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I think we should catch ’em, we should document ’em, make sure we know where they are and where they are going. I actually support micro-chipping them. I can micro-chip my dog so I can find it. Why can’t I micro-chip an illegal?
—Iowa GOP Congressional candidate Pat Bertroche.
Arizona’s draconian new immigration law is an abomination — racist, arbitrary, oppressive, mean-spirited, unjust. About the only hopeful thing that can be said is that the legislation, which Republican Gov. Jan Brewer signed Friday, goes so outrageously far that it may well be unconstitutional.
—WaPo columnist Eugene Robinson, on Arizona’s new Driving While Brown law.
I am not running for the US Senate because I am an adult entertainment star. I am not running for the US Senate for the same reason that so many dedicated patriots do not run–I can’t afford it.
—Stormy Daniels, announcing that she will not run against “family values” hypocrite Sen. David Vitter (R-LA).
I never considered myself a maverick.
—Sen. John McCain, who—wait, what the fuck?
So this obvious lie, which intrepid Newsweek reporter David Margolick leaves unchallenged, makes absolutely no sense, considering that McCain’s Senate press office and campaign website are replete with references to “the Maverick” with a capital M. The idea of McCain flip-flopping on the issues is hardly surprising, but here McCain is just giving up a major component of his public persona seemingly on a whim.
Anyway, click the continue reading link below to see some videos of Sen. Maverick that I found just by typing “McCain is a maverick” into The Google.
If Obamacare passes, that free insurance card that’s in people’s pockets is going to be as worthless as a Confederate dollar after the war between the states — the Great War of Yankee Aggression.
When I’m drafting right to life language, I don’t call up the nuns.
—Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), responding to a letter in which 59,000 Catholic nuns urged Congress to pass healthcare reform. Not surprisingly, when dealing with issues of women’s health, Stupak only listens to men.
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In the past decade, nearly every pillar institution in American society — whether it’s General Motors, Congress, Wall Street, Major League Baseball, the Catholic Church or the mainstream media — has revealed itself to be corrupt, incompetent or both. And at the root of these failures are the people who run these institutions, the bright and industrious minds who occupy the commanding heights of our meritocratic order. In exchange for their power, status and remuneration, they are supposed to make sure everything operates smoothly. But after a cascade of scandals and catastrophes, that implicit social contract lies in ruins, replaced by mass skepticism, contempt and disillusionment.
—Christopher Hayes, in a TIME magazine piece that is well worth reading.
Can I say that 20 million Americans unemployed, the fact that we’re worrying about the status of the White House social secretary…
—Economist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, appearing on ABC’s This Week, trying to make sense of the nonsensical.
Ethics in Politics: An evening with Former Governor Rod Blagojevich
— Title of an actual upcoming event sponsored by the Northwestern University College Democrats.
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