Best line for today from two years ago, so far

“I’ve been deeply disappointed. They’re fundamentally decent human beings, but you couldn’t tell it by their campaigns.”

Albuquerque Tribune editor Kate Nelson commenting on the negative campaigning for Congress in NewMexiKen’s district, as quoted by Joe Monahan.

That was 2004. It’s worse this time.


Runner-up, also first posted two years ago:

“These are not arguments. They are rhetorical drive-by shootings.”

— Harvard Law Professor Laurence H. Tribe writing in a review of The People Themselves.