Notable Saturday Quotes

06 August 2011 |permalink | email article

CNBC’s Jim Cramer, on MSNBC’s Hardball, expressing disbelief when told by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor that the Republican caucus would oppose extending federal unemployment benefits to workers. Does the shadow speaker feel the same about Congress extending the payroll tax cut for employees before they expire at year’s end?

“Unless you have working people, you don’t have revenue from taxes. If you cut spending, jobs will be eliminated and you won’t get any revenue. Every dollar spent creates jobs.” – Stanley Oland, 62, a Montana Republican, cited in a New York Times editorial relative to a new poll indicating that a record 82 percent of Americans now disapprove of Congress. 

“The Fed needs to stop making excuses, while the president needs to coming up with real job-creating proposals. And if Republicans block those proposals, the president needs to make a Harry Truman-style campaign against the do-nothing GOP.” Columnist Paul Krugman. The real question now is whether David Plouffe and David Axelrod are listening.

“I don’t think there’s any question that it’s divisive. I think the political motivations behind it are transparent.” – Tom Spencer, a Methodist and chief executive of Interfaith Action of Central Texas, a multifaith group led by Gov. Rick Perry’s former pastor – even as the former Democrat and now putative Republican presidential candidate edges closer to the political flame.

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