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I think, frankly, the president should recess all of them … It should be done. What’s being done to this president is unfair.
— Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), quoted by Roll Call, calling for President Obama to follow through on his threat of making recess appointments for stalled nominees.
The only way I’m not going to be governor next year is at the ballot box, and the only way I’ll be leaving office before is in a box.
— New York Gov. David Paterson (D), quoted by CBS News, responding to rumors that he might resign.
The Supreme Court just basically said it’s O.K. for corporations to put as much money into the campaigns as they want, with no filters or restrictions whatsoever. And I know some people are like, “So. What’s the difference?” It’s a big fucking difference! And I think that the only way that can be O.K. is if they just full-on sponsor the campaign, and the candidate has to wear the patches on their jacket like NASCAR drivers. So you could actually see, like, “I don’t know if I like that guy…Pzifer…Daniel Archer Midland [sic]…I don’t know if I’m gonna vote for that guy. I’m gonna go for the Starbucks guy.”
Comedian Marc Maron, reacting to the recent Supreme Court decision
I think that it would be absurd to not consider what it is that I can potentially do to help our country.
— Sarah Palin, in an interview on Fox News Sunday, on whether she’ll consider running for president in 2012.
In the almost 17 years since the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ legislation was passed, attitudes and circumstances have changed. I fully support the new approach presented to the Senate Armed Services Committee this week by Secretary of Defense Gates and Admiral Mullen.
— Gen. Colin Powell, reversing his position on the issue of how the military treats gays and lesbians.
Women sometimes need a little more handholding, or they need their friends to help them make a decision. And by our going in and talking to them and recruiting and educating and training them to either get involved in a campaign or become acandidate, we’re giving them the tools so that they can do that on their own.
— RNC Co-Chair Jan Larimer, quoted by The Hotline, on the Republican party’s strategy to recruit more female candidates — and demonstrating that RNC Chair Michael Steele is not the only quotable bonehead at the head of the Republican Party.
Always the thought of my wife standing over me having unloaded a 15-round clip into me and asking, ‘Does somebody have more ammo?’
— Mike Huckabee, in an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, on what goes through his mind when women try to get his attention.
In 1994, nobody had any memory of Republicans in power. Now they do, and it wasn’t pretty. And so we have something to overcome that we really didn’t in 1994.
— Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), quoted by Politico, on his party’s chances of taking control of Congress.
“I’m not suggesting that we’re going to agree on everything, whether it’s on health care or energy or what have you, but if the way these issues are being presented by the Republicans is that this is some wild-eyed plot to impose huge government in every aspect of our lives, what happens is you guys then don’t have a lot of room to negotiate with me. You’ve given yourselves very little room to work in a bipartisan fashion because what you’ve been telling your constituents is, ‘This guy’s doing all kinds of crazy stuff that’s going to destroy America.'”
— Pres. Obama, speaking to the Republican House members at their retreat in Baltimore
Oh, you betcha I’m going to be there. I’m going to speak there because there are people traveling from many miles away to hear what that tea party movement is all about and what that message is that should be received by our politicians in Washington. I’m honored to get to be there.
— Sarah Palin, giving a preview of the kind of convoluted syntax we can expect from her address to the upcoming Tea Bag Party convention.
