Quote of the Day [5.31.08]

“History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided: that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder. No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact. What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary.”

Scott McClellan, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception

Quote of the Day [5.12.08]

Republicans Vote Against Moms; No Word Yet on Puppies, Kittens

Title to a Dana Milbank article in The Washington Post
Friday, May 9, 2008

Quote of the Day [5.03.08]

“The images you are seeing on television, you are seeing over and over and over. It’s the same picture of some person walking out of some building with a vase and you see it twenty times. And you think, my goodness, were there that many vases?”

Donald Rumsfeld, April 2003

Quote of the Day [4.29.08]

"The only kind of voter fraud that SEA 483 addresses is in-person voter
impersonation at polling places. The record contains no evidence of any
such fraud actually occurring in Indiana at any time in its history.
Moreover, petitioners argue that provisions of the Indiana Criminal Code
punishing such conduct as a felony provide adequate protection against
the risk that such conduct will occur in the future. It remains true,
however, that flagrant examples of such fraud in other parts of the
country have been documented throughout this Nation's history by
respected historians and journalists, that occasional examples have
surfaced in recent years, and that Indiana's own experience with
fraudulent voting in the 2003 Democratic primary for East Chicago
Mayor-though perpetrated using absentee ballots and not in-person
fraud-demonstrate that not only is the risk of voter fraud real but that
it could affect the outcome of a close election."Supreme Court Justice Stevens writing for the majority in Crawford v
Marion County Election Board

Quote of the Day [4.18.08]

"I propose that the federal government suspend all taxes on gasoline now
paid by the American people — from Memorial Day to Labor Day of this
year. The effect will be an immediate economic stimulus…"Republican presidential candidate John McCain