Quotes of the day
posted at 10:05 pm on August 14, 2009 by Allahpundit
“‘She said we’re going to have it before we left,’ Murtha said. ‘We said, ‘No, no, we want some time to think about this.’ We’re taking some time to make sure it’s done right. I don’t know that we’ll get something done before January, and even then we may not get it done. We’re going to do it right when it’s finally done.’”
***
Click the image to listen.










Blowback
Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with our terms of use may lose their posting privilege.
Trackbacks/Pings
Trackback URL
Comments
Comment pages: « Previous 1 … 6 7 8
From the, Poll: Greatest living ex-president is … Jimmy Carter, thread
FloatingRock on August 15, 2009 at 2:26 AM
heh
Upstater85 on August 15, 2009 at 2:26 AM
Here’s a comment from a West Coaster. I look at all the HA threads and the thread titles reflect the bizarre world that B-ho has created. America has truly become a strange place under Obambi. Hype and Strange have become the operative words.
If we can defeat the health care deform bill we can win on amnesty for illegals and the crap and trade bill to. Then it’s on to 2010. NOW I have hope.
Mojave Mark on August 15, 2009 at 2:28 AM
Yeah, the thing I like about the non-interventionists is their support for the interventionists…
Upstater85 on August 15, 2009 at 2:31 AM
My sister just sent me this. Though it seems mundane at first, it’s actually worth the 90 seconds of entertainment value, and it’s definitely a message piece.
Send it to your liberal friends if you want to mess with their universe a little bit.
http://aclu.org/pizza/images/screen.swf
Fishoutofwater on August 15, 2009 at 2:32 AM
Sweet dreams.
Laura in Maryland on August 15, 2009 at 2:33 AM
Alright, I’m calling it quits tonight. Night everyone.
FontanaConservative on August 15, 2009 at 2:33 AM
Night
Upstater85 on August 15, 2009 at 2:34 AM
Well if anyone happens across Miss ‘E’ then send here home.
(Miss ‘E’….there is no place like home…there is no place like home….so come the hell back)
Limerick on August 15, 2009 at 2:34 AM
here = her
***rigga-fratta-ragga-rigga***
Limerick on August 15, 2009 at 2:35 AM
You might want to procure an elephant gun.
HornetSting on August 15, 2009 at 2:36 AM
crud…1:40
Nurse Ratched says I gotta go..
Later, HotAirHeads.
Limerick on August 15, 2009 at 2:39 AM
‘night
I’m following
Goodnight all.
Upstater85 on August 15, 2009 at 2:40 AM
Good night all!
Laura in Maryland on August 15, 2009 at 2:43 AM
Good night.
God Bless America!
HornetSting on August 15, 2009 at 2:43 AM
‘Obamacare:’ What does the Constitution have to say?
‘This is an issue federal government shouldn’t be touching at all’
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
http://www.wnd.com
Because the power to regulate each citizen’s medical care is not included among enumerated powers, he (Michael Boldin) said, the federal government does not have the authority to impose a single-payer system.
“You have to look to the Constitution and ask, ‘Is health care listed?’” Boldin said. “No. It’s not.” Michael Boldin, founder of The Tenth Amendment Center
Recently, the issue of nullification re-emerged when nearly two dozen states mounted a resistance to the 2005 Real ID Act. Maine and Utah led the way by passing resolutions to refuse incorporation of federal security features into state driver’s licenses and identification cards. After meeting fierce state resistance to its plans, the federal government delayed implementation twice and later announced it would “repeal and replace” the controversial law.
Lawmakers in as many as 10 states are considering or seeking to propose bills and resolutions to nullify federal health care in their states.
“If these (town hall protests) were all focused on state governments, we would probably see 10 or 20 nullification bills in states already,” he (Boldin) said. “And the health care program would be dead in the water.”
‘Equal Protection Clause’ of 14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
All of the above is from the World Net Daily story.
If Equal Protection were considered, how could congress have an alternate health plan, social security plan, etc. We need to wake up and take our government back.
mydogwonthunt on August 15, 2009 at 2:51 AM
How about this:
Leave me alone and let me do it right for myself?
Nah, I need a nanny to compel me to do it right b cuz eye yam 2 stoopid too due it rite. errr errrr.
alohapundit on August 15, 2009 at 3:25 AM
Excellent!
This needs to go to BOR asap!
DSchoen on August 15, 2009 at 3:25 AM
i just joined…. been lurking more than commmenting on this thread.
wish i could go to DC next month, but i’ll be stuck here in CA…
goodnight all.
homesickamerican on August 15, 2009 at 3:39 AM
Here’s a suggestion…
Let this crisis go to waste.
