It’s become somewhat of a cliché, but Edwards gets the quote of the day, as reported in The Washington Post: “But a jubilant Edwards told a cheering crowd that Wisconsin’s voters had sent a clear message today: ‘Objects in your mirror may be closer than they appear.'”
Category: Best Line of the Day
Clever turns of phrase, special splashes of wit, provocative insight — all in a sentence or two.
The other two percent
“Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.”
Lily Tomlin
Quote of the day
So it’s come to this: “He had the capacity to have a weapon, make a weapon,” Bush said.
Yeah, and I have some cake pans, but it doesn’t mean I’ve ever made any cakes.
Chatter
Intelligence agencies are picking up a lot of chatter these days — Bush’s military record, Cheney’s staff involved in alleged criminal misconduct, budget duplicity, Kerry winning election after election.
Must be time to put the country back on orange alert.
Quote of the day
“Repeating a line that Mr. Powell had used to describe himself during a dispute with the White House on another topic three years ago, one administration official said on Tuesday that the secretary was ‘a little forward on his skis again.'”
Reported in The New York Times
Bush Lightyear
He should just say, “To infinity and beyond!” At least then our grandkids, who are going to pay for all this, would recognize it as a fantasy.
Giving and taking
“Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want—and their kids pay for it.”
Richard Lamm, while Governor of Colorado, 1985.
Prescient
“Americans had always believed that their representatives were corrupt since, given the same opportunity, they would be too.”
U.S. Senator in Gore Vidal’s novel Washington, D.C.
Bite your tongue
“‘It is like French-kissing a rattlesnake: it’s never fun and usually fatal,’ said Larry Barcella [on the retrial of Frank Quattrone], a former federal prosecutor and now a partner at Paul Hastings, repeating a line he has used about retrials for years.”
From The Kicker
Hmmmm
“My mother is from the South. One of the things I learned is you can’t plant a watermelon seed and grow oranges. You cannot get right out of wrong. . . . We cannot continue to play Bush roulette. It used to be Russian roulette, now it’s Bush roulette.”–Al Sharpton
“Gen. Boykin has confused the heck out of the White House with all this talk about the Almighty, because when he talks about the Almighty, the president thinks he’s talking about Cheney, Cheney thinks he’s talking about Halliburton, . . ., and John Ashcroft thinks they’re talking about him–so they don’t know where to go.”–John Kerry
“We blew the place up; we have to fix it back.”–Carol Moseley Braun
Blame
From The Washington Monthly’s Monday Morning Monologue: “Wind-whipped wildfires are still raging through parts of Southern California. Thank God, Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn’t taken office yet so we can still blame them on Gray Davis.”
Bumper sticker
Jesus Loves You, But Everyone Else Thinks You’re an Asshole
Books and beer
Dave Barry’s Blog: NewMexiKen likes Dave Barry because I really never left the eight grade emotionally either, but also because it’s hard not to like someone who writes, “I’m home for one day and flogging my book tonight at 8 at my excellent local Coral Gables bookstore, Books and Books, where they sell books and beer, so there is really no reason to ever leave.”
Success is relative
“Remember: It’s not enough to succeed in life; one’s friends must also fail.”
Dick Cavett