Quote of the Day

From the excellent Charles P. Pierce at Esquire.com:

"Ever since Wall Street trashed the world economy and stole what was left, the inchoate public rage always has had as its source a vaguely defined conviction that somebody, somewhere has cheated the rest of us out of our country. The political fight has been over who to blame for it. First, the Tea Party decided to blame Government, with a strong and familiar old counter-melody about lazy poor people. That's a spent force right now. [Rep. Paul Ryan] is yammering so desperately about 'class warfare.' The people who've paid for his political career are afraid that they just might lose one.

So, go ahead, Willard. Pick him. Let him go out, day after day, and sell his bulked-up version of all the policies that threw the country into a ditch in the first place. Make him the economic face of your ticket. Let the country look into his zombie eyes and see all the grannies starving therein."