Rachel Maddow on All Topics
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“Since he relapsed on the air, Newt Gingrich, affectionately known here as Republican blowhard emeritus, sort of and kind of didn‘t really back away from his declaration that Supreme Court nominee Justice Sonia Sotomayor is a racist.”
“With all these red flags being raised about Scott Roeder, with the history of abortion-related violence we‘ve had in this country, why wasn‘t this guy stopped?”
“Violence as a political strategy is working to make abortions so unsafe for doctors that they are unwilling to bear the risk of performing it so women can‘t actually get one regardless of whether or not it‘s legal. It‘s the same outcome as if abortion had been outlawed. They‘re winning.”
“If we can learn half as much about Judge Sotomayor through this [confirmation] process as we have learned about the right-wing through this process, thus far, it will be very informative indeed.”
“Since even before Judge Sonia Sotomayor was announced as the nominee, critics on the right have denounced her as an activist judge. Now, the word “activist” doesn‘t mean the same thing in this context as it does in the real world.”
“If ... you think that you build up your political capital, you build up your political profile, you increase your political power by attacking a nominee—then it makes sense to come after Sonia Sotomayor with both political barrels.”
“If you think of the Supreme Court as a whiskey sour—which I have to admit I‘d sometimes do—right now as it is currently mixed, it is not that tasty a drink. It does not have the right balance.”
“Between them, Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich hold as much official power as our recently-graduated college intern, Michael, who works part-time at a bar.”
“Democrats who once supported closing Guantanamo suddenly came down with a vague, nonspecific fear that caused them to take totally incoherent political action.”
“If confronted with this horrible truth about his own statements about our nation‘s intelligence professionals, will Newt Gingrich now demand the resignation of himself?”
“The Republicans see a disagreement like that the same way that a bass sees a shiny, shiny, shiny, glinting piece of metal spinning through the lake. Never mind the big hook.”
“[Nancy Pelosi is] the one calling for full release and investigation of all the documentation, which is not the kind of thing you usually do if you're the one who's hiding the truth.”
“Is the fact that the abuse happened that‘s really the problem in terms of any potential problems for our troops overseas? Or is the fact that the abuse was photographed that is the problem?”
“It seems like [Obama is] doing a lot of talking to the right, but the people who are advocating a more liberal position than he wants aren‘t necessarily being involved in the discussion. It makes me think that the solution eventually is going to more conservative, too.”
“Think of it this way. We dated abstinence, but we‘re marrying science.”
