Category: Awards

"Five years since she was murdered for failure to be appealing to the Pepsi Generation," Mark Shea, linking to a commemorative piece on Terri Schiavo.

"This is a shrewd move by the White House this announcement they’re doing on energy and offshore oil drilling. … These are the things they need to demonstrate to their constituents that the Democratic Party does not just cater to the extreme aspects of their base … Now, do I think that this measure here will help grease the path for a climate change bill and bring Republicans on board? No. Republicans in the Congress have made a calculation that cooperating with this administration at this time is not necessary for them to pick up seats," – Dan Bartlett, the top communications adviser under Bush.

"[If] it was argued during his two terms in office that Bill Clinton was “our first black President” because of his supposed liberal policies that would benefit African-Americans …[S]houldn’t Barack Obama already be our 'first gay President' due to his liberal policies pushing the homosexual agenda?" -  Tom McClusky, Family Research Council.

(Hat tip: BTB)

"It is a sad day when al-Qaeda suspects are afforded more rights than priests," – Bill Donohue. He goes on to blame the rape scandal on homosexuality.

"So, the verdict on Obamacare: The American people, No; Castro, Si," – Bill Kristol, who actually compares repealing universal access to private health insurance with the repeal of Prohibition.

"[Reforms] could never have happened without the insistence and support of the very man now being daily crowned with thorns by groundless innuendo," – New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, comparing Pope Benedict to Jesus's Passion, because he is being criticized for covering up and enabling the rape of children by priests under his direct responsibility. 

"How could clergy transgress so gravely against the doctrines of the Church? What doctrines? These offences took place in the wake of Vatican II, when doctrines were being thrown out like so much lumber. These offenders were the children of Paul VI and “aggiornamento”. Once you have debauched the Mystical Body of Christ, defiling altar boys comes easily … Benedict XVI should take advantage of a popular wave of revulsion against the failed episcopate to sack every 1960s flared-trousered hippy who is obstructing Summorum Pontificum. It is a unique opportunity to cull the hireling shepherds and clear away the dead wood of the Second Vatican Catastrophe. It is time to stop the apologies and reinstate apologetics; to rebuild all that has been destroyed in the past 40 years; to square up to liberals and secularists as so many generations of Catholics did in the past; to proclaim again the immutable truths of the One True Church that, in the glory of the Resurrection, can have no legitimate posture other than triumphalism.," – Gerald Warner, Daily Telegraph.

"This hasn't been a great week in terms of, I think, the Constitution and where it says that you're supposed to, you know, everybody is, has a mandate to have insurance. But I think the way some Republicans are handling this is nothing more than purely despicable. The names that are next to and being highlighted by those crosshairs — I think it's an abuse of the Second Amendment. I also feel as though every single person on here is a mother, a father, a friend, a brother, a sister, and to take it to this level is — it's disappointing to see this come from the Party, and I would hope that leaders like Sarah Palin would end this" – Elizabeth Hasselbeck, who campaigned with Palin.

"Possibly Obama just hates Israel and hates Jews. That’s plausible — certainly nothing in his actions suggests otherwise, really," – Glenn Reynolds.