8-18-2011 Liberal Shit

"I should point out, when you talk about the SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] program or the food stamp program, you have to recognize that it's also an economic stimulus. Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity."

-Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

"We don't put pressure on the president," Waters told the audience at Wayne County Community College. "Let me tell you why. We don't put pressure on the president because ya'll love the president. You love the president. You're very proud to have a black man -- first time in the history of the United States of America. If we go after the president too hard, you're going after us."

-Maxine Waters

“We now have a group of U.S. politicians seeking political purity, who seem to have much in common with the Taliban. They are Tea Party members, and because of blind adherence to smaller government, they seem intent on destroying what American political leaders have constructed in more than two centuries of hard, often painful, work. Like the Taliban, they see compromise as an unacceptable alternative.”

-Martin Frost

"It's very hard to get inflation during a depressed economy", "If we discovered there was an immanent alien invasion and we needed a massive military build up to counter that, we would be out of this slump in 18 months"

-Paul Krugman

“This deal is a sugar-coated Satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see.”

-Emanuel Cleaver

“What we're trying to do is save the world from the Republican budget. We're trying to save life on this planet as we know it today.”

-Nancy Pelosi