Political Quotes of the Day

Post by **Dardedar** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:27 pm

"Today, the President faces consequences of his own making. This is the seventh supplemental for the war in Iraq. Certainly, somebody was planning something at the White House and could have put, over the years, the funding necessary for this war into the budget. Instead the President did not do that. I don't know why, maybe they don't want the American people to see the real cost of this war in dollars. Certainly, we know the price that we have paid more seriously, in lives, in health, in reputation, in the readiness of our military and in probably two trillion dollars now for this war."

--Nancy Pelosi

Post by **Dardedar** » Thu May 03, 2007 9:00 pm

"Each of Bush's signature failures -- the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, Enron and the corporate scandals, failed tax and trade policies, the attempt to privatize Social Security, the posturing around Terri Schiavo and stem cells -- can be traced back not simply to the conservative ideology and ideologues that sired them -- but to the basic concepts that Reagan championed. The Gipper can't lead Republican candidates out of the wilderness because, to paraphrase, his conservatism is the problem, not the solution.

Over the last six years, with Bush in the White House, then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay ramrodding the Republican Congress and Karl Rove focused on mobilizing the Republican base, conservatives have largely had their way. Bush pursued the core ideas of each strand of "movement conservatism" largely to catastrophic effect."

Chicago Tribune

Post by **Dardedar** » Fri May 04, 2007 12:21 am

"Al Gore is not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is globalization. The goal is global carbon tax. The goal is the United Nations running the world. That's the goal. Back in the 1930s, the goal was get rid of all the Jews and have one global government. You have to have an enemy to fight, and when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire world behind you and you seize power. That was Hitler's plan. His enemy: the Jew. Al Gore's enemy, the U.N. enemy: global warming."

Glen Beck

Post by **Dardedar** » Sat May 05, 2007 11:50 am

"All these people on the list of the most influential people in the world. The president of the United States isn't there. Here's the question. What does it say about the U.S. when a national news magazine thinks Rosie O'Donnell, Justin Timberlake and the actor who plays Borat are more influential than President Bush?" --Jack Cafferty

Bush went from #1 in 2004, to nowhere to be found in 2007.

Post by **Dardedar** » Thu May 10, 2007 10:22 am

"I may have been wrong. That's your call."
--Tony Blair speaking of Iraq and announcing his resignation.

Post by **Dardedar** » Tue May 15, 2007 10:30 am

Republicans Unnerved by Paralyzed Presidency

Private conversations with Republicans throughout America reveal doom and gloom about a politically paralyzed presidency and party. The on-the-record observations are almost as bleak.

"The country doesn't believe George W. Bush, it doesn't trust him, and with 19 months to go, it's only going to get worse,"

predicts Ed Rollins, a Republican strategist who ran Ronald Reagan's 1984 presidential campaign.

link

Post by **Dardedar** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:50 am

"Being a Republican means that you're motivating generals to retire so that they can do commercials pointing out your war policy sucks more than Dick Morris in a room full of Brit Hume's toes." -- Cliff Schecter

Post by **Dardedar** » Wed May 16, 2007 12:13 pm

"It was quite interesting watching the Republicans debate down in South Carolina tonight. I think it's clear that this group has come to fully understand that winning the GOP nomination is all about the codpiece. These guys have just spent the last fifteen minutes of the debate trying to top each other on just how much torture they are willing to inflict. They sound like a bunch of psychotic 12 year olds, although considering the puerile nature of the "24" question it's not entirely their fault.

This debate is a window into what really drives the GOP id. The biggest applause lines were for faux tough guy Giuliani demanding Ron Paul take back his assertion that the terrorists don't hate us for our freedom, macho man Huckabee talking about Edwards in a beauty parlor and the manly hunk Romney saying that he wants to double the number of prisoners in Guantanamo "where they can't get lawyers." There's very little energy for that girly talk about Jesus or "the culture of life" or any of that BS that the pansy Bush ran ran on. (Brownback's position, forcing 14 year old girls who've been raped by their fathers to bear their own sibling, will have to suffice for the compassionate "life" crowd tonight.)"

--Digby

Post by **Dardedar** » Mon May 21, 2007 3:19 pm

"This President — our President — has a single-minded obsession with Iraq, and he appears to see no value in anything except continuing his chaotic "mission impossible." While tilting at windmills may have been a harmless procedure for Don Quixote, Mr. Bush's war is turning the sands of Iraq blood red." --Senator Robert Byrd the longest-serving Senator in U.S. history

Post by **Dardedar** » Mon May 21, 2007 11:09 pm

"American democracy is now in danger-not from any one set of ideas, but from unprecedented changes in the environment within which ideas either live and spread, or wither and die. I do not mean the physical environment; I mean what is called the public sphere, or the marketplace of ideas.

