Sunday Reading

Normally, Thesaurus-thumbing right wing pundit George "Quill" Will's columns don't draw our attention, but this morning he unloaded on his least-favorite Rethug (emphasis added):

"Gingrich...embodies the vanity and rapacity that make modern Washington repulsive. And there is his anti-conservative confidence that he has a comprehensive explanation of, and plan to perfect, everything.

Granted, his grandiose rhetoric celebrating his 'transformative' self is entertaining: Recently he compared his revival of his campaign to Sam Walton’s and Ray Kroc’s creations of Wal-Mart and McDonald’s, two of America’s largest private-sector employers. There is almost artistic vulgarity in Gingrich’s unrepented role as a hired larynx for interests profiting from such government follies as ethanol and cheap mortgages. His Olympian sense of exemption from standards and logic allowed him, fresh from pocketing $1.6 million from Freddie Mac (for services as a 'historian'), to say, 'If you want to put people in jail,' look at 'the politicians who profited from' Washington’s environment."

Guess this means that Quill is off Poot Gingrich's Christmas card list.

Quote of the Day

"Gingrich's is an amazingly efficient candidacy in that it embodies everything that is disagreeable about modern Washington. He's the classic rental politician." -- Thesaurus-thumbing right wing pundit George "Quill" Will, speaking on "This Week With Christiane Amanpour." Casual observers of Quill know that he dislikes Poot intensely. He was also dismissive of Horndog Herb Cain's chances.