Yesterday's QUOTES ...

Noting this, Matt Yglesias added, “Few people seem to appreciate it, but it’s quite literally true that al-Qaeda’s strategy is to cripple the U.S. economy by dragging us into quagmires abroad. Osama bin Laden himself has said this, and it’s the only strategy that makes sense. A smallish number of people with no base of resources can’t possibly defeat us unless we shoot ourselves in the foot repeatedly as Bush and McCain propose.”

Wait, let me see if I get this. The FBI broke the law on orders from the White House and with the help of private corporations who were big donors to the Bush-Cheney campaigns. The private companies charged us - the consumer - on contract, which they then broke to get more of our money from the federal government. The White House and DOJ lied to Congress when caught, claiming that this illegal spying was only against "terrorists," and claimed that everything they had done was legal. Yet it is the White House who is demanding immunity for companies that they claim broke no laws. In the meantime, even though the FBI lied and misled Congress a number of times now, they claim that new reforms will keep the public safe from illegal domestic spying.

Hillary Clinton's supporters have gotten incredibly annoying, with their chants of "Yes She Can," and charges of cultism and their desperate yelps of schadenfreude every time Clinton looks like she might actually be "recapturing the lead" that she never had.

And Obama's supporters, yes, you too are incredibly annoying, with your accusations of Clintonian Republicanism and your whiny little cries about how you're going to take your ball and run home if your candidate doesn't win the primary.

You found "them" in Pakistan. So why are you not "there?" You found "them" in Afghanistan, so why did you leave "there" to go to Iraq? And "they" are certainly in and funded by Saudi Arabia, but you did not go "there" either. So what makes Somalia so special as to rouse the attention of our military industrial complex?