Quotes of the day

[Rahm Emanuel] is an ironic choice for a president-elect who has promised to change Washington, make politics more civil, and govern from the center.--House Minority Leader John Boehner

The fate of Lieberman provides a political test for the incoming, fist-bumping Team Obama. If Lieberman takes it in the neck, that will mean either Obama lost an early power struggle with fellow Democrats or tacitly approved.--Tim Morgan

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.--Michael Crichton

Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everybody lost their minds?--Michael Crichton

The campaign promise was that 95% of Americans would get a tax break of some kind. The 5% that won't get a tax reduction now pay 60% of all tax. The campaign slogan was it's "all about fairness." I don't quibble with that concept nor do I think we should have anything but a graduated tax system. I need to be told the definition of "fair." Is it fair for the top 1% to earn 22% of income and pay more than 40% of taxes? Is it fair for the top 5% to pay 60% of taxes but not share in a tax reduction program? Maybe it is fair, but what I believe is needed is not what was a very effective campaign argument but a thoughtful discussion and explanation of what our tax program should be.--Vince Farrell

“Media bias” may have just saved America.--Will Bunch

Call that attitude fascist, and you’re a crazed wingnut.--Jeff Goldstein

We give our assistants a harder time about where they are going for lunch, than our government ... who is taking a third of our salaries.--Dylan Ratigan

On Tuesday, the Left — armed with the most attractive, eloquent, young, hip, and charismatic candidate I have seen with my adult eyes, a candidate shielded by a media so overtly that it can never be such a shield again, who appeared after eight years of a historically unpopular President, in the midst of two undefended wars and at the time of the worst financial crisis since the Depression and whose praises were sung by every movie, television, and musical icon without pause or challenge for 20 months . . . who ran against the oldest nominee in the country’s history, against a campaign rent with internal disarray and determined not to attack in the one area where attack could have succeeded, and who was out-spent no less than seven-to-one in a cycle where not a single debate question was unfavorable to his opponent — that historic victory, that perfect storm of opportunity . . . Yielded a result of 53 percent.--Bill Whittle