"Thank you all for coming today to hear this conversation about how to make sure [Social Security] functions well for a young generation of Latinos and people from all walks of life."
President Bush, 5/4/04, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050504.html
VERSUS
"Under the...
Rep. John Linder (R-GA) has "stunned congressional colleagues and New Yorkers with complaints about air security and saying another hijack attack wouldn't be a 'catastrophe.'" At two hearings of the House Homeland Security Committee last month, Linder "blasted federal spending that focuses...
It used to be that when one went into business, there were certain financial risks inherent with any operation. Not any more. AP reports, "a provision in a House-passed energy bill would require federal compensation to private companies for costs associated with oil and gas leases that can't be...
"You may not possess or play computer and video games rated T, M, or A or having elements of blood and gore ... Trigger locks are required for pistols."
"What Not to Bring" to Bob Jones University, http://www.bju.edu/prospective/expect/rhall.html
"I don't think the rationale for the war hinged on the existence of stockpiles."
Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, The New Yorker, 5/9/05, http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050509fa_fact
VERSUS
"I'd like to spend a moment, if I can, stressing in particular the crucial...
Last year, ABC refused to air a commercial by the progressive United Church of Christ promoting its inclusive policy towards gays and racial minorities. Yet the same network chose to air an advertisement last night by James Dobson's Focus on the Family. Apparently tolerance is "too...
Yes, very much. And it's not just the extreme right -- it's everybody on the right. They have all the power and yet all they do all day is ***** and moan and whine about how the Democrats are holding everything up.
A key player in the middle of the ongoing Tom DeLay scandals is a shady Washington lobbyist named Jack Abramoff. Abramoff, currently under investigation by two Senate committees, the Department of the Interior and the Justice Department, is "one of the city's richest and best connected...
Joe Shirley Jr., president of the more than 180,000 person Navajo Nation, recently "vetoed a measure that would have banned same-sex marriage on the Indian reservation." Supporters of the anti-gay marriage measure, which passed the Tribal Council on a unanimous vote, tried to present the bill...
Sen. George Miller (R-VA) yesterday on NBC's Meet the Press: "In the event that a personal savings account approach is taken, allowing [Americans] to invest in a home in addition to right now it's stocks, bonds and other financial instruments, if people can invest in their own home, they'll know...
"The Native Americans I served are sophisticated business people."
Jack Abramoff, 4/30/05, http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1055884,00.html
VERSUS
"These mofos are the stupidest idiots in the land for sure They are plain stupid Morons."
Jack Abramoff, e-mails...