Ross Douthat (pictured in the image at left), conservative columnist for the New York Times, is against choice for women. He probably likes the new Oklahoma travesty law too. Liberal blogger, TBogg, accurately paraphrases Douthat's original article so that you don't have to read it:
Conservatives are kept poor and stupid because they refuse to stoop to the level of the liberal elitists who get ahead in life by killing their own babies. Totally unfair.
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) discussed the vote on health care reform with Glenn Beck of Fox News on Beck’s radio show (March 2010). The vote was slated for a Sunday.
Beck responded with his usual googly-eyed nonsensical gibberish.
charity, that is a — this is an affront to God. And I honestly, I don’t think anybody is like, “yes, and now what we’ll do is we’ll vote on the Sabbath.” But I think it’s absolutely appropriate that these people are trying to put the nail in the coffin on our country on a Sunday — something our founders would have never, ever, ever done. Out of respect for God.
So, you would think that no Republican ever called for a vote on a Sunday. You would be wrong. Via Think Progress:
On Palm Sunday in 2005, the Republican-controlled Senate passed a controversial bill to allow a federal court to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo. The House passed the same bill shortly after midnight on Monday morning.
Via Think Progress.
In March of 2010, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) began referring to health care reform as a “suicide run”, making an attempt to compare it to a Japanese bombing run. This quote is from an interview Graham did on a local radio station.
Nancy Pelosi, I think, has got them all liquored up on sake and you know, they’re making a suicide run here,
Via Think Progress.
This cannot pass.What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass.
Slasher movie, anyone?
Right now, we are looking at reaching down the throat and ripping the guts out of freedom. And we may never be able to restore it if we don’t man up and take this one on.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Caroline1.
My fellow Democrats, my fellow Americans, it is so wonderful to be here.
And nothing -- nothing is going to keep me away from this special gathering tonight.
I have come here tonight to stand with you to change America, to restore its future, to rise to our best ideals, and to elect Barack Obama President of the United States.
As I look ahead, I am strengthened by family and friendship. So many of you have been with me in the happiest days and the hardest days. Together we have known success and seen setbacks, victory, and defeat. But we have never lost our belief that we are all called to a better country and a newer world. And I pledge to you -- I pledge to you that I will be there next January on the floor of the United States Senate when we begin the great test.
Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.
For me this is a season of hope -- new hope for a justice and fair prosperity for the many, and not just for the few -- new hope.
friend, Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (D-Mass.) after Kennedy's death in 2009:
I will always remember Teddy as the ultimate example for all of us who seek to serve, a hero for those Americans in the shadow of life who so desperately needed one.
He worked tirelessly to lift Americans out of poverty, advance the cause of civil rights, and provide opportunity to all. He fought to the very end for the cause of his life - ensuring that all Americans have the health care they need.
The commitment to build a stronger and fairer America, a more perfect union, was deeply ingrained in the fiber of who he was, and what he believed in, and why he served.
That's why he stands among the most respected Senators in history. But it was his sympathetic ear, his razor wit, and his booming, raucous laugh that made him among the most beloved.
Whatever tragedy befell Teddy's family, he would always be there for them. Whatever tragedy befell the family of one of his friends, he would always be there for us. And in this moment of profound grief, our hearts are with his wonderful wife Vicki, his fantastic kids Ted Jr., Patrick, Kara, Curran, and Caroline, his grandchildren, and the wide and wonderful extended family for whom he was always a safe harbor.I will miss him every day I serve, and every day I live.
Sen. Christopher John Dodd, Democrat, 1944-
Nancy Davis Reagan, Republican, 1921-
According to Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for Vice President in 2008, her First Amendment rights were violated when the media claimed that Palin was engaged in negative campaigning.
1Hart is currently professor emeritus of English at Dartmouth College, and he wrote for the National Review for more than three decades as a senior editor.
It remained on the site for a short time (whereby Political Talk saved it as a pdf file), and was then removed by Newsmax, which has since attempted to distance itself1 from Perry.
By: John L. Perry
There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America's military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the "Obama problem." Don't dismiss it as unrealistic.
America isn't the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn't mean it wont. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it. So, view the following through military eyes:
Senator Alan K. Simpson | Republican [WY]
Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy | Democrat 1932-2009
Taken from his eulogy to his brother Bobby, it can now be said of him.
Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us, and what he wished for others, will someday come to pass for all the world.
Congressman Wally Herger | Republican - CA
At a town hall meeting on August 18 in Redding, California , Rep. Walter William Herger, Jr., speaking of healthcare reform and President Obama, intimated that the President, and/or his policies, are a threat to Democracy. [where was this loser when Bush 43 threw the Constitution in the toilet?]
And in another example of the craziness promoted by the far right, including people such as Wally Herger, at the same town hall, and in response to a man who said “I am a proud right wing terrorist.”, Herger had this to say:
Your tax dollars at work.
Sarah Palin | Republican
From a January, 2009 interview with Esquire magazine, Palin had these "pithy" remarks for bloggers, specifically, and the media, secondarily. Hilarious!
Related: Sarah Palin Quotations
Sarah Palin | Republican
During an interview in August 2008, Palin expressed her views on the need to accept sexism in the media without whining [if you are a woman]. She chided Hillary Clinton as a whiner. Surreal, when you consider all the whining Sarah Palin did regarding media coverage of herself during the 2008 presidential campaign, beginning shortly after that interview. The woman is a simple joke.
Related: Sarah Palin Quotations
down payment on a new American socialist experiment. … All of these bills seek to replace our economic freedom with the whims and mandates of politicians and bureaucrats.
Rush Limbaugh | Republican
Referring to Barack Obama's birth, Limbaugh made this comment on the August 21 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Audio available here.
H/T Media Matters
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