I think Michele Bachmann summed it up very well earlier today. She suggested that maybe the beer summit was more productive and fruitful than what we saw today coming out of the health care summit.

— Sarah Palin, in an interview on Fox News.

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GOP at Summit: No original thinking, just the same set of talking points repeated over and over.

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If you think it’s a socialist plot, then please drop out of the federal employees health program.

— Sen.Richard Durbin (D-IL), to Republican lawmakers at yesterday’s health care reform summit.

In a move that will no doubt further endear her to the mainstream media, Sarah Palin has announced that she does not plan to replace her longtime spokeswoman Meg Stapleton, who resigned to spend more time with her family, reports Mediaite.

Though for Republicans “No!” is the norm,
And backing Barack is bad form,
Let’s hold a summit
And thoroughly gum it,
And get us some health care reform.

The “dirty little secret” of right-wing media is that the average age of their predominantly male radio audience is 67, just as the average Fox viewer is in his mid-60s. Now a new study from Pew shows that young voters aren’t buying what 20th century movement conservatism is selling.

Finally, a Democrat tells the truth about the Republicans to their faces on the floor of the House.

You are full of shit. You are. You really are.

— Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons (R), to a KLAS-TV reporter, denying he was with a woman on a flight before video proved he was lying.<

Manila Standard Today: Digitized records from the Church of the Latter-Day Saints will backup documents in the civil registry of Manila archived during the period covering 1886 to 1996. Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim received on Feb. 10 the first 500-gigabyte hard disk of a three-part storage of a century’s file involving up to 100 million individual entries.