Day: February 18, 2011

Justin Bieber Is Smarter Than a Republican

Jon Ponder

You guys are evil. Canada’s the best country in the world. We go to the doctor and we don’t need to worry about paying him, but here, your whole life, you’re broke because of medical bills. My bodyguard’s baby was premature, and now he has to pay for it. In Canada, if your baby’s premature, he stays in the hospital as long as he needs to, and then you go home.

–Canadian pop star Justin Bieber16, proving he is smarter than America’s Republicans.

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Buck Banks

It’s distracting. It gets annoying. Let’s stick with what really matters.

— Polebrity Sarah Palin, echoing Karl Rove’s advice and saying it is unwise for Republicans to keep doubts alive about the authenticity of President Obama’s birth certificate and his citizenship, the New York Times reports.

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Trish

This is like holding a gun to our heads and telling the federal government, “Don’t give us this money or we’ll blow our brains out.”

— Florida State Sen. David Simmons (R-Orange County), on the precipitous decision by Gov. Rick Scott to refuse $2.4 billion in federal assistance for a high-speed rail line in Central Florida. Local and national office holders from both parties worked for years to bring in the bullet train, but the tea party rejects infrastructure spending. Scott, who has appeared on FOX News four times since taking office last month, is widely acknowledged to be using every issue in Florida to position himself against Obama for a tea party run for president in 2012.