Old Fogey's Quotes for Sunday

"We really hit a vein."
Former Vice Adm. Joe Sestak, a 31-year Navy veteran and Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania's 7th district in suburban Philadelphia, referring to online activists who are channeling significant sums to antiwar Democrats
GOP's Financial Edge Shrinks
[My representative, David Price, always wins and always votes the way I want, so I'm funneling my political dollars to closely contested races across the nation. It appears there are a lot of us doing this. Let's keep it up!]

"Gasoline is always the last option."
Alexandre Rigueirra, 28, a Sao Paulo taxi driver
Brazil's Road to Energy Independence
[It really makes you wonder about those people in the US who argue that alternative energy sources are too expensive]

"IS BUSH AN 'IDIOT'?"
Caption across the bottom of the television screen during the MSNBC TV show hosted by Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman
Pundits Renounce The President
[My question is why it took so long for so many people to ask this question]

"The federal research agency in charge of countering emerging terrorist threats such as liquid explosives is so hobbled by poor leadership, weak financial management and inadequate technology that Congress is on the verge of cutting its budget in half."
Spencer Hsu in WaPo article
DHS Terror Research Agency Struggling
[ I guess research scientists aren't as big campaign contributors as defence contractors. Feel safer?]

“I freely admit it.”
Mark W. Everson, the tax commissioner, testifying before a House of Representatives committee, regarding the higher costs to taxpayers from the privatization of delinquent tax collections
I.R.S. Enlists Help in Collecting Delinquent Taxes
[Deliver me from these ideological crazies who continue with their policies regardless of the outcome]

“My hope would be that they would play this music at campaign rallies, and when the volunteers are out on a hot day driving door to door, they’ll put it in their cars to keep themselves pumped up and in a good mood.”
Bob Titley, a co-founder of Music Row Democrats, admitting that the group's online compilation of 20 songs (several directly critical of Mr. Bush and the Iraq war) are unlikely to get much play time on country music radio stations
In Nashville, Sounds of Political Uprising From the Left
[Finally the silent voices of the left are being raised! More of us need to "come out of the closet" and proudly claim the dreaded "L word" labels]