Some great quotes from this week
| By Unknown user - May 5, 2006 3:57:12 PM ET |
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Hat tip to the DSCC
"There're some dumb ideas in this." - GOP Sen. Conrad Burns, overheard as congressional Republicans announced their plan to help cover the high cost of gasoline [Houston Chronicle, 4/29/06 ]
"It just embarrasses me that Republicans are leading the effort, and it's just pure election-year politics." - Rush Limbaugh on the GOP's gas price plan [St. Paul Pioneer Press, 4/29/06]
"No one in Congress has a clue to what is going on when it comes to the oil markets, but [Maria] Cantwell has a better handle on it than anyone else." - Tim Hamilton, a petroleum industry consultant who heads a trade group representing independent gas station owners in Washington state Tacoma News Tribune, 4/30/06]
"Our position is eroding.... Our political position could be dramatically negatively impacted this fall and after the next presidential election." - Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, arguing that conservatives should settle for estate tax reform instead of repeal because their political position will worsen in the coming elections. [Washington Post, 5/2/06]
"Call it another Harriet Miers moment, but it appears as if this plan was poorly vetted." - Conservative activist Gary Bauer on the GOP gas tax rebate plan [Bauer End-of-Day Email, 5/2/06]
"When my own daughter harasses me, you know you're in trouble." - Sen. Trent Lott on the GOP's hasty and misguided $100 tax rebate plan [Washington Post, 5/3/06]
"I think it hurt all of us." - GOP Sen. John Cornyn, acknowledging that the Frist-led GOP response to rising gas prices may have hurt Senate Republicans [New York Times, 5/5/06]
"I voted for Bush, but now I wish I hadn't, Things went bad. There
aren't enough jobs for us. And gas, what's the deal with these prices?
This is a pretty Republican area. But I don't think any Republican is
going to win here this time." - Rachel Joseph, one of more than 300
press operators locked out by an auto-parts manufacturer in Jackson
Ohio. [Akron Beacon Journal, 5/5/06
]
"There're some dumb ideas in this." - GOP Sen. Conrad Burns, overheard as congressional Republicans announced their plan to help cover the high cost of gasoline [Houston Chronicle, 4/29/06 ]
"It just embarrasses me that Republicans are leading the effort, and it's just pure election-year politics." - Rush Limbaugh on the GOP's gas price plan [St. Paul Pioneer Press, 4/29/06]
"No one in Congress has a clue to what is going on when it comes to the oil markets, but [Maria] Cantwell has a better handle on it than anyone else." - Tim Hamilton, a petroleum industry consultant who heads a trade group representing independent gas station owners in Washington state Tacoma News Tribune, 4/30/06]
"Our position is eroding.... Our political position could be dramatically negatively impacted this fall and after the next presidential election." - Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, arguing that conservatives should settle for estate tax reform instead of repeal because their political position will worsen in the coming elections. [Washington Post, 5/2/06]
"Call it another Harriet Miers moment, but it appears as if this plan was poorly vetted." - Conservative activist Gary Bauer on the GOP gas tax rebate plan [Bauer End-of-Day Email, 5/2/06]
"When my own daughter harasses me, you know you're in trouble." - Sen. Trent Lott on the GOP's hasty and misguided $100 tax rebate plan [Washington Post, 5/3/06]
"I think it hurt all of us." - GOP Sen. John Cornyn, acknowledging that the Frist-led GOP response to rising gas prices may have hurt Senate Republicans [New York Times, 5/5/06]
"I voted for Bush, but now I wish I hadn't, Things went bad. There
aren't enough jobs for us. And gas, what's the deal with these prices?
This is a pretty Republican area. But I don't think any Republican is
going to win here this time." - Rachel Joseph, one of more than 300
press operators locked out by an auto-parts manufacturer in Jackson
Ohio. [Akron Beacon Journal, 5/5/06
]
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