“I’m also sort of floored by the whole thing that’s going on here, where the president is calling the senators by their first names, as if they were kids in a third grade class. And they’re all calling him Mr. President.”

Ben Stein on CNN via C&L

Hey Bueller, did you say the same thing when Homer W. Bush would call on members of the media during press conferences by huckleberry nicknames that he, with his tremendous wit, made up?

“Hey you, tall guy, I’ll call you stretch, hehe, gotta question?” - W

Yeah, real Presidential.

“…the answer is much higher percentage of Republicans are taxpayers than Democrats and the Republicans are the people paying for it, and the Democrats are the people receiving it.”

Ben Stein today on CNN on why Republicans are against HCR.

via C&L

this kind of analysis on cnn that replaced actual coverage of the summit itself.