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• I used to think most Democrats in Congress who voted for [ObamaCare] really believed they were doing something good for the poor and the middle class. Now I wonder. It's crystal clear that just about everything President Barack Obama promised about his health plan was false, his deception deliberate. If Democrats really cared for the people harmed by the law, you'd think they'd admit their mistake, try to fix it. They haven't.

  Jack Kelly

  Mistake, Thinking, Law

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• I suspect it's because Truman Democrats have been replaced by Gruber Democrats - self-styled elitists who feed lavishly at the public trough and think government should serve them, not the hoi polloi they disdain and deceive.

  Jack Kelly

  Thinking, Government, Self

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• Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive power - not by a longshot. But he has to be the first president in American history to overtly and consistently argue that he's empowered to legislate if Congress doesn'€™t pass the laws he favors. It's an argument that's been mainstreamed by partisans and cheered on by those in media desperate to find a morsel of triumph in this presidency.

  David Harsanyi

  Party, Media, Law

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• Much has already been learned about the arrogance of the IRS from the House investigations of the agency's targeting of conservatives. The revelations emerged despite strenuous efforts by Democrats in Washington and by the IRS itself to block inquiries and deny the existence of political targeting - targeting that the former head of the IRS Exempt Organizations Unit, Lois Lerner, eventually acknowledged and apologized for in May 2013.

  Cleta Mitchell

  Block, Agency, Organization

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• The 2014 election has given the GOP the rare opportunity to retroactively redeem its brand. The conventional perception, incessantly repeated by Democrats and the media, is that Washington dysfunction is the work of the Party of No. Expose the real agent of do-nothing. Show that, when Harry Reid can no longer consign House-passed legislation to oblivion, Congress can actually work.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Real, Party, Opportunity

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• Unhappy voters thought the anemic economy, Obamacare, the collapse of U.S. foreign policy, the scandals in government, and the incompetent handling of everything from the Islamic State to Ebola were the only real issues. Democrats'€™ refusal to acknowledge them did not make these failures go away.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Real, Islamic, Government

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• In the end, Tuesday's vote represented a repudiation of virtually every notion Democrats embraced in recent weeks as they tried to disregard the growing evidence that they were headed for a historic defeat. Now, the vote is in, and the voters' message can no longer be discounted.

  Byron York

  Tuesday, Growing, Voters

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• Of course, with the last ads shipped and the last polls conducted, there'€™s not much to do but try to read the tea leaves. And from what Democrats are seeing, it doesn't look good. At all.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Tea Leaves, Trying, Looks

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• Some Democrats and their advocates in the press believe Obamacare, a year into implementation, is no longer much of a factor in the midterm elections. But no one has told Republican candidates, who are still pounding away at the Affordable Care Act on the stump. And no one has told voters, especially those in states with closely contested Senate races, who regularly place it among the top issues of the campaign.

  Byron York

  Believe, Race, Years

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• The top group of fundraisers for Mr. Obama raised $457,834 for his 2008 campaign - and were approved for federal grants and loans of $11.4 billion, according to the Government Accountability Institute. Selling access to the federal treasury has been a great way for Democrats to raise campaign funds. Since 1989, according to an analysis by Gateway Pundit, big donors have provided $416 million more in direct contributions to Democrats than Republicans.

  Jack Kelly

  Government, Accountability, Analysis

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• [A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a Democrat, Montana'€™s Mike Mansfield. He, like McConnell, had a low emotional metabolism but a subtle sense of the Senate's singular role in the nation's constitutional equilibrium.

  George Will

  Emotional, Years, Roles

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• Something peculiar has happened. As I write, none of the Republican candidates for Senate has become a public embarrassment. On the contrary: For the first time in a decade, it is the Democratic candidates, not the Republican ones, who are fodder for late-night comics. That the Democrats are committing gaffes and causing scandals at a higher rate than Republicans not only may be decisive in the battle for the Senate. It could signal a change in our politics at large.

  Matthew Continetti

  Writing, Night, Battle

  "The Macaca Democrats" by Matthew Continetti, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 17, 2014.

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• Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.

  Bill Shuster

  Leadership, Majority Leader, People

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• Character enough of an opposite description ... My opinion is ... that you could as soon scrub the blackamore white, as to change the principles of a profest Democrat; and that he will leave nothing unattempted to overturn the Government of this Country.

  George Washington

  Country, Character, Opposites

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1797). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”

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• Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error of plus or minus the facts.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Business, Errors

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• I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

  Mickey Kaus

  Energy, Republican, More Time

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• Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Taxation, Thievery

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• If you ask what's best for the country, vote Republican. If you ask how will you get more money from the government, vote Democrat

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Government, Vote

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• The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a trophy for showing up.
  
  Friends, we're talking about leading the country, not playing on a third-grade soccer team!
  
  I realize this is the man who got a Nobel Peace Prize for what he would potentially do, but in the real world, you get the prize for producing something, not just promising it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Soccer, Country, Real

  Mike Huckabee's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• The Democrats just want to ram it down my ear with a victory

  George H. W. Bush

  Stupid, Victory, Rams

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• Rain is something the democrats use to sell umbrellas.

  Sarah Palin

  Rain, Use, Umbrella

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• We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.

  Richard Neal

  America, Working Together, Desire

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• We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and Republicans alike....We voted for the people who voted for it, and then voted for the people who reauthorized it, then voted for the people who re-re-authorize d it.

  Stephen Colbert

  Surveillance State, People, Credit

  "Stephen Colbert gives controversial security conference talk" By Heather Kelly, www.cnn.com. March 3, 2014.

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• It was Bill Clinton who once pithily captured the contrast between the two parties when it came to selecting a presidential standard-bearer: "Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line."

  Mark Halperin

  Falling In Love, Party, Two

  Mark Halperin, John Heilemann (2013). “Double Down: Game Change 2012”, p.153, Penguin

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• Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.

  Andy Rooney

  Believe, Government, People

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