Quotes of the day
posted at 9:58 pm on February 7, 2010 by Allahpundit
“On Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel, she said his comments calling liberal groups ‘f-ing retards’ was “indecent and insensitive” and cause for his dismissal.
“But the former governor went to great and sometimes awkward lengths to insist that when conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh used the same exact term to describe the same exact group, it was simply in the role of political humorist.
“‘They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh,’ she said, when read a quote of Limbaugh calling liberal groups ‘retards.’ ‘Rush Limbaugh was using satire … . I didn’t hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with ‘f-ing retards,’ and we did know that Rahm Emanuel, as has been reported, did say that. There is a big difference there.’”
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“Sarah Palin didn’t give a tea party speech last night. She gave a partisan Republican address. It was a purely political speech designed to position her for a presidential run in 2012 or 2016. Period. She wasn’t there to celebrate the organic nature of a movement she had nothing to do with creating. She was there to co-opt the name and claim the brand as hers. And she did…
“These weren’t the people who were out protesting. This weren’t regular folks. This was the same old network of conservative hacks, flacks, publicists and hangers-on. This was Conservative Inc…
“The tea party I’m familiar with was concerned more about the collusion of big business and big government than the War in Iraq. The tea party I’m familiar with was more concerned about rejecting the bailout of Wall Street while looking for ways reinvigorate the economy of Main Street than looking for Al-Qaeda. The tea party I’m familiar with seemed more concerned about restoring the Republic at home than Democracy abroad.
“Almost from start finish, Sarah Palin outlined an agenda that either ignored or de-emphasized the issues and the spirit that the tea parties were founded on.”
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“While I suspect that mine is a minority view among the leadership of conservative activism and journalism (and I am often reminded in a jocular sort of way that my view of Palin is a minority among my colleagues at The Examiner and The Weekly Standard), I believe Palin is miles ahead of every other national figure in understanding where the country has been in the last year and what the Tea Party movement means about the future course of American politics.
“That doesn’t mean I think Palin is or even should be a candidate for president or any other elective office in 2012 or any other time. What it does mean is I believe Palin has a unique insight into the state of things and is moving systematically and intelligently in concert with that insight. Where that leads, nobody, including Palin, likely knows at this point.”
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And OmahaConservative ( sort of) in the middle
macncheez on February 7, 2010 at 11:09 PM
I missed your question on the other thread which is now defunct.
Didn’t you ever read Beowulf?
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:10 PM
Tell you what. Since I don’t know how to link, punch up Ann Coulter at Townhall? or maybe Human Events. Go right to the comments. It’s almost always first. Read one and you tell me if it’s AnninCan’s or not.
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:10 PM
BWAHAHAHA!!
It must kill them that they can’t lay a glove on her.
Good on ya, guv!
powerpro on February 7, 2010 at 11:11 PM
Perry was in real trouble thank goodness Sarah was there to rescue him from the formidable Kay Hutchison.
It could have gone very badly for Rick.
happyfeet on February 7, 2010 at 10:57 PM
Yeah, I don’t know if we can stand another dem wipping
hell, if Perry wins and Illinois follows suit I think it will be too much to bare
happy, tell us how you temp, tell us how you are tempering your Expectations…
Sonosam on February 7, 2010 at 11:11 PM
10-to-1 Obama is practicing that “writing on the hand thing” at this very minute.
“Michelle!…yo!… ask Sasha how you spell Republican…?”
profitsbeard on February 7, 2010 at 11:12 PM
OK, now I remember, a little. No, I despised Beowulf, Chaucer, and a few other things my tenth grade English teacher was trying to foist on me. Like ‘Lord of the Rings’ series, it just bored the crap outta me. Left-brainer, here.
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:12 PM
Cindy, when I go to WholeFoods out here I have to fight my way thru a hoard of Green Peace activists like I am on a safari, machete in hand, slashing a clear swath through the tropical underbrush.
But now they are back on save the whale thing since Global Warming has been exposed for all its glorious bogosity.
Geochelone on February 7, 2010 at 11:12 PM
Uh… OK, I’ll keep my eyes peeled.
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:13 PM
Obama’s palm:
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:13 PM
Will the rules be changed so President Urkel can have an extra set or two of Depends back stage and a time out to change?
