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This is a big f*cking deal.
— Vice President Joe Biden, congratulating President Obama at the health care reform signing ceremony. Later, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs tweeted, “And yes, Mr. Vice President, you’re right …”
America has just witnessed an unconscionable abuse of power. President Obama has betrayed his oath to the nation — rather than bringing us together, ushering in a new kind of politics, and rising above raw partisanship, he has succumbed to the lowest denominator of incumbent power: justifying the means by extolling the ends.
— Mitt Romney, writing for the National Review and his handful of political supporters.
We’ll challenge it every place we can … We’ll fight everywhere.
— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), in an interview on ABC News, on the landmark health care bill enacted last night.
Bye-bye, Rush!
– My friend Carolyn’s Facebook post, within minutes of passage of the Health Care Reform bill. She and her friend June also offered to drive Limbaugh to the airport.
A few miles from here, Congress is in the final stages of a fateful debate about the future of health insurance in America. It’s a debate that’s raged not just for the past year but for the past century. One thing when you’re in the White House, you’ve got a lot of history books around you. And so I’ve been reading up on the history here. Teddy Roosevelt, Republican, was the first to advocate that everybody get health care in this country. Every decade since, we’ve had Presidents, Republicans and Democrats, from Harry Truman to Richard Nixon to JFK to Lyndon Johnson to — every single President has said we need to fix this system. It’s a debate that’s not only about the cost of health care, not just about what we’re doing about folks who aren’t getting a fair shake from their insurance companies. It’s a debate about the character of our country — about whether we can still meet the challenges of our time; whether we still have the guts and the courage to give every citizen, not just some, the chance to reach their dreams.
If I have to talk to him, I’ll talk to him. At the end of the day, when we take a vote, he’s not going to be out there supporting me and running my elections. It’s going to be up to me to run my election.
– Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Tx), proving that morons who are only concerned with staying in office for the sake of staying in office aren’t confined to just one party.
If I had any authority at Fox News right now, Glenn Beck would be seeking economic justice.
— Pastor Marty Duren of the Southern Baptist Convention, challenging Beck’s call for Christians to leave churches that support social and economic justice.
For me, I had an audience of one. That was my dad. He’s the only person whose opinion mattered to me.
— Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), in an interview with the Washington Post, about seeking a ‘fuller life’ by retiring from Congress.
I think that there is a real shot we are going to get slaughtered in elections this fall if we aren’t leading the efforts to reform Washington. We campaigned in ’06 and ’08, and if voters don’t see that
change, we haven’t lived up to that promise.
— Steve Hildebrand, deputy campaign manager for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, in an interview on CNN.
It’s hard for us to understand, if I can put it that way.
— United Kingdom conservative party leader David Cameron, quoted by Vanity Fair, on Sarah Palin’s popularity.
