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Senator Alan Simpson will Speak Today at G.H.B.'s Tribute
freerepublic.com ^ | 12/5/18 | self

Posted on 12/05/2018 8:39:13 AM PST by a little elbow grease

Alan Simpson will speak today at George H. Bush’s tribute. His speech will be likely heart felt and perhaps sometimes light-hearted.

Here are some of his funnier lines from the past.

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“I watch Republicans, they give each other the saliva test of purity, and then they lose and they bitch for four years.” — — On the need for a socially tolerant, big tent Republican Party, in a Feb. 2012 interview with CBS’s Bob Schieffer.

“[Social Security is] a milk cow with 310 million tits.” — in an August 2010 email, which he later apologized for. “If this had happened to anybody else in America, it would have been like a sparrow belch in a typhoon.” — Defending his friend, Vice President Dick Cheney in 2006, after Cheney shot a hunting companion in the face while hunting quail. Accused the White House press corps of doing a “sadistic little disservice to your country” for asking President Ronald Reagan questions about Iran in March 1987 for the sake of “sticking it in his bazoo… That’s a bunch of crap.”

“Telling the truth is the essence of leadership. If you have integrity, nothing else matters. And if you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters. It would be good when the vice president remembers that.” — Slamming Vice President Al Gore on the campaign trail, Oct. 2000

“We’ve got only one thing to say: ‘Klaatu barada nikto.’” — Simpson spokesman Charles Pelkey, using the alien phrase from “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” in a 1994 Associated Press story where they played along with a tabloid report that said Simpson was one of 12 U.S. senators who were space aliens.

“He’s a million rubber bands in his resilience” - On Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, in Feb. 1985.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Government; History; Humor
KEYWORDS: alansimpson; bush41; bush43; georgehwbush; georgewbush; ghb; tribute
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The greatest generation is passing on.

They were very funny at times, but nearly ALWAYS courageous.

Bless them ........

1 posted on 12/05/2018 8:39:13 AM PST by a little elbow grease
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To: a little elbow grease

Alan Simpson, of Simpson-Mazzoli, the 1986 amnesty that was supposed to have made another amnesty unnecessary, but in reality was written to make another amnesty inevitable as it was written to make it almost impossible to enforce.

The illegal alien inundation was intentional.

The Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA) was necessary to get to that New World Order.


2 posted on 12/05/2018 8:46:25 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Simpson is speaking next to speak.


3 posted on 12/05/2018 8:56:29 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: a little elbow grease

I assumed he was dead.


4 posted on 12/05/2018 8:58:40 AM PST by rdl6989
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To: a little elbow grease

Not watching.

I’m mourning for my country.

That these people destroyed.


5 posted on 12/05/2018 9:00:04 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: a little elbow grease

Supposedly, Simpson would have been the VP nominee had he not been such a big booster of abortion.


6 posted on 12/05/2018 9:06:15 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Why aren’t you lining up with the moonbats to move to Canada, or Sweden, or wherever?

I’m really tired of this “they’ve destroyed my country” crap. Have they thrown sand in the gears? Yep. But American remains the last best hope, and I wouldn’t pick it over any other place in the world. So buck up buttercup.


7 posted on 12/05/2018 9:38:08 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Seeing Trump next to the three previous and living perps of our demise reminded me of how delicate a balance we live in between our shores... and how out of control this country has become.. and who done it.


8 posted on 12/05/2018 9:44:02 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: bigdaddy45

Do you really believe we are going to build a wall and remove 30 million fraudulently documented foreigners?
That’s the only way we get to keep the rule of law and our country.

There is no where else to go.
America was the last best hope.
Our betters decided to make it into North Mexico.


9 posted on 12/05/2018 9:44:10 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: NormsRevenge

The last four Presidents have been disastrous for the country.
If we had elected Trump in 1988 we may have had a chance.


10 posted on 12/05/2018 10:18:01 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Not watching.

I’m mourning for my country. That these people destroyed.

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I understand. This sh*t is hard to watch. (Obama with his chin up in the air, Moochelle, Bill The Schlickmeister -- mouth breathing because his nose has been reconstructed a half dozen times, and The Park Ridge Hildabeast, trying to look like a human being. The hypocrisy is puke-worthy. (My wife has it on the tv at the other end of the room.)

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Zapata Oil, Zapata Off-Shore Company etc.?

11 posted on 12/05/2018 10:19:44 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: rdl6989
Not yet.

He was very funny.

12 posted on 12/05/2018 10:21:01 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: a little elbow grease

Glad its not just mean. The unbridled fellatio going on, even from Stuart Varney. He posited that 41 was the most successful one-term POTUS in history.

He’s a Brit, so of course Polk, who WALKED AWAY after one term, did more than almost all Presidents, ever.

Et tu Varney?

I went to work early rather than watch. Horrible.


13 posted on 12/05/2018 10:30:17 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: NormsRevenge
"Seeing Trump next to the three previous and living perps of our demise reminded me of how delicate a balance we live in between our shores... and how out of control this country has become.. and who done it."

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Well said.

By the way, I think I remember talking with you on threads about the horse Barbaro years ago ..... who shattered his leg in the 2006 Preakness Stakes. Were you interested in that story back then?

That was so awful.

14 posted on 12/05/2018 10:30:43 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: RinaseaofDs
I went to work early rather than watch. ---

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Wise move. I needed a puke bucket ....... Mooch, Zero, Billy Blow, and The Hildabeast were on the screen so often.

15 posted on 12/05/2018 10:33:56 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Yes. Simpson badgered President Reagan incessantly for years to get him to amnesty a bunch of illegals. He made promises out the wazoo and how it would be followed by border security and they would stanch the flow once and for all, and of course it was all BS.

Still don’t know who Simpson was shilling for.

16 posted on 12/05/2018 11:45:08 AM PST by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: RinaseaofDs
Yes and Calvin Coolidge was even more successful. Walked away after one term too, following death of his son.
17 posted on 12/05/2018 11:47:50 AM PST by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

The Cheap Labor Express.


18 posted on 12/05/2018 11:47:56 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: a little elbow grease

He once observed that Republicans are a party that likes to eat its own young - but I observed that he had a pretty voracious appetite for other Republicans himself.....


19 posted on 12/05/2018 2:18:50 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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"He once observed that Republicans are a party that likes to eat its own young......"

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Yes. The first Simpson quote of my thread is somewhat similar:

“I watch Republicans, they give each other the saliva test of purity, and then they lose and they bitch for four years.”

— — On the need for a socially tolerant, big tent Republican Party, in a Feb. 2012 interview.

20 posted on 12/05/2018 3:08:48 PM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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