax cut.”

Nancy Pelosi: “I think the [Occupy movement] protesters have made a very strong statement: The status quo is unacceptable.  I agree with that.”

Pelosi: “As families gather around their kitchen table deciding what they can afford, uh, uh, Christmas toys for their child—uh, holiday toys for their children, or Christmas presents for their family.”

Pelosi on Obama‘s Kansas speech: “it was a tour de force about who we are as a country in a non-partisan way.”

Pelosi: “I think that we must – we must – pass the unemployment insurance. I do not think it should be paid for because it is, again, it is something that people, that is paid into and now we should, for many reasons, not pay for it.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: “One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich.  I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.” what she did not say much about is, she is not allowed to reveal any stuff which was not already made public; nor did she talk about the end result of this ethics probe.

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid on why a vote on a jobs bill was put off:  “We’re not going to do that at midnight tonight. We’re going to have the votes when you folks can write about it during a decent news cycle.”

Former House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer: “[passing unemployment insurance will allow the jobless] to continue participating in growing the economy and creating jobs…I believe that the Republicans don’t want to leave here without passing UI. That would be coal in the stockings of the American people. Not just [for] those who don’t have a job, but all of those who would be hurt by the additional burden that people who run out of unemployment would be in terms of food stamps, welfare payments, TANF [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families], and failure to help boost the economy.”

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “Newt Gingrich was a Tea Party politician even before there was a Tea Party – he supported gutting funding for education and Medicare to fund a tax cut for millionaires and shut down the government over it and those are the same policies he supports today.”

Texan Representative Sheila Jackson Lee: “We saw what happened when Iran took hostages in 1979. A president lost his re-election. The prestige of the United States was challenged.    I am not going to be taken hostage again to extend the Bush tax cuts when every economist says that it’s absolutely absurd forever and points to the fact that no jobs are necessarily created by extending the Bush tax cuts, at least on the top one percent of Americans, and when the opt one percent population polled have said that they have no problem with losing that ludicrous benefit forever and ever.”

Georgia Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson on Operation Fast and Furious: “I think this is another manufactured controversy by the second amendment, NRA Republican tea party movement.”  Operation Fast & Furious took 2000 guns over the border into Mexico, which guns have killed 1 American and more than 150 Mexican citizens.

Attorney General Eric Holder: “I have no intention of resigning.  I’m the attorney general who put an end to the tactics of Fast and Furious.”

Eric Holder on whether or not he had lied in his letter to Congress: “Well, if you want to have this legal conversation, it all has to do with your state of mind and whether or not you had the requisite intent to come up with something that would be considered perjury or a lie.”

Planned parenthood blog post: “Gingrich may have a reputation for “big ideas,” but his record on women’s health can best be characterized as backward and wrong. With his rapid rise in the polls, he’s catching our attention too-as a Featured Chump.”

Occupy Washington dude: “If this is the revolution, this is our Valley Forge.”

Liberal commentator Alexis McGill Johnson: “Occupy is just getting started.”

Domestic terrorist Bill Ayers: “And Occupy has already won, that is, the movement has changed the frame, redefined the discussion, and introduced a range of new ideas into the public square, for example: We are the 99%! Like every other movement in history, it was “impossible” the day before it burst onto the scene, and yet it seemed suddenly “inevitable” the day after.”

Occupy SF participant’s ad on Craig’s list: “I want a roommate to help set up a new camp and watch my back in case the NAzis with the GERMAN dog come back to kick me out. I also have a video camera we can share in case they harrass us.”

An Iowa State University lecturer Thomas Walker in a letter to the editor: “Why do Republicans care so much about the military?  Because the military-industrial complex is dear to their simplistic laissez-faire fantasies: a bottom-line patriotism that excludes the people at the bottom.”

MSNBC‘s Michael Eric Dyson responding to Newt Gingrich call for poor children to be trained in unskilled labor so they learn a work ethic: “Well, first of all, those hustlers are working extremely hard. They may be unemployed, but they’re working to be sure.”

Lily the Muppet, at the National Press Club: “Sometimes we can’t always afford to buy all the food that we need.  I mean, but we’ve been finding lots of ways that we can get help. . . Yeah, for example, at school I get a free breakfast and a lunch . . . part of the meal plan.”

The EPA defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race or income, in the environmental decision-making process.”

Michael Moore: “I think is great about this is that by having ten million leaders and ten million spokespeople in every PTA, in every church, in every neighborhood, that’s how this movement’s grown so fast. It’s only twelve weeks old. It already has the support of the majority of Americans who say they agree with the principles of the Occupy Wall Street movement.”

Snoop Dogg: “They legalized alcohol, they legalized tobacco. What is it going to hurt to legalize this medicinal medical marijuana that’s used for purposes of (things like) cataracts?”

The Secular Coalition for America: “We want to have a wave of godless voters flood the halls of every congressional building to show all of America that secular and nontheistic Americans are here, that we expect our elected officials to represent our issues, and that we care about our country just as much as any American…[these efforts are necessary because] secular Americans often hide their nontheistic viewpoints and ideologies because they fear persecution.”

The Compliant Obama Press Corps:

Former White House correspondent, now NY Times columnist Frank Bruni:”The candidates who surged before [Gingrich] are to varying degrees yahoos. They proved it anew last week. Michele Bachmann seemed to be under the impression that we had an embassy in Iran, and Rick Perry was definitely under the delusion that the voting age in this country is 21 instead of 18.”

Frank Bruni, a month ago, on Herman Cain: “Let us pause here to make a necessarily severe assessment: to say that Herman Cain has an imperfect grasp of policy would be unfair not only to George W. Bush in 1999 but also to Britney Spears in 1999. Herman Cain seems like someone who, quite frankly, has never opened a newspaper.”

Time Magazine’s Ezra Klein: “…you could argue that the United States’s debt burden is the product of an insufficiently large welfare state – at least with regard to health care.”

ABC‘s Christiane Amanpour question for Republican candidate Jon Huntsman: “People are trying to figure out how you’re going to really break out — because you are at the bottom of the pack — despite the fact that some independents, for instance, in New Hampshire call you the sanest one running. Our George Will has said that you deserve a “searching second look” from conservatives. Ross Douthat of the New York Times calls you the most electable conservative remaining in the race. And yet, as I say, what you’re offering does not seem to be resonating. It appears that the Newt Gingrich [holds up her fists], sort of bombast and brash in your face against Obama, is what’s resonating.”

Amanpour: “All right, let me ask you about where this campaign is going. I read to you a few comments from people before, including one who called you the sanest one still running. But it appears that you are reversing some of your own eminently sensible positions. For instance, on climate change you in August, tweeted that, “to be clear, I believe in evolution and I trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.” You’ve been tweeting about the sort of rightward swing, you’ve been jabbing at the base. And yet, in the last week, you sort of rolled that bit back on climate change. You sort of said that there isn’t enough science. I mean, what are you doing?”

Jake Tapper, who is usually a credible newsman despite his left-wing bias: “…But will Republican voters pick a nominee who can beat him? It’s the latest sign [that] Mitt Romney is Elmer Fudd to Newt Gingrich’s Bugs Bunny and it’s wabbit season.”

MSNBC host Chuck Todd: “Is this the single best week in the Obama re-election effort?”

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell: “Now Newt is that survivor of the who-else-you-got thing and it’s – they simply are prepared and they’re a predominantly Christian group these voters. Their Christian religion guides them to forgiveness. Christianity was invented for forgiveness.  Religions weren’t great at forgiveness before Christianity, and we came to the point that we realized, `Hey, everyone’s going to go to Hell if they can’t be forgiven at some point here, and so Christianity came along and said you can be forgiven.  So everything Newt is being forgiven for by these voters is a violation of one of the Ten Commandments. They simply cannot bring themselves to forgive an individual mandate in health care. That is not in the Ten Commandments. There is no provision in Christian forgiveness for enacting an individual mandate for health care in Massachusetts, and so Mitt Romney is condemned by these voters to his 25 percent.”

