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Three shark in attacks in Florida, million of sharks in the ocean, and no one will go in the water. Hundreds and thousands of children raped in churches and people still send their kids to church. It’s crazy. You should be sending your kids to gay bars. There they will be be safe.
It appears that the residents of the C Street house are the beneficiaries of subsidized housing.
— Nick Baumann, writing in Mother Jones about an ethics violation complaint filed against the members of The Family, a secretive Christian cult based in D.C., whose members include most of the Republicans in Congress caught cheating on their partners in the past 24 months. The complaint charges that Family members pay $950 per month, including housekeeping and some meals, to stay in the cult’s house, while nearby accommodations cost from $1,750 up, without meals.
Real American Stories features uplifting tales about overcoming adversity and we believe Mr. Smith’s interview fit that criteria. However, as it appears that Mr. Smith does not want to be associated with a program that could serve as an inspiration to others, we are cutting his interview from the special and wish him the best with his fledgling acting career.
— FOX News spokesdick showing just how spiteful the network can be when someone calls Sarah Palin to task for her now well-known untruthiness. LL Cool J, aka James Todd Smith, objected on Twitter that Palin was showing clips from a 2008 interview he gave to someone else in the promos for her new FOX reality show.
I want to express my appreciation to President Obama for picking up my book, getting it on the front page of The New York Times .
— Mitt Romney, in an interview with Politico, commenting on a photo taken of President Obama in an Iowa City book store.
These people could be anybody. I wouldn’t put it past the Democrats to plant somebody there. They’re trying to label the tea party, but I’ve never seen any racial slurs.
— Dale Robertson, self-proclaimed founder of the Tea Party, quoted by the Washington Times. The only problem? The Washington Independent caught Robertson at a Tea Party rally last month holding a sign with a racial slur.
My theory of why no one in politics likes to think about political science: because it renders them powerless. How do you do your job as a political consultant when the truth is that 90 percent of the success or failure of what you do will be determined by the unemployment rate? … The point is, we need to believe we’re in control. Political science tells everyone in politics the opposite: You’re not in control. The economy rules your fate — the rest is just pissing in the wind.
— Ryan Sager, author of “The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians, and the Battle to Control the Republican Party.”
The ace we have in our pocket is the Republican party. The Republicans have concluded that their success lies in our failure. The American people are smart. They smell a rat. They know there was nothing about trying to get a better bill.
— Vice President Joe Biden, quoted by Fox News, on the administration’s health care victory.
Perhaps they felt like they had killed health care reform … They thought the fight was over. And that the president couldn’t now succeed. I do believe that. And it is almost as if they had made the statement that they thought they had stopped the thing. And so it created a breathing space for us to regroup.
— White House adviser David Axelrod, quoted by the Huffington Post, on Republicans letting down their guard after winning the Massachusetts Senate special election in January.
I guess we’ll be considered smart again for at least another four weeks.
— President Obama, quoted by ABC News.
The art of taking money from the few and votes from the many under the pretext of protecting the one from the other.
— Sen. Matthew Quay (R-PA), giving his definition of politics, quoted in Realigning America: McKinley, Bryan, and the Remarkable Election of 1896, by R. Hal Williams. Quay was a powerful Republican party boss in Pennsylvania from 1887 until his death in 1904.
