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David Frum
@davidfrum· Apr 14, 2011

I endorse so much of what Paul Ryan wants to do. I think a 25 percent top rate of income tax is a great idea.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Mar 6, 2011

What will the world look like after that? He will be enraged. He will blame the United States.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Mar 6, 2011

If Gadhafi survives, we're going to have a pattern: that two of America's worst enemies in the region have faced and crushed brutally, democracy movements.

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Bill Maher
@billmaher· Jan 9, 2011

It would be wonderful if President Obama or somebody from the other party, the opposition party, would say something in support of gun control.

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Bill Maher
@billmaher· Jan 9, 2011

This is what you get from small government. You get someone who is unable to get readily available health care and -- and quite easily able to buy a gun. There's your small government for you.

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Bill Maher
@billmaher· Jan 9, 2011

You create an atmosphere. Yes, you do. Governor Perry in -- in Texas threatening secession over -- over the tax hike that Obama wanted, over a three percent tax hike on the richest one percent? That's reason to throw down the S card? These…

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Bill Maher
@billmaher· Jan 9, 2011

I think it's disingenuous for the right wing, as I've heard them say today, that we can't make any connection here.

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Bill Maher
@billmaher· Jan 9, 2011

It's a very well-armed country with a lot of nutty people. And that's a very bad combination.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Sep 12, 2010

I think there's plenty of opportunity to oppose every idea in Barack Obama's head without denying that they are American ideas.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Sep 8, 2010

Alan Grayson is a big part of the problem, generally with the country. I mean, he's really a talk radio figure more than a political figure.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Sep 8, 2010

Well, sure, the president is the visible symbol of the status quo in the country. The status quo is dreadful. People are really hurting.

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Glenn Beck
@glennbeck· Aug 26, 2010

Glenn Beck says his rally tomorrow at the Lincoln Memorial will reclaim the civil rights movement.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Jul 20, 2010

What they need to hear from conservatives are better ideas about how to create jobs and raise incomes.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Jul 20, 2010

It looks like they panicked. It looks like they have some over -- over-twitchy decision making punches there, and they don't seem to show the kind of loyalty down that was often shown during the Bush administration.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Jul 20, 2010

That's why we need the House of Representatives back, so we'll have subpoena power and we can actually investigate these things and not leave it to the Obama administration.

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Bill Maher
@billmaher· May 4, 2010

They're so desperate to make this Obama's fault. You know, as soon as it happened, we heard, 'This is his Katrina,' because you know, in the minds of those who don't think too far or too deeply, 'OK, disaster, Louisiana, OK, that's enough…

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Bill Maher
@billmaher· May 4, 2010

Well, you know, this is America, Anderson. Everyone should be able to buy guns, as many as they want, as often as they want, to use wherever they want. That's the American way. You know the most important amendment is the Second Amendment…

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Apr 6, 2010

Well, she is a little bit like plutonium. And Ed Rollins is right, if she started to run as a third-party candidate, the head of the Tea Party, she would do a lot of damage to the Republican Party.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Apr 6, 2010

She has a huge reverse gender gap. That is, her own gender is more suspicious of her than the male gender is.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Apr 6, 2010

If she decided to run as a third-party candidate, the head of the Tea Party, she would do a lot of damage to the Republican Party.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Apr 6, 2010

I get the feeling quite a lot of people are asking him to step down including Ed Rollins. And so I don't think race buys you any immunity, nor should it.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Apr 6, 2010

I do not agree. ... We need some different perspectives inside the Republican Party and at the highest levels.

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Glenn Beck
@glennbeck· Feb 21, 2010

People are losing a fundamental belief that it's going to be better to tomorrow -- tomorrow. Let me tell you now, it is still morning in America.

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