Category: Best Line of the Day

Clever turns of phrase, special splashes of wit, provocative insight — all in a sentence or two.

Best line of the day, so far

“You’ve got voters who are cantankerous, contentious, and think they can design a better transportation system because they did it last night in their garage.”

Seattle online publisher David Brewster in a Christian Science Monitor story on Seattle’s transportation ballot measure Tuesday. It appears that light rail is no longer seen as the best solution among many in America’s most environmentally conscious big city.

Best line of the day, so far

“The Monica Goodlings should be sent back where they belong — into a commercial for one of those execrable ‘Songs For Worship’ CD’s that seem to be dedicated to ruining gospel music as thoroughly as these people have ruined the Justice department.”

Charles Pierce. Monica Goodling was the DOJ operative who admitted to selecting attorneys based on “Christian” criteria.

Best line of the day, so far

Ashley Olsen and Lance Armstrong were spotted at the Rose Bar in New York Monday night. …

Lance, you don’t have to explain yourself to me. I know what it’s like to keep your body at peak physical shape. Like a well-tuned machine. You push yourself to the limit everyday. And sometimes you just need to relax. Whether that entails taking in a movie, drinking a fine glass of wine or having sex with an anorexic Muppet is your decision.

The Superficial

The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself

They have to come up with super-human powers for Al Qaeda because they want to use Al Qaeda to justify a super-extreme agenda for the United States of America. If you really, really want to radically transform our government and radically transform who we are as a country; if you want East German style policing, and people informing on their neighbors, and you want to get rid of the Fourth Amendment, and you want endless wars conducted for profit; if you want to completely get rid of the safety net function and the regulatory function of the government; if you have an agenda that radical, you better have a really radical justification for it. And so they have to elevate this band of death cults, fundamentalist criminals into a threat that is greater than the Soviet Union ever was when they not only had a military but they had thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at our country. They have to make Al Qaeda even worse than that.

Rachel Maddow on “Countdown with Keith Olberman” reacting to Fox News’s suggestions that the fires in Southern California were linked to Al Qaeda.

Best ‘yeah, right’ line of the day, so far

“There will be interest in Beckham over here that exceeds everything else. The U.S. will never have dealt with an athlete who has had this kind of international impact. Tiger Woods has that international appeal, but with due respect to Woods and Michael Jordan, David Beckham is at an entirely different level.”

Alexi Lalas, a few months ago, quoted by T.J. Simers. Beckham played 252 minutes and had zero shots on goal.

Even better line of the day

[Democrats could be] doing something as simple as saying the magic word: “No.”

Retroactive immunity for the telcos? “No.” War funding for anything other than the redeployment of our troops out of Iraq? “No.” Continuing to deny Habeas Corpus rights? “No.” Illegal wiretapping? “No, no, no.”

And how about doing something about all those witnesses—like Karl Rove and Harriet Miers—who gave you the middle finger by not showing up for congressional hearings?

But no. They just follow the Yellow Brick Road until they get to the GOP poppy field and pass out.

Daily Kos: Cheers and Jeers

Best comeback to a boss at a staff meeting line of the day, so far

Coach Lombardi to team at first meeting: “This is a football.”

Max McGee: “Not so fast, not so fast.”

McGee, the Green Bay receiver, died in a fall from the roof of his home yesterday at age 75. He was cleaning the roof of leaves — and let that be a lesson to us all: leave the leaves where they fall.

McGee scored the first touchdown in the first Super Bowl.

Tip from Jill.

Most indicative line of the day, so far

“It’s six in a row retired by Beckett — tailing fastball to Gutierrez. (Pause) I said six in a row — that’s ten in a row. One more time, the third time’s the charm — nine in a row retired by Beckett.”

—Tim McCarver last night

300 million people in this country and Tim McCarver is covering baseball’s premier games.