Insight

President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963): “A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget…. As the national income grows, the federal government will ultimately end up with more revenues. Prosperity is the real way to balance our budget. By lowering tax rates, by increasing jobs and income, we can expand tax revenues and finally bring our budget into balance.”

The Demo-gogues

Barack Obama: “We have accomplished as much, if not more, than any time in our history, saving an economy from a Great Depression; revitalizing an auto industry that is producing better cars and has come roaring back like nobody believed; doubling our exports; drastically reducing our dependence on foreign oil; doubling fuel-efficiency standards; doubling our production of clean energy; reducing the pace of our carbon emissions; ending the war in Iraq; about to end the war in Afghanistan; re-centering our fight against terrorism in a way that respects our values and our ideals; expanding access to college for children all across this country; ending ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’; making sure that we are vindicating the notion that everybody should have a fair shot regardless of their sexual orientation, as well as their race and their gender; pushing for equal pay for women; reinstituting research for stem cells.”

Belly Laugh of the Week

Barack Obama: “Kindness covers all of my political beliefs. And when I think about what I’m fighting for, what gets me up every single day, that captures it just about as much as anything. Kindness; empathy – that sense that I have a stake in your success.”

Dezinformatsia

“[P]olice officials in several cities where [‘Knockout’] attacks have been reported said that the ‘game’ amounted to little more than an urban myth, and that the attacks in question might be nothing more than the sort of random assaults that have always occurred. And in New York City, police officials are struggling to determine whether they should advise the public to take precautions against the Knockout Game – or whether in fact it existed.”

Braying Jackass

Rep. Charlie Rangel: “Everyone knew that 40 percent of the American people had no access to healthcare. Instead of talking about what happened with the rollout, we should be so happy that we do have a plan that Republicans and Democrats can perfect. And if you have to talk politics, let the facts speak for themselves. [Republicans] ran an election – it’s all about Obama. If he walked on water, they would say the president can’t swim.”

Non Compos Mentis

Howard Dean: “I don’t think a particular employer has a right to decide what kind of health care their employees are going to get. That’s now in the hands of the federal government, and that’s where it should be.”

The BIG Lie

Part I: Michelle Obama: “[Y]ou know, [Barack] keeps his promises.”

Part II: Rep. Keith Ellison: “[Obama] owned [the Healthcare.gov debacle]. He said, ‘Look man, if you misunderstood what I was trying to say, I’m sorry about that.’ I think that shows integrity. He didn’t do anything to self-promote.”

Village Idiots

Former Obama adviser David Plouffe: “I think it’s just a fact, and it may take until 2017 when this president leaves office, you’re going to see almost every state in this country running their own exchanges eventually and expanding Medicaid. And I think it’ll work really well, then. … I think people trust this president. There have been numbers all over the place. But I’m confident that in a few months from now, the trust numbers will come up, and his approval number will come up.”

Short Cuts

Comedian Jay Leno: “When President Obama was in Los Angeles, he visited the DreamWorks Studios. Now don’t confuse DreamWorks with Obamacare – that was a dream that didn’t work.”