It is simply no longer possible to ignore the strangeness of our public discourse. I know I am not alone in feeling that something has gone fundamentally wrong. In 2001, I had hoped it was an aberration when polls showed that three-quarters of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was responsible for attacking us on Sept. 11. More than five years later, however, nearly half of the American public still believes Saddam was connected to the attack."
--Al Gore. Excerpted from his new book "The Assault on Reason". Sales rank #5 on Amazon.com right now.

Post by **Dardedar** » Sun May 27, 2007 7:56 pm

"It's upsetting to think that Mr. Bush... does not recognize that Americans' support for the war broke down many bloody months ago. But we have grown accustomed to this president's disconnect from reality and his habit of tilting at straw men, like Americans who don't care about terrorism because they question his mismanagement of the war or don't worry about what will happen after the United States withdraws, as it inevitably must."

New York Times editorial

Post by **Dardedar** » Mon May 28, 2007 11:02 am

"Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month."

--Andrew J. Bacevich teaches history and international relations at Boston University. His son died May 13 after a suicide bomb explosion in Salah al-Din province. Link

Post by **Dardedar** » Tue May 29, 2007 9:20 am

"The most devastating conclusion that I reached... was that Casey did indeed die for nothing,..."
I have tried every (day) since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful. Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives."
--Cindy Sheehan

Post by **Dardedar** » Tue May 29, 2007 7:15 pm

"Now the Bush administration finds itself at that same hour of shame. It knows the surge is not working. Iraq is in a civil war, with a gruesome bonus of terrorists mixed in. April was the worst month this year for the American military with 104 soldiers killed, and there have been about 90 killed thus far in May. The democracy's not jelling, as Iraqi lawmakers get ready to slouch off for a two-month vacation, leaving our kids to be blown up."

Maureen Dowd | Bush's Fleurs du Mal

Post by **Dardedar** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:00 pm

"This Memorial Day we remember the dead, and the politicians who killed them." -- John Aravosis

Post by **Dardedar** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:11 pm

"If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco."
-- LBJ, on the long discredited 'domino theory' Link

"We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today, so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities."
--Bush

Post by **Dardedar** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:15 pm

"The saddest spot in Washington is the inverted V of the black granite Vietnam wall, jutting up with the names of young men dying in a war that their leaders already knew could not be won. So many died because of ego and deceit - because L.B.J. and Robert McNamara wanted to save face or because Henry Kissinger wanted to protect Nixon’s re-election chances. Now the Bush administration finds itself at that same hour of shame. W. thinks he can save face if he keeps taunting Democrats as the party of surrender — just as Nixon did — and dumps the Frankenstate he’s created on his successor. --Maureen Dowd

Post by **Dardedar** » Thu May 31, 2007 9:40 pm

"But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want? They want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure, which you're a part, and so am I, and they want to bring in millions of foreign nationals to basically break down the structure that we have."

Bill O'Reilly speaking to John McCain

Post by **Dardedar** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:33 am

"When Gen. Petraeus gives his report in September on progress in Iraq,
I think he’s going to report great progress and say that the city is heavily pacified." --Fred Barnes

Post by **Dardedar** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 12:14 pm

"Rudy giuliani is a true American hero, and we know this because he does all the things we expect of heroes these days -- like make $16 million a year, and lobby for Hugo Chávez and Rupert Murdoch, and promote wars without ever having served in the military, and hire a lawyer to call his second wife a "stuck pig," and organize absurd, grandstanding pogroms against minor foreign artists, and generally drift through life being a shameless opportunist with an outsize ego who doesn't even bother to conceal the fact that he's had a hard-on for the presidency since he was in diapers. In the media age, we can't have a hero humble enough to actually be one; what is needed is a tireless scoundrel, a cad willing to pose all day long for photos, who'll accept $100,000 to talk about heroism for an hour, who has the balls to take a $2.7 million advance to write a book about himself called Leadership. That's Rudy Giuliani. Our hero. And a perfect choice to uphold the legacy of George W. Bush.

Yes, Rudy is smarter than Bush. But his political strength -- and he knows it -- comes from America's unrelenting passion for never bothering to take that extra step to figure shit out. If you think you know it all already, Rudy agrees with you. And if anyone tries to tell you differently, they're probably traitors, and Rudy, well, he'll keep an eye on 'em for you. Just like Bush, Rudy appeals to the couch-bound bully in all of us, and part of the allure of his campaign is the promise to put the Pentagon and the power of the White House at that bully's disposal."

Giuliani: Worse Than Bush Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone