COUCH POTATO TAX: “The Sierra Club is proposing a tax on video games and televisions with the proceeds going to programs that encourage families to get kids off of the couch and into the mountains. Call it ‘No Child Left Inside.’ Mike Casaus of the Sierra Club says families hiking a mountain trail together are becoming scarce as childhood diabetes and obesity is soaring, which is why the organization is proposing the one-percent tax.” - KOB.com (New Mexico), 1/21/08
“Everyone seems to be campaigning as the candidate of change, but what does that mean exactly? Wouldn’t a depression be a change? How about basing our economy on Communism instead of Capitalism?”
- Columnist John Hawkins
PAY TO PLAY
“Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) secured more than $1 million in federal funding last year for a Harlem-based non-profit whose leader gave her presidential campaign a major endorsement last weekend.”
- CNS News, 1/25/08
THE GROIN JABBERS
“The Clintons play dirty when they feel threatened. But we knew that, didn’t we? The recent roughing-up of Barack Obama was in the trademark style of the Clinton years in the White House. High-minded and self-important on the surface, smarmily duplicitous underneath, meanwhile jabbing hard to the groin area. They are a slippery pair and come as a package.”
- Nation magazine columnist William Greider
PAYBACK’S A HILLARY
“What a treat for viewers who tuned into the South Carolina debate on Monday night and caught a glimpse of the real Hillary Clinton. Whether it was calculated or not, the senator cleared up any doubts that, for her, winning the presidency is about revenge. Forget about veiled threats. She’s already taking names. It’s not always clear who Hillary thinks she owes a kick in the pants to. But it’s very clear that, should she get into the White House, baby, it’s payback time.”
- Mary Anastasia O’Grady of Political Diary
THE WORST OF ALL WORLDS
“Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are moving so far apart that they might have to run together to save their party’s chances in November. . . . If the feuding get much worse, binding them together might be the only way for Democrats to heal the divide.”
- Craig Crawford of Congressional Quarterly
SORE LOSER
“There’s losing. There’s losing honorably. And then there’s John Edwards.”
- Columnist Charles Krauthammer
AT LEAST HE HAS BETTER HAIR THAN JANET RENO
“Illinois Democrats close to Sen. Barack Obama are quietly passing the word that John Edwards will be named attorney general in an Obama administration.”
- Columnist Robert Novak
THE LEFT LOVES JOHN
The hyper-liberal New York Times just endorsed John McCain as their choice for the Republican presidential nomination, noting that he’s soft on hard interrogation of captured terrorists, takes Al Gore’s hysteria over global warming seriously, and collaborated with Sen. Russ Feingold - “among the most liberal of Democrats” - to water down free speech rights, as well as Ted Kennedy on an amnesty bill for illegal aliens. Um, excuse me, but shouldn’t getting the NYT endorsement in and of itself disqualify any Republican from getting the Republican nomination? We’re just saying.
- Editor
MCCAIN’S NOT ONE OF US
“(John McCain) has displayed contempt for conservative evangelicals, opposed Bush’s pro-growth tax cuts for reasons other than he says (spending), has demonized oil and drug companies, and co-sponsored the abominable McCain-Kennedy illegal immigrant-forgiveness/open-borders bill. Vote for McCain if you wish, but please don’t insult conservatives by suggesting he’s one of us.”
- Columnist David Limbaugh
ON THE DOLE AGAIN
“John McCain is Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism and youth. Like McCain, pollsters assured us that Dole was the most ‘electable’ Republican. Unlike McCain, Dole didn’t lie all the time while claiming to engage in Straight Talk. Of course, I might lie constantly too, if I were seeking the Republican presidential nomination after enthusiastically promoting amnesty for illegal aliens, Social Security credit for illegal aliens, criminal trials for terrorists, stem-cell research on human embryos, crackpot global warming legislation and free speech-crushing campaign-finance laws.”
- Columnist Ann Coulter
A MOTHER KNOWS
“John McCain’s 95-year-old mother is legendary on the campaign trail for her blunt, no-nonsense comments. But her son must be hoping she limits her enthusiasm for interviews until after the GOP primaries are finished. C-SPAN caught up with Roberta McCain this week and asked how much support she thought her son had among the base of the Republican Party. ‘I don’t think he has any,’ was her crisp reply. ‘So can he then go on and become the nominee of this party?’ asked C-SPAN’s Steve Scully. ‘I think holding their nose they’re going to have to take him.’”
- John Fund of Political Diary
RUSH AIN’T ALONE
“I can see possibly not supporting a Republican nominee. And I never thought that I would say that in my life.”
- Rush Limbaugh on the prospect of John McCain or Mike Huckabee getting the GOP presidential nomination
BLAME BUSH
“Rush Limbaugh declared on the radio this week, ‘I’m here to tell you, if either of these two guys [Mr. McCain or Mike Huckabee] get the nomination, it’s going to destroy the Republican Party. It’s going to change it forever, be the end of it!’
“This is absurd. George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues. . . . And this needs saying, because if you don’t know what broke the elephant you can’t put it together again. The party cannot re-find itself if it can’t trace back the moment at which it became lost.”
- Columnist Peggy Noonan
HUCKSTER’S 15 MINUTES ARE JUST ABOUT UP
“South Carolina winnowed out a Republican candidate, whether Mike Huckabee knows it or not… Huckabee is a niche candidate who has run out of niches. Perhaps more than any other two states, Iowa and South Carolina were suited to him because of their large numbers of evangelical Christians. But in each he finished fourth among non-evangelical participants in the Republican nominating process. Having no message that resonates broadly, he is in a political cul-de-sac.”
- Columnist George Will
AND THE FINALISTS ARE…
“As for the Republicans, their slow civil war continues. The primary race itself is winnowing down and clarifying: It is John McCain versus Mitt Romney, period.”
- Columnist Peggy Noonan
…OR ARE THEY?
“Fred Thompson’s gone. Duncan Hunter’s gone. All these people are gone. Huckabee could become Huckabeen — gone by next Tuesday. So could Rudy after next’s Tuesday’s Florida primary. All of a sudden you’ve got this Republican primary coming down to McCain, Romney and Ron Paul. With all this uncertainty, just where can a conservative go? . . . Who, then, could conservatives end up backing?
“…Newt Gingrich, that’s who. . . . Why Newt? Ask yourself why Ronald Reagan won. He won because he was able to excite a group of people in America that the liberal wing of the Republican party has never excited — the grass roots. Newt Gingrich is the last Republican to have done that — to reach out to the grass roots, to all those conservative Republicans and Reagan Democrats.
“Remember, it was Newt who engineered the miraculous Republican take-over of Congress in 1994 — something that was deemed impossible two years after Bill Clinton won the White House.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he was out there quietly working the phones and hoping for a wide-open convention where the delegates — not the primaries that selected many of them — decide for themselves who they want to carry the GOP banner in the presidential election in November.
“If Newt throws his hat in the ring he knows that in the blink of an eye he will have the grass roots behind him. . . . Just as his Contract with America dealt with many of the issues that concerned the grass roots and won Congress for the GOP, his agenda goes right to the heart of our current problems. He’s offering concrete solutions to all the concrete problems and that’s what the grass roots crave.”
- Talk-show host Michael Reagan
Posted on January 26th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: National
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