REWIND - A Week of Quotes & Cartoons

SUNDAY

Quote of the Day
April 8, 2012

'Congress isn't afraid of bankers. They don't think
we'll do anything to kick them out of office. We are
trying to change that perception.'

Roger Beverage, president and CEO
of the Oklahoma Bankers
Association. Quoted in
'The Wall Street Backlash'
by Bill Moyers and
Michael Winship
Salon.com
April 6, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/85bkswz

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/7u9eexg
Deductions for the 99%
Brian McFadden - New York Times

MONDAY

Quote of the Day
April 9, 2012

'In another month the picture will become clearer. If I
don't receive a positive response from Netanyahu, I
will resume the UN process and ask the UN General
Assembly to receive the status of a nonmember state."

Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas
Haaretz (Israel)
April 9, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/84ek3sd

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/823pnr2
Scream
Ted Rall

TUESDAY

Quote of the Day
April 10, 2012

'Labor leaders have become targets around the world.
Human Rights Watch says that more than 2,880 labor
leaders have been murdered in Colombia since 1986.
Labor unions in the United States pointed to those
murders as a reason to block any trade deal with
Colombia, but Congress nevertheless ratified a trade
pact with Colombia last October.

'The A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Solidarity Center has protested
what it says were the murders of six union activists in
Guatemala - all involved in that country's banana
industry - over the past 15 months. '

'Killing of Bangladeshi Labor Organizer
Signals an Escalation in Violence'
New York Times
April 10, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/75mumem

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/7uaejnj
Brother From Another Century
Bob Englehart - Hartford Courant

WEDNESDAY

Quote of the Day
April 11, 2012

'House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan told reporters in New
York today that a dozen elected Democrats secretly
support his plan to cut entitlement spending and
privatize some benefits - but he wouldn't name "because
I don't' want to get them in trouble."

'Ryan cited Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, with whom he
developed a Medicare reform plan, as one Democrat with
whom he could work, and said, "I believe there is a
bipartisan consensus emerging on going this direction."

'..."There are a number of Democrats but I don't want
to name their names, because I don't want to get them
in trouble," he said. "I've had 12 come up to me and
say, 'I love what you're doing with Ron [Wyden],'" he
said. As for going public with their support, Ryan said
the Democrats told him: "No way, I'll get killed."

'"I'm not going to out Democrats who I believe are in
office, who are favorably disposed to these ideas, for
their own sake and for the sake fo getting this
consensus realized," Ryan said at the gathering hosted
by Bloomberg View in Manhattan Tuesday morning.'

Buzzfeed Politics
April 11, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/6n2ww8j

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/7re9sbq
Have Nots
Mike Luckovich

THURSDAY

Quote of the Day
April 12, 2012

'We hope the people of Florida's 22nd Congressional
District will note that he repeatedly polarizes the
American people instead of focusing on their interests.
When people like Rep. West have no ideals or
principles, they rely on personal attacks. The CPC is
proud to stand up for economic equality and civil and
human rights for all Americans. Congress is having, and
will continue to have, an ongoing debate about job
creation, home foreclosures and the issues that concern
working families. But we will not engage in base and
childish conversations that lower the high level of
discourse Americans rightly expect from their
representatives.'

Reps. Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva,
co-chairs, the Congressional Progressive
Caucus, in response to Rep. Allen West's
claim that there are 85 communists in the
House of Representatives and his later
contention that he was referring to
members of Caucus

Crew of 42
April 12, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/c2tok2y

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/7b2tf6k
Obstacle
Stuart Carlson

FRIDAY

Quote of the Day
April 13, 2012

'America used to be a country that thought big about
the future. Major public projects, from the Erie Canal
to the interstate highway system, used to be a well-
understood component of our national greatness.
Nowadays, however, the only big projects politicians
are willing to undertake - with expense no object -
seem to be wars. Funny how that works.'

Columnist Paul Krugman
New York Times
April 13, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/86wmqfd

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/88gth39
Entitlements
Ben Sargent

SATURDAY

Quote of the Day
April 14, 2012

'On April 16, 2007, our nation suffered its deadliest
shooting incident ever by a single gunman when a
student killed 32 people and wounded 25 others at
Virginia Tech before committing suicide. Five years
later, have we learned anything about controlling our
national gun and gun violence epidemic? A look at just
a few of the sad headlines across the country so far
this year suggests we haven't learned much or anything
at all.

'...It's a tragedy that five years after Virginia Tech
so little has changed. How many years must we wait
until tragic headlines about school shootings, children
dying, and people using the "shoot first and ask
questions later" defense to take the law into their own
hands go away? When will we finally get the courage to
stand up as a nation and say enough to the deadly
proliferation of guns and gun violence that endanger
children's and public safety?'

Marian Wright Edelman,
president, Children's Defense
Fund
blog
April 14, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/7p2uk33

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/6nmpcp9
Stay at Home
Lalo Alcaraz

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