(On The Japanese Disaster)
“The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll, and we can be grateful for that.” CNBC Financial Commentator Larry Kudlow, discussing the economic implications of the Japanese earthquake and its aftermath. (Kudlow later tweeted an apology.)
(On Immigration)
"It looks like to me if shooting these immigrating feral hogs works maybe we have found a [solution] to our illegal immigration problem." Kansas State Rep. Virgil Peck (R) suggested Monday that the best way to deal with the illegal immigration problem may be the same way the state might deal with the problem of "feral hogs" -- by shooting them from a helicopter. (Peck later said he was joking “Kansas style.”)
(On the Handicapped)
"The world population has gotten too big and the world is being inherited by too many defective people… I mean all the defective people, the drug addicts, mentally ill, the retarded -- all of them… I believe if we had a Siberia we should send them to this and they would all freeze and die and we will be rid of them." New Hampshire Representative Martin Harty (R) speaking to a constituent. Harty is a first term representative and 91 years old. (Harty resigned a few days later.)
(Just Kidding Around, Japanese Tsunami Edition)
From Haley Barbour press secretary Dan Turner’s daily e-mail: “Otis Redding posthumously received a gold record for his single, "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay". (Not a big hit in Japan right now.)” (Turner resigned.)
(On Eating Their Own):
“On a good day, he’s a socialist. On a bad day, he’s a communist,” - Darcy Van Orden, a co-founder of Utah Rising, on Jon Huntsman, former Utah governor, US Ambassador to China, and now presidential candidate.
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