Men and women we trust in Gov today

"Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters." --Samuel Adams









Political bathhouse: "I was in the congressional gym, and I went into the showers which, by the way, I for the life of me can't figure out why they took all the shower curtains off the shower stalls in the congressional shower. The last thing I want to look at is my fellow colleagues naked, but they don't have shower curtains down in the gym, and I'm sitting there showering naked as a jaybird and here comes Rahm Emanuel not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest yelling at me because I wasn't going to vote for the president's budget. Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?" --former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY), who is accused of sexually harassing male staffers and resigned Monday


More accusations: "Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive." --Eric Massa

"We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy." --House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

Tell a lie often enough: "Health insurance reform is about jobs. This legislation alone will create 4 million jobs." --Pelosi, repeating her lie from the summit

Changing the climate: "What we have to do is go on the offensive. (The science on climate change) has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back... "People need to stop being moved by these talk show hosts and start looking for the facts themselves." --Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)

It's all about jobs: "What we are talking about is a jobs bill. It is not a climate bill. It is a jobs bill, and it is a clean air bill. It is a national security, energy independence bill." --John Kerry on cap-n-tax

"Every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: 'What does this mean for the next election? What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?' That's just how Washington is. They can't help it. They're obsessed with the sport of politics." --Barack Obama

"Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good." --Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

"On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." --Thomas Jefferson
What do you think the founding fathers would say about our Congress now?

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