He’s a typical man. I don’t care if he’s 90 years old, he thought that she is so pretty. He loves a pretty woman.

— Gigi Graham, quoted by Christianity Today, on her father Billy’s meeting with Sarah Palin.

See also Tiny Bubbles of Purity: RNC to Meet in Obama’s Hawaii and video transcript.

Remember after the 2008 Democratic primary finally ended and candidate Obama took the family to Hawaii for a little vacay? Remember how the Republicans labeled him “elitist” for doing so? Well guess where they’re going to cleanse their party of the ideologically impure…

In the US, The Family is known as the operators of C Street, the infamous Christian frat house for senators and congressmen near the Capitol. After a series of revelations of sex scandals among its highly placed US members, now comes news that a Family member in the Ugandan legislature has proposed instituting the death penalty for gays.

And so the rewriting of history continues ….

We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.

— Bush administration Press Secretary Dana Perino, in an interview on Fox News, blithely ignoring the fact that George W. Bush was president of the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.

A new prayer book just published encourages Catholic married couples to pray together before they do the nasty.

I grew up a Democrat in a Democrat family. My husband and I both worked on Jimmy Carter’s presidential campaign. The first time I ever came to Washington was to dance at Walter Mondale’s inaugural ball. It was a thrill for my husband and me, and we were both happy to work on behalf of Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter. We really believed in them when we were in college. So in some ways I don’t understand why the Democratic Party would be opposed to me, because I stand for the same values that my parents stood for when we were Democrats.

— Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), expressing confusion about why she’s the target of so many Democratic attacks.

Florida’s new Republican senator is blocking the appointment of an Obama nominee as ambassador to Brazil because of the nominee’s stand on Cuba, despite the pleas of nine former secretaries of state, and threats to a $7.5 billion contract to build Boeing planes in Seattle.

Culture is politics. [Sarah] Palin is at the red-hot center of age-old American resentments that have boiled up both from the ascent of our first black president and from the intractability of the Great Recession for those Americans who haven’t benefited from bailouts. As Palin thrives on the ire of the left, so she does [...]