On Rush Limbaugh:
“Back in the day in Mississippi we called people like Rush holy-roller preachers, and dang, poor Jim and Tammy Faye came along and poof they just all disappeared.” … Magnolia
On the troubles of the media:
“If they think reporting the news is expensive, wait’ll they see the tab for an uninformed population.” … Ben Cole
On the International Debutante Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, December 2008:
“This massive, appallingly expensive celebration of demeaning-ization of women just repaired about 10,000 of the 18,000 cracks in that glass ceiling.” … Underdog
On Allergan’s new drug to enhance eyelashes (i.e., prescription mascara):
“Is that to help you avoid winkles?” … Mary
On Steve Schmidt’s selling Sarah Palin to John McCain:
“Trying to prevent the candidate from setting his hair on fire, Schmidt cut off his hand with a chain saw.” … NMC
On Sarah Palin:
“If asked to [locate Hahira, Georgia], Governor Palin would confidently answer, ‘In what respect, Charlie?’ then answer further, ‘The people of Hahira, Georgia are no different from the people of Wasilla, Alaska. We all want maverick change that’s fundamental yet different, if you know what I mean. And I say this with God as my witness: Hallelujah, Righteous Savior and eat shit, Obama.’” … ThirdSouth
To a smug fellow commenter on the financial crisis of September 2008:
All well and good for you but most Americans live on the brink of disaster- just one failed paycheck away. Many who planned to retire in the next year or two will have to work 5 or 7 or ten more years. Many Americans have most of their money invested in their own home which they cannot sell or borrow against. Why don’t you just say let them eat cake and be done with it? … confounded
On Sarah Palin’s belief that “under Reagan, we won the Cold War, without a shot fired”:
“The Korean War and the Vietnam War say hello.” … Researcher
On voting:
“In 2000 I voted for the guy who got the most votes, but my guy lost. In 2004 I voted for the guy who got the fewer votes, but he lost too. Clearly, I don’t understand everything I know about the system.” … Ben Cole
On Obama’s Veep pick:
“[D]efinitely an improvement over Bayh and Kaine, the way dysentary is an improvement over colon cancer.” … Mary (go see the rest)
On Fox News:
“Fox News indeed presents both sides. The bottom. And the underneath.” … imstillnotbowie
On Justice Scalia’s dissent in Boumediene v. Bush:
“Scalia is right on the facts, wrong on the law. A recent Supreme Court opinion HAS killed Americans. Without question and by the thousands. That opinion, though, wasn’t Boumediene. It was Bush v. Gore.
“SCALIA – Pilate called. He wants to borrow your hand sanitizer.” … Mary
On Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo’s fashion sense:
“Maybe it’s because I’m a daughter of the South, and we had that experience with carpetbaggers and all, but I wouldn’t do business with a guy who dresses like that if he were driving the last buggy out of burning Atlanta.” … . . . and your little dog, too
On the lawyer/horse-owner defendants in the Kentucky fen-phen case:
“In some circles ‘horse trader’ is as pejorative a term as ‘lawyer.’ These folks is about pejored out looks like.” … duckweedpond
On Hillary Clinton:
“As Iraq suffers through car bombings in four cities today, leaving many dead and wounded, Hillary Clinton was quick to observe that the Iraqis do not feel bitter. ‘They just like their bombs,’ she said. ‘Sure, some elitists think that the Iraqis may be angry over what the Bush administration has done to their country, friends and family – but those of us who were raised with explosives understand that they are a wonderful way of life, not a bitter expression of frustration.’ Mrs. Clinton then began a story about her grandfather and a box of TNT, until an aide interrupted her, whispering in her ear that Iraqis will not be voting in the Democratic primary.” … Mary
On Dickie Scruggs’s longtime secretary:
“If Balducci thinks he knows where bodies are buried, the money is that Charlene Bosarge knows where the cemetery is.” … observer
On Dickie and Zach Scruggs and Sid Backstrom:
“Some defendants can’t make themselves take a plea because it is so final. If you can delay, SOMETHING could always happen – like the Rapture in which case, from the way I see it, they’d be beamed up to heaven and all the honest people will be left on earth.” … Jane
On Monica Goodling’s engagement to one of the blogging founders of Redstate:
“Tsk tsk, the language they use at those sites! I’m wondering if her mentors from Regent might not look through the postings, disapprovingly, and ask her, sternly, if the posters kiss the President’s ass with those lips!” … Mary
On John McCain:
“A longtime pol proclaiming his purity and virtue may be the actual working definition of hubris.” … riddenword
On Tim Balducci:
“Is it just me (and it may be partly chatter I’m hearing in North Miss.) but does it seem like Balducci was heading for a world-class splat all along last year? Sort of Flem Snopes meets Icarus.” … nmisscommenter
On justice in Mississippi:
“But here I am, I have a little motion for summary judgment I’m opposing on Friday, am I expected to bring a gift?” … Jane
On Mississippi:
“In the present day it is Mississippi’s juxtapositions, emotional and in remembrance, and the tensions of its paradoxes that still drive us crazy … the gulf between its manners and morals, the apposition of its kindness and violence.” … Willie Morris
On Mississippi and “Scruggsiana”:
“If it weren’t for conflict of interest, we so small we might not have any interest at all.” … nowdoucit
On presidential credibility:
“The Bush Administration has always been a government with a completely unpredictable past.” … Scott Horton
On George W. Bush:
“He’s destruction and chaos in cowboy boots that will never touch a stirrup.” … Mary
On Fran Townsend’s resignation letter:
“The unmistakable signature of a sycophant.” … Scott Horton
On Barack Obama’s announced opposition to Michael Mukasey for Attorney General:
“‘However,’ Obama continued, ‘I do plan to ask Judge Mukasey to sing a cover of “Werewolves of London” for my next campaign sortie. Yeah, I know, he was an adviser to some crazy guy and is pro-torture and all, but heck, Dems are too and it’s a big tent, and besides, when he puts his head back and yowls out aa-oooooo, it moves my soul’” … Mary
On the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize:
“Al Gore wins – and this time, no one can take it away from him” … headline in The Guardian
On a bumper strip near you:
Rudy Giuliani
My other wife is 9/11Millionares for Mitt
Because dogs and poor people suck.Vote Tancredo
Because Sam Brownback isn’t insane enough.Vote Sam Brownback
Doesn’t “Tancredo” sound ethnic to you?McCain
I’m a still a maverick. Now give me a dollar.Fred Thompson for President
Hey, baby. This is what passes for sexy.Huckabee ‘08
I’m running too, goddamn it!Kids for Ron Paul
Like Optimus Prime, but with lower taxes.
… Hunter at Kos (and don’t miss the rest).
On the GOP ‘08 convention logo (an elephant bending over Minneapolis in a wide stance):
“GOP mocks humor gods one too many times. “ … Josh Marshall
On Gooper gloom:
“It’s always darkest right before you get clobbered over the head with a pipe wrench. But then it actually does get darker. “ … unnamed GOP pollster to WaPo
On Harry Reid:
“A worm in sheep’s clothing. “ … an anonymous reader
On Alberto Gonzales:
“He’s the first Attorney General who thought that “to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth’ were three different things. “ … Rahm Emanuel
On Tucker Carlson: “Carlson beat up a man? A fully grown man? Please. Tucker Carlson could be beaten into submission with nothing more than a heavy thought. “ … a reader at Talking Points Memo
Response to Linda Chavez’s comment that Larry Craig is being persecuted for being a Republican: “Quick: Start a New 501c3. “ … Josh Marshall
