Old Fogey's Quotes for Tuesday

"Somebody's going to have to break it to them that Churchill and Stalin are gone and the Dodgers don't play in Brooklyn anymore."
Eugene Robinson in WaPo editorial about the Bushies' comparing Iraq to Nazism, Fascism, etc.
Who Set the Wayback Machine for 1939?
[If they want to make comparisons to the thirties, how about the Great Depression that happened the last time Republicans allowed businesses to do whatever they wanted and income became concentrated at the top?]

"You have a portion of the middle class that doesn't believe it's benefiting from good economic news, and, in fact, it's not."
R. Bruce Josten, an executive vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
'Mortgage Moms' May Star in Midterm Vote
[It appears that the business community is better at facing reality than those who are running our government]

"The North will rise again."
E. J. Dionne in WaPo editorial, regarding Democrats rising popularity in the North as "Dixiepublicans and their brand of conservatism has pushed moderates in the North in the Democrats' direction."
The Rise of the Lincoln Democrats
[I just hope that the result is not more red state-blue statism. Never forget that there are millions of us blues living in red southern states]

"Today, the Christian Coalition is a shell of its former self."
Mark J. Rozell, a professor of public policy at George Mason University
Christian Coalition Is Splintering
[This sounded very encouraging to this left-wing Christian, until I realized that the states that were cutting their ties had accused the Coalition of becoming too liberal]