Posted on 08/31/2009 8:18:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
1. I dont want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them just to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I dont mind cleaning up after them, but dont do a lot of talking. -- President Obama at an August 6 at a rally in Virginia
2. Theyre carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care. -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an August 5 interview
3. What good is reading the bill if its a thousand pages and you dont have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill? -- Rep. John Conyers (Mich.) at the National Press Club, July 24
4. These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views -- but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American. -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (Md.), writing in USA Today, August 10
5. The last time I had to confront something like this was when I voted for the civil rights bill and my opponent voted against it. At that time, we had a lot of Ku Klux Klan folks and white supremacists and folks in white sheets and other things running around causing trouble. -- Rep. John Dingell (Mich.), on MSNBC
6. What were seeing right now is close to Brown Shirt tactics. -- Rep. Brian Baird, (Wash.) told a local newspaper
7. The last time I saw well-dressed people doing this, was when Al Gore asked me to go down to Florida when they were recounting the ballots, and I was confronted with the same type of people. -- Sen. Barbara Boxer (Calif.)
8. I hope people will take a jaundiced eye to what is clearly the Astroturf nature of so-called grassroots lobbying ... The Astroturf nature of grassroots lobbying, which is largely the term for, you know, this is manufactured anger. -- White House spokesman Robert Gibbs
9. Republicans and their allied groups -- desperate after losing two consecutive elections and every major policy fight on Capitol Hill -- are inciting angry mobs of a small number of rabid right-wing extremists funded by K Street lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of healthcare in America taking place in congressional districts across the country. -- Democratic National Committee communications director Brad Woodhouse
10 (tie). These are nothing more than destructive efforts to interrupt a debate that we should have, and are having. They are doing this because they dont have any better ideas Its really simple: Theyre taking their cues from talk-show hosts, Internet rumor-mongerers and insurance rackets. -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.)
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. -- Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), responding to a town hall participant
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Brian Baird is 6th, but look who the first five are...
Here’s a question for ya: Are we looking at a “Brian Baird” problem, or are we looking at a “Brian Baird Staff” problem??
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Yea, he’s in “good” company alright.
I don’t know that I could hang any of this on his staffers. This looks like it’s all him. If it had been a single stupid comment or gaffe that would be one thing, but he is proving to be as imbecilic as Plugs Biden.
Equal parts ignorance and arrogance...
11. “I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I’m doing is going to help them.”
- Eric Massa, D-NY
Kamikaze politicians (particularly ones who don’t know or care that what they are saying is self-contradictory) are dangerous.
I’ll wager Mazza would like to retract that insipid statement ;-)
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