They Said What?

The Big Lie: “We will not Christmas-tree this bill. The times are too urgent. Everyone has their own desires and needs. It’s going to have to wait.” —Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) before the bailout bill was larded up to 451 pages

(Say what you want about Paulson, and you might just be right, his original bill was three pages)

Off the deep end: “[Republicans] get to take things out on poor people. Let’s be honest: The fact that some of the poor people are black doesn’t hurt them either, from their standpoint. This is an effort, I believe, to appeal to a kind of anger in people.” —Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)

Gee, I wonder why the poor are angry. Could it be that they know deep down inside that the Democrats want to give them everything, not because they are poor, but because they will vote? That the Republicans believe that everyone has the right to know how to fish instead of expecting someone to give them the fish?

Revising history: “We kicked—along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon.” —Joe Biden in Thursday’s vice-presidential debate **“Biden said the strangest and most ill-informed thing I have ever heard about Lebanon in my life. Nobody has ever kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon. Not the United States. Not France. Not Israel. And not the Lebanese. Nobody. Joe Biden has literally no idea what he is talking about.” —Michael Totten

Biden also thinks that FDR went on TV in 1929 to talk to the masses about the Depression.

Take your own advice: “The truth matters.” —Joe Biden

Biden must be writing for Saturday Night Live these days.