Liberals:
The official White House position on whether or not Obama is a Christian (spokesman Bill Burton): “He prays every day. He communicates with his religious adviser every single day. There’s a group of pastors that he takes counsel from on a regular basis…He is Christian and his faith is very important to him.” What about Jesus Christ. What is Obama’s opinion of this guy?
President and noted economist Barack Obama: “When Congress reconvenes, this jobs bill will be the first business out of the gate and the Senate Republican leadership needs to stop its efforts to block it.”
Vice President Joe Biden on why Democrats ought to be voted back into office: “They are going to look at what the Republican Party is really offering — more of the past, but on steroids.”
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius about Obamacare: “The more people understand this bill, the more they are going to like it.”
Barney Frank: “I hope by next year we’ll have abolished Fannie and Freddie.” (Yay, Barney!)
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Crosstalk:
The President has apparently turned his, the Republicans drove the car into the ditch analogy into an art form, if you will: “And we’re slipping and sliding and sweating, and the other side, the Republicans, they’re standing there with their Slurpees watching us. Finally we get this car to level ground. Finally we’re ready to move forward, go down that road once again to American prosperity, and what happens? They want the keys back.”
Fred Thompson later remarked, “His response to the economy is to get the car out of the ditch and drive it over a cliff.”
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The reigning Miss USA, 24-year-old Muslim American Rima Fakir: “I totally agree with President Obama with the statement on Constitutional rights of freedom of religion; I also agree that it shouldn’t be so close to the World Trade Center. We should be more concerned with the tragedy than religion.”
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Ed Schultz: “Well, the automobile loan program seemed to have worked. General Motors also known as “Obama motors,” “government motors,” raked in over $33 billion in revenue last quarter. It`s G.M.`s strongest performance in six years. To top it off, the company is set to go public again, possibly as soon as Friday. Now, this is I think an unbelievable success story. This was a great American company on the brink and the ripple effect would have been unbelievable. And what did President Obama do? He put a team together that came in and fixed it. The bottom line: government intervention sometimes works.”
Leo Hindery: “…we`ve got to be real honest about what`s going to happen here over the next decade. There will be more jobs created in Mexico by the Big Three automobile manufacturers than will be created here in the United States. So, these profits are important. But we didn`t put — we didn`t put any quid with the quo so to speak and we didn`t demand that the growth in these three companies, the recovery of these three companies be found here in American workers…I`m distressed when I hear that G.M., especially, just committed in the last week or so, $500 million more to yet another one of its plants in Mexico.”
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Bill O’Reilly interpreted the new Stallone film, The Expendables, as being about “macho guys like you killing bad guys,” but adds that it has received some criticism for having a pro-America subtext. So O’Reilly asked Stallone “Do you have a secret agenda?”
Stallone responded “I wish I was that clever.”
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Conservatives:
Grover Norquist: “Most people who voted for Obama thought that he intended to change Washington; however, Obama’s intention was to change our country.” (Quoted from memory).
After Newsweek magazine determined that Finland was the best place to live in the world, and the United States came in at #11, Dennis Miller observed, “You know the best thing about living in Finland? There’s no Newsweek magazine there.”
Dennis Miller, about the Ground Zero Mosque: “And I would tell you this, folks in the Muslim world: If you want to outreach to us, don’t build this thing. That will send every message you need to do. Hire your best spokesperson, your Barack Obama, or maybe that is Barack Obama, have him step up there and say, “Of course, we’re not going to build this. That would be boorish, oafish. That would be insensitive. That would be, dare I say, ham-handed.” You do that, you’ve got a love affair with the American people the next day. As a matter of fact, I will change the ring tone on my cell phone to ‘Ai yi yi yi yi yi!’ [SHOUTING] tomorrow morning.”
Greg Gutfeld: “I went onto their website, the Cordoba House website, and it is a lovely website, and they talk about preaching tolerance and communication, and I thought, how interesting is it that they are preaching tolerance and communication to Americans.”
Charles Krauthammer (concerning Pelosi’s call to investigate those who oppose the Ground Zero Mosque): “Well, I spent the afternoon wrapping my mind around Pelosi’s remark about looking into the finances of those who oppose the motion. I want to join with others. I’d like to know who the others are. Are any of them non-institutionalized? And then I’m trying to decide if the statement was out of malice or sheer lunacy. And being the generous soul I am, I go with lunacy. I mean, after all, the implication that Debra Burlingame, the sister of one of the pilots who died on 9/11, would have to be secretly paid to express her anguish over the establishment of a monument to Islam in a place where 3,000 were massacred in the name of Islam is obscene.”
Jonathan in Cashin’ In: “The combination of a government monopoly [public education] and the unions, and that is a recipe for lethargy and inefficiency.” [quoted from memory].
Rush Limbaugh: “What happened to all of those ‘shovel-ready jobs’ we were promised a year-and- a-half ago with the stimulus bill and Porkulus bill?”
From Conservative Review #140 (PDF Version)
A retired math teacher who spends most of his time exegeting the Old Testament and, once a week, puts out an ezeen.