Asses, atheists, elephants, donkeys and cows “come home to roost”

QUOTE: “We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye...America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”        Rev. Jeremiah Wright (b. 1941)        Commenting on the September 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S.        In a “sermon” he gave on September 16, 2001

COUNTERQUOTE: “Loose talk about chickens coming home to roost is the moral equivalent of the hateful garbage emitted by [Jerry] Falwell and [Pat] Robertson, and exhibits about the same intellectual content.”        Christopher Hitchens (b. 1949)        English-American author, journalist and advocate for atheism        In his column in The Nation, October 8, 2001

GOP ELEPHANT QUOTE: “All of this infusion of trillions of trillions of spending by this administration and this Congress comes home to roost...It roosts in the back pockets of small business owners in this country, which this [Obama] administration has done zip for.”        Republican Party Chair Michael Steele (b. 1958)        Commenting on recent GOP gubernatorial recent wins in Virginia and New Jersey        Interview on ABC News, November 8, 2009

DEMOCRAT DONKEY QUOTE: “Some people say don’t count your chickens before they're hatched. Well, the Republicans have already hatched their chicken in this campaign and George Bush is a dead duck.”        Sen. Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy (1932-2009)        Speech at the Democratic National Convention on July 19, 1988        Incorrectly predicting that Democrat Michael Dukakis would beat George H.W. Bush in the 1988 presidential election (though Bush’s goose was cooked by Bill Clinton in 1992)

NAKED COW QUOTE: “Looks like the cows have come home to roost.”        Leslie Nielsen (b. 1926) as Lt. Frank Drebin        In the movie Naked Gun 2½ (1991)

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“The moral equivalent of war”

QUOTE: “What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war; something heroic that will speak to man as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved to be incompatible.”        William James (1842-1910)        American psychologist and philosopher        The Will to Believe (1897)

COUNTERQUOTE: “Remember...how Jimmy Carter asked Americans to respond to a mere rise in the price of crude oil with ‘the moral equivalent of war’? What were we supposed to do, shame the gas attendant to death?”        P.J. O'Rourke (b. 1947)        American journalist, author and political satirist        All the Trouble in the World (1994)

9-11QUOTE: “The bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face, and there's no point in any euphemism about it...Loose talk about chickens coming home to roost is the moral equivalent of the hateful garbage emitted by Falwell and Robertson, and exhibits about the same intellectual content.”        Christopher Hitchens (b. 1949)        British-born American journalist and social critic        Talking about people who tried to justify the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks        In his column in The Nation, Oct. 8, 2001

PARTISANQUOTE: “This is the moral equivalent of an abusive guy who puts his wife in the hospital and then gets mad at the doctors who can’t send her home as soon as they had hoped.”        Howard Dean (b. 1948)        Democratic Party leader        Talking about Republicans who attack President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan        July 29, 2009, on MSNBC's Countdown show

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