"That 3.5 percent (increase in the third quarter GDP) came from two things — government spending on Cash for Clunkers — they just moved fourth-quarter auto sales into the third quarter — and the first-time home buyer thing."
When White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Mao Tse-tung was "one of her favorite philosophers, only Fox News picked that up."
"For the last decade the climate has been cooling."
"President Bush never did one interview with the New York Times during his entire presidency."
"Husbands rarely beat up their wives. Single women get beaten up more."
Forty-five percent of doctors "say they'll quit" if health care reform passes.
"You don't know if this (the H1N1 vaccine) is gonna cause neurological damage like it did in the 1970s."
Forty percent of gross domestic product "is state, local, or federal money."
White House Political Director Patrick Gaspard once served as the "right-hand man" for Bertha Lewis, who heads up ACORN.
"Our own National Security Agency says that (Iran's) nuclear ambitions are advancing, and at the same time ... we are slashing our own nuclear arsenal."
For middle-class families under the Baucus plan, "13 percent of what they make could be deducted directly from their paychecks . . . the so-called 'Max Tax.'"
The Obama administration "was successful in rushing a massive spending bill through Congress in just two days — after which it sat on the president's desk for three days, while he was away on vacation."
Van Jones signed a petition indicating he "thinks the Bush administration blew up the World Trade Center and covered it up."
The government is "going to have the right to get into your bank account with the health care bill and make transfers without you knowing it."
"President Obama . . . wants to mandate circumcision."
Most of the stimulus money will be spent "not this year, not next year, but in 2011."
Republicans Chuck Grassley, John Boehner and John Mica flip-flopped on providing end-of-life counseling for the elderly.
Preventive care does not save the government money.
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