MSNBC weekend host Chris Hayes: “I think every day that we take less oil out of the planet Earth is a win.”

MSNBC‘s Chris Matthews: “How did the party of Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt and General Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan descend into a diabolic clown show? When did P.T. Barnum grab hold of the Tea Party and New York money and mix it into this witch’s brew of a TV Debate headed by Donald Trump?  How did this clown show of Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich find itself with the `Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ as its grand ringmaster? How did the King of the Birthers become the midwife of right-wing presidential politics? And what sin did someone commit to unleash this torrent from hell on a once-serious political party?”

MSNBC job application: “Must have thorough knowledge of political and progressive news.”
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ABC stumbles upon the defining issue of 2012.

ABC’s Jake Tapper: “One thing I wanted to settle is that $10,000 bet that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney tried to wager with Rick Perry. Rick Perry said, “I read your first book, and it said in there that your mandate in Massachusetts should be the model for the country.” Romney disputed that and offered to bet him $10,000. We do think actually that Governor Perry was not quoting exactly what Romney had said. What he actually had written that was removed from later editions of the book is we can accomplish the same thing for everyone in the country.  But the big issue, I think, is the fact that Mitt Romney was trying to wager a $10,000 bet in a debate in Iowa. The median income in this country means that $10,000 is roughly three months income. And even though he was just joking around, I think that that probably did not help him. And even if he’d won the letter of the bet, by making the bet, as Matthew Dowd pointed out earlier, he probably lost the (INAUDIBLE).”

George Stephanopoulos: “David Muir, what is the Romney camp saying about that?”

David Muir: “Well, it’s funny that you ask that, George. I’ve already sent out emails to many of our contacts with the Romney campaign. … (INAUDIBLE) … But it’s interesting we’re talking about the $10,000 bet. A columnist for the Des Moines Register has already penned a column saying not too many caucus goers here in Iowa would ever place a $10,000 bet, even if it was a sure thing. So when we ask Americans a couple of days from now, they likely won’t even remember, what issue this was about, but they will remember the $10,000 figure.”

Amy Walter, ABC news political director: “This was supposed to be a debate where Newt Gingrich was the one under the line of fire, but, instead, it really was Mitt Romney who made most of the headlines, and not all of them were very good. Obviously, the $10,000 bet being the top one here.”

Yes, that is the most important issue of the day, the great take-away from 2 hours of debate, that Mitt Romney made an off-handed bet of $10,000.  Obama would NEVER do that.  Let’s elect Obama.

Liberals from the past:

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: “No matter who you are. You can be Mitt Romney [Newt - ed] with three marriages and a disastrous speakership, kicked out of the speakership, being reprimanded by the House of Representatives and fined and all that stuff, it doesn’t matter if you sing the right tune, with the right tone these days. Is that what’s going on? In other words, they’re just as guilty of what we have been accused of in the past on the progressive side, of being – of swooning over good rhetoric.”

Liberal civility:

Chris Matthews on Newt Gingrich: “Why does a guy with a diabolic grin – and I’m being completely objective here – a guy who doesn’t look like a presidential candidate, looks too nasty for one, why is the nasty guy doing the best of all the candidates right now? The one who is so obviously nasty?. . . They want somebody who looks nasty like Jack Palance from Shane . . . some nasty guy that the dogs walk away when they see him. You know what I’m talking about?”

Islamic Preacher Mustafa al-Adawi: “A woman can only wear high heels for her husband but she is not to do so outside her house.”

Sheikh Mahmoud Amer issues a fatwa prohibiting Muslims from voting for Coptic candidates or their Muslim counterparts who do not pray on regular basis: “It is forbidden by Islam to vote for them and whoever does that will be committing a grave sin.”

A Preacher on a Gaza Friday sermon on Hamas Al-Aqsa TV: “Our banner is “There is no god but Allah,” our slogan is “Allah Akbar,” our mantle is “Death to the Jews and to America.”  The Prophet said: “Judgment Day will not come until you fight the Jews – you to the east of the river, and they to its west. Then the stones and the trees will say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.”  Egyptian Child Preacher Assem Al-Askari: “we must thwart the civil strife which the jews and Americans are constantly plotting and elect a just ruler.” “

Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said the Gingrich remark was “the most racist statement I’ve ever seen…[this is] how really despicable things can get”

Liberals making sense:

Congressman Joe Manchin, about a bill that would extend the Social Security tax cut for another year: “Why would we do this?  Why would we double down on a policy that didn’t work?”

Joe Manchin, of Congress’s approval rating: “We are at 9 percent approval rating and we are rapidly losing the support of even our family members.”

Newsman Bob Shieffer: “You have to go all the way back to Jimmy Carter to find a president whose approval rating was this low at this point in his presidency, but this goes beyond that….what really jumps out in this poll is that 75% of the people now believe that the country is headed in the wrong direction and, kinda worse, as far as I’m concerned, 66% say they have no clear idea right now what the president wants to accomplish if he is reelected.”

Michael Moore: “Wall Street has their man and his name is Barack Obama.”

Moderates/Affiliation Unknown:

So-called conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks: “I agree with Mark the Republican Party has gone very far right, but if they are singing the hymnal of FOX News, why do you sing to the hymnal of MSNBC? Why don’t you do something more centrist?”

Crosstalk:

This is a video in a video; the comments come from successive shows at different times:

Bill O’Reilly [on his show]: “Our pal Jon Stewart is following the various Christmas controversies very closely.  Now, there is no question that Mr. Stewart is going to hell.”

Jon Stewart [on his show]: “I know.  But here’s what you and your minions don’t understand, O’Reilly. Your hell doesn’t scare me. I make my living watching FOX News eight hours a day. I’m already in hell! Boom! Boom! Your move, O’Reilly.”

O’Reilly: “My move, Stewart? All right, here’s my move. How can you watch eight hours of FOX News every day and still be a pinhead?”
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Anchor: “[On a] scale of one to ten,…what’s your frustration level [with Republicans].”

Obama: “It’s off the scale. When you think about the challenges we face as a country, most of these challenges are solvable pretty quickly.”

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A man from the audience: “I have never heard one Muslim condemn Islamic jihad or terrorism. I see Islamic jihad as one of the greatest threats to America and the western world. Are you going to continue to give Islam and Islamic jihad in this country a pass like everybody before you continues to do? The only people that call Islam a religion of peace are the Muslims, and they are the most violent religion in the world.”

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney: “…they take a very different view of Islam than the Muslims I know…They are peace-loving and America-loving individuals. I believe that very sincerely. I believe people of the Islamic faith do not have to subscribe to the idea of radical, violent jihadism.”  As an aside, there have been 18,120 radical Islam attacks since 9/11.
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The Daily Caller: “Hi, I wanted to get your thoughts on Operation Fast & Furious and whether you thought that was a legitimate reason for, maybe, Eric Holder to step down?”

New York Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez: “Um, I—“

Daily Caller: “You’re not familiar with it?”

Velazquez: “No, no.”

Daily Caller: “Okay.”
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CNN’s Candy Crowley: “Let me try to button this up just by saying a couple things. First, I know the President has in fact imposed some tougher sanctions and has in fact said nothing is off the table when it comes to Iran and its nuclear capabilities, but I have to.”

Rick Santorum: “Candy, hold on. Hold on. Stop, Candy. That’s just not true. Ask Robert Menendez and ask all the folks in the United States Senate who want to impose the real sanction that will make a difference on Iran and the President has opposed it. Now that’s just a fact. He also has recognized the state of Syria, called Assad a reformer, has continued to have an embassy there when in fact this is a real thug that is a real threat to the state of Israel and to the stability of the region.  And again here’s the interesting link. It is a client state of Iran. The greatest area he’s appeased is Iran which is the greatest threat, and here he is recognizing Assad, setting up an ambassadorship with a client state of Iran who is a great funder of Hezbollah, a threat to Israel and the region. You go to Egypt. Again, he supported the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists as it turns out into overthrowing an ally in Egypt. There is a consistent pattern of contingencies that have come up under this administration where he has opposed the freedom fighters and has gone with the radical Islamists. That is a problem for the security of Israel and our country.”
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Representative Daniel Lungren (R-CA): Secretary Stockton, are we at war with violent Islamist extremism?

