Crack the Bell

Quote of the Day

"Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans who get stuck holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It's got to flow into our domestic markets first."

Sarah Palin

Yeah, I don't know what the hell she was talking about either.  I think maybe oil, since she knows more about energy that anyone in the whole world.  Let's go to the video, Steve.

H/T Political Animal

Quote of the Month

This is too good for Quote of the Day, or even Quote of the Week.  From A Lie A Day:

"...while the Democrats offer up plan of attack that focus on ideas, the media and the Republicans offer a cage of poo flinging monkeys."

Go read the whole thing.

Why Republicans Lost the Midterms

Not gas prices, not corruption, not even Iraq.

It was a whiny-ass woman's fault, at least according to Grover Norquist, who owns half the S.C. General Assembly:

“Bob Sherwood’s seat [in Pennsylvania] would have been overwhelmingly ours, if his mistress hadn’t whined about being throttled,” said Mr Norquist. Any lessons from the campaign? “Yes. The lesson should be, don’t throttle mistresses.”

He Oughta Know

"Reconciliation is difficult in a society that had been divided and tortured by a tyrant."

President Bush, presumably referring to
Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki, yesterday

Quote of the Day

"Woods performs better when the world is lined up six-deep around the fairway. Pressure? He eats it with a glass of Chianti and some fava beans."

Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN

Quote of the Day

"I think I can safely state that had disposable flatware never been invented, we wouldn't be measurably worse off than we are now, and we'd probably have a lot less litter to contend with."

Steve Reuland
Sunbeams from Cucumbers

Overheard

"Some of these guys stand under the tree eating apples all day and never look up to find out where the apples are coming from - then they complain that this year's apples aren't quite as good as they used to be."

Quote of the Day

"But having an advertisement for a barf bag, especially if it's for something like Dramamine, now that's brilliant."

Michael Boyd, president of the Boyd Group,
an aviation consulting group in Evergreen, Colorado.

"Hey, we should have barf bags in voting booths!"

Tim Kelly, just now

Hear, Hear!

"I will donate money to the next congressional candidate who runs on a platform of not standing up and clapping during the State of the Union."

Legal Fiction via Blogbites 

 

Well Said

“We’ve developed a simple philosophy: ‘See that guy lined up across from you? Try to knock the snot out of him.’"

Carolina Panthers defensive end Mike Rucker