Say What? 1st week of August (and some other quotes too) [Reader Post]

Liberals:

Lady Gaga: “I got a phone call from a couple of really big rock and rollers, big pop stars, big rappers, and they said, ‘we’d like you to boycott Arizona because of SB-1070.’ And I said, ‘you really think that us dumb f***ing pop stars are going to collapse the economy of Arizona?’”

Had Lady Gaga only had the sense to stop right there, and go on with the concert, she would have been praised for her wisdom from many. Unfortunately, she then added, “I’ll tell you what we have to do about SB-1070. We have to be active. We have to actively protest. The nature of the Monster Ball is to actively protest prejudice, and injustice, and that bullsh*t that is put on our society because you’re a superstar, no matter who you are, no matter where you come from and you were born that way! I will not cancel my show. I will yell and I will scream louder. And I will hold you, and we will hold each other, and we will peaceably protest this state. Because if it wasn’t for all of you immigrants, this country wouldn’t have sh*t. And I mean it. I mean it so deeply in my soul.”

Robert Gibbs, when asked to take a position on the building of a mosque near ground zero in NYC, answered: “I think this is rightly a matter for New York City and the local community to decide.” Arizona taking steps to defend itself? Not a local issue. The arrest of a black professor, Henry Louis Gates, by a white policeman is not a local issue. But building a mosque to mark a great Islamic victory in New York City, as a part of radical Islam’s attack on the United States—that is a local issue.

Speaker Pelosi, said, awhile ago, that her favorite word was the Word, “My favorite word is the Word, is the Word. And that is everything. It says it all for us. And you know the biblical reference, you know the Gospel reference of the Word. And that Word, is, we have to give voice to what that means in terms of public policy that would be in keeping with the values of the Word. The Word. Isn’t it a beautiful word when you think of it? It just covers everything.” The Word refers to John 1:1, 14a: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.

CNS news asked Pelosi about this: “So, when was the Word made flesh? Was it at the Annunciation, when Jesus was conceived by the power of the Holy Sprit, as the Creed says, or was it at the Nativity when he was born of the Virgin Mary? And when did the Word get the right to life?””

Pelosi answered: “Whenever it was, we bow our heads when we talk about it in church, and that’s where I’d like to talk about that.”

Lead line from AP story this week: WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is capping his birthday week with an afternoon of golfing on Saturday and a barbecue on Sunday. The story on this was very much like the many stories that AP did on George Bush’s birthday weeks (that is sarcasm, by the way).

Rosie O’Donnell: “George Bush, in the middle of a war, had an all-station news conference to announce how horrible it was for the safety of America that gay people were getting married in San Francisco, which pissed me off enough to get on a plane and go get married.” Only the final statement is true, by the way, starting from her getting on a plane.

Lanny J. Davis, lawyer, political columnist and former Clinton aide wrote “Rush Limbaugh is not a laughing matter because he is not only a purveyor of hate and misinformation, but more dangerous, millions of people believe him. Anyone who checks the facts will not take him seriously.”

Newsweek’s Howard Fineman said, “Any fair-minded observer would say in those first months, those first key months, Barack Obama`s leadership and the decisions they made, which actually had their roots with Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke in the previous administration, were good ones and smart ones and saved the day.”

MSNBC’s Cenk Uygur: “Now, look, I like to make predictions, so here’s a nice controversial one for you. The Tea Party is the cancer of the Republican Party…After 2010, the long, sad decline of the Republican Party will begin and we will look back and say it started at a party, the Tea Party.”

Bob Beckel to Sean Hannity: “Hannity, anything that makes you happy is my life’s work.”

Crosstalk:

Congressman Pete Stark, at a townhall meeting, speaking to some of his constituents: “I think that there are very few constitutional limits that would prevent the federal government from rules that could affect your private life. The basis for that would be how would it affect other people.”

After the questioner asks what possible constitutional limits there are, then, if Obamacare can pass constitutional muster, Stark replies: “The federal government yes, can do most anything in this country.”

The questioner, outraged: “You, sir, and people like you are destroying this nation.”

Stark, smirking: “And I guess you’re here to save it. And that makes me very uncomfortable.”

Conservatives:

After Glenn Beck made a list of some of the what the stimulus was spend on, he remarked, “They call Sarah Palin stupid but this is okay [pointing to projects of waste on his chalk board]; let me tell you something; at least Sarah Palin has never spent $2 million on ants.”

Rich Lowry’s comment, to the idea that the imam for the Twin Tower’s mosque sees himself as a bridge builder: “If you want to build bridges, you condemn terrorism and you do not build a mosque in the shadow of the Twin Towers.” (almost an exact quote).

Dennis Miller: “I say we build a long, skinny mosque all along our Southern border with Mexico…Skinny one the length of the border. The Mexicans are going to whine about that. The Islams will whine back. And everybody is happy.”

Toby from Bulls and Bears, speaking of the Stimulus Bill waste: “Why no fill a car with cash and drive down the street with the windows open?” (almost an exact quote)

Congressman Davy Crockett: “Mr. Speaker–I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him. Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week’s pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks.”

Davy Crockett, to his peers, when he had not been elected for a 4th term: “You all can go to Hell — I’m going to Texas.”

Davy Crockett: “Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.”

Calvin Coolidge (you would think he was talking about GM, FNMA or some other government insertion into free enterprise): “When the government goes into business it lays a tax on everybody else in that business, and uses the money that it collects from its competitors to establish a monopoly and drive them out of business.”

Calvin Coolidge: “The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of man. Of course we can help to restrain the vicious and furnish a fair degree of security and protection by legislation and police control, but the real reforms which society in these days is seeking will come as a result of our religious convictions, or they will not come at all.”

Calvin Coolidge: “The wise and correct course to follow in taxation and all other economic legislation is not to destroy those who have already secured success but to create conditions under which every one will have a better chance to be successful.”

Calvin Coolidge: “If we are to have that harmony and tranquility, that union of spirit which is the foundation of real national genius and national progress, we must all realize that there are true Americans who did not happen to be born in our section of the country, who do not attend our place of religious worship, who are not of our racial stock, or who are not proficient in our language. If we are to create on this continent a free republic and an enlightened civilization that will be capable of reflecting the true greatness and glory of mankind, it will be necessary to regard these differences as accidental and unessential.”

Calvin Coolidge: “No matter how it is disguised, the moment the government engages in buying and selling, by that act it is fixing prices.”

Coolidge: “It does not follow that because something ought to be done the national government ought to do it.”

Isn’t it amazing how Silent Cal is someone you heard very little about in school, but you certainly know something about FDR?

David Barton: “Technology progresses, but human nature doesn’t.”