 This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock—I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut-butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.
John "Cliff Claven" Ratzenberger
Cliff Claven for Scott Brown
We must move forward, not backwards, upwards, not forwards, and always twirling, twirling, TWIRLING towards freedom!
Kodos
Impersonating candidate Bill Clinton in Citizen Kang Simpson's Treehouse of Horror VII
Today I voted... And I liked it. As much as I dislike being in MA - at this moment, in this time, I am glad I am here and I was able to vote in this election. For a tiny fraction of an instant, I felt like it might finally make a difference. From the time I knew what he was about - the kind of person Ted Kennedy was, I never though he deserved the privilege of serving the people. I have said it before, and will say it again - I have always felt that people are too willing to rationalize feeling good about voting for that man by constantly reminding us about all the "good" he has done - as if 1) doing the work for the people that put him there in the first place was somehow amazing or heroic and 2) that all that "good" can somehow erase all the bad that he is/was. He left someone to drown, and abused this position of privilege in life to get away with it. For me, today, I cannot deny, was a little bit of putting a stick in Kennedy's eye. I would like to be above that, but I am not. It is icing on the cake that not only could a Republican take this liberal lion (should be something lower than a snake, a snake is too dignified) but that Brown could also be the one to derail the very healtcare bill that Kennedy was fighting for. Of course now I have a new case of TV and news rage - hearing about all the new shennanigans to not seat Brown if he wins, and seek to approve the bill without a vote... I asked my husband last night - where is the outrage?
a Massachusetts Voter
an email from an average person
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
Archilochus
The Hedgehog and the Fox
The French have big problems. They had to do away with all vending machines in their school systems because of obesity. No more snack cakes, no more candy, no more soda. It's all part of the French master plan to raise healthier cowards. Nice to know the French are finally taking a stand against somebody and it's Little Debbie. You're not going to see that pig-tailed vixen coming through the Arc de Triomphe on top of a Panzer.
Dennis Miller
The O'Reilly Factor 1/20/10
The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood.
Thomas Paine
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&ref=nf&gid=264168131106#/group.php?v=info&ref=nf&gid=264168131106
Our rights supersede national boundaries...Rights supersede nations.
Michael F Dickey
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/ArticleDiscussions/2037_3.shtml#77
One thing I regret this year is that we were so busy just getting stuff done . . . that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people. . . . I think the assumption was, if I just focus on policy, if I just focus on the, you know, this provision, or that law, or are we making a good, rational decision here, that people will get it
Barack Hussein Obama
After giving 158 interviews and 411 speeches in his first year.
This is an amazing week. Massachusetts goes Republican, "healthcare" dies, and the Supreme Court unshackles the First Amendment. It's the best week I've had since spring break in medical school, and I don't even remember it.
Charles Krauthammer
This Week with Bret Baier, Jan 22, 2010
I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.
Barack Hussein Obama
So who the hell is stopping you,?
There is a simple way to get corporate money out of politics: get the government out of our lives and economic affairs. If government has no favors to sell, no one will spend money trying to win them.
John Stossel
http://www.theatlasphere.com/columns/100126-stossel-free-speech.php
Shockingly, half of all Americans have IQs below the median. But intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom or sense. Very intelligent people have been known to advance very compelling arguments on behalf of very bad ideas.
James Taranto
Barack Obama, the Angry Left and the politics of intellectual contempt.
Briefly, a metaphor is an affair between a predicate with a past and an object that yields while protesting.
Nelson Goodman
Languages of Art; in Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor
I love wealthy people. They've always kept me employed, dry, warm, fed, safe, even entertained. The arrangement is mutually beneficial. My life is pretty much all about me. Who is your life about? Is there a "you" in there, or do you live for everyone else but you?
Teresa Summerlee Isanhart
The Scourge of Public Libraries
At its essential level, a political party is an extra-governmental conspiracy to control the government.
Jay Cost
Could Nancy Pelosi Lose Control of the House? RealClearPolitics HorseRaceBlog
Functioning societies depend on agreed rules. If you want to open a business, you do it in Singapore or Ireland, because the rules are known to all parties. You don't go to Sudan or Zimbabwe, where the rules are whatever the state's whims happen to be that morning.
Mark Steyn
In Obama's America you'll all work for the government
Obama . . . has apparently confused what people say with what nations do.
