The week’s top ten quotes in American politics:
“Unicorns for everybody!” – The subject line of an e-mail sent from Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s office in reaction to Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal.
“People ask me if I’m running, I say I’m walking. I’m just taking it one step at a time.” – Sen. Rick Santorum, discussing whether or not he’d run for president in 2012.
“We’ve gone to 50th in education and number one in gonorrhea, and that’s the accomplishments of an all Republican government.” – Former South Carolina Democratic Party chairman Dick Harpootlian, articulating the motivation behind his decision to get back into politics.
“It’s great to be in a room full of young people. … The average age of the Senate, I think, is death.” – Rep. Aaron Schock, during a speech for National Arts Advocacy Day.
“The only thing I’m running for is the county line.” – Former Sen. Carte Goodwin, ruling just about everything out.
“My TV show still enjoys very low ratings.” – “30 Rock”‘s Tina Fey, explaining that her Sarah Palin impersonation did not improve the ratings of her NBC comedy show.
“Maybe this is God’s will that Obama not have a reasonable opponent out there. How’s that for an incendiary statement?” – MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, assessing the 2012 Republican field.
“Don’t tread on me was a motto at and rallying cry for our founding fathers. The new motto of Congress appears to be tread on me.” – Sen. Rand Paul, condemning President Barack Obama’s use of military force in Libya without authorization from Congress.
“How many folks are married here? When was the last time you just got your way? That’s not how it works.” – President Obama, comparing the budget compromise to family matters.
“It may be coming available.” – Fox News’s Megyn Kelly, joking with her colleague Bret Baier about Glenn Beck’s chalkboard, referring to the news that Beck would be transitioning away from his daily show.
Hi kstreet — What do you think about the budget kerfuffle? Does it seem to you that the Republicans don’t think that deficits are important?
The notion that the first thing on the agenda when trying to balance the budget is to lower revenue (taxes) seems ridiculous. Sure, cutting expenses is necessary but if revenue keeps going down, how will expense cutting ever be enough? It defies simple mathematics, perhaps it requires imaginary numbers.
Hey Glix…
In my opinion it’s never been about the budget for the Repubs. If that were the case, they’d start imposing an income tax on the rich, at least back to the Clinton era rate which was 39.6%…a far cry from the 95% of the 40s and 50′s.
For the GOP, in my opinion, it’s alwas been about appeasing their base. The Tea Party wants extreme draconian cuts and even the GOP leadership knows that would be unrealistic. So they play to their moderate GOP base and tout the idealistic issues as opposed to the Tea Part favored fiscal issues.
Glix, what no one in the GOP will ever mention is the theft of our national budget and deficit by bankers and traders on Wall Street. They are the ones who got us into this mess and they seem to be exempt from any blame whatsoever…from BOTH parties!
Greed is like crack – makes you feel good for a short time but kills you in the end.