But liberals love to drape themselves in decades-old glories they had nothing to do with.

The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against McCarthy.

What I'm critical of is - the White House attacking conservatives, for saying we're elitist for pointing out that Harriet Miers isn't qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. I'm starting to feel sort of bad about - about saying that. And I'm annoyed with George Bush [Jr.] for putting us in the position of having to say that.

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force

Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together.

We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee. That's just a joke, for you in the media.

When your party is controlled by a billionaire rootless international financier who expresses 'no sense of guilt' for collaborating with the Nazis, you might want to ease up on lecturing the rest of us about the evil rich.