Just fix the problem.
If it’s Medicare,
Then fix Medicare, stupid!
And leave me alone!
Haiku Guy on August 15, 2009 at 6:22 AM
yall stay up late.
blatantblue on August 15, 2009 at 6:49 AM
balantblue:
No kidding. I am getting ready to go to work myself. I have to work a half day. Not that I am complaining or anything.
Terrye on August 15, 2009 at 7:02 AM
What are they up to?
Surely they’re upset things didn’t go as smoothly as hoped, but it doesn’t seem that they’re that upset and their appalling treatment of so many Americans in their rhetoric is unprecedented.
It could be that they didn’t think the Blue Dogs would have held this up. On the other hand, they may have at least talked about that happening and had a Plan B ready.
I keep combing these forums and blogs trying to see if someone out there is thinking “outside the box” on this or has some smidgen of inside info, and have figured out what they are really doing.
I can’t take these guys at face value. Paranoid maybe, but though they may be amateurs at running a country, they certainly are not when it comes to politics.
Dr. ZhivBlago on August 15, 2009 at 7:06 AM
That is the one line that everyone in this country that is not a radical socialist needs to pay attention to. murtha says that because he has gotten the message that the republicans are willing to allow the government to take over the health care system. They just want a more subtle version that they can take some credit for. They don’t care that more government intrusion will result in total government takeover. What republican leaders are speaking the truth and saying this entire bill is an abomination and needs to be thrown in the trash? They all talk about “working” on it and making it “acceptable”. This 1100 pages needs to be burned and then the issues like tort reform, over-regulation and government involvement and the corruption in the present government programs need to be individually addressed. The republicans are willing to let this monstrosity be toned down to 800 pages and then claim victory because they think that will fly with the American people. The republicans think we are as stupid as the democrats think we are. Conservatives need to start hitting townhall meetings of republicans and demanding that they committ to killing this bill in it’s entirety. Not just badmouthing certain provisions, but killing the entire bill.
peacenprosperity on August 15, 2009 at 7:52 AM
Neither side will miss the opportunity for more control. Mica emailed me yesterday saying all the right things except that he is going to have a townhall. Nelson loves the current goals and then there is the mystery person. I wonder who’s getting the money.
Cindy Munford on August 15, 2009 at 7:58 AM
Just illustrates how stupid most of these congressman really are.
peacenprosperity on August 15, 2009 at 8:07 AM
Watch for the upcoming “Free & Fair Voting Act” in which all states will be mandated to use those black boxes and software designed in Venezuela.
PaddyJ on August 15, 2009 at 8:13 AM
Has any Senator or Representative with “good sense” addressed that if this Health Scam passes, the United States taxpayers will be paying for healthcare for everyone coming to America for eternity? /sarc
Sorry, I forgot….what good sense?
yoda on August 15, 2009 at 8:21 AM
Michelle has posted some interesting winds of change going on in San Fran. Pelosi take note.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/15/winds-of-change-in-san-francisco/
Christian Conservative on August 15, 2009 at 8:23 AM
Yep
You see, there are many good people in these liberal states like CA, NY, NJ, etc.
Instead of just giving up on them, the right should double efforts to take these states. We have a great time to capitalize. Chris Dodd in CT is being targeted, John Corzine in NJ is being targeted, etc etc.
We need to target the Blue Strongholds
blatantblue on August 15, 2009 at 8:39 AM
LOL Huckabee is on Fox, playing bass to Elvis tunes
lol
blatantblue on August 15, 2009 at 8:43 AM
Now he’s talking about DNR forms
man
he’s a Rennaisance Man!
blatantblue on August 15, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Yar, me boy
Huckabee be givin’ new meanin’ to the “lubber” in “land lubber”!!
A_Pirates_Tooth on August 15, 2009 at 8:53 AM
lol
he’s lost a lot of lubber, me pirate
give him a break!
blatantblue on August 15, 2009 at 8:56 AM
Yar, we here on the piratical side o’ life ne’er have any tolerance for those blubber types
A_Pirates_Tooth on August 15, 2009 at 8:58 AM
Oh, pirate
Then I guess you don’t watch More to Love?
blatantblue on August 15, 2009 at 8:59 AM
Yar, we be pirates, not men o’ fancy!
We ain’t be havin’ the time to watch TV! Between the buccaneerin’ of fortunes and the commandeerin’ of British vessels, we be havin’ no time for those sorts of luxuries..
….But we do have a 3G hotspot on board.
