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| "It isn't going to make any difference, except maybe [to] the mood that people are in. The fact is that once we pass it in the House, it's going to be the law of the land." |
| -- Nancy Pelosi, when asked about the parliamentary rules Democrats may break in order to pass ObamaCare. |
| "I [talked with House Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman] yesterday. I said, 'You keep saying you want to keep current law. I gave him the language [that describes current law]. He said 'But we want to pay for abortions.' I said, 'Mr Chairman, we don't do that now, we aren't going to start.' He said 'But we think we should.'" |
| -- Pro-life Rep. Stupak (D) on an encounter with Dem leaders. |
| "I get a lot of letters from constituents--about 40,000 every day. I don't read all 40,000. I've asked my staff to collect a sampling of 10 letters that I read every night. About half of these letters call me an idiot." |
| -- President Obama, speaking in Missouri. |
| "I mean the point is, this is a very sick person. He has been diagnosed with cancer, perhaps his judgement is impaired, because of the ethical issues, and he is no longer in the Congress...poor baby, poor baby." |
| -- Nancy Pelosi on the Charlie Rose Show, talking about ex-Rep. Eric Massa. |
| "Think about it along the spectrum of how we could approach health care. On one side...there were those at the beginning of this process who wanted to scrap our system of private insurance and replace it with a government-run health care system, like they have in some other countries." |
| -- President Obama. True. You were one of them. |
| "The leadership of the Democratic Party has become exactly what they said they were running against....You cannot effectively govern this country without the consent of the governed!" |
| -- Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) |
| "[I can] recognize reverse psychology when I see it. If Republicans thought [passing ObamaCare] was going to be devastating to Democrats, they'd be sitting back, rubbing their hands, and saying, 'Go ahead and do it.'" |
| -- Sen. Tom Harkin trying his best at a little ObamaCare spin |
| "I think you know my close relationship with Charlie." |
| -- Rep. Sander Levin's remark on his takeover of the House Ways and Means Committee Chairmanship. He replaces ethically-challenged tax cheat Charlie Rangel. |
| "This is an area where we're going to have to have a 60% majority in the Senate and the House in order to actually get a bill to my desk....That is not a fifty-plus-one majority." |
| -- In 2007, then-Senator Obama talks about his health care reform agenda. Now, without a 60-seat majority in the Senate, he's decided reconciliation is the way to go. |
| "This country is, sooner or later, going to implode because of the massive amount of debt run up over the past 40 to 50 years. Selling the nation's soul to countries like Communist China in order to finance our lifestyle and allow the government to further debase the currency is sheer lunacy." |
| -- Sen. Bunning (R-KY) on the Senate floor Tuesday morning. |
