I listened to the soundbites the other night on television and this one struck me like a ton of bricks:
“We can’t afford the politics of delay and defeat when it comes to health care”
Know what? I can’t afford (in business) the politics of delay and defeat when it comes to… customers making purchases, making strategic decisions for the health of my company, nor when it comes to cash flow. You won’t see me stand in front of a camera and “debating” the issue by making such a crass statement. Ugh!
Madam Speaker Karen Bass of the California Assembly recently gave an interview to the LA Times where she, among other things, likened talk radio hosts to Terrorists:
How do you think conservative talk radio has affected the Legislature’s work?
The Republicans were essentially threatened and terrorized against voting for revenue. Now [some] are facing recalls. They operate under a terrorist threat: “You vote for revenue and your career is over.” I don’t know why we allow that kind of terrorism to exist. I guess it’s about free speech, but it’s extremely unfair.
So, “free speech” she doesn’t like is “unfair”… all free speech is free, but some is more free than others. I guess it’s like pornography or obsenity. I’ll know it when I see it. Unless, of course, a politician of Speaker Bass’ ilk tells me what I should be thinking and seeing.
Obama is on his way to Cairo, but dropped this nugget of information before departing New York during an interview with French TV station Canal Plus:
The president said the United States and other parts of the Western world “have to educate ourselves more effectively on Islam. [...] And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”
Yikes. Who fact checks these speeches? The United States of America doesn’t even rank in the Top 50 Muslim Countries according to the fact-based site, ReligionFacts.com. Props to Don Surber.
