Day: June 3, 2010

Verbatim

Trish

We already got one raghead in the White House, we don’t need a raghead in the governor’s mansion.

— South Carolina state Sen. Jake Knotts (R), explaining why he hopes Rep. Nikki Haley, whose family is Sikh but is herself now a Methodist, will lose the Republican governor’s primary on Tuesday.

If Sestak Offer Is Impeachable, GOP Should Also Retroactively Impeach Reagan over Hayakawa ‘Bribe’

Jon Ponder

Reagan, top, and Rollins
Reagan, top, and Rollins
Last week, all seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, including ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions — who will become chairman if Republicans take the Senate this year — signed a letter demanding that special prosecutor be assigned to investigate the Sestak offer.

Rep. Darrell Issa, the laughingstock California pol in line to assume chair of the House Oversight Committee if Republicans win control of the House in the fall, has repeatedly compared the Sestak offer to Watergate, which is to say impeachment.

Fox News is giving the Obama impeachment the same wall-to-wall coverage it gave to promoting the tea bagger mob rallies last summer — in part to divert attention from the Gulf oil disaster, which is a result of the policies of the Bush-Cheney administration and the Republican Party, which the network serves:

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On Gulf, Tea Baggers Demand More Spending, Environmental Protections And Even ‘Commandeering’ Private Property

Jon Ponder

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OLBERMANN: How the oil spill has turned hard-core, right-wing Republicans into socialist, soft-on-crime, anti-military, pro-environmentalist, pro-regulation, anti-small business, pro-big government, pro-big spending party.

Verbatim

Buck Banks

Well I didn’t know she has big biceps like me. But you know I don’t pay any attention. This is just politics … You know I laugh at all those things.

— California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), in a forthcoming Fox & Friends interview, responding to a Steve Poizner (R) attack ad which seeks to compare Meg Whitman (R) to the muscle-bound Austrian.