Political Quotes of the Day

[Dardedar]

"As I watched the news conference, it occurred to me that one of the things that might leave people feeling somewhat disoriented is the president’s seemingly effortless high spirits. He’s in a good mood. There was the usual teasing, the partly aggressive, partly joshing humor, the certitude. He doesn’t seem to be suffering, which is jarring. Presidents in great enterprises that are going badly suffer: Lincoln, LBJ with his head in his hands. Why doesn’t Mr. Bush? Every major domestic initiative of his second term has been ill thought through and ended in failure. His Iraq leadership has failed. His standing is lower than any previous president’s since polling began. He’s in a good mood. Discuss." --Peggy Noonan

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

W is a psychic vampire - what normal people get from love, good food, an old-fashioned story where the good guys win and everybody lives happily ever after, maybe a beer or two, etc., he gets from pain and death. That's why he "offed" so many people as governor of TX (more than the rest of the country put together). That's why there will be war and torture as long as he is in power. And he will smile and smirk the whole time.

[LaWood]

"He’s in a good mood. There was the usual teasing, the partly aggressive, partly joshing humor, the certitude. He doesn’t seem to be suffering,..."
Noonan

He has a year and a half left of being Cheney's butt-boy. That's a reason for the puppet president to smile.

Expect a MAJOR public relations blitz on how successful the WAR is going. Should start within 30 days. There will be made up stories, punctuated with soldiers' stories, touching stories of the grattitude of Iraqi people spewed forth on FAUX News Channel daily.

[Dardedar]

"...it's true that Americans get hip replacements faster than Canadians. But there's a funny thing about that example, which is used constantly as an argument for the superiority of private health insurance over a government-run system: the large majority of hip replacements in the United States are paid for by, um, Medicare.

That's right: the hip-replacement gap is actually a comparison of two government health insurance systems. American Medicare has shorter waits than Canadian Medicare (yes, that's what they call their system) because it has more lavish funding - end of story. The alleged virtues of private insurance have nothing to do with it.

The bottom line is that the opponents of universal health care appear to have run out of honest arguments. All they have left are fantasies: horror fiction about health care in other countries, and fairy tales about health care here in America." --Paul Krugman

[Dardedar]

"As far as Republicans are concerned, I think they need to be condemned
for failing to speak the truth about what's going on in Iraq."
--Limbaugh, a little late to the party

[Dardedar]

From Salon (via crooksandliars):

"Nothing unites the Republican candidates for president or excites the conservative base more than their bellicose barking about war and confrontation. The GOP presidential debates often sound like a tough-man competition, with Rudolph Giuliani denouncing the “cut-and-run” Democrats, Mitt Romney demanding a double-size Guantánamo detention camp, and the rest of the pack struggling to keep pace with the snarling alpha dogs.

Consider Giuliani, the former New York mayor who has remained among the most vocal supporters of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. He never hesitates to suggest that politicians with differing opinions simply lack guts. When he spoke at the 2004 Republican convention, he gleefully insinuated that Democratic nominee John Kerry lacked the fortitude to combat terrorism. Now he denigrates the supposedly spineless Democrats running for president in 2008.

But he has always confined his enthusiasm for war to podium speeches and position papers. Born in 1944, young Rudy was highly eligible for military service when he reached his 20s during the Vietnam War. He did not volunteer for combat — as Kerry did — and instead found a highly creative way to dodge the draft.

If Giuliani has a draft problem, Romney’s may be even worse. The former Massachusetts governor, whose supporters object strenuously to any discussion of his religious beliefs, got his military service deferred thanks to the Mormon church."

The rest

[Dardedar]

"Bush's approval rating has dropped so low
the only thing he's above now is the law."
-- Jay Leno

[LaWood]

Newt Gingrich goes nuclear: May enter race to foil 'pygmies'

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Dismissing the GOP presidential field as a "pathetic" bunch of "pygmies," Newt Gingrich hinted Monday he might step in to beat Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

"If, in mid-October, it's quite clear that one or more of the current candidates is strong enough to be a serious alternative to a Clinton-Obama ticket, you don't need me to run," the former House Speaker said at a breakfast sponsored by the American Spectator. "If it becomes patently obvious, as the morning paper points out, that the Democrats have raised a hundred million more than the Republicans, and at some point people decide we are going to get Hillary unless there's a radical change, then there's space for a candidate," he added. "So you'll know by mid-October one of those two futures is real."

