Charles de Gaulle, born November 22, 1890, and died on November 9 1970, was a French general and statesman. He was the founder of the French Fifth Republic [1958] and became its first President in 1959.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Jon Stewart, mocking Orly Taitz, while addressing the ridiculous spectacle of the birther movement.
Via Daily Show Video
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) discussed the vote on health care reform with Glenn Beck of Fox News on Beck’s radio show (March 2010). The vote was slated for a Sunday.
Beck responded with his usual googly-eyed nonsensical gibberish.
charity, that is a — this is an affront to God. And I honestly, I don’t think anybody is like, “yes, and now what we’ll do is we’ll vote on the Sabbath.” But I think it’s absolutely appropriate that these people are trying to put the nail in the coffin on our country on a Sunday — something our founders would have never, ever, ever done. Out of respect for God.
So, you would think that no Republican ever called for a vote on a Sunday. You would be wrong. Via Think Progress:
On Palm Sunday in 2005, the Republican-controlled Senate passed a controversial bill to allow a federal court to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo. The House passed the same bill shortly after midnight on Monday morning.
Via Think Progress.
In March of 2010, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) began referring to health care reform as a “suicide run”, making an attempt to compare it to a Japanese bombing run. This quote is from an interview Graham did on a local radio station.
Nancy Pelosi, I think, has got them all liquored up on sake and you know, they’re making a suicide run here,
Via Think Progress.
On March 18, 2010, in his overly zealous effort to aid in defeating health care reform, Rep. Paul Broun (R- Ga.) made the following statement on the floor of the House of Representatives:
If ‘ObamaCare’ passes, that free insurance card that’s in people’s pockets is gonna be as worthless as a Confederate dollar after the War Between The States — the Great War of Yankee Aggression.
In a letter to Benjamin Rush, Adams wrote of having been chosen to become a member of the House of Representatives.
In an 1814 letter to his friend, John Taylor, Adams denigrated Christianity as incapable of real "inquiry".
A surprisingly astute quote by George Will from his article dissecting the media's fascination with Sarah Palin, "Sarah Palin and the mutual loathing society". I especially liked the last two lines.
On The Tonight Show, Palin spewed her usual gibberish in reference to her Family Guy remarks, and her lack of opportunity (oh, please...) to follow up after the media responded.
I would encourage people to look around them in their community and find an organization that is doing something that they believe in, even if that organization has only five people, or ten people, or twenty people, or a hundred people. And to look at history and understand that when change takes place it takes place as a result of large, large numbers of people doing little things unbeknownst to one another. And that history is very important for people to not get discouraged. Because if you look at history you see the way the labor movement was able to achieve things when it stuck to its guns, when it organized, when it resisted. Black people were able to change their condition when they fought back and when they organized. Same thing with the movement against the war in Vietnam, and the women's movement. History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place.
Source: Wikiquote
Dr. Howard Zinn
On January 27, 2010, in his first State of the Union address to Congress and the American people, President Barack Obama leveled a strong recrimination at the Supreme Court for the controversial ruling made in the Citizens United case, decided on January 21, 2010.View the video excerpt below. The full transcript, along with the full video of the SOTU is here.
"In March 2009, President Obama issued an executive order that removed President Bush’s limitations on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, ending the tragic politicization of the issue that existed under the former president." [...]
GOP Senate candidate, Gary Coleman [R-AR] attacked President Obama regarding this decision:
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