Mr. Stockton, Assistant Defense Secretary for Homeland Defense: No, sir. We are at war with al-Qaida, its affiliates -

Lungren: OK, I understand that. My question is, is violent Islamist extremism at war with us?

Stockton: No, sir. We are being attacked by al-Qaida and its allies.

Lungren: Is al-Qaida – can it be described as being an exponent of violent Islamist extremism?

Stockton: They – al-Qaida are murderers with an ideological agenda -

Lungren: No, I – that’s not my question. That wasn’t my question. My question was, is al-Qaida acting out violent Islamist extremism?

Stockton: Al-Qaida is a violent organization dedicated to overthrowing the values that we intend to advance -

Lungren: So is it yes or no?

Stockton: Can I hear the question again? I’ll make it as clear as I can. We are not at war with Islam. And it is not -

Lungren: I didn’t ask that – I did not ask that, sir. I asked whether we’re at war with violent Islamist extremism. That’s my question.

Stockton: No, we’re at war with al-Qaida and its affiliates.

Lungren: Well, al-Qaida – how does al-Qaida define itself? Are they dedicated to violent Islamist extremism?

Stockton: Al-Qaida would love to convince Muslims around the world that the United States is at war with Islam.

Lungren: I didn’t say that.

Stockton: That’s a prime propaganda tool.

Lungren: Sir -

Stockton: And I’m not going to aid and abet that effort to advance their propaganda goal.

Lungren: No, no, my question is, is there a difference between Islam and violent Islamist extremism?

Mr. Stockton: Sir, with great respect, I don’t believe it’s helpful to frame our adversary as Islamic with any set of qualifiers that we might add, because we are not at war with Islam.

Rep. Lungren: I understand that. I never said we were at war with Islam. One of the questions we’re trying to deal with is the radicalization of Islam, is the radicalization of Islamic youth. And if we can’t distinguish between violent Islamist extremism and Islam, then all this stuff about behavioral indicators doesn’t mean anything.

From:
http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/12/08/anti-islamic-hyperventilation/#ixzz1fz36J0aE

Conservatives:

County Commissioner Joe Hall of Athens, TX, when a atheist group from Wisconsin comes to town demanding that he take down the nativity scene: “We’ll remove it when hell freezes over.  It’s not going to happen.”  Remember, this is Texas.  At least he didn’t order his deputies, “Don’t shoot until you see the whites of their eyes.”

Retired Army colonel Rep. Allen West, about being attacked by the liberal press: “You know, we have a saying in the military: You don’t receive flak unless you’re over the target.”

Congressman Allen West from his FB page: “Obviously President Barack Hussein Obama believes in a “guarantee of happiness” and that he, along with his liberal disciples, are the arbiters of fairness. America is about equal opportunity, not the liberal progressive mantra of equal achievement. Nice try Mr. President but teleprompters and poll tested messages do not equal visionary leadership.  Sorry. I know, that ain’t fair!”

Newt Gingrich: “Remember, there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire.  And I think that we’ve had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, who are historically part of the Arab community.”  Let me add to this that, the original Palestinians, called Philistines, were mostly or all Greek (we don’t know exactly; but there is no straight line that can be drawn between the original Philistines and the Palestinians today.

Anti-OWS Protesters hold signs: “Occupy A Desk” at the American Job Fest at Zuccotti Park.

Rush Limbaugh on MFGlobal paying Bill Clinton $50,000 a month as an advisor: “Doesn’t Bill Clinton have enough money by now?”

Charles Krauthammer: “[Obama, in a recent speech] talked about how we got here. He gave a nice historical rundown except that he left out a critical three years – his presidency. It’s as if it didn’t exist. It’s as if we jumped from ’08 to today. This speech was intended to say that “Everything that’s happened in the last three years has nothing to do with my administration or its policies – economic stagnation, debt, high unemployment. It is a result of the malice of the rich,” and he talked about that at length.  This is a classic example of how little it takes to stir the erogenous zones of liberals. You give them a speech with social justice, a little bit of class war, you wrap it up in the patina of intellectualism in what is essentially a speech that exonerates anything he’s done and obviously not done and says all of our problems today are the result of the plutocrats. That’s why he’s more a Hugo Chavez than he is a Teddy Roosevelt in this speech.”

Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), who has been holding hearings on the radicalization of Muslim-Americans within the U.S.: “There are a significant number of people who have enlisted in the military or are in the military who we believe have Islamic ties, who are tied to radical movements and who could be potential terrorists themselves.  It is a growing, growing concern.”

Brent Bozell of Media Research Center: “We do our homework here; if not, we make it up.”

Rush Limbaugh: “All Obama knows is he can’t run on his record, so he’s gotta try to make you think that anybody who opposes him represents the people who destroyed the country.”

Dennis Miller: “[Lincoln Chafee] has more nervous tics than a Bagdad parking lot valet.”

John Bolton, quoting a friend of his: “Pakistan is the only government composed simultaneously of arsonists and firefighters.”

Greg Gutfeld: “You know how Eskimos have 1000 words for snow?  Obama has 1000 words for class warfare.”

Donald Trump: “[Obama is] arrogant. And he’s got no reason to be arrogant.”

Rush Limbaugh: “This man’s got 45 million Americans on food stamps, for crying out loud. He’s accumulated more debt than any prior president by a large margin and he’s only three years in, and he’s lecturing us, we’re the problem?”

Rush Limbaugh: “Imagine if Obama had been president during the time of the invention of the automobile. What woulda happened? He woulda shut it down. Because look what it did to the horse and buggy industry.”

Rush Limbaugh: “If you just substitute the word ‘proletariat’ for every time Obama said ‘worker’ or ‘middle class’ in his speech, if you subject ‘bourgeois’ or ‘capitalists’ for the rich, this same speech could have been given by Lenin a hundred years ago.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Our national debt equals what we have spent on the war on poverty. What does that tell you?”

Rush Limbaugh: “Capitalism and self-interest has fed and clothed and driven — however and whatever you want to describe — more people than charity ever has.”

Rush Limbaugh: “I want you people who believe Obama to go around the world for me. I want you to find any socialist, Marxist, communist country and I want you to find for me a prosperous, thriving, happy middle class.”

Rush Limbaugh: “We’re not adding jobs. We’re reducing jobs. The workforce is shrinking. There is no way that we are adding jobs, folks.”

Rush Limbaugh: “I’ll tell you what the Republican Party still lives by, what still scares ‘em, what they think is destined to be repeated every election is Goldwater. Don’t doubt me, it’s in their DNA. That’s what conservatives will do to a Republican presidential candidate. If you run a conservative, you’re gonna get Goldwatered. That is why they didn’t like Reagan.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Did you notice how the media and the rest of the Democrat Party are saying that if we end the payroll tax cut, it will, quote, cost working families a thousand dollars? They never talk that way [about other tax cuts].”

Rush Limbaugh: “The Republican Party is not a conservative movement. The conservative movement is independent of the party. It is in the party, and the effort that’s underway to take control of it.”

Rush Limbaugh: “In three weeks and one day the 100-watt incandescent lightbulb will be illegal. In three weeks and one day it will be illegal to sell a 100-watt incandescent lightbulb. And who did this? Federal government. The federal government, under the auspices of a hoax, mankind global warming.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Democrats never want to elevate people at the bottom, they just want to shrink it from the top.”

Rush Limbaugh: “The people who aren’t paying income tax are the people running around saying that everybody else isn’t paying their fair share. That’s the real irony of this.”