Victor Davis Hanson
America Rides Off Into the Sunset
Today's tax system was shaped by sadists who were trying to be nice.
George Will
Charting Our Way to Solvency
The palpable whiff given off by the White House inner circle is that they're the last people on the planet still besotted by Barack Obama, and that they're having such a cool time starring in their own reality-show remake of "The West Wing," they can only conceive of the public — and indeed the world — as crowd-scene extras in "The Barack Obama Show."
Mark Steyn
If 'Unsustainable' Is New Normal, Collapse Is Closer Than We Think
Obama's NASA budget perfectly captures the difference in spirit between Kennedy's liberalism and Obama's. Kennedy's was an expansive, bold, outward-looking summons. Obama's is a constricted inward-looking call to retreat. Fifty years ago, Kennedy opened the New Frontier. Obama has just shut it.
Charles Krauthammer
Closing the New Frontier
The difference between America and Europe is that, when the global economy nosedived, everywhere from Iceland to Bulgaria mobs took to the streets and besieged Parliament, demanding to know why government didn't do more for them. This is the only country in the developed world where a mass movement took to the streets to say we can do just fine if you control-freak statists would just stay the hell out of our lives, and our pockets.
Mark Steyn
Getting our groupthink on
Altruism does not tell you to abstain from pursuing values. It tells you to pursue values in order to sacrifice them.
Nathaniel Branden
The Vision of Ayn Rand
Slavery is another matter - the most vicious habit humans fall into and the hardest to break... After a culture falls ill of it, it gets rooted in the economic system and laws, in men's habits and attitudes. You abolish it; you drive it underground - there it lurks, ready to spring up again, in the minds of people who think it is their 'natural' right to own other people. You can't reason with them; you can kill them but you can't change their minds.
Robert A. Heinlein
Citizen of the Galaxy
When somebody who has never owned a slave apologizes for slavery to somebody who has never been a slave, then what began as mushy thinking has degenerated into theatrical absurdity-- or, worse yet, politics.
Thomas Sowell
Too many apologies
In town halls and tea parties across the nation, Obama lost the argument with Americans. So now he wants a debating partner who will be less challenging: elected Republicans.
Ann Coulter
What Part of "Party of No" Don't You Understand?
"[Bypassing the filibuster via reconciliation] would change the character of the Senate forever ... you would essentially have still two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply majoritarian, absolute power on either side, and that's just not what the Founders intended."
Barack Hussein Obama
Investors.com via RealClearPolitics.com about an Obama quote from 4-25-2005
What's happening in the developed world today isn't so very hard to understand: The 20th century Bismarckian welfare state has run out of people to stick it to. In America, the feckless insatiable boobs in Washington, Sacramento, Albany and elsewhere are screwing over our kids and grandkids. In Europe, they've reached the next stage in social democratic evolution: There are no kids or grandkids to screw over.
Mark Steyn
face down in the ouzo
We were told that when we had a president, we'd see a giant global political figure - the man that would be the political leader for 500 million people. The man that would represent all of us on the world stage. The man whose job was so important that of course you're paid more than President Obama. Well, I'm afraid what we've got was you. And I'm sorry, but after that performance, earlier, that you gave - and I don't want to be rude - but, you know, really, you have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk. And the question that I want to ask . . . the question that I want to ask is: Who are you? I'd never heard of you; nobody in Europe has ever heard of you. I would like to ask you, president, who voted for you? And what mechanism? Oh, I know democracy is not popular with you lot . . . and what mechanism do the peoples of Europe have to remove you? Is this European democracy? Well, I sense though that you're competent and capable and dangerous, and I have no doubt that it's your intention to be the quiet assassin of European democracy and of the European nation states. You appear to have a loathing for the very concept of the existence of nation states - perhaps that's because you come from Belgium, which of course is pretty much a non-country. But since you took over, we've seen Greece reduced to nothing more than a protectorate - Sir, you have no legitimacy in this job, at all, and I can say with confidence, that I can speak on behalf of the majority of the British people in saying: We don't know you, we don't want you, and the sooner you're put out to grass, the better
Nigel Farage
British Member of European Parliament tells off the European President
Government health care is not about health care, it's about government. Once you look at it that way, what the Dems are doing makes perfect sense. For them.
Mark Steyn
Obamacare worth the price to Democrats
There is no first strike in karate.
