QOTD -- House Afire

“The house is on fire. Tell us what this president has done to set this house on fire, and how you are going to put it out. When the house is on fire, you don’t discuss what kind of begonias you’re going to plant in the wind sill because the house is on fire.”  -- Joy Reid, this morning advising Democratic presidential hopefuls not to get bogged down trading fire over details in their health care plans when an imminent, existential threat must be soundly defeated.