A_Pirates_Tooth on August 15, 2009 at 9:01 AM
Have you gotten any emails from Axelrod?
blatantblue on August 15, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Ahh, time for work. Nice talkin to ya, pirate.
blatantblue on August 15, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Yar, me has a proposition for ye’
Let us engage in a bit of piratical parley
Here’s me this:
You come workin’ on me vessel, and I’ll be’s payin’ ya three shillin’s every seventh moon
Sleep on it!
A_Pirates_Tooth on August 15, 2009 at 9:04 AM
Here’s a peek behind the curtain, yo. We might as well call them the Democratic Martyr Brigade and tab Obama as the commander.
They are going to go to their political deaths in pursuit of this poorly written legislation.
Expose them as martyrs like you’d coax a suicidal person back from the cliff.
ted c on August 15, 2009 at 9:16 AM
Salt the fields behind them. Call them out on post-electoral loss health care job opportunities and “golden parachutes.”
ted c on August 15, 2009 at 9:17 AM
ted c: you are the man.
kelley in virginia on August 15, 2009 at 9:39 AM
If the “angry mob” hadn’t got involved, all these pigs would have signed the house bill. I fear that it will get watered down slightly and passed this fall.
farright on August 15, 2009 at 9:52 AM
ted c
Senator Grassley was in Onawa….I may try to get to a townhall meeting if he is close to the west river again.
yoda on August 15, 2009 at 9:55 AM
The camel’s nose under the tent.
Johan Klaus on August 15, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Well I just joined AP’s fan club on FB and sent a couple of friend requests.
Fun thread to read!
RushBaby on August 15, 2009 at 10:53 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ_tAe87ELo
Lil Saturday morning humor…
Keemo on August 15, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Note the shot at 1:04 of 0 speaking on the steps of somebody’s Manhattan townhouse, with the approving George Soros sitting behind him smirking….
warbaby on August 15, 2009 at 12:47 PM
I dont claim to know how ALL Americans feel but I know how I feel, and judging by the outcry we see coming from people who have never protested before, who have always been the silent majority, and the sinking poll numbers of this fraud in the white house I have something to say that I feel NEEDS to be said because there is more than just the spending, and the bills at work here and Americans know it. Where there are thousands coming out to speak up there are thousands, maybe even millions more at home thinking the same thing! That is why I am going to get on a bus and ride for 20 hours to get to Washington DC on 9/12 and why millions of us need to be there!
THIS PRESIDENT AND HIS MINIONS GIVE AMERICANS THE CREEPS!
It is truly right and correct that the American people point out the similarities of this administration to Hitler and the national socialists he put together because Obama is attempting to do the same thing here! He was raised, and mentored by communists. He sought them out when he got older to continue his communist connections. He sympathizes with Bill Ayers and his ilk, and he got married to, and by black liberation communists!
Let’s quit kidding ourselves here!
He is giving comfort to our enemies. He is trying to add to the call for Isreal to commit national suicide by seeding lands that are theirs to the Palestinians. God GAVE that land to them, and he has told them to never give up even so much as an inch of it lest they incur his rath as a few of her leaders have found out the hard way when they fell ill and died, or became vegatables after making deals to give up land. He has said that whomever stands with Isreal shall receive his blessings like America enjoyed for so long and whomever goes against her shall have those blessings taken away, as America is starting to see as we fall further and further as we let our leaders backstab, and not back Isreal.
Obama is showing a fondness for the murderous dictators of this world in Iran, and Cuba, and with Chavez.
He in short gives most people who live outside of the marxist, left wing universities, and major cities of this country “THE CREEPS”. He makes the little hairs on the back of your neck stand up when he speaks or is near.
His little made up images and signs he feels he must have for every occasion give us the creeps. They look weird in their blue fields with red stripes and some sort of muslim/communist looking cresent on them. His health care sign with ghostly looking lines of people standing there and again his 3 stars and logo just like the nazi signs remind us of the jews lines up for the gas chambers.
The people he places close to him, Rahm, the Eugenists, the black liberationists he makes czars of, the out and out communists he is trying to go around congerss to stack our government with, gives us the creeps.
The fact that his AG Holder, when he FIRST comes to power calls all of us in the nation COWARDS ON RACE, and then proceeds to let off the black panthers who were intimidating voters gives us the creeps. The fact that they were even allowed to be outside a polling place and that one has been cleared to be a poll watcher next election is creepy.
His website for Americans to TURN IN other Americans because something they expressed in their rights as Americans to exercise freedom of speech because it was somehow “fishy” is Hitleresque and creepy.
