For the day's milestones in history, births and such, signing the Constitution, here, Wikipedia factoids for Sept 17.
The quote, I don't know when, earlier this year, fitting for the GOP, being itself during the stimulus package debate:
"It is somewhat ironic that the very people who drove this economy into a ditch are now complaining about the size of the tow truck."
Jim McGovern, Congressman. This Wikipedia page. I'd swap Reps with that district in an eyeblink. They'd lynch me if I tried to fob off my tow-truck whiner on them.