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GOP Quotes Archives

	GOP Quotes of the Week, Free Scooter Edition Over the past week or so, the ever more productive Republican gaffe machine shifted into overdrive. The violence and chaos in Iraq produced prodigious new helpings of conservative revisionist history. In Washington, Cheney chief-of-staff Scooter Libby learned his much deserved fate, while Attorney General Alberto Gonzales awaited a looming no-confidence vote. Even as GOP presidential hopefuls jumped ship on George W. Bush, the Republican '08 race was made spicier by the mainstream media's schoolgirl crush on Mitt Romney and Ronald... more Posted on June 10, 2007 \| Comments (1)

	GOP Quotes of the Week, Happy Endings Edition The past week was a bittersweet time of garbled goodbyes and failed farewells for President Bush and his amen corner on the right. In Washington, Paul Wolfowitz resigned in disgrace, Tony Blair bid adieu to both President and his own legacy, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced new charges of malpractice over his Ashcroft bedside manner. Meanwhile, as President Bush dug in his heels over his fiasco in Iraq, the Teletubby terrorist Jerry Falwell shuffled off this mortal coil. Together,... more Posted on May 20, 2007 \| Comments (2)

	GOP Quotes of the Week, Reagan's Heirs Edition Over the past week, the continuing implosion of the Republican Party produced another bumper crop of jaw-dropping conservative gaffes and goofs. GOP infighting over the dismal realities in Iraq, Alberto Gonzales' PurgeGate scandal, and a fresh batch of right-wing rage combined to deliver new innovations in conservative rhetorical psychosis. And in recent days, White House hopeful Mitt Romney rivaled the current Oval Office occupant for sheer verbal incontinence. What follows below, then, are the latest GOP Quotes of the Week:... more Posted on May 10, 2007 \| Comments (1)

	GOP Quotes of the Week, Iraq Veto Edition Judging from the latest deluge of egregious gaffes, blunders and banality from the conservative chattering class, Stephen Colbert was certainly right that "reality has a well-known liberal bias." President Bush's wildly unpopular war funding veto, the continued entropy in Iraq, George Tenet's revisionist history and the rhetorical mishaps of 2008 GOP hopefuls combined to produce a hilarious - and disturbing - mix of Republican verbal psychosis. Here, then, are the latest GOP Quotes of the Week: Between Iraq and a... more Posted on May 2, 2007 \| Comments (3)

	GOP Quotes of the Week If April showers bring May flowers, then this month's torrential downpour of Republican gaffes and guffaws promises a rosy future for Democrats. The implosion of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales over the U.S attorneys scandal, the missteps of 2008 GOP presidential contenders, criminality from a new crop of Banana Republicans and the continuing entropy in Iraq combined to produce an endless supply of punchlines. And as usual, President Bush contributed his own words of wit and wisdom. Here, then, are the... more Posted on April 22, 2007 \| Comments (4)

	GOP Quotes of the Week, Gonzo-McCain Edition Reeling from a cavalcade of scandals and policy disasters, President Bush and his water carriers among the Republican faithful offered up another healthy dose of eye-popping lies, hilarious hypocrisy, verbal psychosis and other rhetorical disasters in recent days. Carnage in Iraq, a disgraced Attorney General at home and myriad other woes produced another flood of GOP gaffes, proving perhaps that when your back is against the wall, your foot ends up in your mouth: Iraq Debate "I bought five rugs... more Posted on April 3, 2007 \| Comments (0)

	GOP Quotes of the Week, Rule of Law Edition It was another dismal week for the Republican Party and a Bush presidency now in its last throes. The growing scandals over political motivated firings of U.S attorneys, the conviction of Scooter Libby, FBI Patriot Act law-breaking, the Walter Reed disgrace and continued chaos produced an unusually heavy crop of lies, gaffes and distortions from the usual suspects on the right. U.S. Attorney Firings "People have to believe in what we say." Alberto Gonzales, March 9, 2007. "One day there... more Posted on March 11, 2007 \| Comments (0)

	GOP Quotes Du Jour, Cheney Implosion Edition In the war of words between left and right, the conservative chattering classes suffered from a rhetorical quadruple whammy this week. Reality was not kind to the right with Republican rebellion over the Iraq surge, the Libby CIA leak trial, President Bush's abysmal State of the Union and Dick Cheney's media implosion. Here, then, are Today's Mantras: "I'm not that good at pronouncing words anyway." President Bush, January 29, 2007. "I just want to tell you, I didn't do it."... more Posted on January 30, 2007 \| Comments (0)

	GOP Quotes of the Week, Libby-SOTU Edition As George W. Bush prepares to deliver his 2007 State of the Union address, the President and his amen corner in suffered through another week of rhetorical distress. With the GOP in rebellion over the President's "surge' in Iraq and the CIA leak trial of Cheney chief-of-staff Scooter Libby underway, Bush in succeeding weeks might look back fondly on his current 28% approval rating. Here, then, are the latest Quotes of the Week: "I will not be sacrificed so Karl... more Posted on January 23, 2007 \| Comments (0)