"9/11 has been the pretext for the systematic dismantling of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Your administration is reading from the same playbook that the Bush administration foisted on America through documented secrecy and deception," – actor Charlie Sheen, in an imagined interview with Obama.
Category: Awards
Hewitt Award Nominee
"Obama on Wall Street today. That's like sending a child molester to speak to a kindergarten class," – Neal Boortz, talk-show host.
Malkin Award Nominee
Via Ben Smith, a poster 
Hewitt Award Nominee
"The text of the president’s speech to schoolchildren is largely inoffensive. But it contains at least one political gaffe. If you quit school, he tells the kids, “You’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.” Among Americans between ages 65 and 74, 20.7 percent quit before finishing high school. For those 75 and older, the figure is 27.4 percent. The latter group includes some who quit in order to enlist in the armed forces after Pearl Harbor. And yet the president seems to be calling them unpatriotic," – John J Pitney Jr., NRO.
Moore Award Nominee
"[Tea baggers and conservative bloggers] want Obama to be ruthless and authoritarian because they want to think of themselves as a heroic resistance. They evoke Hitler not because they fear another Hitler, their very obsession with Nazi imagery betrays their attraction; no, they're longing for a Leader, a Hitler of their own. Even a Hitler in high heels, if you can picture such a lady, and I think we all can," – James Wolcott, Vanity Fair.
Hewitt Award Nominee
by Chris Bodenner
"He has the three things that are necessary to establish an authoritarian government [a national police force, gun control and control over the press]. And so we need to be ever-vigilant, because freedom is precious," – Congressman Paul Broun (R-GA). All you can do is gawk.
Hewitt Award Nominee
by Chris Bodenner
"I don’t know why President Obama is obsessed with turning terrorists loose in America," – Jim Inhofe, a sitting US Senator.
Yglesias Award Nominee
by Andrew
"It's just a guess, but my own suspicion is that the raucous town hall meetings that blindsided pols and press alike reflect the voters' true feelings — misinformed, perhaps, but sincere — and their previous passionate demands for what they now passionately oppose — in a word, "change" — were empty ritual," – Mike Kinsley.
Hathos Alert
by Andrew
Orrin Hatch composed a song to honor his late friend, Senator Kennedy. I know not what else to say:
Hewitt Award Nominee
by Andrew
"Are all of Obama's foreign policy initiatives pegged to the Islamic calendar?" – Michael Goldfarb, panicking at the thought of any tiny progress toward a settlement in the Middle East.
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