Intolerance

Probably not what she meant to say...

Good words

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
~ Variously attributed to Will Rogers and George Bernard Shaw

Good words

If only it were possible to change the world...

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician

Good words.

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman

Funny words

Yeah, it's funny words but don't forget his profession (politician) as he says them.

I offered my opponents a deal: "if they stop telling lies about me, I will stop telling the truth about them".~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952.

The key difference...

Again, not sure of my source, but this is spectacular...

A key difference between a Democrat in Congress and a Republican in Congress is, when one of the bulbs in a Democrat's head goes out the others stay lit.

Good words

Again, I've lost the source for this quote - I've really got to get better about that. Apologies to whomever put this together.

Marco Rubio's problem with science teaching, Paul Krugman writes, is "that it might undermine children's faith in what their parents told them to believe." And right there you have the modern G.O.P.'s attitude, not just toward biology, but toward everything: If evidence seems to contradict faith, suppress the evidence. 

The most obvious example other than evolution is man-made climate change. As the evidence for a warming planet becomes ever stronger -- and ever scarier -- the G.O.P. has buried deeper into denial, into assertions that the whole thing is a hoax concocted by a vast conspiracy of scientists. And this denial has been accompanied by frantic efforts to silence and punish anyone reporting the inconvenient facts.

Good words

“Congresswoman Michele Bachmann wants an investigation as to whether Islamists have infiltrated the highest levels of the federal government. You know what’s really frightening? After listening to Michele Bachmann, you realize idiots have infiltrated the highest levels of the federal government.”
– Jay Leno

Just sayin'...

Don't tell me what you believe. Tell me what you do and I'll tell you what you believe.

 --Meteor Blades

Seems like a reasonable quote...

"The media is distracting you by wasting time focusing on irrelevant issues that I don't care about, and ignoring the very important issues that I care about!"
 - Everyone

by Dave Pacheco

That explains it

Speaking truth

Great words, IKe

Sounds about right.

"Congress' approval rating has fallen to an abysmal 9% -- to put this in perspective, herpes is now slightly more popular than Congress."

I saw this on Reddit and it's cute - but I recall all of the survey's that have been done of voters and the fact that they all think everyone in Congress is awful - except for the Congressperson THEY vote for. Not much will change come 2012.

Maybe I got this wrong

I am the 66%, but maybe I'm holding my sign wrong. 
   --Dave Pacheco on Google+

Good amd true words

At a panel hosted by Working America and the AFL-CIO in 2010, Chris Hayes pinpointed an important piece of what's going on: "At the bottom of the pyramid," he said, "America is a ruthlessly punitive and accountability-obsessed society. At the top of the pyramid, it is endlessly forgiving. Before trust can be restored, accountability has to be established."

Words of Wisdom

Something to think about...

A friend of mine just started his own business, making landmines that look like prayer mats.  He says business is booming, and prophets are going through the roof…

Well said...

If you listen to the Republicans, the GOP has done nothing wrong. Never. Not Once. There is no connection between the current economic decline in the nation and Bush's decision to cut the taxes of the top 1% of the U.S. population and go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. No, no connection whatsoever. It was Clinton's fault. It is Obama's fault. It is FDR's fault. No, our current situation has nothing to do with Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, or King George the Usurper. Yet, the republicans have been in charge of this nation for 28 our of the last 41 years; the Democrats held control for only 12 of those 41 years. Still, nothing is the responsibility of the Republicans. They want you and I to buy their lie. They want you and I to consider them a viable alternative. They want us to embrace them. It lacks any credibility what so ever! It is insane! It is sin!

I tell you, look at the works of the GOP. They favor the wealthiest, and put the burden of their colonial wars upon the poorest of the poor of our nation. They let people die of treatable disease because it is too expensive for them. They let the widow and homeless suffer in the cold. They turn their back on the afflicted and injured. They deprive men of wages earned. They make those who can least afford it support the burden of the prosperity that they enjoy! So, where then is their faith? Is it in Jesus? Is it in God? Or is it in the level of wealth that they have achieved at the expense of others?

From Clifford Allen Potts
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