Friday, July 22, 2005

Quotable Quotes

Foot in Mouth Disease. From the Mercury News, via Left i on the News, Ahnold on his $5 million possible conflict of interest contract with muscle magazines:

"I have no problem about the money --but my wife has a problem with that,'' he said, referring to first lady Maria Shriver. "She was worried that means less diamonds every year or something like that."
Ooh, real classy, Govehnuh.

Guess we can add that to his other crass quotables [Democrats are "losers" and "girlie men", nurses are "special interests" and he "kicks their butts"]. Maria must be fuming.

But she's the least of his problems. A judge tossed his redistricting measure from the special election ballot, Democrats have filed an ethics complaint against him and his approval ratings are in the dumps (just like his role model's).

Too bad he can't shoot his way out of this one.

Second Coming. Via Daily Kos, Orrin Hatch compares SCOTUS nominee Roberts to Jesus:

I think senators can ask any questions they want. I've said, no matter how dumb the question may be. But the, the nominee doesn't have to answer them and he should not, under the canons of judicial ethics, he should not answer questions on any issue that possibly would come before the Supreme Court. Otherwise, he would be foretelling how he would vote on those issues and then they would hold that against him. So it's a little bit like Biblical Pharisees, you know, who basically are always trying to undermine Jesus Christ, you know, it goes on the same way. If they can catch him in something, they can then criticize -- and the outside groups will go berserk. And that's that what drives the People for the American Way, the Alliance for Justice, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. They're against any Republican. We knew that just no matter who it was -- it could be the greatest person in the world, and Roberts is, is that -- they would come out against him.
Gee Senator, isn't your nominee the most spotless thing since the Virgin Mary? What are you afraid of?

Wow, that's Neat! W. on cargo-screening techniques he observed in the Port of Baltimore:

What I'm telling you is that we're focused here...When you're at war, you can't lose sight of the fact that you're at war.

"You can look inside in the truck, and you don't even have to get in it. That's called technology. And it's working. It makes a big difference."
Meanwhile, as he concentrates on national security with laserlike focus and steely resolve, 3,400 restricted airspace violations occurred across the country since 9-11.

Piece de Resistance. Stephen Colbert on his upcoming new show, The Colbert Report:

"It'll be like O'Reilly segueing into Hannity, Hannity into Greta, Larry King into Aaron Brown," he said. "I love that Aaron Brown, the way he sucks the flavor out of every word, and I love the way he mulls. No one mulls the news like Aaron Brown." If "The Daily Show" is faux evening news, "The Colbert Report" will be faux Bill O'Reilly. "The focus will be me, lots of me," Colbert said. "Occasionally, we'll turn the camera elsewhere, but only for pacing." And what sort of presence will "Stephen Colbert" have? "My ambition is to have Stone Phillips's neck and Geraldo Rivera's sense of mission."

Ahh, the best from the world of hackery. What more can a wonky muse want?

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