daily quote

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky

"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." - Abraham Lincoln

"We fought the good fight; we just didn't win,"

John Boehner


No, no you didn't. You fought a stupid fight that hurt the country, the economy, and a lot of people because you couldn't win through the legislative process. Your weakness as a leader will cause you to be remembered as the most destructive and ineffective Speaker in history.

Don't think" a lot if people where hurt",as u say. They all got a 16 day Tax paid holiday. But it was a stupid fight but not a stupid cause.

Put down the beer, stop picking the crumbs out of your belly button, and turn off Fox Noise. Your government works for you and when it shuts down people are hurt. The Federal Government and those who work in it are not your enemy.

“On that particular issue, sometimes comments like that are made out of malice. But if someone has no intelligence, I don’t view it as being a malicious statement. You can’t respond to that kind of thing.”

John Mcain on Louie Gohmert's claim thay he is “a guy that’s been to Syria and supported Al Qaeda and the rebels.”

"It was an incredible victory,"

Ted Cruz on the GOP shutdown

"I meant to do that"

Pee Wee Herman

"They are exactly the same"

Ted Cruz, explaining the difference between his ass and a hole in the ground.

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." - A. A. Milne

"You can do anything, but not everything." - David Allen

No, you certainly can’t.Said by: John F. Kennedy in reply to Nellie Connally, wife of Governor John Connelly, commenting “You certainly can’t say that the people of Dallas haven’t given you a nice welcome, Mr. President.

Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.Said by: a dying Voltaire when asked by a priest to renounce Satan.

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

10.5 million dollars/hour in Afghanistan....almost 1 million dollars/hour still spending in Iraq. Republican/Tea party objections?...zero

"Wind is God’s way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it’s hotter to areas where it’s cooler. That’s what wind is. Wouldn’t it be ironic if in the interest of global warming we mandated massive switches to energy, which is a finite resource, which slows the winds down, which causes the temperature to go up? Now, I’m not saying that’s going to happen, Mr. Chairman, but that is definitely something on the massive scale. I mean, it does make some sense. You stop something, you can’t transfer that heat, and the heat goes up. It’s just something to think about."

Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), yes that Texas.

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion." - Abraham Lincoln

"Wind is God’s way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it’s hotter to areas where it’s cooler. That’s what wind is. Wouldn’t it be ironic if in the interest of global warming we mandated massive switches to energy, which is a finite resource, which slows the winds down, which causes the temperature to go up? Now, I’m not saying that’s going to happen, Mr. Chairman, but that is definitely something on the massive scale. I mean, it does make some sense. You stop something, you can’t transfer that heat, and the heat goes up. It’s just something to think about."

Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), yes that Texas.

When you hear stuff like that you have to wonder, why are some people worried about our country becoming more like some of the European countries? In France I would bet the average food service worker with a high school diploma could see the utter B.S. in his thermodynamic assessment, and could probably set him straight in three different languages.

"Wind is God’s way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it’s hotter to areas where it’s cooler. That’s what wind is. Wouldn’t it be ironic if in the interest of global warming we mandated massive switches to energy, which is a finite resource, which slows the winds down, which causes the temperature to go up? Now, I’m not saying that’s going to happen, Mr. Chairman, but that is definitely something on the massive scale. I mean, it does make some sense. You stop something, you can’t transfer that heat, and the heat goes up. It’s just something to think about."

Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), yes that Texas.

Barton Family Foundation[edit]

The Barton Family Foundation was established in 2005 to support charities within the congressman's district. His daughter-in-law, Amy Barton, is the Foundation's Executive Director. Major energy corporations, such as the Chicago-based nuclear energy producer, Exelon Corporation, make major gifts to the Foundation. In June 2008, at a time when Barton had introduced legislation to assist corporations with the recycling of spent nuclear fuel, the corporation donated $25,000 to the Foundation. Exelon has also donated $80,000 to Barton's campaign funds. The Foundation gave $90,000 to the local Boys and Girls Club, this is the only recorded donation made by the Foundation in its seven year history.[49]

"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." - Susan Erz

"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." - Mark Twain

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." - Albert Einstein

“There was absolutely no reason, whatsoever, for this administration to block access to the World War Two Memorial or the Lincoln Memorial. It’s never ever been done in a government shutdown prior to this administration doing so.”

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA)

1. The Lincoln Memorial was indeed closed during a previous government shutdown in 1995.

2. The World War II Memorial was completed in 2004, and so did not exist during any previous shutdowns.

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him." - Thomas Szasz