(Keep in mind this is the Congressman who porn-king Larry Flynt ran out of office. LW)
story link: http://www.examiner.com/a-842080~Newt_g ... ygmies.htm

[Dardedar]

"For many of us on the left coast, Bush's pardon of Scooter Libby was a non-event; we've grown blasé about Bush abuses. As a result, we shrug and say to the rest of the nation: What did you expect? You supported a conservative demagogue whose most notable "accomplishments" were a series of business failures. Why are you surprised that he's become the worst president in modern history? Nonetheless, while it's comforting to bask in self-righteousness, that won't fix our common problem: Bush will be president for another 18 months and the immorality of the Bush administration infects us all. The president is a moral termite."

LINK

[Dardedar]

The attorney general took an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Instead, he tells the half-truth, the partial truth and everything but the truth -- and he does it not once, not twice, but over and over and over again." --Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer.

[Dardedar]

"What if I were to say to you: 'Those are Michael Vick's dogs, and that was his property, and whatever he wants to do with them is his choice.'
-- Rush, on why dogs and women are mere 'property' for men to abuse

Do you realize Clinton could suffer a 20-point free-fall in the polls and still be at 59 percent? -- Rush, Feb 10, 1997

Bush, desecrating a flag:

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Bet the Rs are glad their flag desecrating amendment didn't pass. (Or they would be if they were intelligent enough to realize that autographing the flag is just as much desecration as burning it.)

[Dardedar]

"People seem surprised when AG Alberto Gonzales lies to Congress as if they expect him to tell the truth. Why should he tell the truth? After all, who is going to investigate him?

The Justice Department?
He is the Justice Department.

And even if he were investigated, brought to trial and convicted of perjury he'd never go to jail because Bush would pardon him just like he did for Scooter Libby. So Gonzales and anyone in the Bush administration can break the law with impunity and get away with it.

The Democrats don't have the votes to impeach Bush and Cheney. The Democrats want to impeach Bush but nothing is going to happen unless the Republicans decide to stop the lawlessness too. The Republicans are the ones allowing Bush to flaunt the law. We need to hold the GOP accountable for allowing the Bush administration to act lawlessly."
--Marc Perkel, San Bruno, CA

[Dardedar]

"Omertà (or a code of silence) has become the final bond holding the Bush administration together. Honesty is dishonorable; silence is manly; penitence is weakness. Loyalty trumps law. Protecting higher-ups is patriotism. Stonewalling is idealism. Telling the truth is informing. Cooperation with investigators is cowardice; breaking the code is betrayal. Once the code is shattered, however, no one can be trusted and the entire edifice crumbles."
--Sidney Blumenthal, LINK

[LaWood]

" Honesty is dishonorable; silence is manly; penitence is weakness. Loyalty trumps law."

For years groups like this were referred to as Mafia.

[Dardedar]

"Rudy Giuliani is a One-Note-Wonder. His ONLY message is FEAR.
His KIDS hate him.
His old FIRE DEPARTMENT shows him NO RESPECT.
He SHIT on his second wife PUBLICLY.
He put his EMERGENCY COMMAND CENTER inside New York City’s NUMBER ONE TERRORIST TARGET.
He actually SAID: “Thank God George Bush is president…” on 9/11.
Yea… GOOD IDEA… he should run for President.

This Republican presidential campaign is like a used car lot with everything on blocks."
--Cowboy Bob in Austin

[Doug]

"No amount of troops and no amount of time will make a difference."

Adm. MICHAEL G. MULLEN, Bush's nominee for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testifying before a Senate panel Tuesday that stability in Iraq requires political reconciliation. Quoted in Time magazine online Wednesday, Aug. 01, 2007.

[Dardedar]

"McCain’s support has collapsed in Iowa. His support among registered Republicans dropped from 14.4 percent in March to 1.8 percent in July-August."

And:

"UI political scientists note that McCain has been passed in popularity not only by former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., who earned 5.2 percent support, but also by a Democratic challenger, Obama, who is supported by 6.7 percent of Republicans."

LINK

[Dardedar]

"God bless the people of this part of the world."
-- George W. Bush, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Aug. 4, 2007

[Dardedar]

"The airwaves belong to the public, not to Fox News. But having said all that,
the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal is even more right wing and
irrational than Fox News. And completely predictable...it's like Pavlov's dogs."
-- Bill Clinton, on Murdoch's takeover of the Whore Street Journal
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