Conservatives from the Past:

Crossroads ad from earlier this year; a female voice: “Sometimes it’s hard to sleep.  I’m worried I guess about our jobs, our home, how everything costs more, even mom’s health care.  How will we ever retire?  Lately I worry a lot about my kids.  What’s their future going to be like?  I supported President Obama because he spoke so beautifully, but since then things have gone from bad to much worse.  He said spending hundreds of billions on a stimulus would create more jobs, but now all we’ve got is a lot more debt and more people out of work.  Instead of fixing health care, my mom’s Medicare will be cut, and our health insurance premiums went up.  Our country’s got this huge debt, and Obama says raise taxes and keep spending more?  Doesn’t Washington know we can’t afford more taxes and debt?  If they don’t figure it out, it’s going to be even tougher for our kids.  There’s got to be a way to take away President Obama’s blank check.”

Conservatives not making any sense:

Glenn Beck: “If you have a big government progressive, or a big government progressive in Obama. ask yourself this, Tea Party: is it about Obama’s race? Because that’s what it appears to be to me. If you’re against him but you’re for this guy, it must be about race. I mean, what else is it? It’s the policies that matter.”

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul: “Just think of what happened after 9/11. Immediately before there was any assessment there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq.”

Bernie Goldberg: “The media played fair with Herman Cain; it was a legitimate story.”  Yes, they treated this nothing like they treated the John Edwards or Bill Clinton scandals.  The media virtually ignored most of their scandals and the coverage attacking Bill Clinton’s harem was more extensive than the coverage of the accusations.

From Conservative Review #207  (HTML)  (PDF)

Liberals:

President Obama about some of his non-existent jobs legislation before Congress: “The only thing preventing us from passing these bills is the refusal by some in Congress to put country ahead of party.”

Barack Obama on more jobs legislation which does not yet exist: “These are common-sense ideas — ideas that have been supported by both Democrats and Republicans. The only thing holding them back is politics. The only thing preventing us from passing these bills is the refusal by some in Congress to put country ahead of party. That’s the problem right now. That’s what’s holding this country back. That’s what we have to change.”

Press secretary Jay Carney on the scheduling SNAFU: “Americans are sick and tired of the partisan bickering.”

Congresswoman Maxine Waters: “If [banks] don’t come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they’ve worked so hard for, we’re going to tax them out of business,”

Democratic Rep. Andre Carson: “Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens. Some of them in Congress right now with this Tea Party movement would love to see you and me … hanging on a tree.”

Jason Tomcsi, Carson’s spokesman: “The Tea Party is protecting its millionaire and oil company friends while gutting critical services that they know protect the livelihood of African-Americans, as well as Latinos and other disadvantaged minorities. We are talking about child nutrition, job creation, job training, housing assistance, and Head Start, and that is just the beginning. A child without basic nutrition, secure housing, and quality education has no real chance at a meaningful and productive life.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi about Republicans: “You name it. Forget about it. They’re defunding every [clean air/clean water] initiative in that regard. You wonder do their children breathe air? Do they drink water? Why do they not care? But they don’t,”

Unnamed high WH official to FoxNews: “There’s no question the president will want to keep returning to jobs. I don’t want to downplay the speech [next week] – it’s going to be substantial. But the idea that this is the be-all and end-all is wrong.”

Official White House statement for 9/11: “As we commemorate the citizens of over 90 countries who perished in the 9/11 attacks, we honor all victims of terrorism, in every nation around the world . We honor and celebrate the resilience of individuals, families, and communities on every continent, whether in New York or Nairobi, Bali or Belfast, Mumbai or Manila, or Lahore or London.” No mention is made of Israel.

Reps. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) Statement: “With 14 million Americans still looking for work, this is not the time to tinker around the edges. We must take bold action, and that requires federal emergency jobs legislation… The country’s infrastructure needs an estimated investment of $2.2 trillion. We should not delay these crucial investments, especially while millions of Americans are out of work. Rebuilding America – without creating expensive new corporate tax loopholes – will further boost our economy and create badly needed jobs.”

David Swanson, Washington Director of Democrats.com who has worked for Dennis Kucinich and served on many progressive organizations: “We’re planning to model our behavior after the actions in Cairo, Egypt and Tahrir Square. We’re going to be at Freedom Plaza in Washington D.C.. we’re going to occupy it beginning October 6th, and we’re going to remain, and we’re not to nonviolently interfere, and shut down the offices of our government until we begin to get some movement. You know the actions in Egypt are very much an ongoing struggle and they’re very much trying to get that momentum they had in Tahrir Square. So we’re going to be there until we begin to take back control of our government.”

Actor George Clooney: “As for running for president, look, there’s a guy in office right now who is smarter than almost anyone you know, who’s nicer and who has more compassion than almost anyone you know. And he’s having an almost impossible time governing. Why would anybody volunteer for that job?”

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: “I’m offended by Marco Rubio and I think that we are seeing that he is not a true American because he runs from debate…one thing that my dad taught me—maybe your dad taught you this, but it doesn’t seem like it—don’t ever run from a debate and don’t ever be afraid to speak your peace if what you believe in your heart is that you are speaking the truth…you’re a TEA partier and you don’t give a damn about any of the Americans because, you see, it’s kind of in your makeup, Senator; unless your bio is wrong, I don’t think you’ve got any private sector experience in your background. Hell, you’ve been a government guy.”

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-ca), Minority Leader: “What more do they [the rich] want? They have — homes, they have their yacht. The taller the mast. The whole thing. They have museum-quality art. Then I decided if, in fact, they are advocating for this, which I’m not sure they are. I think the Republicans just like to have that position. They want immortality.”

Keith Olbermann, on Obama not being liberal enough: “When the Chamber of Congress pats you on the back, you are doing something desperately wrong. When Boehner’s spokesman compliments you with the Freudian slip, `It’s the tip of the iceberg,’ you have made a terrible mistake. What the hell is going on in the White House?”

New Black Panther Party member King Samir Shabazz teaching kids Black survival techniques: “Know and understand everything around you is a weapon.”

The Compliant Obama Press Corps:

MSNBC contributor Richard Wolffe: “The interesting question is: What is it about this president that has stripped away the veneer of respect that normally accompanies the Office of the President? Why do Republicans think this president is unpresidential and should dare to request this kind of thing? It strikes me that it could be the economic times, it could be that he won so big in 2008 or it could be, let’s face it, the color of his skin. This is an extraordinary reaction to a normal sequence of events.”

Those on MSNBC who will comment of this week’s GOP debate: Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, Lawrence O’Donnell and Al Sharpton. Plus, Eugene Robinson, Howard Fineman, Michael Eric Dyson, Melissa Harris-Perry of the far-left The Nation and Huffington Post’s Alex Wagner.

Bill Keller questions of Michele Bachmann: “You have said that watching the film series ‘How Should We Then Live?’ by the evangelist Francis Schaeffer was a life-altering event for you. That series stresses the ‘inerrancy’ — the literal truth – of the Bible. Do you believe the Bible consists of literal truths, or that it is to be taken more metaphorically?”

Liberals from the past:

About 2 months ago, President Obama put Israel on list of Countries that “have shown a tendency to promote, produce, or protect terrorist organizations or their members.” Israel was on this list.

Liberal civility:

Randi Rhodes: “Every time I look at him[Rush Limbaugh] now I see [serial killer] John Wayne Gacy! You know – because he’s got a webcam – that, you know whenever they uh show what he said on the radio, they are able to show the video. Every time I look at him now he looks like John Wayne Gacy in a polo shirt!”

Randi Rhodes: “And yes, we’ve never had a black president before! You know – I don’t think Republicans would have ever reacted to the timing of the speech like this if it weren’t for the fact that the President of the United States is black — and yes, I’m saying that partly to annoy conservatives by reminding them that the President of the United States is black! That piece of crap that only sees skin color, Rush Limbaugh, reacted to President Obama’s request yesterday by saying no genuine President would have done that – no genuine! You see, he’s got a question whether or not this President is legitimate!”

