The top ten quotes from the right wing lunatic fringe 2009

The top ten quotes from the right wing lunatic fringe 2009

There were plenty to choose from, here are some of the more memorable ones, enjoy.

1. "This president I think has exposed himself over and over again as a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture....I'm not saying he doesn't like white people, I'm saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist." -Glenn Beck on President Obama, sparking an advertiser exodus from his FOX News show

2. "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil." –-Sarah Palin, in a message posted on Facebook about Obama's health care plan, Aug. 7, 2009

3. “You Lie.” Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) to President Obama during a speech before Congress and the Nation.

4. "Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. His whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it's incendiary. Yes, it's ugly." --Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele

"I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership." --Steele, two days later

5. "Everywhere I go in my district, people tell me they are frightened. … I share that fear, and I believe they should be fearful. And I believe the greatest fear that we all should have to our freedom comes from this room — this very room — and what may happen later this week in terms of a tax increase bill masquerading as a health care bill. I believe we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country.” Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) from the floor of the House of Representatives

6. “This cannot pass,” (referring to health care reform) …“What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass.” Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) wing Independence Institute in Denver, CO

7. "If we’re able to stop Obama on this (Health Care Reform) it will be his Waterloo. It will break him," Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC)

8. "There is some fear because in the House bill, there is counseling for end-of-life,"... "And from that standpoint, you have every right to fear. You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family. We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma." Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) speaking at a Town hall earlier this year.

9. "I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long 'Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails.' Somebody’s gotta say it." --talk radio host Rush Limbaugh

10. “I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under Democrat President Jimmy Carter. And I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it is an interesting coincidence.” Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) in an interview with PajamasTV