Old Hippie Vet on February 7, 2010 at 11:13 PM
Aw, geez, don’t you have the adventure gene at all?
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:14 PM
Plus… when he removes the M he can talk about the Religion of Peas.
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:14 PM
The green peace police
They live inside of my head
The green peace police
they come to me in my bed
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:14 PM
+100!
profitsbeard on February 7, 2010 at 11:15 PM
LOL!
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:15 PM
Bwaaahhhh. Phonetic spelling too. You would win the contest over at Althouse.
Geochelone on February 7, 2010 at 11:16 PM
Chicago
Knucklehead on February 7, 2010 at 11:16 PM
Ok, your taste in poetry is abysmal.
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:17 PM
The Nashville Post? Whoop-dee-doo.
KS Rex on February 7, 2010 at 11:17 PM
OK! you now in my location bwain.
CNN: Did we lose Chicago? How did we lose Chicago? Classic
Geochelone on February 7, 2010 at 11:19 PM
No. That medieivel hogwash does nothing for me.
Hell, I can’t even spell it.
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:20 PM
Philistine!!! Bwahahaha!
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:21 PM
ObaMao is now pushing for a televised half-day summit at the Blair House for the Republicans in Congress to put their ideas for health care reform on the table:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWZiMmM4YTlkZjdhZTgwZGNiNjJhZWFjMDBmYTBiOTc=
What a crock of manure for Mr. Wonderful to grab the limelight again and put on a dog and pony show!
onlineanalyst on February 7, 2010 at 10:08 PM
The GOP should tell The Precedent to go pound sand and get his Washington junta to just pass the magical $500 billion in Medicare waste bill that was supposed to be the main funding for their un-Constitutional takeover and redistribution of health care scheme. If all that money is out there, waiting to be legislated away, the dems ought to hop to it, right now.
Without that, The Precedent has nothing to add to any serious meeting. He’s a joke, at the very best. A huge, fragile ego attached to a pea-brain, with sinister intentions.
neurosculptor on February 7, 2010 at 10:14 PM
The GOP is beyond help if they give barri the chance to dig himself out with the help of Republican stooges. He was making noises about this “meeting” last week. The GOP should have turned the tables and been the ones to invite him to a roundtable discussion with the BEST in the GOP House & Senate – no sellouts allowed – no pre-arranged questions or scripting, just a no-holds-barred freewheeling discussion around the table with followups unlimited and full C-Span coverage.
Barri would have to say, “uh, umm, uhhh, well, let me be clear, I , I, I, can’t make it.” End of that story. Then the GOP needs to go about making sure obamacare dies once and for all while introducing their own free-market plan at a press conference of their time and choosing. And telling the nation that they can’t and won’t work with a President or Congress that pulled the kind of crap that they did. Go right over barri’s head to the people.
It sickens me to think that they will give that slimy dictator a platform for him to put his heel back onto our throats. It will be beyond the pale.
tigerlily on February 7, 2010 at 11:21 PM
5750 statesLEBA on February 7, 2010 at 11:21 PM
Ummm…whale blubber…tasty…
jerrytbg on February 7, 2010 at 11:22 PM
*51
You forgot Haiti.
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:22 PM
I don’t like poetry. I am no artiste. I couldn’t write a song or arrange music if my life depended on it. Pretty sad that the only music I can play is something already written.
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:22 PM
nobody’s done a post yet about what was the benefit of this conference thingy
happyfeet on February 7, 2010 at 11:23 PM
If they need to make barri look stupid, and get out of the inivitation that they stupidly let him make, on his terms, they should just point to the polls and say, “We can’t possibly discuss health care with you when the American people’s #1 priority is jobs. Why don’t you have a roundtable with us on job creation in the private sector? How does next Tuesday look? Can’t make it? Oh, too bad.”
tigerlily on February 7, 2010 at 11:24 PM
Well I can’t write music or poetry, but that doesn’t mean I can’t like it. As a matter of fact, I love art, although I have no talent for it.
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:24 PM
Looky here! Crappyfeet!
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:24 PM
Stinky feet!
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:26 PM
Can you at least laugh at them? i can’t even imagine.
Cindy Munford on February 7, 2010 at 11:26 PM
Hello Lanceman that was clever
about the crappy feet.
