Thursday Quotes: EIB (Heart) Capitalism
December 17, 2009
"In Copenhagen, it is a blizzard on loan from God-d, my friends.
I always believe God has a sense of purpose and I always have believed that God has a sense of humor."
"There's no way anybody's health insurance costs are going to go down when the government's involved in any aspect of this."
"I, frankly, think if more people really knew what the Democrat plan is, to cut $500 billion in Medicare -- Whew!
That alone would cause the senior citizens of this country to rise up."
"Did Social Security reduce the budget deficit?
Did Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, did they keep the country from going bankrupt,
or are they contributing factors to the country nearing bankruptcy?"
"I think the White House is pretty happy with Dean doing what he's doing, despite what they say.
I think the media and the White House are in an effort here to make Obama look centrist and reasonable,
when he is as leftist and irrational as Howard Dean is."
"In the mix of all this talk about global warming and glaciers melting these people in Copenhagen are being blanketed with snow.
Copenhagen surprisingly does not get a lot of snow, but they're getting dumped on today."
"If you want to bring down health care costs, Senator Sanders, get the hell out of the health care business once and for all, in toto."
"Anybody who trusts Barack Obama and the Democrats does not want to know the truth.
The economy is being held up by phony promises.
It is a sham economy."
"Do you know who got the biggest ovation yesterday at Copenhagen?
It was Hugo Chavez.
Hugo Chavez received thunderous applause when he ripped into capitalism."
"We, the American people, have been lied to and cheated on like only Elin Nordegren could appreciate."
"What is it with this constant surprise and shock?
It's gotta be a template.
Do they not realize what fools they look like?
Whatever the economic news is, it's 'unexpected'."
"They've been mad at Lieberman since the 2008 campaign when he was out there campaigning for McCain,
and to see Harry Reid throw everything the left wanted in this bill out in order to get Lieberman's vote has sent them into a tizzy."
"Most Americans understand full well the effects of competition: makes everybody better, lowers prices.
It's inevitable. It's the way free markets work, but not what Democrats want."
"The real big question is how many people are unemployed and thus lost their insurance because of Democrat policy,
because of Barack Obama, because of Harry Reid?"
"I actually hate thinking this way. I despise it. But, damn it, it's required because of who these people are.
Just because the government announces some figure on anything, your first reaction has got to be from now on suspicion."
"The same bunch that couldn't predict how bad the swine flu would turn out to be, the same bunch that couldn't
even make the vaccine at proper strength, is now telling us how many people didn't have insurance."
"How many people had health care when Obama became president and how many lost their health care since he became president?
I want to know what that number is."
"How in hell can Obama say that the economy is revived?
How can he say we're coming back from the brink?
Housing, ditto. Insurance, ditto. Unemployment, ditto."
"The Senate is a revered institution. It's the greatest deliberative body in the world, it has a tremendous reputation.
To see it treated so shabbily by the people who populate it is an instructive and frightening thing."
"The Republicans fear that if they jumped on board and started criticizing, say, Harry Reid in public -- or Bernie Sanders --
that that would stop the flow of independents from the Democrats to the Republicans.
Because they've bought the notion that these independents are somehow the nicest, sweetest, purest people and at the
first sign of partisanship, they run to the Democrat Party. It's bogus, but that's what they believe."
"If this were the great health care reform that a lot of people in this country do want, I happen to think they'd be all for it,
if it actually did just the two things that people are worried about, lower costs, expand access, but everybody knows now
except the media that it doesn't do this. And the media doesn't really care what's in it.
All they care about is how it's going to influence Obama."
"We know that the independents are fleeing the Democrat Party in droves over health care and a number of other things.
Imagine how much more movement there would be away from the Democrats if there was something those people could move to.
The opportunity to contrast who we are with them and what they're doing has never, ever been better."
"I've always scored big points when I give flowers at the most unexpected time of the year, just to give them,
not because there's some tradition or holiday or standard that dictates they be given."
"If you want to understand why problems exist in the country today, if you have questions about it,
your first answer should always be it's gotta be something the government's doing that's screwing me up, because it is."
"The answer to the disaster that is Obama and his policies is not to expand his policies even more.
The answer is to change course."
"Being ideological is the epitome of being informed. Being ideological, understanding what a Marxist is,
understanding what a liberal is, understanding what a socialist and fascist is, if you understand those things,
you understand the modern-day Democrat Party."
"There's no difference in liberals wherever they are. There's no difference in Marxists wherever they are.
There's no difference in socialists wherever they are. They all hate capitalism.
And that means they have to have a degree of dislike for the largest capitalist country in the history of human civilization: us."
