Political Quotes

“Mr. President, there is a recurring gag in the comic strip ``Peanuts'' with which we are all familiar. Charlie Brown is getting ready to kick a field goal. Lucy is holding the ball while Charlie runs up to the ball. At the last second, Lucy pulls the ball away. Charlie Brown flies into the air, comes crashing back down, and falls flat on his back. We have all seen this time and time again. But what makes this gag funny is the same thing that made it famous. It wasn't so much that Lucy was tricking Charlie Brown; it was that it kept happening over and over. Charlie Brown kept being tricked. It is obvious by now that our Republican friends have drawn their political strategy from this cartoon. We have all heard Republicans weep for the deficit they say they fear. Democrats agree that we need to do something about the deficit. We have said: How about cutting the deficit by admitting we can't afford a tax break for millionaires and billionaires, a tax break that would add, under the legislation offered by my Republican colleague, Senator McConnell, $4 trillion to the debt, as this is a tax cut many admit they don't need. When was the last time we heard an investor ask for less money? What did the Republicans do? They pulled away the football and said: Rather than reduce the deficit, we would really rather give an unnecessary, unwanted, unaffordable handout to the richest of the rich. Then they went a step further.…”