Rep. Maxine Waters (D), California: “Are you going to say to FOX News, when they try and choke us, lie on us, undermine us and destroy us, we will turn the television off on you? Are you willing to understand that you cannot get your news from the enemy?”

Guest host for the Ed Schultz show, Mike Panantonio: “Don’t believe it, it’s not true. The rage [of TEA party members] has just started. We got a glimpse of that hate, if you’ll remember, when we saw the signs they held up at their rallies. There were pictures of Obama depicted as a monkey. Or Obama hanging in effigy like the good ol’ days to this crowd, when this same group no doubt would be lynching real black people for real.”

Crazy Muslims:

Salem Abu Al-Futouh on Egyptian television: “The Jews have two holidays: Passover and another one. What is the Passover, you ask? This holiday is a kind of. . . The Jews celebrate this holiday by eating sandwiches. . . Rather, they eat matzos. What are these matzos made of, you may ask? Concentrate now. They are made of flour and, instead of water, of blood…These people are blood-sucking vampires. When a Jew wants to get married, he must fetch human blood and give it to the rabbi. The rabbi takes this blood and puts an egg in it. He cooks the egg in blood, instead of water. After the egg absorbs the human blood. . . Let me just say that when there is a wedding, they gather at the rabbi’s. The rabbi puts the egg in the man’s mouth, and he takes a bite. Then he puts it in the woman’s mouth, and she also takes a bite. The egg contains human blood. These are blood-sucking vampires, brothers.”

Liberals making sense:

Solyndra president and CEO—and big Obama supporter—Brian Harrison: “Regulatory and policy uncertainties in recent months created significant near-term excess supply and price erosion. Raising incremental capital in this environment was not possible. This was an unexpected outcome and is most unfortunate.”

Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman: “The administration still refuses to call our enemy in this war by its proper name – violent Islamist extremism. You could find names that are comparable to that but not the ones that the administration continues to use, which are `violent extremism.’ ”

After several shootings in Florida, organizer Mikhail Muhammed: “We want to call our leadership to the table. We want to address these concerns. We believe it’s a black problem, and we believe the black leadership must step up.”

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd: “Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for. Obama is still suffering from the Speech Illusion, the idea that he can come down from the mountain, read from a Teleprompter, cast a magic spell with his words and climb back up the mountain, while we scurry around and do what he proclaimed.”

Moderates/Affiliation Unknown:

Toronto Hydro chief Anthony Haines: “If you connect about 10 per cent of the homes on any given street with an electric car, the electricity system fails.”

Fred Wszolek, spokesperson for the Workforce Fairness Institute (WFI): “Today, President Obama’s labor board issued another regulation on businesses that will only create additional burdens as opposed to helping employers produce jobs. The notice comes the same week the White House was seeking recognition from the business community for scaling back regulations that inhibit economic growth.”

MSNBC‘s Joe Scarborough to Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson: “Isn’t there also though a larger context that the United States citizens may have just elected a president that was not ready to run the most complex economy in the world?”

Chuck Scarborough of WNBC: “We’re in the news business. We deal in doom.”

Crosstalk:

Chris Matthews, Host: “This week we want to do something slightly different with our “Tell me Something” segment. Let me ask you all, all four of you, what has been President Obama’s biggest mistake in his two and a half years so far? Howard.”

Howard Fineman, Huffington Post: “Chris, on things under his control, not the wars so much because they were built in, his decision to spend all of his political capital in a year and a half of his time on the healthcare reform law I think was his biggest political mistake.”

Matthews: “Wow. Smart statement.”

David Ignatius, Washington Post: “I would agree with Howard. The idea of launching a major change in social legislation without having a consensus in the country and in Congress about what that should look like was a mistake. That’s just not how a president makes good policy.”

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ABC‘s Jonathan Karl: “You can’t even get the Congress to agree on a date for the speech without a political sideshow. How can the American people expect you to do something much more difficult, come up with a jobs plan, dealing with the deficit?”

Press secretary Jay Carney: “Because the sideshows don’t matter, the economy matters. The American people matter. Jobs matter.”

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Reporter: “How has the president reacted to the whole debate over, the issues over the scheduling of the speech?”

Jay Carney: “I spent a great deal of time with him [Obama] this morning, and it never came up. Honestly.”

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Question: “If Congress were to pass the package that the President’s going to announce, unemployment would be under 9%?”

Jay Carney: “Based on, when you’re talking about economic predictions, yes. Economic analysts, economists will be able to look at this series of proposals and say that `based on history, based on what we know, based on their collective expertise, that it would add to economic growth and cause an increase to job creation.”

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Christian Amanpour: “Dana, I wanted to ask you, again, alluding to some of the things that Governor Perry has said. And he is a Tea Party favorite, and yet he’s talked about Social Security, he’s talked about it as a crumbling monument to the failure of the New Deal. But we know and the polls show that 87 percent of Americans believe, of course, Social Security has been good for the country. Does that not put him completely out of step with the rest of the country on this major issue?”

Dana Loesch: “Not really, because I think that what he wants to do is reform Social Security and hopefully take it out of the hands of the government and allow people to be able to decide what they want to do with their own money. And that’s something that grassroots has always been supportive of. We trust ourselves more than we trust the government. And the government has done a horrible job. They said this money was supposed to be there for people who are my parents’ age, who are my aunts’ and uncles’ age. This money was supposed to be there for them when they retired. It was supposedly put in some sort of lockbox. And then when you open the box, when these people hit retirement age, it’s not there anymore. So I think that this is something that grassroots has pushed for. I think Perry is beginning to speak to that.”
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Jay Carney, before the speech day was changed: “There are a lot of factors that go into scheduling a speech before Congress, a joint-session speech. There are other issues that you have to deal with, as well as congressional scheduling and the president’s scheduling…There are many opportunities for the American people. There’s a choice they can make to watch the president, to watch the debate. A network could make a decision to alter the timing of the debate by an hour.”

Carney after the speech day was changes: “If Thursday’s the day, Thursday’s the day. It’s irrelevant. It’s small stuff. Wednesday was the soonest possible day upon Congress’s return from recess. But Thursday is fine with us.”

Conservatives:

Charles Krauthammer: “[Obama] doesn’t understand that his administration has stopped the recovery in its tracks.” [quoted from memory]

Krauthammer: “I think the Republicans have the perfect slogan: President Zero.”

Charles Krauthammer: “President Zero: zero economic expansion, zero jobs, zero ideas on how to cure the economy”

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint: “I’m so tired of his speeches it’s going to be hard for me to watch…What I’ve heard the president is going to talk about Thursday night is more of the same: extending unemployment benefits, payroll tax cuts. I just don’t think those things are going to create jobs.”

Dick Cheney on the TEA party: “I don’t think we would have gotten as far as we have without them sort of holding the feet to the fire of members of Congress.”

Jennifer Millerwise Dyck, former Dick Cheney aide: “This is a government that is not entirely comfortable with the role it has to play in some cases to keep America safe. I think it’s incredibly telling that the Obama administration would have weeks of torturous deliberations just to figure out how to talk about 9/11.”

John Bolton on Barack Obama: “I don’t think he cares about foreign policy.”

Charles Krauthammer: “When Jay Carney says ‘and I can honestly say that this was only a coincidence that the original scheduling land on the Republican debate.’ You’ve got to ask yourself ‘how much are they paying him?’ Whatever it is, it’s not enough.”

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has said that “Shariah [law] is a mortal threat to the survival of freedom in the United States and in the world as we know it.”

Congressman Joe Walsh: “How idiotic is this president? I don’t want to be disrespectful, but he’s going to bring forth a jobs plan next week. Think about that for a minute. He’s been in office for three years. He’s destroyed job creation systematically for three years.”

