Upright

Columnist John Ransom: “Today all you have to do is repeat a thing often enough and it becomes true. … Winston Churchill once said that Hitler was possible because his country stopped being able to recognize evil. I believe that Obamanomics, Euronomics and Abenomics is possible only because people can no longer recognize even their own lies. They can’t distinguish between what is true and the fantasy that exists only in their imagination. And if you applied that definition to a single individual, there’s only one word you can use to describe it: psychosis. Hopefully in 2014 over 50% of American voters can find help.”

Demo-gogues

Barack Obama: “I’ve gone up and down [in the polls] pretty much consistently throughout. But the good thing about when you’re down is that usually you got nowhere to go but up.”

Belly Laugh of the Week

ObamaCare architect Ezekiel Emanuel: “Clearly, just like Google and Facebook and all the internet sites [that] are constantly tweaking their sites, [and] constantly improving them, [Healthcare.gov] still has a ways to go. But it is certainly working reasonably well. I think, actually, we are going in the right direction, and for the first time, most importantly, we actually have effective management overseeing.”

Village Idiots

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney: “[Americans] don’t want an effective website. They want health insurance. They want affordable, quality coverage. And that’s what we’re working to achieve.”

Braying Jackass

ESPN columnist and CNN pundit LZ Granderson: “[Obama] should have been more forthright with how the Affordable Care Act was going to impact the country. But with that being said, all Americans know politicians lie. The question is, which lies can you live with? And, time and time again, Americans have said we can deal with the lies that President Obama tells us because we believe in his heart, he has the best interest for the American people.”

Dezinformatsia

The Daily Beast’s Sally Kohn: “To put it mildly, our forbearers would be appalled by how right-wing conservatives are trying to use government to force their religious views on all of us. Make no mistake, this is what Hobby Lobby wants to do – use government to push a conservative religious agenda. … This is, plain and simple, a corporation trying to contort government to impose the religious views of some onto many. This is precisely what our nation was founded against.”

From the ‘Non Compos Mentis’ File

“Reverend” Jesse Jackson: “If we had a living wage there would be no need for Black Friday fights. Everyone would be prosperous.”

Short Cuts

Comedian Argus Hamilton: “Oprah Winfrey caused a storm when she told the BBC she thinks the Obama Administration gets no respect due to racism in America. Actually there’s very little left of that. If nothing else, Joe Biden has destroyed the myth of white supremacy once and for all.”