Insight

American humorist Will Rogers (1879 - 1935): “No party is as bad as its state and national leaders.”

Demo-gogues

Barack Obama: “If we don’t pick the right priorities now, make the right choices now, we could hinder growth and opportunity for decades, and leave our children with something less. That includes the obsession with cutting just for the sake of cutting. That hasn’t helped our economy grow; it’s held it back. Remember, our deficits are getting smaller – not bigger. On my watch, they’re falling at the fastest pace in 60 years.”

Braying Jackass

Barack Obama: “There are very real consequences when you operate ideologically, the way some of these [Republican] folks do.”

Village Idiots

O'Care architect Ezekiel Emanuel:“[I]nsurance companies don’t want the individual market as it’s constructed. They see the future. That individual market is going away. They don’t want to invest in it.”

Dezinformatsia

Politico’s Todd S. Purdum: “To the undisputed reasons for Obamacare’s rocky rollout … add a less acknowledged cause: calculated sabotage by Republicans at every step. That may sound like a left-wing conspiracy theory – and the Obama administration itself is so busy defending the indefensible early failings of its signature program that it has barely tried to make this case. But there is a strong factual basis for such a charge.”

The BIG Lie

Sen. John McCain (“R”-AZ): “[Hillary Clinton’s] work as secretary of state, with the exception of this issue of Benghazi – which isn’t going away – I think has been outstanding. I think she would be viewed by anyone, Republican or Democrat, as a very formidable candidate for 2016.”

Non Compos Mentis

Alpha Jackass

“Reverend” Jesse Jackson: “Goldwater and Reagan – had they been successful, it would have been illegal for blacks and whites to play [football] together on a Saturday afternoon.”

Short Cuts

Comedian Jay Leno: “Con artists are using confusion over ObamaCare to sign people up for what they call fake health insurance. The scammers lure victims with false promises, they say stuff like, ‘If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.’”