Walsh may miss the Obama speech: “I don’t see the point of being a prop for another of the president’s speeches asking for more failed stimulus spending and more subsidies for his pet projects.”

Republican Congressman Joe Walsh to MSNBC anchor Martin Ashir: “Your profession did not vet [Obama]…”

Presidential candidate and guitar playing Thaddeus McCotter on the Gibson Guitar plant raid: “It`s one more reason big government doesn’t rock.”
Chris Wallace: “How can we get a deal on jobs if we can’t even agree on the night the president speaks?” [quoted from memory]

National Review‘s Rich Lowry on MSNBC host Al Sharpton: “We know he’ll never be President of the United States because he can’t read a teleprompter”

Rush Limbaugh: “I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get or spend is somehow sacred. There is more fraud and waste and misuse. If the federal government were held accountable to the law as corporations are held accountable, half the federal government would be in prison.”

Rush Limbaugh: “The left would love for the Tea Party to get distracted, start talking about immigration, abortion, gay marriage, all this other stuff, because right now the chief vulnerability faced by Obama and the Democrats is the economy.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Jobs, stimulus spending, federal regulations, those are the three things that are killing this country. Those are the three things that every Republican needs to focus on.”

Rush: “If you end up doing what you love, you’re really never working. It doesn’t strike you as work. There’s nothing really arduous about it.”

Conservatives not making any sense:

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul: “There’s been a coup, have you heard? It’s the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They’re the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. . . . And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve. . . . And yet think of the harm they have done since they were established [after] World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They’re in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators . . . We need to take out the CIA.”

From Conservative Review #194  (HTML)  (PDF)

I’m on vacation for the next week. 

Liberals:

Moral equivalence by President Obama (of the desecration of the Quran) “[It] is an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry.”

Obama, of the attacks on innocent people: “[It is] outrageous and an affront to human decency and dignity.”

Obama, of the killings of innocents: “[no religion tolerates] the slaughter and beheading of innocent people.”

USAID Administrator, Rajiv Shah: “We estimate, and I believe these are very conservative estimates, that H.R. 1 (proposed budget cuts by Republicans] would lead to 70,000 kids dying.”

President Obama: “When someone like Qaddafi threatens a bloodbath that could destabilize an entire region.”  Because the Middle East is the model of stability right now.

John Kerry on Libya: “I would not call it going to war. This is a very limited operation that is geared to save lives, and it was specifically targeted on a humanitarian basis.”

John Kerry on Bahrain: “The president has been crystal clear about Bahrain.  He has said that the violence needs to stop in Bahrain.”

Charles Schumer on Democratic strategy on taped call: “The main thrust is basically that we want to negotiate and we want to come up with a compromise but the Tea Party is pulling Boehner too far over to the right and so far over that there is no more fruitful negotiations.  The only way we can avoid a shutdown is for Boehner to come up with a reasonable compromise and not just listen to what the Tea Party wants.”  This is Schumer’s strategy, not an opinion.

Harry Reid: “I am extremely disappointed that after weeks of productive negotiations with Speaker Boehner, Tea Party Republicans are scrapping all the progress we have made and threatening to shut down the government if they do not get all of their extreme demands…The division between the Tea Party and mainstream Republicans is preventing us from reaching a responsible solution on a long-term budget.”

Howard Dean: “If I was head of DNC, I would be quietly rooting for [a government shutdown].”

White, 63 year-old Howard Dean: “The TEA party is all over 55 and white; this is a shrinking minority.  The shrinkier they get, the madder they get.  This is why they have gotten so far off the deep end.”  You make the call, whether or not he has gotten so far off the deep end.   EEEEEYAH!!

Howard Dean: “What Fox News says is not true and they know it is not true, and they say it anyway; it is not a news organization.  It is a very expensive, incredibly well-funded right-wing propaganda organization.”

Dr. Caroline Heldman (FoxNews): “Boycotts are the most American thing you can do.”

President Obama: “American taxpayers are now positioned to recover more than my administration invested in GM.”  According to the Washington Times, this could be, ultimately, an $84 billion loss, paid for by the taxpayers.

NY Time Columnist Paul Krugman: “All of this stuff about [economic] uncertainty is just a myth being made up to blame this on Obama”

Planned Parenthood‘s CEO Cecile Richards: “If this bill ever becomes law, millions of women in this country are gonna lose their health care access-not to abortion services-to basic family planning, you know, mammograms, cancer screenings, cervical cancer.”  Planned Parenthood does not provide these 3 things.

Ed Schultz on US Arming Qadhafi’s Foes: “Well, why are we concerned with who gets arms? I’m just, for conversation now. … I mean, if they’re going to take out Qadhafi, hell, they can’t be all that bad!”

Staffan de Mistura, the top U.N. envoy in Afghanistan, speaking of the deadly demonstrations in Afghanistan: “The demonstration was meant to protest against the insane and totally despicable gesture by one person who burned the holy Quran.”

Louis Farrakhan: “I love Muammar Qaddafi and I love our President.”

Russian President Medvedev has announced the ending of daylight saving time starting in the autumn of 2011, arguing: “Every fall and every spring we are swearing at this system.  Our biorhythms are damaged. We are all angry. We either oversleep and turn up late for work or wake up too early and don’t know what to do with this free time. Let alone poor cows and other animals that can’t understand why they should have their meals or be milked earlier or later.”

Liberals from the past:

Joe Biden: “I went to five leading scholars, Constitutional scholars, and they drafted a treatise for me that is being distributed to every Senator.  And I want to make it clear, and I’ll make it clear to the President: that if he takes this nation to war, without Congressional approval, I will make it my business to impeach him.”

Barack Obama: “You know, ummm, I – I would say that ah, when I, uhhh, the one thing I’m clear about is that I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president. Ahh, and I, and I believe that.”

Adolf Hitler: “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”

Liberals being civil:

Katherine R. Windels allegedly wrote in an email to several Wisconsin Republican legislators: “Atten: Death Threat!!!! Bomb!!!”  Portions of the text:”Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your families will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks…I hope you have a good time in hell…putting a nice little bullet in your head.”  Windels has since been arrested.

Liberals making sense:

Anthony Weiner: “This is all a real thrill for me being broadcast on C-Span, so tens of Americans will see this.  Down at the CNN table, they’re saying, ‘Tens; what’s their secret?’ ”

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Dick Durbin being quoted: “It is wrong to link all Muslims to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.”

Howard Stern: “Well, who’s doing that?  I hate when guys tell us the obvious.  We know it’s not every Muslim; we just know that is’s a bunch of them.  And how are we going to figure out who’s who?  Why can’t someone tell us something that means something, like, how do you tell who the terrorists are?  [Mocking Durbin] ‘I’m here to tell you that not every Muslim is bad.’  ‘Oh, I thought every single one was bad.’ ”

Crosstalk:

NBC’s Matt Lauer: “If there are flickers, as you say, of al Qaeda among the rebels, would it not be a sign to them or showing them that the United States has compassion and we are willing to use our military might to help all people?”

Michele Bachmann: “Compassion for al Qaeda?”

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In support of the no-fly zone over Libya, Amre Moussa, the body’s secretary-general said, “It has one goal: To protect the civilian population…We will inform the U.N. Security Council of our request to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya.”  March 12, 2011.

Complaining about the no-fly zone, Amre Mousse said: “What happened differs from the no-fly zone objectives; what we want is civilians’ protection not shelling more civilians.”  March 20, 2011.

Conservatives:

Michele Bachmann: “Harry Reid supports [government-funded] cowboy poetry and the people are thinking that maybe that’s not an essential government service.” (Quoted from memory)

John Boehner: “The House has passed our bill and it’s been nearly 40 days and yet we’ve seen nothing pass the United States Senate. …Now the Senate says, `we have a plan.’ Well, great! Pass the damn thing, all right?!  And send it over here and let’s have real negotiations instead of sitting over there rooting for a government shutdown.”

