Political Quote of the Day

From Harry Reid, railing about the cuts proposed in H.R. 1, the GOP budget bill:

“The mean-spirited bill, H.R. 1, eliminates National Public Broadcasting," said Reid in a floor speech. "It eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts. These programs create jobs. The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.”

Mary Katherine Ham adds this:

John Boehner's America is a land in which cowboys would be forced into back-alley poetry recitations.

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboy poets.