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"When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

...When the Republicans lose a presidential election, it's a shock to their system. When Democrats lose, it mostly just confirms their tragic view of life."

—Timothy Noah in Why Republicans Make Sore Losers

Quote of the day II

...conservatives should abandon their silly effort to peg Democrats as socialists.

This is a strategy to repel, not attract, new voters. It is the conservative equivalent of the “Democratic wing of the Democratic Party” branding the Bush Administration fascist.

—NM's Henry Clay

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I hear that the Republican Party plans next week to rename the Democratic Party the “Democratic Socialists”...

...And to rename themselves the “National Socialists.”

—Brad DeLong

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"Cuba represents everything we're against: It's a totalitarian, repressive, Communist state that, unlike China, can't lend us money."

—Stephen Colbert

Quote of the day II

"The difference between these Republican videos and the very terrorist propaganda that seeks to damage our society is negligible... Each attempt to stoke the embers of fear in order to disrupt American life. Just as Al Qaeda videos should be viewed as misguided rants from a small group of marginalized radicals, so too should these Republican videos be equally dismissed. As opposed to what the GOP thinks, the American people are not that naive."

&mdashRichard Clarke, who worked as a State Department and counter-terrorism official under Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush 43.

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America's capitalism is about as "freewheeling" as a modern waterslide is "death defying". —Bruce McQuain

Quote of the day II

I would like to reassure the contributors to this unusual Web site. You don’t need to go through such acrobatics to oppose marriage equality. You can just be against gay marriage without any justification. You guys could find a comfortable place here in Europe. We have a lot of far right parties that are based on identity and tradition, and they reject gay marriage as a question of national honor. They want heterosexual superiority because their national group is supposed to be more macho than the other countries. That is good enough, really. Unfortunately you’re stuck in the US where pure ethnic and cultural arguments don’t work. Americans are just too fair-minded and so astoundingly dynamic.

&mdashDanilo at Secular Right, Gay marriage and unintended consequences

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"Policies tend to have a lot more to do with preserving politicians, winning the news cycle and helping "favored political constituencies" than with establishing dependable, sustainable and objectively good rules. Government has the biggest Principal-Agent Problem of all."

—Jon Henke

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"Ross’ column was a thought exercise, which can be difficult for people who do not think." —Daniel Larison, via E.D. Kain

Quote of the day III

"So when our economy collapses after the deficit is doubled, it will be—my bad!

Otherwise, I am with you, Mr. President. Keep up the good work."

—Christopher Buckley

Quote of the day II

“Ultimately, we're heading to having the smallest political tent in history, the way things are unfolding,” —Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-MN)

I would just mention the Federalists and Whigs as having been a bit smaller, at one point.