From the "Me too" file.

James Madison, via Juan Cole...

Me too.

From the "Me too" file.

The once and future Speaker of the House...

"I like Barney Frank's quote the best, where he said 'I never thought I'd live such a good life that I would see Newt Gingrich be the nominee of the Republican party.'"

Me too.

He's right.

President Obama...

“They're wrong. Waterboarding is torture. Anybody who has actually read about and understands the practice of waterboarding would say that that is torture. And that's not something we do -- period.”

Well, not entirely right. To our great shame, it's something we did, if we once did, we might again.

Eternal vigilance and all that...

Heh™.

Via Blue Gal...

Heh™.

Barry, on 'Obamacare' as a Republican epithet…

“I have no problem with folks saying ‘Obama Cares.’ I do care. If the other side wants to be the folks who don’t care, that’s fine with me.”

Whether they want to be or not, that's who they are.

Found on the net…

Mark Twain…

"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed."

Still true, formats notwithstanding.

OK, then…

…I admit I like this...

This is our generation’s Sputnik moment.

The guy does have a way of breaking through the old ennui.

From the "We have met the enemy…" file.

Van Jones…

"The reason the country is in the shape that it's in is not just because bad people created a hate machine; it's that good people shut down the hope machine."

Hat tip to Howie.

Good question…

…from Glenn Greenwald.

Does anyone doubt that once a society ceases to be able to afford schools, public transit, paved roads, libraries and street lights -- or once it chooses not to be able to afford those things in pursuit of imperial priorities and the maintenance of a vast Surveillance and National Security State -- that a very serious problem has arisen, that things have gone seriously awry, that imperial collapse, by definition, is an imminent inevitability?

Of course, I've never been all that fond of the empire thing, anyway. Don't think I'd miss it, but some of the potential replacements are pretty scary. Some, on the other hand, seem somewhat idyllic.

As always, vigilance and hard work seem to be in order.

Hat tip to Gordon.

Drive, he said.

President Obama...

When you get in your car, when you go forward, what do you do? You put it in “D.” When you want to go back, what do you do? You put it in “R.” We won’t do want to go into reverse back in the ditch. We want to go forwards. We got to put it in “D.”

Bewildered? Don't worry...

Thanks to all who chimed in with ideas for our new Democratic icon. Eleanor Roosevelt was the one named by the most folks, and the appearance of a woman is long overdue in this series. I might tweak the presentation a bit over the next few weeks, but it'll be Eleanor for 52.

One last time, it's time for...

It's time for...

Next week we'll wrap up 52 weeks of advice from the legendary Democrat, Adlai Stevenson. Who's next? I've got some ideas, but once again, I'd like to hear who you'd like to hear from. It has to be someone who is or was identifiably a Democrat who wrote or spoke memorably enough for a pretty high volume of preserved quotations. Wit counts, as does thematic timelessness. Who ya' got in mind?

It's time for...

It's time for...

Sometimes the truth…

…isn't so family friendly. Col. Lang...

The US military has convinced itself that bullshit and bullets are equally potent.

Just another of the things I hate about what they've done to my Army.

It's time for...

It's time for...

Words to live by.

Goldy…

Politics is an adversarial process. Deal with it.

It's time for...