Michelle Malkin has a bit on cannibalism quotes today. Harry Reid, quotes Janice Rogers Brown as saying:

“Today’s senior citizens blithely cannibalize their grandchildren because they have a right to get as much ‘free’ stuff as the political system will permit them to extract.”

Which she did say. The problem is he attributed it to a dissenting opinion she wrote, however she said this in a speech giving her personal opinions.

After Malkin exposed the error, he subsequently updated his website.

The “Princeton Progressive Review” subsequently accused Michelle of lying, apparently not checking the Google cache before posting these allegations.

In fact, nobody claims that Brown said this when she was on the bench. Progressives have been unambiguous in showing that Brown said this in a speech to the Institute for Justice Conference at Georgetown Law Center in 2000.

The Poor Country Boy Blog has more on the bellicose desparation on the Senate floor.

And Captain Ed encourages you to call your Senator.

Incidentally, you should take a few minutes to read her full speech.

We find ourselves, like the captain, in a situation that is hopeless but not yet desperate. The arcs of history, culture, philosophy, and science all seem to be converging on this temporal instant. Familiar arrangements are coming apart; valuable things are torn from our hands, snatched away by the decompression of our fragile ark of culture. But, it is too soon to despair. The collapse of the old system may be the crucible of a new vision. We must get a grip on what we can and hold on. Hold on with all the energy and imagination and ferocity we possess. Hold on even while we accept the darkness. We know not what miracles may happen; what heroic possibilities exist. We may be only moments away from a new dawn.