Russ McBee

Regarding the 2008 Republican platform, Chris Kelly said this: See, the problem here, for most Republican politicians, is that the platform is horrifying. A catalogue of revenge dreams and power fantasies, impossible and illegal, most of them involving women and scourging. It's the portrait in the attic of what Republican rule would look like, ...

Via the mighty Joe Powell, Matt Taibbi said this about Sarah Palin's address to the GOP convention: It was like watching Gidget address the Reichstag. That, my friends, is priceless.

Commenting on the MSM coverage of the Democratic National Convention, Jim Voorhies said this (in comments here): It’s so much easier if you don’t watch at all and just read about it online afterwards. That way you get to do something else. It’s almost like multitasking, without the screwing two things up at once. Amen.

The Anonymous Liberal said this about Jonah Goldberg: For reasons I cannot explain, big publications keep hiring Jonah Goldberg to write columns that make everyone dumber for having read them. That pretty much sums it up.

Jann Wenner interviews Barack Obama in this week's issue of ''Rolling Stone.'' After Obama enumerated the contents of his iPod, he said this (via Blah3): When Mr. Wenner asked how Mr. Obama might respond to harsh attacks from Republicans, suggesting that Democrats have ''cowered'' in the past, Mr. Obama replied, ''Yeah, I don't do ...

In a comment here, the inimitable Betty Bean said: Is it too late to draft Gore? My sentiments exactly.

Bruce Fein: Cheney has dulled political accountability and concocted theories for evading the law and Constitution that would have embarrassed King George III.

From the incomparable James Wolcott: He'd catch mice with his bare teeth if he thought it'd make him look tough.

Arianna Huffington is preparing a Q&A with Al Gore and is contemplating how to ask him the ''Will you run?'' question in such a way that he might actually answer it this time. Here's what she said: Because, as for me, when it comes to putting forth this question I feel a little bit like Elizabeth Taylor's sixth husband: he knew what to do, ...

It isn't even 8:00 AM yet, and I've already seen the quote of the day. It's from Carole Borges, in comments here: Bush and the Congress spend like drunken sailors and we get the hangover.