Friday Quotes: Open Line Friday
March 5, 2010
"All of this talk of reconciliation is just another head feint.
Once the House passes the Senate bill we've got Obamacare."
"The White House is out there saying how good the unemployment number woulda been without the snowstorm.
What I would say is, how good would it be without fear of tax increases, cap and tax, Obamacare."
"The Obama administration at a lot of levels, over at the Pentagon, in the White House,
they view their mission as to manage an America in decline."
"There is not going to be reconciliation.
This is Sauron getting the ring and then letting Gollum have it for a couple minutes so he'd get it back."
"Everything coming out of the Senate is a distraction intended to keep your eye off where the real action is.
The action is the head count in the House."
"The cost of doing business in the United States today, as you know, is very high.
There's no economic growth. People are being laid off. People are not being hired.
The growth is occurring in the public sector."
"This is a guy Obama wants on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a guy who thinks the chief justice
of the United States is too radical because he believes in private property rights and free enterprise.
If Obama picked this guy, that's what Obama thinks, too."
"Reconciliation is not the endgame here.
The House passing the Senate bill is the endgame."
"I'll tell you when it's too late. I'd be in New Zealand if it was too late.
I'll tell you when we reach the tipping point.
We're nowhere near it. We're still the United States of America.
A majority of American people have clearly expressed they don't want a shred of what's happening here, and we will stop it."
"The American people still, in the end, get what they want.
This is not what they thought they were getting.
They have been scammed totally.
They thought they were getting something postpartisan, postbickering, postracial."
"Whatever people's expectations were that voted for Obama have not anywhere near been met."
"We're at a time now where it's a delicate balance because to define honestly the circumstances we face and
be optimistic about it is a tough challenge 'cause I'm not optimistic about where we are, I don't like where we are.
The optimism is that we can stop it because we have.
But it's never going to stop coming at us."
"Liberalism has been on the march for centuries.
It's just never gotten this close to power in this country before."
"America is the people. The people are who make this country work, and the people are hurting."
"They're stimulating nothing but themselves, the Democrat Party and their belief in expansionist government.
They're not stimulating anything in the economy. And they know it."
"Did Obama turn himself in?
He's sitting there being interviewed by John Walsh on America's most wanted.
Oh, please let it be so. Did he turn himself in?"
"The so-called benefits from Obamacare don't happen for four years,
but the taxes and all the expenses are gonna kick in immediately to everybody --
you and me and to businesses."
"Bart Stupak is supposedly willing to hold up Obamacare because he's so committed his heart and soul to stopping abortion.
Yet the number one way to stop abortion is defund Planned Parenthood, but he voted against doing that."
"When a business sees where a government is taking the country,
and if they don't think they can stop it, they want to be on the right side of it,
because they're dealing with the Mafia, a Mafia with unlimited resources."
"We're dealing with Democrats here.
What they want is for us to give up.
They want us to give in.
Their relentless pursuit here is designed to dispirit us."
"The health bill is like the Terminator.
It starts out looking like one thing, and then it's exposed for what it really is --
and every time you kill it, every way you kill it, it keeps coming back in a new form."
"I know it's difficult to hear this. It's difficult to say it.
We, for the first time in our history as a nation, are a nation in decline --
and this administration is there to manage it, not stop it, because they think we deserve to be in decline."
"Rahm Emanuel's brother Ezekiel: 'Heavier People Bad for the Economy.'
So, Zeke, what do we do with them then?"
"If they get health care, they regulate every aspect of your life based on the costs of the government."
"Who said, 'The lingering global financial crisis has exposed the dark side of the capitalist
economic system in the West,' adding that 'the US will go down in history as the biggest thief ever'?
Was it Barack Obama or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
Normally they are on the same page."
"We're not gonna bend the cost curve down.
Obama is going to own the doctors and hospitals.
The government is going to be in charge of telling everybody involved here what they can get,
when they're going to be treated, who they're going to treat, how much they're going to treat them."
"Snerdley's gotta listen to the opening monologue to kind of know what I'm talking
about so he doesn't put somebody up there who's going to say what I just said.
'Cause if that happens all hell breaks loose in here."
Continually repeat ...
It's not about me.
I'm the President.
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