Political Quotes of the Day

[Dardedar]

"...“Mitt” Romney. He went from the debonair moderate, pro-choice, pro-gun control, anti-Reagan Republican Governor from the bluest state in the union to a pandering, principle-less xenophobe that would say anything and do anything to become President. A classically tragic figure."

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[Dardedar]

"President Bush drew great applause during his State of the Union address last month when he called on Congress to allow U.S. troops to transfer their unused education benefits to family members. "Our military families serve our nation, they inspire our nation, and tonight our nation honors them," he said.

A week later, however, when Bush submitted his $3.1 trillion federal budget to Congress, he included no funding for such an initiative, which government analysts calculate could cost $1 billion to $2 billion annually."

Washington Post



And that's not counting the 2+ trillion coming due for the illegal war.

No wonder we can't find any conservatives to defend their Bush.

[Dardedar]

"I can not support anybody with the foreign policy he [McCain] advocates, you know, perpetual war. That is just so disturbing to me,” Paul said.”I think it’s un-American, un-Constitutional, immoral, and not Republican.”
--Ron Paul

[Dardedar]

A good friend of mine from Illinois who I have known for 12 years:

"Obama is a senator from my state, but if he is nominated, I won't vote for him. He is a glib speaker, and so far that is all that I have seen in him. He talks about change, change, change, change, but he doesn't say anything specific about what changes he will bring. He reminds me of Kennedy and Reagan, long on motivation but short on substance. When Kennedy came along, I was a Republican and remained one until Reagan permanently cured me of voting for Republicans. I learned to beware of those who "inspire" but basically do nothing else. If Obama is nominated, for the first time since I turned 21, I won't vote in a presidential election." --Farrell Till

[Dardedar]

“If you’re a guy, you can get past it. I don’t think you can as an ugly woman. You’ve got a double cross, because if you’re an ugly woman, you’re probably a progressive as well....
If you believed in God, you’d know that there’s going to be another chance for you. You don’t have to be ugly in heaven. You’re going to be your perfect self, and there will be another perfect somebody waiting for you on the other side.”

--Glen Beck

[Dardedar]

"Observers say Castro will either be
replaced by his brother Raul, or by
his idiot son, Fidel W. Castro."
-- Letterman

[Dardedar]

DAR
Great little clip from Faux Noise. See it here:

Comedian calls Fox News a parade of propaganda, a festival of ignorance. Bobble head responds: you can watch all the news you can on Fox.

[Dardedar]

Last month, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) bemoaned the notion of lawmakers working more hours on the Hill. Families, he said, are more important. Kingston told the WaPo, in response to a Dem proposal to extend the congressional work week to five days, “Keeping us up here eats away at families. Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families — that’s what this says.”

With this in mind, Kingston has some interesting ideas about how low-income families can get out of poverty.

Last night, Kingston shared some advice with Americans living in poverty: work longer hours. During House debate over the minimum wage, Kingston said raising the minimum wage would do nothing for poor Americans. Instead, if people marry and work longer hours, “they would be out of poverty,” he said. “It’s an economic fact.”

"...as Nico helpfully points out, “The annual salary for workers earning the national minimum wage still leaves a family of three about $6,000 short of the poverty threshold.” In most instances, overtime pay isn’t much of an option. In other words, working longer hours won’t solve the problem.

Carpetbagger

[Dardedar]

"The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it, seems to me the deepest root of all that is evil in the world."

--Max Born (11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970), a German physicist and mathematician who became a British citizen. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics. His granddaughter is Olivia Newton-John. From his book: My Life and Views (1968), p. 183

[Dardedar]

Bill Maher, New Rules:

"A fundamental trait of today’s right wing is the willingness to lie, baldly and repeatedly and without shame. And it always catches the Democrats off guard. Just ask war criminal John Kerry or Munchausen Syndrome sufferer Al Gore. Are people like Sean Hannity really so dumb that they think Barack Obama is an African spy who’s plotting to be the Lion King? Well, in his case, yes, but…People like Karl Rove know that the more ridiculous the charge you make, the better. Because they’re not aimed at rational people. They’re aimed at that great teeming mass of Americans who wept with joy when they heard “American Gladiators” was coming back. They’re called “undecideds” or “swing voters”, but I prefer the traditional term, “morons.”

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[Dardedar]

"Speaking of Nader, I agreed with almost every word he said on Jon Stewart.
By why does his message always come with a side dish of "Fuck the Democrats?" --Bartcop.com

"I'll support whoever the Dem's nominee and her VP." --Ibid

[Dardedar]

"The Bush Administration said each of us will get a nice rebate.
If we spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China.
If we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the Arabs, and neither will
help the American economy.

We need to keep that money here in America, so the only way to keep that money
here at home is to buy beer or spend it on prostitution, since those are the only
businesses still in the US and plowing their money back into the US."
--Albc

[LaWood]

I think it depends upon where you live how you will spend the new fictitious
rebate.

If in Calif then it will likely go to the Arabs, Chevez-Venezuela because gasoline is peaking at $4 per gal. If an auto holds 20 gals and the driver uses a tank per week that rebate will pay off your gasoline charge cards for 60 days.

IF a family of four then it won't feed you for a month.
.

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Since the fictious rebate is actually money borrowed from China that my grandsons will have to pay back, I'm probably going to spend it reducing my debt so there might be something for them to inherit and pay the Chinese back with.

[Dardedar]

Since the fictious rebate is actually money borrowed from China that my grandsons will have to pay back,...

DAR
Plus interest.

[Dardedar]

Bill Maher:

”New rule, politicians must stop saying “the American people are smarter than that.” No they aren’t! If the Bush era has taught us anything, it’s that voters want a president carved in their own image. Someone who doesn’t like to read or believe anything he’s told and is easily distracted by bright, shiny objects.”

[Dardedar]

"The stupendously deluded belief that the sitting Governor of New York could purchase the services of prostitutes was merely the last act of a man unable to admit either the existence of, or need for, limits,..."
--Wall Street Journal editorial

[Dardedar]

War Costing $720 Million Each Day, Group Says

"What this buys us is rampant inflation, skyrocketing debt, confiscatory taxation, dollar devaluation, economic implosion, wealth transfer to the war profiteers, global destabilization, the besmirching of America’s name globally, the horrible deaths of hundreds of little kids every week and our soldiers coming home with broken bodies and traumatized minds if not in flag-draped boxes. And it is all exactly what the evil men of the Knights of Malta Skull and Bones Freemason Kill Committee who are running things want."

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[Dardedar]

"The House Republican brand is so bad right now that if it were a dog food, they'd take it off the shelf," said retiring [republican] Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (Va.), who chaired the NRCC for four years earlier this decade."
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[Dardedar]

"Bart, is that in all these sites I read every day

Daily KOS
Americablog
Buzzflash
Rude Pundit
Eschaton
Huffington Post

...have not only gone Obamamaniacal, but they have spewed so much vitriol and hate
toward Hillary as to make me sick to my stomach. I might as well read Politico or
National Review because it has made me feel like an outsider in my own party.

None of them will get a penny more from me.

And if they are wrong,
and the lollipop gets taken away a third time and we lose the election,
I'll be sending out a series of "WTF were you thinking?" messages.

And, where are the media?
All these months gone by and I still don't know a damn thing
about Obama except that he can give a good speech."

--Calvin