Quote of the Day

Posted by Melissa McEwan at Wednesday, June 26, 2013
"Who cares?"—House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, responding to a question at a Capitol Hill press conference about Rep. Michele Bachmann's statement that SCOTUS had tried to "undo what a holy God has instituted" by striking down Section 3 of DOMA.

The exchange begins at the two-minute mark in the below video.

Transcript starting at 2:00:

Male reporter, offscreen: Congresswoman Bachmann put out a statement, and she essentially said that, ah, that the decision today cannot undo god's order. How do you guys react to that?

Pelosi, standing with a group of male democrats around a podium, with a shrug: Who cares?

[laughter]
[H/T to Alison.]
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