Category: Awards

"My two cents on the latest confirmation dance is sure to disappoint my most partisan listeners: Tom Daschle should be confirmed quickly because (1) his biggest error it looks to me to be the sort of error that a former senior elected official used to riding around in government cars could easily make, while the others look like the screw-ups that a suddenly wealthy former senator could easily make, (2) he wouldn’t have endangered his political career and ambitions for this amount of money given the huge income he had coming in, and (3) we absolutely have to fix the confirmation mess or more and more people will flee public service at the highest levels," – Hugh Hewitt. Were you sitting down?

Meanwhile, Baucus may not be so magnanimous.

"It’s tempting to go all roflerz over the RNC’s selection of Michael Steele as chairmen. But I think the proper response is a salute. I have no idea whether Steele will be any good, but I think his selection marks the start of excising the Obama is a M00zlim contingent of the party. I am, perhaps, being too optimistic. But I maintain that you have to begin somewhere," – Ta-Nehisi Coates.

"What are the race-baiting, ignorant McCain/Palin mobs going to do now that its party is being headed up by a black man? Perhaps a better question is whether the Steele and the GOP will try to salvage this ignorant base of voters that they’ve depended on since the Southern Strategy of Nixon? GOP strategists are so used to using color-aroused campaign tactics that it’s second nature; will the party be able to cure its addiction to racism and xenophobia?," – Pam Spaulding, Pandagon.

"The Republican Party leadership in its latest act of self-immolation appointed, Michael Steele, a radical Black racist as the leader of the Party," – David Duke.

"I believed all that stuff about how Michelle was an overburdened modern working mother, rushing from school dropoff to her high-paying, demanding work at the hospital, to dress fittings, to whatever it was she needed to do to support her husband’s political aspirations, back home to take care of her daughters. Call me naive, but that model usually includes making dinner. And squeezing in a weekly grocery shopping trip. Especially for those fresh, whole foods that don’t keep so long. Now I have to wonder who did the laundry, and the vaccuuming. Sure, granny helped—but I doubt she was the maid. Who was?," – Lisa Schiffren, upon learning that the Obamas have a chef.

(Hat tip: Wonkette)

"No bending over today," – Michelle Malkin, on the stimulus package.

“President Bush, along with a sloppy and incontinent Republican majority in Congress, managed the feat of discrediting free market economics without ever practicing it. It was the Republicans who passed the Medicare prescription drug bill, and the bloated farm bill, and the transportation pork. This disqualifies most Republicans from challenging the gigantic new trough feeding that is about to begin under the Democrats,” – Mona Charen.

"This is a relapse into paganism," – Michael Novak, NRO, reacting to Obama’s pledge to repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act.

"Look out for organic broccoli farm and arugula awareness earmarks in the stimulus," – Mary Katharine Ham, Weekly Standard. Is it me or does all this stuff seem, well, tired?