This Week In Quotes: 10/22 – 10/28

by John Hawkins | October 29, 2010 9:20 am

It is not enough for the insecure left to deem a position wrong; if it’s merely wrong, it needs to be argued about, and it can’t survive that. It must instead be morally aborrent, so that the zealot reacts to the toxin of questioning much like a jogger coming across a decomposing body on the side of the road — it must be internalized that the correct response to such a horror is to retch, and faint, and call the authorities post-haste.

This is how the leftist faith protects itself from the infection of doubt. (Meanwhile, of course, patting itself on the back for being so open-minded…) — Ace[1]

Joy, Raised $150,000 online yesterday. Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Sharron Angle. — Sharon Angle[2]

Those flowers were picked by illegal immigrants. And they’re not voting for you, b*tch. — Joy Behar[3] on Sharon Angle

Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive. — Joe Biden[4]

Even if you are under the misimpression that Boxer’s Republican opponent, Carly Fiorina, is somehow going to outlaw abortion in California, Carly will cut your taxes so much that you’d be able to fly to Sweden for all your abortions and still come out ahead! — Ann Coulter[5]

I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are very similar. We have some of the same, you know, backwards thinking in the kind of rural Western areas you see in, you know, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico. — John Hickenlooper[6]

Sometimes you have to remind people that, `Hey, Jesus Christ couldn’t do anything more than President Obama has on the agenda we supported two years ago without the United States Senate having the votes for cloture to overcome a filibuster. — Herb Johnson, secretary-treasurer of the Missouri AFL-CIO[7]

And there is nothing simpler than the Gallup findings on the ideological inclinations of the American people. Conservative: 42 percent. Moderate: 35 percent. Liberal: 20 percent. No fanciful new syndromes or other elaborate fictions are required to understand that if you try to impose a liberal agenda on such a demonstrably center-right country — a country that is 80 percent non-liberal — you get a massive backlash. — Charles Krauthammer[8]

The peasants have seen the future — Greece and France — and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to Obama’s proudly transformational New Foundation agenda. Their logic is impeccable: Only the most blinkered intellectual could be attempting to introduce social democracy to America precisely when the world’s foremost exemplar of that model — Europe — is in chaotic meltdown. — Charles Krauthammer[8]

The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president. — Mitch McConnell[9]

What [Republicans] do is find candidates, usually stealth candidates, that haven’t been in office, haven’t served or performed in any kind of public service. My opponent is typical, frankly. — Jim Moran[10] on his opponent, Col. Patrick Murray (US Army-Ret.), who served 24 years in uniform

That somehow or other these are unconstitutional because they’re not enumerated within the powers of the constitution, that somehow or other we should just be eliminating these, I think that is out of the mainstream. — Lisa Murkowski[11]

The tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had become, a party that didn’t remember anymore why it existed, or what its historical purpose was. The tea party, with its energy and earnestness, restored the GOP to itself. — Peggy Noonan[12]

(The Washington) establishment, composed largely of 50- to 75-year-olds who came to Washington during the Reagan era in a great rush of idealism, in many cases stayed on, as they say, not to do good but to do well. — Peggy Noonan[12]

I know and respect some of the establishmentarians, but after dinner, on the third glass of wine, when they get misty-eyed about Reagan and the old days, they are not, I think, weeping for him and what he did but for themselves and who they were. Back when they were new and believed in something. — Peggy Noonan[12]

It is significant that this year (Barney) Frank is in the race of his life, and this week on TV he did not portray the finger-drumming smugness and impatience with your foolishness he usually displays on talk shows. He looked pale and mildly concussed, like someone who just found out that liberals die, too. — Peggy Noonan[12]

If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,’ if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s gonna be harder and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2. — Barack Obama[13]

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back. — Barack Obama[14]

WHAT’S WRONG WITH “THE NEW ELITE?” Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the “new elite” is that they’re not an elite at all. That is, they aren’t particularly smart, or competent. — Glenn Reynolds[15]

Between 1921 and 1929, tax rates in the top brackets were cut from 73 percent to 24 percent. In other words, these were what the left likes to call “tax cuts for the rich.” What happened to federal revenues from income taxes over this same span of time? Income tax revenues rose by more than 30 percent. What happened to the economy? Jobs increased, output rose, the unemployment rate fell and incomes rose. Because economic activity increased, the government received more income tax revenues. In short, these were tax cuts for the economy, even if the left likes to call them “tax cuts for the rich.” — Thomas Sowell[16]

I did not vote for Obama. I voted for Sen. McCain. Better the devil you know. — Gene Taylor (D-Miss.)[17]

Endnotes:
  1. Ace: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/307248.php
  2. Sharon Angle: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/27/more-behar-on-sharron-angle-i-cant-believe-this-bitch-sent-me-flowers/
  3. Joy Behar: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/27/more-behar-on-sharron-angle-i-cant-believe-this-bitch-sent-me-flowers/
  4. Joe Biden: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/10/vpotus-joe-biden-dems-will-kee.html
  5. Ann Coulter: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39614
  6. John Hickenlooper: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/22/video-hickenlooper-accuses-rural-coloradans-of-backward-thinking/
  7. Herb Johnson, secretary-treasurer of the Missouri AFL-CIO: http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2010/oct/24/afl-cio-official-jesus-couldnt-do-anything-more-ob/
  8. Charles Krauthammer: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/21/AR2010102104856.html
  9. Mitch McConnell: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/25/mcconnell-obama-one-term/
  10. Jim Moran: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/rep-moran-serving-in-the-military-isnt-public-service-105460193.html
  11. Lisa Murkowski: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/10/27/murkowski_thinking_something_is_unconstitutional_because_its_not_in_the_constitution_is_not_mainstream.html
  12. Peggy Noonan: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304023804575566503565327356.html
  13. Barack Obama: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/25/obamas-turnout-pitch-to-latinos-get-out-there-and-punish-your-enemies/
  14. Barack Obama: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101025/ap_on_el_pr/us_obama
  15. Glenn Reynolds: http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/108525/
  16. Thomas Sowell: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/26/brass_oldies_107724.html
  17. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.): http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/10/mississippi-dem-dont-blame-me.html?wprss=44

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