REWIND - A Week of Quotes & Cartoons

SUNDAY

Quote of the Day
April 3, 2011

'Republican Congressman Tom Marino [R. Pa.), who is on
the Foreign Affairs Committee, said: "If we go into
Libya, where does it stop? Do we go into Africa next?"

So, you see why he's not on the Intelligence
Committee.'

Comedian Jay Leno
New York Times
April 3, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/3dn7fjz

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/4353yhy
Somebody's Got to Pay
David Horsey - Seattle PI

MONDAY

Quote of the Day
April 4, 2011

'...The more divided a society becomes in terms of
wealth, the more reluctant the wealthy become to spend
money on common needs. The rich don't need to rely on
government for parks or education or medical care or
personal security-they can buy all these things for
themselves. In the process, they become more distant
from ordinary people, losing whatever empathy they may
once have had. They also worry about strong
government-one that could use its powers to adjust the
balance, take some of their wealth, and invest it for
the common good. The top 1 percent may complain about
the kind of government we have in America, but in truth
they like it just fine: too gridlocked to re-
distribute, too divided to do anything but lower
taxes.'

Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz
Vanity Fair
May 2001
http://tinyurl.com/4y3rbc2

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/3gaez9s
Exceptionalism
Jim Morin - Miami Herald

TUESDAY

Quote of the Day
April 5, 2011

'On Dec. 24, 1860, delegates at South Carolina's
secession convention adopted a "Declaration of the
Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession
of South Carolina from the Federal Union." It noted "an
increasing hostility on the part of the non-
slaveholding States to the institution of slavery" and
protested that Northern states had failed to "fulfill
their constitutional obligations" by interfering with
the return of fugitive slaves to bondage. Slavery, not
states' rights, birthed the Civil War.'

'Five myths about why the South seceded'
By James W. Loewen
Washington Post
February 26, 2011

http://tinyurl.com/4e7anzg

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/3ulpe4y
Trump Ready
Pat Oliphant

WEDNESDAY

Quote of the Day
April 6, 2011

'Republicans can't take sole credit for creating a
vision of a diminished America. Most of the Washington-
based commentariat has focused on the debt over the
past year, ignoring both the persistence of high
unemployment and the absolute stagnation of wages even
as profits have soared. Those who applaud the
macroeconomics of Ryan's cuts should at least be
compelled to explain how ordinary Americans, whose
incomes haven't risen since the late '90s, can take up
the slack, in their own purchasing and in the nation's
economic activity, created by these cuts. They might
even want to think about raising taxes on profits and
capital gains, since these forms of income are rising
even as wages flatline.

'And, finally, there's talk that we have a president
who's a Democrat - the party that created the American
social contract of the 20th century. Initially, he
focused on reshaping and extending that contract into
the 21st. Now that the Republicans want to repeal it
all, he's nowhere to be found. Has anybody seen him?
Does he still exist? '

Harold Meyerson
opinion writer
Washington Post
April 6, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/3rtmxrm

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/3k74nfq
Entitlement Grants
Pat Oliphant

THURSDAY

Quote of the Day
April 7, 2011

'Chairman Ryan's sweeping budget plan has been labeled
"courageous," but it's a cowardly budget in a crucial
respect. It proposes a dramatic reverse-Robin-Hood
approach that gets the lion's share of its budget cuts
from programs for low-income Americans - the
politically and economically weakest group in America
and the politically safest group for Ryan to target-
even as it bestows extremely large tax cuts on the
wealthiest Americans. Taken together, its proposals
would produce the largest redistribution of income from
the bottom to the top in modern U.S. history, while
increasing poverty and inequality more than any measure
in recent times and possibly in the nation's history.'

Robert Greenstein, president
of The Center on Budget
and Policy Priorities
April 5, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/4y7n97f

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/435732a
Surrounded?
Jeff Danziger

FRIDAY

Quote of the Day
April 8, 2011

'He needs to stop saying that racist bullshit birther
shit. Quote me please. He should be ashamed of himself.
It's awful, really."

Singer John Legend, referring
to Republican Presidential
candidate Donald Trump
Daily Intel - New York
April 8, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/42ym6n8

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/43k3dov
Share the Pain
Tom Toles - Washington Post

SATURDAY

Quote of the Day
April 9, 2011

'The president may be viewed as liberal by some of his
conservative critics, but to the traditional base of
the Democratic Party he is often seen as not liberal
enough. As details of the budget agreement came to
light on Saturday, the first criticism came from the
left, with Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr.,
Democrat of Illinois, accusing the president of
"keeping the government open on the backs of the poor
and disenfranchised."'

New York Times
April 9, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/fmarun

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/422et3c
Nice Young Man
Stuart Carlson

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