Jonathan Maberry Quotes
Basher shook his head. "No, we climbed in through a ground-floor guest bedroom all ninja-like. Snuck up the back stairs." "Then you might be the cavalry," said Tom, "but I'm Santa Claus. Let's go downstairs and open some presents.
Maberry, Jonathan. Patient Zero. St. Martin's Griffin, 2009.
This quotation appears to be the origin of the ultra-right wing conspiracy theory that a communist will become President of the United States without the public ever knowing that he was a Communist. During the Obama administration, there were a number of ultra-rightists who believed that Obama was the culmination of this plan which the communists began in the 1950s and was only "discovered" Fred Koch and the John Birchers in 1963.
Kennedy was the reporter who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan and wrote a prize winning expose. He also exposed many individual Klansmen. See {588295}.
As Speaker of the House with a President of the other party, Boehner, like previous House Speakers, met with the president and his staff in order to work out a compromise budget, for all money bills must originate in the House of Representatives. However, Boehner had a faction of his Republican caucus—Tea Party Republicans—who wanted no compromises with the Democrats and the President at all. They were so radical that they would rather put the country into default on its debts than vote for a compromise budget or pass any other legislation that would either require compromise of would even make President Obama appear to have been successful. Whenever they perceived that Boehner was negotiating with the President they would attack the speaker and stop House business. Hence the speaker’s famous quote about sneaking into the White House.
Jonathan Maberry is an American suspense author, anthology editor, comic book writer, magazine feature writer, playwright, content creator and writing teacher/lecturer. He was named one of the Today’s Top Ten Horror Writers.
