“The test of bipartisanship is not just how many Republican votes you have.” – Rahm Emanuel talking about healthcare legislation & bipartisanship I tend to agree in theory, but there are still a whole host of poison pills legislators can put into a bill that means they’d vote against something that included one or two [...]
“Today you are the media, it is your duty to report and keep the hope alive.” – A recent Facebook status update by Mir Hossein Mousavi Over the weekend, I touched on the significance social media is playing in this revolution, and Mashable has more details… The status update, posted in Farsi and translated both [...]
“So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, and who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end.” – Obama in his speech to the Muslim [...]
“Whatever titles we give these murderers, both deserve our attention. Violence like that is no way to solve a political dispute nor a religious one. And the fanatics on all sides do great disservice when they confuse dissention with rage and death.” – Sarah Palin on the similarities between the Tiller and Long shootings Credit [...]
“If it’s 2012 and our party is defined by Palin and Limbaugh and Cheney, then we’re headed for a blowout. That’s just the truth.” – A GOP strategist for John McCain and Jon Huntsman Here’s more about Hunstman specifically and Obama’s savvy move to make him ambassador to China… Now, Huntsman’s decision to accept the [...]
“People that are social conservatives are also economic conservatives. But a lot of the economic conservatives are not social conservatives. Throw the social conservatives the pro-life, pro-family people overboard and the Republican party will be as irrelevant as the Whigs.” – Mike Huckabee on the Republican party’s BIG problem And honestly, I don’t know how [...]
“I’ve had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn’t have them anywhere near my children. But at the same time, they’re people, and they’re going to do their thing.” – Joe Wurzelbacher sharing his views on friendship Now, does anybody here think [...]
“It is true that being a Republican moderate sometimes feels like being a cast member of Survivor — you are presented with multiple challenges, and you often get the distinct feeling that you’re no longer welcome in the tribe. But it is truly a dangerous signal that a Republican senator of nearly three decades no [...]
“The Federal Reserve has been hobbled by at least two major shortcomings that were primarily responsible for the current and several previous credit crises. Its failure to spot the importance of changing financial markets and its commitment to laisser faire economics were big mistakes and justify a fundamental overhaul of the Fed.” – Henry Kaufman [...]
“It is near-extinct in many ways in the Northeast, it is extinct in many ways on the West Coast, and it is endangered in the Mountain West, increasingly endangered in the Southwest… and if you look at the state of the party, it is a shrinking entity.” – Former McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt on [...]
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