Peter Kirsanow: ‘We bombed Qaddafi’s forces because they were killing civilians. So Qaddafi’s forces began dressing like civilians. So the rebels began killing civilians. So NATO is warning the rebels not to kill civilians, otherwise NATO will bomb the rebels. But the rebels are dressed like civilians.  So NATO may end up killing civilians.  In other news, the administration continues to debate arming the rebels who are dressed like civilians. But Qaddafi’s forces are also dressed like civilians. So we may be arming Qaddafi’s forces who are killing civilians while we also bomb the rebels who are killing civilians and bombing civilians who really are civilians but look like Qaddafi’s forces who are killing civilians.”  [I think he is a conservative?]

John McCain: “I don’t know what we do about Yemen.”  This is one of the few times I have heard a politician give an “I don’t know” answer to a direct question.

Jeff Sessions, on Libya: “We–I can’t quite see where we are heading.  I can’t see exactly where the endgame is, and I do think it is a troubling situation. We just hope for the best and maybe this will be successful.  But I don’t see the certainty of it for sure.”

Mark Steyn: “The war in Libya should be under Mexican leadership because [according to the President] this is a job Americans won’t do.” (Quoted from memory)

John Bolton: “You’ve got tens of millions of young Chinese men who will never be married.  You don’t think that can be socially disabling?  Think again.”

Orin Hatch: “He’s a person you want to like.  You want him to be a success as the first African American president.”

Rush Limbaugh: “If there’s anybody who could make a claim to attracting the independents, it would be the hated Tea Party people. I mean, they were the only ones offering an alternative.”

Rush: “This is exactly how liberals people think: It’s just not fair that some people are able to afford a loan to buy a house while others can’t, and so the way to change that is to force the lender to give people a loan who can’t pay it back, and we’ll figure it out later.”

Rush: “You have no idea how desirous the American media is to be able to portray Obama as a kick-butt military leader. You can’t understand the desire they have to portray Obama as one of the most powerful and decisive foreign policy presidents in the history of the country.”

Rush: “We have Chuck Schumer out there advising everybody to call the Tea Party people extremists. Frankly, folks, I want some extremists when it comes to budget cutting.”

Rush: “This country will not survive very long with too many people thinking their neighbors owe ‘em a living.  Europe has shown us this.”

Rush: “You are not engaging in collective bargaining when you’re a public employee union member — you’re just shaking down your fellow citizens.”

Jodi Miller: “At a recent address to a group of business leaders, President Obama proved that he is a great public speaker as he spoke for nearly 20 minutes without using his teleprompters.  April Fools; I gotcha.”

Jodi Miller: “The text expressions OMG and LOL have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.  Hey, they had to be, with this administration in power.”

From Conservative Review #172   (HTML)  (PDF)

Liberals:

President Barack Obama, about Brazil’s President Dilma: “I have told her that the United States wants to be a major customer [of Brazilian oil], which can be a win-win for both our countries.”

President Obama on his gun-control record: “My administration has not curtailed the rights of gun owners, it has expanded them, including allowing people to carry their guns in national parks and wildlife refuges.”

Reporter Tina Brown: “With the world exploding as it is, I must say that Obama has the worst inbox of any president in history.”  Miss Brown has apparently forgotten about the economic conditions which greeted President Reagan on day 1; WWII and the depression during the time of FDR, a dissolving union facing Lincoln, and W facing back to back recessions and 9/11 within the first 2 years of his presidency.

Harry Reid [defending federal funding for NPR]: “They had a great piece on public radio before the race started; it was really very, very good, about why the [sled dog] race takes place.”

Nancy Pelosi: “Democrats have long fought for fiscal responsibility as a top priority of this Congress.  We won’t go into the history right now, but it’s well known.”

Nancy Pelosi: “I think this debate is on a higher ground of our values. It’s not about money. It’s about the morality of what we’re doing.”

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.”

Top security advisor John Brennan: “Closing Guantanamo Bay is important for our national security interests.  But there are many, many complex complex elements to Guantanamo Bay that truly are going to make it very difficult to move swiftly with the closing of that facility.”

A disenchanted Louis Farrakhan: “And I warn my brother [Obama] don’t you let these wicked demons move you in a direction that will absolutely ruin your future with your people in Africa and throughout the world. . . . You can’t order him to step down and get out – who the hell do you think you are? – that you can talk to a man that built a country over 42 years and ask him to step down and get out – can anybody ask you?”

Joe Biden at a virtual townhall meeting to political activists and union members: “Let’s get something straight.  The only people who have the capacity – organizational capacity and muscle – to keep, as they say, the barbarians from the gate, is organized labor. And make no mistake about it, the guys on the other team get it. They know if they cripple labor, the gate is open, man. The gate is wide open. And we know that too.”

Joe Biden, shooting from the hip again: “When a woman got raped, blame her because she was wearing a skirt too short, she looked the wrong way or she wasn’t home in time to make the dinner.  We’ve gotten by that.  But it’s amazing how these Republicans, the right wing of this party – whose philosophy threw us into this God-awful hole we’re in, gave us the tremendous deficit we’ve inherited – that they’re  now using, now attempting to use, the very economic condition they have created to blame the victim – whether it’s organized labor or ordinary middle-class working men and women. It’s bizarre. It’s bizarre.”

Rob Andrews, the ranking member of the House Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee: “Drilling for oil off the coast is a problem, not a solution.”

Muammar Ghaddafi, in a letter to the President: “To our son, his excellency, Mr Barack Hussein Obama. I have said to you before, that even if Libya and the United States of America enter into a war, god forbid, you will always remain a son. Your picture will not be changed.”

Bill Maher: “Governing this country with Republicans is like rooming with a meth addict.  Every black person scares you unless they look like Urkel, talk like Colin Powell and wear Bill Cosby sweaters”

The uncivil left:

Bill Maher: “Did you hear this – Sarah Palin finally heard what happened in Japan and she’s demanding that we invade `Tsunami.  I mean she said, `These `Tsunamians’ will not get away with this.’ Oh speaking of dumb twats, did you…”

Tweet from Mikeclark2, another from the civil left: JamesOKeefeIII someone needs to f***g find you and assassinate you, like, seriously, you get off by f***g up the truth.  I should do it.

Walker protester shouts, “Hang then all!”

Helen Thomas: “Well, there’s no understanding of the Palestinians at all. I mean, they’re living there and these people want to come and take their homes and land and water and kill their children and kill them….I want people to understand why the Palestinians are upset. They are incarcerated and living in an open prison. I say to the Israelis, “Get out of people’s homes!” It’s unacceptable to have soldiers knocking on a door at three in the morning and saying, “This is my home.” And forcing people out of homes they’ve lived in for centuries? What is this? How can anybody accept it?”

Michael Moore is unhappy about the no-fly zone being established over Libya, but his tweets on this subject seem to be directed more at Bush than at Obama: “Khadaffy must’ve threatened to kill somebody’s daddy”  “Khadaffy must’ve had WMD!”  “Khadaffy must’ve planned 9/11!” etc.

Liberals making sense:

Dayton NAACP President Derrick Forward said about lowering the test scores to allow more minority applicants to become policemen: “The NAACP does not support individuals failing a test and then having the opportunity to be gainfully employed. If you lower the score for any group of people, you’re not getting the best qualified people for the job.”  I don’t know if Forward is a liberal or not; I just assume so, since he belongs to the NAACP.

Jon Meacham regarding Obama filling out his NCAA tournament brackets: “My only point is that Bush would have gotten more barbecued for this.”

Liberals from the past:

Louis Farrakhan on Obama: “You are the instrument that God is gonna use  to bring about universal change.  And that is why Barack has captured the youth…When the messiah speaks, the youth will hear.  And the Messiah is absolutely speaking”

Bill Maher, about 6 months ago: “I mean, Brazil got off oil in the last 30 years, we certainly could have.”