Let’s be friends.
happyfeet on February 7, 2010 at 11:26 PM
I gurandamntee you that you can paint, or draw, or compose something. I can’t.
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:26 PM
Too many GOPers are too busy spewing talking points to make it on Tuesday. John McCain is busy trying to come across as the Conservative Maverick to win re-election…
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:26 PM
Clever as a fox!
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:27 PM
Well I could try, but it certainly won’t hang on anything better than a refrigerator, lol…
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:27 PM
Get your head out of your thingy and wait for tomorrow.
Knucklehead on February 7, 2010 at 11:28 PM
Obama’s other palm:
There are only 50 states.
Don’t get my golf scores and bowling scores mixed up.
Don’t give the Queen any more Ipods.
Austrians don’t speak Austrian.
Remember to buy duct tape for
myJoe’s mouth.CrusaderRabbit on February 7, 2010 at 11:28 PM
I remember enjoying macaroni art as a kid, heh.
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:28 PM
I hope JD kicks the crap outta that old dawg.
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:28 PM
HawkDriver in the MidEast. I won’t forget him next time; and I forgot Cindy in FL too right?
We got all the bases covered.
Geochelone on February 7, 2010 at 11:05 PM
There’s alway’s a sucker in the crowd so i’ll hold down N.Y.
heshtesh on February 7, 2010 at 11:29 PM
Loxodonta and I were discussing art and he was sending me stuff I liked. He’s better at picking out stuff I may like.
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM
I just hope Goldwater’s state won’t be shamed anymore…
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM
That’s a good idea!
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM
Hopefully not NYC… ernesto has that one locked up.
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM
Sorry. Ernesto’s beaten you to it.
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM
A little non-Beowulfian verse:
Obama’s just a comma
In the sentence of our history.
Why the suckers puckered for him
Will forever be a mystery.
BurmaIndonesian Shaveprofitsbeard on February 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM
And what did you like? What kind of art?
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:31 PM
Joe Biden’s hand: Socks, then shoes.
Mr. Wednesday Night on February 7, 2010 at 11:31 PM
PSYCH!
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:31 PM
Just like Edwards believes there are 2 Americas, NYers believe there are 2 NYs.
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:31 PM
Yeah… he might not be able to comprehend
“Put on Padded Helmet.”
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:33 PM
From Beowulf:
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:34 PM
I still have some. I guess that I can’t really say that I don’t like art. I can do without sculpture. He remembered that painting by Seurat, the people at a lake. That was always a favorite of mine.
Oh, and Reubens. I think I was Reubens in a previous life. I’m not fond of skinny broads.
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:34 PM
Is that sump pump of his still giving him problems?
Knucklehead on February 7, 2010 at 11:35 PM
LOL! You guys are funny tonight!
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:35 PM
Man, everyone here is making me crack up… or maybe it’s this second glass of wine I’m drinking.
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:36 PM
The powers that be are laughing at us all…as we play into their left right paradigm …
This thread is a perfect example…jeez…
jerrytbg on February 7, 2010 at 11:36 PM
I meant Clever like a fox.
I was channeling Homer Simpson.
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:37 PM
Haven’t spoken to him lately. I was hoping Cindy had.
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:38 PM
?
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:38 PM
Hopefully not NYC… ernesto has that one locked up.
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM
No opposite side of the state,Thank God.
heshtesh on February 7, 2010 at 11:38 PM
*suck suck suck*
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:39 PM
Lucky you, missing the cement cage and all!
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:40 PM
Ernesto’s OK. Just young, New Yorkian and wrong.
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:40 PM
Hmmmm, strange. His Mac must still be in the shop getting rid of all of those virus’s, spyware and cooties.
Knucklehead on February 7, 2010 at 11:42 PM
Oh, come back, ‘feet.
You’re infinitely preferrable to Ann. You eventually go away. She doesn’t.
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:43 PM
Just like Edwards believes there are 2 Americas, NYers believe there are 2 NYs.
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:31 PM
Where i live if you only own one gun your suspect.
heshtesh on February 7, 2010 at 11:43 PM
How the hell do Macs get virii?
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:44 PM
So, do you think the NYCers will be apathetic enough to allow the upstaters to throw out Gillibrand and get someone to the right of Karl Marx in the Gov’s seat?
