Old Fogey's Quotes for Thursday

"We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional."
Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania
GOP's Specter to fight Bush signing statements

"The poor man who is currently our president has reached such a point of befuddlement that he thinks stem cell research is the same as taking human lives, but that 40,000 dead Iraqi civilians are progress toward democracy."
Molly Ivins in CNN editorial
Ivins: Reality-based candidate

"By Election Day, it will have taken the Bush administration longer to fail to win in Iraq than it took the United States to defeat Adolf Hitler. An overused military is seeing more of its soldiers and marines put on trial for killing Iraqis than Iraqis and/or terrorists have been put on trial for killing Americans."
Nicholas von Hoffman in New York Observer
Timid Dems Fail to Pin Blame on Bush

"This kind of abuse constitutes a security gap all its own in America's defense."
Clark Kent Ervin, former Homeland Security inspector general, regarding the department's extensive waste and misspent funds with no-bid contracts
Security Contract Abuse Cited

"It sucks. Honestly, it just feels like we're driving around waiting to get blown up. That's the most honest answer I could give you."
Spec. Tim Ivey, 28, of San Antonio, regarding morale in Iraq
'Waiting to Get Blown Up'

"Support for Israel isn't a partisan issue in American politics, and liberals (like me) who criticize America's Israel policy are ginning up trouble for the Democratic coalition."
Matthew Yglesias at TPM blog, regarding liberal blogs silence on Lebanon
Matthew Yglesias

"I'm a conservative, but they make me sound like a damned liberal the way they act. They spend like fools, they run up the deficits and they refuse to give a raise to the working people who are struggling. How the hell are you supposed to live on $5.15 an hour these days?"
Anonymous long-time GOP leader, expressing his outrage at the current GOP actions to WaPO editorialist David Broder
Simmering Rage Within the GOP

"Republicans whisper that a wealth of negative information exists about Obama that has never received any real airing in the national media, though the mere fact that this kind of talk is being spread around may say more about GOP fears of an Obama candidacy than anything the Illinois senator may or may not have done."
Chris Cillizza in his WaPo column The Fix
The Case Against Barack Obama in 2008

[I may post more later but have to quit to get to a meeting]