His hoards of Americorp, and ACORN, and Organize for America people with their bling following and military style plans for our children to be indoctrinated in some sort of forced so called community service is creepy. The fact that our tax dollars are taken from us to fund these tax free entities who are investigated for voter fraud, and embezelment of those tax payer dollars, who try to win through intimidation is creepy.
The way his wife has this look of absolute hatred on her face when they catch her not knowing the camera is there is creepy.
The things they both say about this being a great country, and they are going to change that. That Barak will REQUIRE you to engage, and there will be sacrifice, and for the first time in her life she is proud of her country is creepy.
Telling people they need to do something (anything) so that all can be equal is something we have heard too many times in other countries as we watched or read in our history books about how millions have been tortured and killed to atain that utopian ideal of equal is creepy.
A sitting US Senator going to Kenya and campaigning for a family member who wants to install sharia law in all of it’s abhorant forms to women and then is later heard of hacking up Christians is creepy.
The fawning followers and media coverage bought and paid for makes us wonder if the whole of what we always considered principaled people were always fooling us. Most people just realized after his death that even Walter Cronkite the man they always looked to in their times of trouble in the country was one of THEM! One of those who thinks the best path for us is to give over all of our freedoms to some sort of world power to be led around from birth to death by a human concept of good and equal for all. That is creepy!
And most of all the powers in the dark behind him, the Rockafellers, Soros the country killer, the Kennedys, the Bilderbergs, the tri-lateral, the UN, and EU, all point to what we just feel is the untimate goal of them and that is domination and destruction of America, it’s constitution, and our way of life! That because of this country’s greatness we should somehow be ashamed and give it all up so that all in the world be they good or bad, if they want to kill us or not can have the same. We do not understand how they cannot see, that by making us weak they make the whole world weak because America and the wonderful people of this country will no longer be there to fight their wars against those who would conquer them, or rescue them from disasters and bring them food, and comfort. We will no longer be there for them, and believe me it would not take long for them to notice our absence.
Any president that stands before countries some allies, some not and declares to them that America is not a Christian nation is an abomination to us! We are a Christian nation, we were FOUNDED on God’s laws, our CONSTITUTION, was written by Godly men and patterened after the rules of morality and love for one’s neighbor. And whenever ANYONE we elect to represent us attempts to tell us, and other countries, that we no longer back Isreal, and we no longer believe in the principles installed in the constitution, and we do not want God to be a part of our government and country we say to that person: YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA, AND YOU SIR HAVE NO RIGHT OR AUTHORITY TO REPRESENT US, OR SPEAK FOR US!
We feel it in our bones. Something is wrong with this man and what he is trying to do.
HE IS CREEPY!
So we will say it as much as we like! We will carry it on signes! We will scream it at our leaders! WE WILL NOT LET YOU MAKE US COMMUNISTS/SOCIALISTS/MARXISTS OR WHATEVER THE HELL IT IS YOU ARE TRYING TO DO! We have fought before over this, and we are willing to do it again!
So HITLER, HITLER, HITLER, HITLER, NAZI, NAZI, NAZI, NAZI, NAZI……………
We say grace, we say ma’am if you aint into that WE DONT GIVE A DAMN!
patriotparty1 on August 15, 2009 at 1:16 PM
These socialist Democrats are as vicious attacking each other as they are against Americans that don’t agree with their hair brain schemes.
Hening on August 15, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Very well said, and thank you for laying it all out so concisely. We all know this, but no one will dare to stand up in public and say it as he takes this country down the road to ruin. The leaders of our party know it, but they will never say it because they will be tarred and feathered by the left. My God, you see how the left goes nuts just because conservatives are now protesting! At what point will they start calling it what it is? How far down this evil path will they let it go before they speak up? We need more Sarahs out there speaking up for us. We also need to be more vocal about demanding that this whole bill be tossed out and start from scratch!
silvernana on August 15, 2009 at 3:26 PM
OK, I’m finally in with my first post. HA has been a godsend of info and exchange. Maybe this isn’t the best thread to put it but I think that this is a great time, as hopefully some of the Right’s ideas are gaining traction, to DEMAND that any HC bill be funded with unspent $$$ returned from Porkulus. We need to get this train out of the station. Imagine a public whose biggest concern is the debt, not HC, seeing that we could use the $$$ that is unspent to help us on any new plans. It’s positive reinforcement of 2 big issues to achieve a glorious outcome! You just know it’s spread out over time to grease the way for Dem paybacks for 2010 and 2012 elections. Push it now while there is some semblance of momentum.
turn_right on August 17, 2009 at 12:45 AM
Comment pages: « Previous 1 … 6 7 8