Political Quotes

“Mr. President, yesterday the Democrats in the Senate held a news conference in which they rolled out their agenda, which has been described differently by different news organizations. The headline from the Washington Examiner said: ``Majority threatened, Democrats take up populace agenda to distract from ObamaCare.'' The Wall Street Journal headline said: ``Senate Democrats try to change subject from ObamaCare.'' The New York Times in reporting on that story, their headline was: ``Democrats, as Part of Midterm Strategy to Schedule Votes on Pocketbook Issues.'' So that was a little more, perhaps, flattering headline. In the story in the New York Times, it goes on to say: The proposals have little chance of passing. But Democrats concede that making new laws is not really the point. Rather, they are trying to force Republicans to vote against them. Later on in the story, the New York Times goes on to say: Part of the goal is to energize the Democratic base, which will be crucial to turnout in the more conservative states where the party needs to win this year. So everybody kind of gets the joke that this is really about the midterm elections. The agenda the Democrats are now rolling out is designed to try to create a distraction away from their economic record and from ObamaCare. It is interesting to me because the Democrats have been the majority in the Senate now for 8 years. So you would think by now this sort of an agenda would have been inactive.…”