Quote of the day

House Supreme Leader Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during an interview with the Washington Post on why she doesn't have to follow deals the White House made with pharmaceutical companies, will look for them to make cost cuts elsewhere, her new Senate/Harry Reid caused drinking problem, and how Republican tactics to try to scare House members into voting against the health care bill aren't working:

"The Chinese have an expression: 'Shoot the chickens to scare the monkeys.' They use one issue to scare you on another issue, and I don't think they're scaring our members," she said.

That might be the greatest colloquial expression I've ever heard. And really, isn't the first thing that comes to mind when discussing the political maneuvering for health care is using a mass chicken murder to put the fear of God into lemurs, gibbons, spider monkeys, and other, lesser apes? God bless the Chinese language and the humorous phrases that arise from it's brutal suppression of dissidents.