- Republican Party boss Grover Norquist in 2001: “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”
- Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell in 2010: “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”
- Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein on June 30: “So when the GOP’s economic policy team sat down to make the strongest case they could for growth-inducing deficit reduction, they recommended a mix an 85:15 mix, not a 100:0 mix. And then, when the Obama administration agreed to an 83:17 mix, the Republican leadership walked out of the room and demanded that taxes be excluded from the deal altogether. How do you negotiate with that?”
- Right-wing cheerleaders Neil Cavuto and John Stoessel on Fox Business News last week: “I would welcome a downgrade, Cavuto said,”I really would. I think it would be the pain from which we have a gain.” Stoessel agreed, “Maybe that would wake people up.”
- Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. last weekend: “It’s a thought you just don’t want to believe in, because that would be [horrible] … But every day they keep giving us more and more evidence that there’s no choice but to answer the question ‘yes.’ They give us no choice but to come to [the conclusion that Republicans are deliberately sabotaging the economy].”
- Republican New York Times columnist David Brooks in July: “If responsible Republicans don’t take control, independents will conclude that Republican fanaticism caused this default. They will conclude that Republicans are not fit to govern. And they will be right.”
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Stossel is a great classic liberal, the better of the liberals