Political Quotes

“good morning, Wyoming. In Wyoming it is midnight right now. I suspect there are people watching and probably wondering what the heck is going on. We are here at this hour dealing with a nonessential distraction, and it is being done so that it is a distraction from the mounting ObamaCare problems. None of these nominees need to be confirmed, not even the circuit court judges, and maybe especially the circuit court judges. I was here when President Bush tried to fill those circuit court judges in the DC Circuit. And I remember Senator Reid and the chairman of the Judiciary Committee making an impassioned speech that they were not needed, that the workload was too low in the District of Columbia, that they should not be approved. Of course, since they were in the majority, they had the capability to ever keep that from happening. But when the shoe is on the other foot, they need those DC court judges, even though the caseload has not gone up. So they broke the rules to the change the rules, and part of that was so that--we are calling it ObamaCare 2--it was so that the American people would be distracted from the problems they are having signing up for ObamaCare. Some of my constituents ask that I not call it ``ObamaCare.'' They ask that I call it ``the Obama tax'' because that is what the Supreme Court said was the legal part of it, that we can virtually tax anybody anything we want as long as we call it a tax.…”