Master Shoshin Nagamine
The Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do
At the end of the day a traditional Muslim is doing the will of a fanatic, fundamentalist, terrorist God.
Mosab Hassan Yousef
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703915204575103481069258868.html
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it's free.
P. J. O'Rourke
Scrap the Health-Care Bill!
The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
Oscar Wilde
The whole point about homosexuality is that it was supposed to be wilder and crazier, and instead the leftist politicized gays have made homosexuality totally boring. . . . If Oscar Wilde and Cole Porter came back today they'd be straight.
Mark Steyn
ricochet.com
There is a perfect likeness between Christian and anarchist: their object, their instinct, points only toward destruction.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche and the Nazis
Nancy Pelosi wants the House to say the Senate bill is 'deemed passed,' so they can pass the bill without voting on it. Can the American people then say that Obama, Biden, Pelosi, and Reid are 'deemed impeached'?
Ron Chandler
from TIA Daily quoted in Pamela Gellar's Atlas Shrugs blog
The Fedopus has far more than eight tentacles.
Victor Davis Hanson
We’ve Crossed the Rubicon
What happened to Canada? How did the country that gave us Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Martin Short, Dan Aykroyd and Catherine O'Hara suddenly become a bunch of whining crybabies?
Ann Coulter
Oh, Canada!
Here's the thing about monogamy. It only works if you cheat.
Denny Crane
Boston Legal Beauty and the Beast
Enjoy your life to the fullest, if only to spite them
Steve Wolfer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/Jokes/0408.shtml#16
If we can not solve all problems in Universe, hell with it, let's get drunk - that's the Russian way. Let's do whatever we can, as much as we can - that's American way. Compare the results - America still wins.
Maria Feht
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/2788.shtml#19
We honored the vows of our founders who in the Declaration of Independence talked about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We believe the legislation that we have gives all people in our country the liberty to have healthier lives.
Nancy Pelosi
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/health/policy/23health.html?src=me
A few weeks ago, The New York Times ran an editorial noting the amazing fact that, by the middle of this year, there will be an estimated 6.8 billion people on Earth -- and 5 billion will have cell phones! (Even more astounding, at least one of them is seated directly behind me every time I go to the movies.) How did that happen without a Democrat president and Congress using bribes, parliamentary tricks and arcane non-voting maneuvers to pass a massive, hugely expensive National Cell Phone Reform Act?
Ann Coulter
Prescription For Disaster Now Covered Under Obamacare
Most people can't think quantitatively to save their skins.
Dr. Peter Zimmerman, Physicist
Hydrino Study Group Discussion of the "Dinner Party Problem"
If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty to principles, any profound conviction, any consistency, any steadfastness, any passion, any dedication to an unbreached, inviolate truth -- any man of integrity.
Ayn Rand
." -- Ayn Rand in " 'Extremism' or The Art of Smearing", Chapter 17 of Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.
If you're one of those who have spent their lives undermining progressive climate legislation, bankrolling junk science, fueling spurious debates around false solutions, and cattle-prodding democratically-elected governments into submission, then hear this: We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work. And we be many, but you be few.
GREENPEACE Climate Rescue Weblog
http://weblog.greenpeace.org/climate/2010/04/will_the_real_climategate_plea_1.html
The moonbat motto is: Do as I say, not as I do. Consider the charitable deductions (or lack thereof) of the most sanctimonious liberal politicians: Obama, Biden, Kerry. They throw around quarters - their own, anyway - like they were manhole covers. But they would gladly give you the shirt off somebody else’s back.
Howie Carr
Moonbats wing it when it comes to paying more taxes
There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.
Ayn Rand
—of the self-educated youth Stretch Wynand
My view is simply this when it comes to the blessing of same sex unions; as someone who has been having the same sex for the last 15 years, the last thing I want to see the church doing about it is blessing it.
John McKillop
The Gay Fast Lane
Our tax system is fairly complex. And complexity is what makes it work. If Jane Taxpayer figures out she spends more than three months of her year working for Joe Biden, well, she might be annoyed. Fact is she should feel blessed. As our vice president once posited, paying taxes is patriotic. So it's worrisome that fewer and fewer Americans are asked to participate in the ethical work of paying off General Motors' $4.3 billion second-half losses or subsidizing wind farms in Montana.
David Harsanyi
Glory to the Taxpayer
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