Working on a collection of Neocon/Repug quotes. Got any good ones?

[_dynamicdems]

I posted in DU and got a few good ones, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. I want to gather about 200 or so of the worst ones I can find. I'm excluding the pundits like Rush and Coulter, et al because they are going to be gathered separately.

Here's what I've got so far...if anyone has any to add, post them here and I'll add them. Please include a link so it doesn't take me forever to research the quote. Thanks!


http://www.dynamicdems.com/1.htm (temporary URL while I work on this)

[CBHagman]

1. I have many, many disgusting quotes.

However, I must compliment you, if that's appropriate here, for the overall of effect those disgusting quotes you have assembled. The Barbara Bush and Rick Santorum ones in particular are real stomach-turners. How utterly vile. How can anyone with a lick of common sense take these people for either compassionate, decent, or intelligent?


I do have a lot of really appalling quotes from the likes of Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), Treasury Secretary John Snow, George W. Bush, and Allan Hubbard, Bush's economic adviser. The latter has some truly nauseating quotes regarding employer-provided health care coverage. Basically, the administration's stance has been to imply that Americans who are in HMOs and PPOs through workplace coverage think their care is "free" (Yes, the administration uses those words) and that they are therefore too quick to use medical care and not inclined to go hunting for the best price.

Yes, the administration talks that way, as though bypass surgery or pathology fees for your biopsy were, say, a pound of tomatoes for which one wants the best bargain.

My problem is getting links to the quotes, because they don't always show up on official sites or in news coverage, but rather transcripts of events. I'll search around, but do remind me if I forget to get back to you.

[_dynamicdems]

3. Those are exactly what I am looking for! If you don't have the links,

I can research them. All I really need to verify is who, where and when as I don't include any links with the quotations, just a brief citation.

People simply don't realize just how vile, compassionless and dangerous these right-wingers are.

My goal is to compile about 200 of the worst ones.

Thank you, any help is appreciated.

[CBHagman]

7. Here is something to start with.

As you write...


"People simply don't realize just how vile, compassionless and dangerous these right-wingers are."

Amen to that! I think jaws would drop all over the country if people really understood what was going on in the circles of GOP power.

To the quotes:

From Allan Hubbard on April 19, 2006, possibly in a conference call (though I forget) on the topic of health savings accounts:

"As I mentioned, most of us get our health care insurance -- it's provided by our employer, and to be perfectly honest, we view health care costs as free."

Another nauseating snippet from Hubbard, the same event:

"...if our employers paid for our groceries, think about what would happen. When we went to the -- when we go to the grocery store, we would insist on whatever it is we wanted, whether it were caviar or lobster or steak."

(SNIP)

"And we would never ask about the price. The supermarkets would, if they were smart business people, which they are, they would raise their prices dramatically."

(SNIP)

"And that's been the situation in the health care industry for the last 40 years."

If you can get a copy of the whole transcript, it's more fleshed out, but it's also more of the same stinking, vile horse manure (No offense to horses is intended). Hubbard's stance is that we're spoiled brats when it comes to health care, that we haven't been forced to look at the price.

This from the administration that eagerly signed bankruptcy "reform," which makes if more difficult for people to walk away from their debts...including medical bills higher than most of us would like to contemplate.

By the way, I have a friend who is employed and has health insurance. She also faced a life-threatening illness, and before she could receive complete care, she had to fork over $24,000.00. No, that is not a typo.

She'd have some REALLY nice things to say to Hubbard, as would I. :grr:

[_dynamicdems]

8. Unfortunately, the full transcript isn't online. There was a pdf file

discussing Mr. Hubbard as a keynote speaker, but that was it.

I did find one quote of his along the same lines from an op-ed he did in the Times, which I think pretty much sums up his rotten perspective on health care:

"Health care is expensive because the vast majority of Americans consume it as if it were free. Health insurance policies with low deductibles insulate people from the cost of the medical care they use - so much so that they often do not even ask for prices." -Allan B. Hubbard, White House National Economic Council Directorm, New York Times, April 3, 2006

[CBHagman]

10. To paraphrase what Mickey Leland once said...

...these people are evil violators of mothers. That the Bush administration could pin high health care prices on THE PEOPLE GOING TO THE DOCTOR and not on the insurance companies, the bond market, and other factors -- oh, and then make sure that it's harder to declare bankruptcy -- pretty much puts the lie to that business of compassionate conservatism.

I'll get back to you with more quotes on the various issues.

[_dynamicdems]

11. What's so frigging evil is that he comes off as rational to anyone

who doesn't really stop and think about what he's saying. Doctors and hospitals honestly don't make all that much profit as is. The insurance companies, however, are making obscene profits. And of course the insurance companies love the idea. They want to make even more profit.

It makes me so mad because a number of people are stupid enough to view this as a gain. One thing you can be sure of coming from the Bush Administration: if they give you a crumb they are going to take away a loaf.

The insurance companies and Bushco will be the only winners here. Oh and those rich folks who always pay their health care out of pocket will be just fine. They're the only ones who will benefit from savings accounts. And those people will be able to afford quality health care while both the quality and availability for everyone else will decline.

Medical care being compared to buying groceries. I've never heard anything so outrageous in my life. When doctors have to be compete over price, the rich are the only ones who will be able to afford a good doctor. Who is going to go through 8 years of schooling when they can get a two-year degree in electronics and earn more?

[partisan]

2. "It's hard work."

- George Bush

[_dynamicdems]

4. Yes, that was a horrible quote...I can't remember the entire thing, but

I'll find it. I'm also trying to find a few more evil Santorum quotes and quotes from other Republicans running for office this year. If you happen to come across any of these, please send them my way.

Thanks!

[sandnsea]

5. Don't forget to add the Democratic neocons

Like Kennedy and Truman, apparently. I just cannot understand how people will jump on anything that smears whoever they consider to be unpure Democrats, even if it smears great Presidents in the process.

:banghead:

[CBHagman]

6. Two points on that.

One, it always fascinates me that the Republican Party discovers its adoration for Democrats after they are A) out of office, B) in the minority and therefore limited in what they can do, or C) conveniently dead.

For example, the Bush administration wants to be the anti-Clinton administration...except when a particular Clinton view, comment, or approach appears to back up the Bush administration. Then it's buddy time.

I'm sure you can think of other examples.

Then there's the game I call One Person Purity Party, which involves finding a fault with EVERY Democrat you can name, to the point where you obliterate the Democratic legacy because no one -- and I mean no one -- is ideologically pure enough to be in the party with you. JFK, Truman, FDR, Carter, Clinton, LBJ -- no one gets to stay, because someone on our team will find something that will result in the purge. :eyes:

[_dynamicdems]

9. New URL

http://www.dynamicdems.com/elephant_droppings.htm