“Come a cold morning a year from now, some pundit is going to come on my electric television set to explain how the inauguration of a Democrat as president of the United States is the best thing that ever happened to Rudy Giuliani’s campaign.”
Category: Best Line of the Day
Clever turns of phrase, special splashes of wit, provocative insight — all in a sentence or two.
Best line overnight, so far
“Hillary Clinton is running to change the President; Barack Obama is running to change our politics; John Edwards is running to change the country.”
Best line of the day, so far
“Rudy Giuliani promises to make homeowners insurance cheaper in Florida, because you shouldn’t have to pay more just because you live in a hurricane bullseye, that’s, like, so unfair”
And while we’re on the subject of Florida, NewMexiKen is wondering if we really need 50 states anyway?
Best lines of the day, so far
“Obama truly is a genius at talking in a manner which makes you think he’s saying what you hope he’s saying.”
“But Obama isn’t stupid, so he clearly is no Reaganite.”
Best line of the day, so far
Rudy in Florida:
“IF ELECTED, I’LL EXTEND THE ‘EARLY BIRD SPECIAL’ TO BETWEEN THE HOURS OF ‘9′ … AND ‘11′.”
Best line of the evening, so far
“Identity and personality is how we’ve been picking Presidents for a long time. Sometimes it works, sometimes you get George Bush.”
Best line of the morning, so far
“Many Americans remain ignorant about much of science, the board said. Many are unable to answer correctly when asked whether Earth moves around the Sun (it does).”
The New York Times taking no chances on the intelligence of its readers.
Best line of the day, so far
DoJ Claims It Ran Out of Bits
The Bush Department of Justice today claimed that it has run out of bits. It seems that it can no longer send press releases to Talking Points Memo (a real thorn in its side due to thorough reporting of DoJ scandals) because — get this — there’s no room on the mailing list!
Best line of the day, so far
“Mitt Romney Defends Himself Against Allegations Of Tolerance”
Best line of the day, so far
“After spending 91.1% of his money in Florida, Giuliani is seeing McCain pass him in the polls. 9/11”
Best line of the day, so far
“U.S. officials do not believe the white boxes dumped in the Persian Gulf by Iranian speed boats were any threat to coalition ships. Officals now believe boxes only contained uncounted votes from the 2000 US election”
Most misogynistic line of the day, so far
“[D]oes it send the signal: is there room in Washington for both a Speaker Pelosi and a President Hillary?”
Yes, only one woman leader at a time please.
Best line of the day in an article about Sir Edmund Hilary
“What used to be an adventure is now just a vacation.”
Joel Achenbach in a fine article about Hilary he wrote in 1992.
Best line of the morning, so far
“Is John McCain, at 117, too old and cranky to be president? Like, during the White House Easter Egg Roll, would he come outside in his bathrobe and yell, ‘You kids get off my lawn!'”
Best line of the day, so far
“The baby got a hold of a cup of red Gatorade and my bathroom looks like a crime scene.”
Jill, official oldest daughter of NewMexiKen.
Most historic line of the day, so far
“Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton celebrates in New Hampshire, where she became the first woman to win a major party primary for President of the United States.”
From the front page of today’s Los Angeles Times.
Pointer via Digby.
Best line of the day, so far
“Oh, now I remember. We’re supposed to wait until after voters express a preference to declare a winner of a contest.”
Best line of the day, so far
“Like most rich white ladies, Hillary Clinton is very afraid of a black man asking for change”
Best line of the day, so far (though it is a dreary day)
“The best moment [in the Republican debate Saturday night] came when the subject of health care arose and it became very clear that not only do none of these guys — with the possible exception of the Huck — have any plans to cope with the problem, they don’t see much of a problem there to begin with. They are cultish in their devotion to some sort of strange absolutist concept of ‘individual choice’ unfamiliar to anyone who’s dealt with an insurance company at any time in the past 50 years.”
Best line of the day, so far
“Still, my faith in the Internet’s information democracy wilted with I once suggested to a friend facing eviction that we Google ‘renter’s rights’ to learn his options, and watched him type in ‘rinters kicked out.'”
Joe Bageant in Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War
NewMexiKen is three-quarters through Bageant’s book, which I first mentioned here last week. It’s readable, revealing and important, a good compliment to Barbara Ehrenreich’s classic Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Bageant returned to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, after being away for 30 years. There he learned that his family and friends — the people he grew up with, went to school with, hunted with — are fast becoming a permanent American underclass. He writes of these people with honesty and disdain, but mostly with respect, humor and love — and a lot of important insight.
Best line of the day, so far
“Political analyst ponders if America is finally ‘colorblind’ after Obama’s Iowa win. Possible… or it could be that we are still misogynistic, your pick.”
Best political observation line of the day, so far
“If her campaign disintegrates she will no doubt feel unfairly trashed. But she can’t blame a vast right wing conspiracy this time. Her problem right now is that a lot of the people who really, really don’t like her are Democrats.”
Best line of the day, so far
“Greg Cote of the Miami Herald, on his sleek, white surprise of a Christmas present that goes from zero to 190 unbelievably fast: ‘Thanks again for the new bathroom scale, honey!'”
Best line of the day, so far
“[Richard] Scaife is so repellent a creep he begs comparison to Hannibal Lecter, and not in a good way.”
Most predictable line of the day, so far
“None of this worries me — Sept. 11, there were times I was worried.”
Rudy Giuliani commenting Thursday night on his dismal showing in Iowa.
Or as Jon Stewart once put it, 9-11 Tourette’s.