It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner motives drive a politician's policy choices but instead whether those choices are good for the country.

Republicans want to punish work and reward wealth; hence the high payroll tax and the low dividend tax. Said one Bush economic adviser, if we can't help wealthy investors and screw working people, what's the point in being a Republican?

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.

It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.

[Tea Party goers are] just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don't love their country.