I love Bill Maher. Very insightful.
I love this answer from a recent interview....
VA: What about a Democrat you’re especially critical of?
BM: Well, all of them. I’ll say this for the Republicans: they do have the courage of their convictions. They do not run from polls. Democrats run from polls. Republicans don’t. If something is polling at 40 percent or 30 percent, that doesn’t bother Republicans. They’re like, “Fuck that! We’ll all get in a room. We’ll get our talking points straight, we’ll all stand out on the talk shows for the next six months, and we’ll get it up to 60. Or if it’s at 60, and we want it down to 40, we’ll do that, too.” They did it with the public option. The public option was polling at 70 percent approval before they got their fangs into it. So they’re not intimidated by polls. Democrats, just the opposite.
You know, it’s so funny. Gay marriage, when it started polling at 51 percent, that’s when you saw a lot of [Democrats] “evolving” on that issue. Which is pretty funny that they called it evolving, because they did it in about a day and a half. But that’s the difference between Democrats and Republicans. I wish you could have one party that would combine the brains that the Democrats have and the balls that the Republicans have.
As soon as Obama comes on board with one of their ideas, then they don’t like it anymore because, you know, it has Kenyan cooties.
I love this answer from a recent interview....
VA: What about a Democrat you’re especially critical of?
BM: Well, all of them. I’ll say this for the Republicans: they do have the courage of their convictions. They do not run from polls. Democrats run from polls. Republicans don’t. If something is polling at 40 percent or 30 percent, that doesn’t bother Republicans. They’re like, “Fuck that! We’ll all get in a room. We’ll get our talking points straight, we’ll all stand out on the talk shows for the next six months, and we’ll get it up to 60. Or if it’s at 60, and we want it down to 40, we’ll do that, too.” They did it with the public option. The public option was polling at 70 percent approval before they got their fangs into it. So they’re not intimidated by polls. Democrats, just the opposite.
You know, it’s so funny. Gay marriage, when it started polling at 51 percent, that’s when you saw a lot of [Democrats] “evolving” on that issue. Which is pretty funny that they called it evolving, because they did it in about a day and a half. But that’s the difference between Democrats and Republicans. I wish you could have one party that would combine the brains that the Democrats have and the balls that the Republicans have.
As soon as Obama comes on board with one of their ideas, then they don’t like it anymore because, you know, it has Kenyan cooties.