The war spending bill "actually spends more money on the International Monetary Fund than on the war.”
Says President Obama was wrong "about Muslims' historical contributions to mankind, such as algebra (actually that was the ancient Babylonians), the compass (that was the Chinese), pens (the Chinese again) and medical discoveries."
Says Vice President Joe Biden "admits that the American people are being scammed" with the economic stimulus package.
There are billions of barrels of oil beneath our oceans and in Alaska, and there is ample oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West, but Democrats "say all this American energy is off limits."
In the 100 days since its passage, the economic stimulus has "saved or created nearly 150,000 jobs."
Sotomayor "ruled against the white firefighter — Ricci and other white firefighters — just on the basis that she thought women and minorities should be given a preference because of their skin color and because of the history of discrimination in the past. The law was totally disregarded."
A public option for health care would end private insurance "because the private insurance people will not be able to compete with a government option."
Democrats in Congress "had control since January of 2007. They haven't passed a law making waterboarding illegal. They haven't gone into any of these things and changed law."
The economic stimulus bill created a council that's "modeled after the national board that controls Britain’s health system."
"Already we've identified $2 trillion in deficit reductions over the next decade."
It is "the Department of Homeland Security's view that returning military veterans and gun owners are likely to commit terrorist acts."
"Some even advocate wiping out 401(k)s entirely and replacing them with government-run accounts."
"As a percentage of gross domestic product, we are reducing nondefense discretionary spending to its lowest level since the '60s, lower than it was under Reagan, lower than it was under Clinton, lower than it was under Bush, or both Bushes."
Republican leaders said "no" to "tax cuts for 95% of working Americans."
The Congressional Budget Office "estimates that only 15 percent of this stimulus package will be spent in 2009" and only 37 percent in 2010.
"The (economic stimulus) legislation could open billions of taxpayer dollars to left-wing groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)."
The Rev. Rick Warren "has called Christians who advance a social gospel Marxists."
"For my energy plan, my economic plan, and the other proposals you'll hear tonight, I've offered spending cuts above and beyond their cost."
McCain is "selectively editing Joe Biden's words...Biden actually said about Barack Obama: 'They're gonna find out this guy's got steel in his spine.'"
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