Statements about Pundits
"The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings."
Obama's approval numbers 'are in the low 40s.'
"We know that tax cuts are remarkably un-stimulative when you compare them with different kinds of government spending."
"The overall fact about illegal immigration is that it's not actually getting worse."
"25 percent of our economy is the financial sector."
Shirley Sherrod "was forced to resign before anybody on Fox said a word about this."
Democrats in the 1930s wanted President Franklin Roosevelt "to be more conservative."
Says that President Obama said if Congress passed the economic stimulus bill, "we would have unemployment at 8 percent and no higher. And it went higher."
"Subsidies for oil and gas companies make up 88 percent of all federal subsidies. Just cutting the oil and gas subsidies out would save the U.S. government $45 billion every year."
The final pitch of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series "was a foot and half probably high and outside."
Halliburton defrauded American taxpayers of "hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq."
Halliburton gave Dick Cheney a $34 million payout when he left the company to join the presidential ticket.
Elena Kagan "has published five scholarly review articles, mostly on administrative law and the First Amendment. These articles were mostly on technical and procedural issues."
Elena Kagan is "a New York City radical, Marxist lawyer through and through."
"She (Kagan) took money from Goldman Sachs just like her boss, Obama."
"Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu received almost $1.8 million from BP over the last decade."
Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, cast votes for TARP, the stimulus, and an individual mandate for health care.
Greece "has a GDP the size of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex."
"At the moment, energy companies spend 0.25 percent on R&D."
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