Category: Verbatim

The Lloyd’s Prayer

Our Chairman, Who art at Goldman, Blankfein be Thy name. The Rally’s come. God’s work be done on Earth, as there’s no fear of Correction. Give us this day our daily gains, and bankrupt our Competitors as You taught Lehman and Bear their lessons. And bring us not under Indictment. For Thine is the Treasury, the House and the Senate, forever and ever. Goldman.

— From an e-mail that was circulated around Wall Street this morning.

So, we’ve decided that we are going to trade our Lieberman for their Lieberman.

— President Obama, quoted by Politico, after his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Palin supporters have constructed an alternative reality in which their heroine is wildly cheered by the American yeomanry, and despised only by a small coterie of sherry-drinking snobs. No contrary evidence, no matter how overwhelming and uncontradicted, can alter this view: not the collapse in Palin’s support in just 5 weeks in 2008, not the statistical studies that show her as the only vice presidential nominee in ticket to have hurt her ticket, not her rampant unpopularity with American women, not her own flinching from a second encounter with the Alaskan electorate.

— David Frum on the Frum Forum blog.

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We’ve got to hold on to hope, and we’ve got to fight hard because Congressional action tonight just put America on a path toward an unrecognizable country.

— Sarah Palin, on her Facebook page.

“He certainly talked about the politics and he said that the Republicans want us to fail and no one should feel if they as a Democrat helped us to fail that they would be [free of their attacks],” said Rep. Henry Waxman. “None of you can expect the Republicans not to go after you if you vote against this bill,” Waxman continued, channeling the president. “They want this bill to go down for their own partisan reasons.”

In response to the RNC’s 12-hour online town hall to “explain the Democratic health care bill,” DNC Press Secretary Hari Sevugan issued
the following statement: “We’re planning a 12-second town hall to explain every last detail of the GOP health care plan.”

I can tell you right now, if we don’t pass this bill, I don’t care who you are. if you have a D behind your name and this bill has not been passed, you are in tremendous peril next year.

— House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC), talking with Politico about the health care reform bill.

We’ll come after you.

— RNC Chairman Michael Steele, in an interview on Top Line, warning Republicans who support President Obama on economic stimulus or health care.

Sarah Palin thinks the answer to energy is ‘Drill, baby, drill.’ It’s a lot more complicated, Sarah.

— Vice President Joe Biden, quoted by ABC News, campaigning in New York’s 23rd congressional district.

I think we should thank John McCain for picking her, in terms of how it helped us win in 2008.

— Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, on Sarah Palin in an interview on Meet the Press.

And one of the things we will do when we’re one nation is to end the moral outrage of 44 million people without health insurance in the richest country in the world, 9 million children whose parents can’t take them to the doctor when they get sick ’cause they can’t pay the bill. I’m gonna do that, and also help the millions who have insurance that can’t pay it, by creating national health insurance pools like the ones members of Congress get our insurance from.

— Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), during his run for president in 2004 — as a Democrat — when he supported a public option as part of any health care reform effort, TPM reports.