Ed Scultz before the 2010 election: “I think the best way for the 99ers to get the attention of the Congress is to form an unemployed coalition and just flat-out tell the Democrats, we’re not voting in the midterm…And I’m announcing today, I’m not gonna vote in the midterm. I’m not gonna do it!”

Crosstalk:

Playboy: Do you acknowledge that some Palestinian behavior over the years, including hijacking and the use of suicide bombers, has been wrong and has added to the problem?

Helen Thomas: In an ideal world passive resistance and world disarmament would be great. Unfortunately we don’t live in that world. Of course I don’t condone any violence against anyone. But who wouldn’t fight for their country? What would any American do if their land was being taken? Remember Pearl Harbor. The Palestinian violence is to protect what little remains of Palestine. The suicide bombers act out of despair and desperation. Three generations of Palestinians have been forced out of their homes-by Israelis-and into refugee camps. And the Israelis are still bulldozing Palestinians’ homes in East Jerusalem. Remember, Menachem Begin invented terrorism as his MO-and bragged about it in his first book. That’s how Israel was created, aided and abetted by U.S. money and arms. To annex and usurp an occupied people’s country is illegal under international law. The Israelis know that, but their superior military force has always prevailed against the indigenous people.

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President Obama, this week: “I’ve taken this decision with the confidence that action is necessary, and that we will not be acting alone. Our goal is focused.  Our cause is just.  And our coalition is strong.”

President George W. Bush, 10 years ago: “To all the men and women in our military … I say this: Your mission is defined. Your objectives are clear. Your goal is just.”

President Obama: “The United States did not seek this outcome.  Our decisions have been driven by Qaddafi’s refusal to respect the rights of his people and the potential for mass murder of innocent civilians.”

President Bush: “We did not ask for this mission, but we will fulfill it. … We defend not only our precious freedoms, but also the freedom of people everywhere to live and raise their children free from fear.”
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Paul Krugman: “On the other side, we’ve been assured that spending cuts would do wonders for business confidence. But that hasn’t happened in any of the countries currently pursuing harsh austerity programs. Notably, when the Cameron government in Britain announced austerity measures last May, it received fawning praise from U.S. deficit hawks. But British business confidence plunged, and it has not recovered.”

According to KPMG: “Preview figures from the Global Business Outlook survey, compiled by Markit Economics on behalf of KPMG, show that 68% of manufacturing industry respondents expect activity to improve during the next 12 months, compared with just 8% anticipating a decrease.”
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Hillary Clinton: “They are not asking for ground troops, they don’t want us to get in the fight.  Nobody wants to see an arms race in Libya, but it’s not a fair fight.”

President Obama: “I’ve dispatched Hillary to the Middle East to talk about how these countries can transition to new leaders – though, I’ve got to be honest, she’s gotten a little passionate about the subject.  These past few weeks it’s been tough falling asleep with Hillary out there on Pennsylvania Avenue shouting, throwing rocks at the window.”
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Wolf Blitzer’s questions for Hillary Clinton: “If the President is reelected, do you want to serve a second term as Secretary of State?”

“No.”

“Would you like to serve as Secretary of Defense?”

“No.”

“Would you like to be vice president of the United States?”

“No.”

“Would you like to be president of the United States?”

“No.”

Mrs. Clinton said, “No.”

Conservatives:

Sarah Palin: “It’s not government business to spend the working man’s tax dollars recklessly – & certainly not government’s business to centrally “plan” an economy & control an entrepreneurial spirit! That doesn’t work. Government should lay infrastructure, level the playing field, then get out of the way.”

Newt Gingrich on Obama’s slow reaction to Libya: “Well, I think what is increasingly clear is that we have a spectator in chief instead of a commander in chief.”

Newt Gingrich, clearly running for president, remarking on Sarkozy’s lead in Libya: “I was, frankly, very disappointed that [Nicolas] Sarkozy did not share with us his Final Four picks.  And i think it’s his failure to understand the Final Four that allowed him to focus on Libya on a way tha. Clearly, if he had understood the American system he would have understood that his is not a good week to deal with Libya because this is the week to deal with Kansas, Ohio State, and you know things that were really important.”

Rudy Giuliani: “Hillary Clinton would have been better.”

Herman Cain: “That’s what will happen in this Republican competition, the butter will rise to the top because the American people are churning the candidates who are there.”

Former UN Secretary John Bolton: “When President Obama took the office on Jan. 20, 2009, when it came to foreign policy and national security, he wasn’t qualified to be president.  Today, more than two years later, he’s still not qualified.”

Andrew Breitbart: “I actually like NPR’s programming; I just don’t believe that we the people should be paying for it…I do believe that they put our a superior liberal product, and if I want to hear what liberals have to say, there’s no better place to go than NPR.”

Gary Kukis : “Michael Moore will lead the revolution, if it goes by a donut shop.”

Michele Bachmann: “What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love for liberty.  You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord.”  This turns out to be incorrect, and she was corrected by many newspapers (I would assume mostly by people who did not know this fact either).

Michele responded on her Facebook: “So I misplaced the battles Concord and Lexington by saying they were in New Hampshire. It was my mistake.  And by the way… That will be the last time I borrow President Obama’s teleprompter!”

Carl Gatton, Alaska State lawmaker, when presenting a bill to outlaw Sharia law: “As a kid, we had Italian neighborhoods, Irish neighborhoods . . . but they didn’t impose their own laws.  When these neighborhoods are occupied by people from the Middle East, they do establish their own laws.”

Jodi Miller: “Now that Guantanamo Bay will remain open indefinitely, the Obama administration has requested that Gitmo trials be restarted.  So, liberals, are you now ready to impeach Obama?”

Rush Limbaugh: “I know this is probably not possible, but I would like somehow to have a calculation on how many people in this country actually work for a living rather than siphon for a living.”

Rush: “They should ask: ‘Mr. Obama, you were not in favor of regime change in Iraq, but you have said Mubarak has to go, and you now think Khadafy has to go. Was Saddam not as bad as Khadafy?’”

Rush: “So we’re borrowing $5 billion a day just to service the debt, and the House wants kudos for a continuing resolution that cuts $6 billion in three weeks. It doesn’t add up.”

Rush: “Obama’s just so smart, so advanced, just lives on a different astral plane than we do, and we can’t hope to understand. We should just be thankful we’re alive at the time he is.”

Rush: “David Brooks was smitten with Obama because of the freaking crease in his pants. He said that! And these are the intellectuals.” [Recall that David Brooks is NPR’s lone “conservative”]

Rush: “Remember how they said Gitmo was going to create a whole new generation of terrorists? Well, how about this? Any criticism of the Tea Party will create a whole new generation of freedom lovers.”

From the Conservative Review #170 (HTML)  (PDF)

John Bolton on why those who want to throw our country to the Democrats are espousing a view that is quite similiar to Lenin’s saying “worse is better”

Plus Fred Thompson endorsed McCain since he has all but wrapped up the nomination.

Fred Thompson, the one-time Republican presidential candidate, endorsed Sen. John McCain Friday, calling on the party to “close ranks” behind the presumed nominee.

“This is no longer about past preferences or differences. It is about what is best for our country and for me that means that Republican should close ranks behind John McCain,” Thompson said in a statement reported by the Associated Press.

Thompson’s endorsement was expected. The two men were colleagues for years in the Senate and shared what associates called a friendship. But while he was in the race, Thompson had bristled at the idea that he was going to drop out and endorse McCain.

I do find it quite humorous tho that the media, such as Michael Shear above, and many bloggers are saying this was all to be expected. Which I find ludicrous. If that were so Fred would of done this when he dropped out.

But he didn’t.

He waited until the nominee was chosen, and make no mistake, the nominee has been chosen. If Mitt had won, his endorsement would of went that way.

He understands that this fight is too important for petty bickering and will back any of the Republicans who win the nomination. Just one more reason why I respect the man so.