Pith & Vinegar
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On Zach Scruggs’s defense team in U.S. v. Scruggs: “I wonder if they will all arrive at the courthouse in one tiny car dressed like clowns. That would rock. I’m totally bringing the peanuts.” … LydiaLaw
On Tim Balducci: “Is it just me (and it may be partly chatter I’m hearing in North Miss.) but does it seem like Balducci was heading for a world-class splat all along last year? Sort of Flem Snopes meets Icarus.” … nmisscommenter
On justice in Mississippi: “But here I am, I have a little motion for summary judgment I’m opposing on Friday, am I expected to bring a gift?” … Jane
On Mississippi: “In the present day it is Mississippi’s juxtapositions, emotional and in remembrance, and the tensions of its paradoxes that still drive us crazy … the gulf between its manners and morals, the apposition of its kindness and violence.” … Willie Morris
On Mississippi and “Scruggsiana”: “If it weren’t for conflict of interest, we so small we might not have any interest at all.” … nowdoucit
On presidential credibility: “The Bush Administration has always been a government with a completely unpredictable past.” … Scott Horton
On George W. Bush: “He’s destruction and chaos in cowboy boots that will never touch a stirrup.” … Mary
On Fran Townsend’s resignation letter: “The unmistakable signature of a sycophant.” … Scott Horton
On Barack Obama’s announced opposition to Michael Mukasey for Attorney General: “‘However,’ Obama continued, ‘I do plan to ask Judge Mukasey to sing a cover of “Werewolves of London” for my next campaign sortie. Yeah, I know, he was an adviser to some crazy guy and is pro-torture and all, but heck, Dems are too and it’s a big tent, and besides, when he puts his head back and yowls out aa-oooooo, it moves my soul’” … Mary
On the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize: “Al Gore wins - and this time, no one can take it away from him” … headline in The Guardian
On a bumper strip near you?
Rudy Giuliani
My other wife is 9/11Millionares for Mitt
Because dogs and poor people suck.Vote Tancredo
Because Sam Brownback isn’t insane enough.Vote Sam Brownback
Doesn’t “Tancredo” sound ethnic to you?McCain
I’m a still a maverick. Now give me a dollar.Fred Thompson for President
Hey, baby. This is what passes for sexy.Huckabee ‘08
I’m running too, goddamn it!Kids for Ron Paul
Like Optimus Prime, but with lower taxes.
… Hunter at Kos (and don’t miss the rest).
On the GOP ‘08 convention logo (an elephant bending over Minneapolis in a wide stance): “GOP mocks humor gods one too many times.” … Josh Marshall
On Gooper gloom: “It’s always darkest right before you get clobbered over the head with a pipe wrench. But then it actually does get darker.” … unnamed GOP pollster to WaPo
On Harry Reid: “A worm in sheep’s clothing.” … an anonymous reader
On Alberto Gonzales: “He’s the first Attorney General who thought that ‘to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth’ were three different things.”… Rahm Emanuel
On Tucker Carlson: “Carlson beat up a man? A fully grown man? Please. Tucker Carlson could be beaten into submission with nothing more than a heavy thought.”… a reader at Talking Points Memo
Response to Linda Chavez’s comment that Larry Craig is being persecuted for being a Republican: “Quick: Start a New 501c3.”… Josh Marshall
