This Week In Quotes: 3/20 – 3/26

by John Hawkins | March 27, 2015 4:02 am

The last time a poll found Obamacare to be popular was during Obama’s first term. During his second term (now mercifully more than halfway over), Real Clear Politics has listed 178 polls on Obamacare. All 178 have found it to be unpopular. In addition, the Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — a left-leaning outlier that RCP doesn’t even list and which (contrary to essentially every other poll) actually claimed Obamacare was popular at the time of its passage — has released 22 polls on Obamacare during Obama’s second term. All 22 have found it to be unpopular. So, in all, Obamacare has gone 0-200 during Obama’s second term, far worse than the cumulative 0-124 record of #16 seeds in the NCAA Basketball Tournament.

…Still, the ongoing public opposition to Obamacare is really quite striking. Imagine if 200 straight polls had found Obamacare to be popular. In that scenario, do you think the cause of repeal would continue to be taken seriously? Why, then, in the face of 200 straight polls finding Obamacare to be unpopular, is its repeal not viewed to be nearly inevitable? — Jeffrey Andersen[1]

Cultural jihad is winning when the Department of Defense describes a terrorist attack at Fort Hood as “workplace violence.” Cultural jihad is winning when the president refers to “random” killings in Paris when they were clearly the actions of Islamist terrorists and targeted against specific groups. Cultural jihad is winning when the administration censors training documents and lecturers according to “sensitivity” so that they cannot describe radical Islamists with any reference to the religious ideology which is the primary bond that unites them. In the 14 years since the 9/11 attacks, we have gone a long way down the road of intellectually and morally disarming in order to appease the cultural jihadists, who are increasingly aggressive in asserting their right to define how the rest of us think and talk. — Newt Gingrich[2]

There’s a big difference between support for Big Business and support for free markets. Big businesses tend to support heavy regulation, taxes, antitrust violations, and other things that reduce competition. They have enough political clout — like Apple, Google, or Sony Pictures — to get favorable government treatment. Small businesses and middle class Americans do not.

If you really support free markets — in which competition is based on price and quality, not government preference — then you’re going to find yourself opposing Big Business fairly often. If you never find yourself opposing Big Business, then maybe you don’t really support free markets. — Glenn Reynolds[3]

Officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the food-stamp program has become the country’s fastest-growing means-tested social-welfare program. Only Medicaid is more expensive. Between 2000 and 2013, SNAP caseloads grew to 47.6 million from 17.2 million, and spending grew to $80 billion from $20.6 billion, according to the Agriculture Department. SNAP participation fell slightly last year, to 46.5 million individuals, as the economy improved, but that still leaves a population the size of Spain’s living in the U.S. on food stamps. — Jason Riley[4]

Some 56% of SNAP users are in the program for longer than five years, which suggests that the assistance is being used by most recipients as a permanent source of income, not as a temporary safety net. — Jason Riley[4]

“I’ll make a bet with you,” Robertson said. “Two guys break into an atheist’s home. He has a little atheist wife and two little atheist daughters. Two guys break into his home and tie him up in a chair and gag him. And then they take his two daughters in front of him and rape both of them and then shoot them and they take his wife and then decapitate her head off in front of him. And then they can look at him and say, ‘Isn’t it great that I don’t have to worry about being judged? Isn’t it great that there’s nothing wrong with this? There’s no right or wrong, now is it dude?’” Robertson kept going: “Then you take a sharp knife and take his manhood and hold it in front of him and say, ‘Wouldn’t it be something if this [sic] was something wrong with this? But you’re the one who says there is no God, there’s no right, there’s no wrong, so we’re just having fun. We’re sick in the head, have a nice day.’” “If it happened to them,” Robertson continued, “they probably would say, ‘something about this just ain’t right.” — Phil Robertson[5]

You need to understand – liberals do not want America to be a superpower. They want us neutered. The decline of our military isn’t an accident; it’s a goal. — Kurt Schlichter[6]

The once stable black families of the 1950s disintegrated, as the same openness that boosted the civil rights movement also undermined traditional family structure for blacks and whites, weakening community structures and strictures. By 1990, the percentage of black children born to unmarried mothers hit 70 percent. Thanks to this all-American values breakdown, with sexual expression trumping traditional repression, today, over 40 percent of all American births are to unmarried mothers. — Gil Troy[7]

Endnotes:
  1. Jeffrey Andersen: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamacare-turns-five-awaits-repeal_895648.html
  2. Newt Gingrich: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415984/were-losing-war-against-radical-islam-newt-gingrich
  3. Glenn Reynolds: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/03/22/republicans-silicon-valley-wall-street-column/25183105/
  4. Jason Riley: http://www.wsj.com/articles/jason-l-riley-the-next-welfare-reform-food-stamps-1427238766
  5. Phil Robertson: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/phil-robertson-rape-murder-atheists
  6. Kurt Schlichter: http://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2015/03/23/no-point-in-more-defense-spending-with-liberals-in-charge-n1973781
  7. Gil Troy: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/21/the-last-sane-liberal.html

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