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:45 PM
Knucklehead is being ironic… that or she’s stating something ironic that was told to her…
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:45 PM
I’m here but it’s bedtime I’ll see you later cause I have to get up early.
G’nite.
Congratulations Saints people, I suppose.
happyfeet on February 7, 2010 at 11:46 PM
I think crappyfeet and anninca are one and the same person. :)
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:46 PM
From the iPud docking station.
Geochelone on February 7, 2010 at 11:46 PM
atheling I’m an individual person… all by myself
happyfeet on February 7, 2010 at 11:46 PM
So, do you think the NYCers will be apathetic enough to allow the upstaters to throw out Gillibrand and get someone to the right of Karl Marx in the Gov’s seat?
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:45 PM
In my wildest dreams,but really quit teasing me.
heshtesh on February 7, 2010 at 11:48 PM
Couldn’t we get Alphnse D’amatto to run again?
How ’bout Lazio? I loved that guy when he went over and socked her thighness in the face.
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:48 PM
New York abstained from voting for independence. I don’t expect much from them now, especially.
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:49 PM
Well, if it were going to happen, this would be the year. I don’t see how Paterson could possibly get re-elected, but Cuomo… Well, he might be able to eek it out. As for Gillibrand, I really do think she herself is in trouble. For that seat to go to non-Donk hands though??? Hmmm
Honestly, don’t know why Rudy doesn’t run for Gov or Sen. He’s not perfect, but he’d do a better job than the current people and I think he could actually win.
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:50 PM
I want to hear Sarah say, Mr. Obama, tear down this wall!
Mojave Mark on February 7, 2010 at 11:50 PM
What about Rudy???
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:50 PM
I don’t hold my breath… but like I told heshtesh, now is the time if ever there was a good time.
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:51 PM
No, seriously. My computer geek says Macs don’t get virii because it’s such an unpopular operating system. I mean, if you’re some punk kid with too much time on your hands, are you gonna write a virus for PC and Mac? I don’t think so.
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:52 PM
Doesn’t your middle school have a snow day tomorrow? See if the teacher wrote it on your hand…unless the lotion wiped the message away.
onlineanalyst on February 7, 2010 at 11:53 PM
He doesn’t want it.
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:53 PM
Yeah… I heard that…
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:54 PM
Honestly, don’t know why Rudy doesn’t run for Gov or Sen. He’s not perfect, but he’d do a better job than the current people and I think he could actually win.
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:50 PM
Do i need to send you a picture to prove how much your torturing me?
heshtesh on February 7, 2010 at 11:55 PM
Maybe Rudy’s aspirations run elsewhere?
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:55 PM
“Did you get ‘Waiting to Exhale?”
“Well, they put us on the ‘Waiting to Exhale’ waiting list but they said don’t hold your breath.”
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 11:55 PM
Joe Biden’s hand:
Urban Dictury
Talk to hand?
Listen to hand?
Wash hand?
Swine flu?Mr. Wednesday Night on February 7, 2010 at 11:57 PM
Oh, I know. I have family in NY that can’t stand the current situation. They were just complaining b/c there is a bill going through to raise the salary of judges by like 15% (that’s about 40k extra per judge). Businesses are hurting and being taxed taxed taxed.
Hey, if it can happen in Mass, it surely can happen in NY.
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:57 PM
You are right.
That aspect has been dubbed “Security through Obscurity”.
But the last two years in a row the MAC has been hacked faster than a PC in industry events when MONEY is on the table. There are vulnerabilities in all OSes but MSFT got carried away with OCX controls trying to do programmatic interoperability between their core apps. These features were implemented without much consideration of security for the simple reason that most of the big players missed the coming of the internet.
Geochelone on February 7, 2010 at 11:58 PM
The bedroom? ;-)
MeatHeadinCA on February 7, 2010 at 11:58 PM
Lol, noooooo…
Palin/Giuliani???
atheling on February 7, 2010 at 11:59 PM
Funniest post I’ve seen in a long time!
*exhuberant chuckle*
LEBA on February 7, 2010 at 11:59 PM
Riiiight.
That’s why I ain’t worried. What can they do to my Kaypro? Put more Boeing ads on HA? Ha!
Lanceman on February 8, 2010 at 12:01 AM
Negatory, nice lady.
Pro gun/anti gun.
Lanceman on February 8, 2010 at 12:02 AM
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