Quotes of the Day: ‘It’s going to be a holy war’
Email“Tonight begins the last leg of this journey we have been on for some time.” — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, presenting the Senate’s health care bill
“It's going to be a holy war.” — Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah
“With the novelty of a visit as America’s first black president having given way to the reality of having to plow through intractable issues like monetary policy (China), trade (Singapore, China, South Korea), security (Japan) and the 800-pound gorilla on the continent (China), Mr. Obama’s Asia trip has been, in many ways, a long, uphill slog.” — Helene Cooper and Marvin Fackler, The New York Times
“Never before in history has a federal government program been this transparent and accountable…Never. Not even close.” — Jay Carney, Vice President Joe Biden's spokesman, responding to reports of inaccuracies on a government website about stimulus projects
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There’s nothing “holy” about a bad plan that cannot be justified.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | November 19, 2009, 11:13 am 11:13 am
Nice to see God being mentioned here and there. Too bad its by politicians fighting over health care and Goldman execs.
Posted by: Huh | November 19, 2009, 11:24 am 11:24 am
The GOP considers Insurance Companies Gods and are willing to sacrifice the middle class and poor of America to “Their God of Corporate Greed”.
Posted by: Trent | November 19, 2009, 12:08 pm 12:08 pm
Trent – Got to blame both parties. Remember Goldman was Obama’s biggest donor I believe. It is the corporatism system we need to blame, not capitalism. Don’t be so partisan.
Posted by: Huh | November 19, 2009, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm
Orin – time to head back to Utah! You might try speaking to the folks who elected you – remember them?? – he belongs to the party of no, a racist party and a party that fosters fear mongering – no longer a party of any substance.
Posted by: cjr | November 19, 2009, 12:28 pm 12:28 pm
Unusually accurate assessment of the Republican strategy. They are offering no factual arguments, just appeals to have faith in their hatred of socialized health care. Except Medicare of course- they are now on record as valiant defenders of that fully government run socialist health care program.
True believers will just ignore that blatant double think (Medicare-government run, public health insurance is good, expanding it to a few more people is bad).
Posted by: jhw539 | November 19, 2009, 12:39 pm 12:39 pm
Orrin is that you? Doing another “hatchet” job are we?
Posted by: john copeland | November 19, 2009, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm
to Huh,
bear in mind Obama has nothing to do with Goldman despite the latter being a contributor to his campaign. it was the american people who voted Obama into office, not the campaign contributor. more importantly, it was Hank Paulson who is the father of TARP and who also served in the Bush administration awarded the billions to big finanical institutions. know the resume of Hank Paulson? He was a CEO of Goldman and served over 30+ years in that company. now, for someone who worked for an organization that long, one can safely assume that they made life long friends in the company and in Wall Street. One can also fairly assume what the retirement package Hank Paulson has from his former employer, Goldman.
Posted by: beachroller | November 19, 2009, 10:50 pm 10:50 pm
I’m really surprised that no one is offended by Hatch’s use of the term, “Holy War” in reference to legislating in our congress. It makes certain members of our legislative body look as radical and crazy as bin Laden and Al-Qaeda.
Posted by: What! | November 20, 2009, 12:04 am 12:04 am