Statements about Pundits
"When we started this health care debate a year ago, 85 percent of the American people had health insurance, and 95 percent of the 85 percent were happy with it."
Franklin Roosevelt never allocated more than 12 percent of GDP to federal spending, while the percentage for Barack Obama is not projected to drop below 22.8 percent.
"A Democratic poll operation shows that Fox News is the most trusted news operation in the country."
The Senate-passed health care bill "is identical to the Massachusetts health care plan -- the same thing."
The president's health care proposals will cause "most Americans to have their premiums increased, not decreased, and hundreds of millions of people lose their current insurance coverage."
"Right now the Tea Party polls higher than the Republicans and the Democrats."
There are "high administrative costs" when you donate to Haiti relief through the White House Web site.
In Massachusetts, Scott Brown's Republican affiliation is "not a secret, but clearly not on display."
"Americans admire Glenn Beck more than they admire the pope."
A recent drop in the unemployment rate is questionable because it was calculated "over two days of the Thanksgiving week."
The "post-Soviet industrial meltdown is responsible for most of the progress in reducing carbon emissions that Europe is able to claim."
Labor union president Andy Stern is "the most frequent visitor" at the White House.
Less than 10 percent of Obama's Cabinet appointees "have any experience in the private sector."
A new Republican litmus test "would have resulted in (the GOP) kicking out Ronald Reagan."
"Ninety-eight percent of the American people will not see their taxes go up" due to the House health care bill.
"In the health care bill, we're now offering insurance for dogs."
"There were more people at the Air and Space Museum" than at a rally against the health care bills.
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