Et tu, Delmar?

I wasn’t thinking.

— Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL), quoted by NBC Chicago, explaining why he made so many “embellishments” to his resume.

You know, I’m a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.

- Nevada Republican senatorial candidate Sharron Angle, in a radio interview in January, suggesting that God plans sexual attacks on women.

They’re snuffing out the America that I grew up in. Right now, we’ve got more Americans engaged in their government than at any time in our history. There’s a political rebellion brewing, and I don’t think we’ve seen anything like it since 1776.

— House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), in an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, on why Democrats are in political trouble.

A consensus is forming in California that, whether she knows it or not, U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina is just a nuisance candidate who’s seen by the GOP elite as a loser with no chance of defeating Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in November, but who can force the senator to spend millions of dollars unnecessarily [...]

From MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show last night:
MADDOW: Remember, this is how much BP made in profits over the last three years. Ding, ding, ding $58.5 billion with a B. This is how much they spent on researching safer ways to drill over a three-year period $29 million. And this is how much they spent on [...]

A new poll from Vanity Fair and 60 Minutes finds that — in spite of a complete lack of evidence — 24 percent of Americans still believe Pres. Obama was foreign-born. And yet, among these hard-core birthers, nearly a quarter of the citizenry, there is no consensus about where overseas Obama was born — [...]

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Video from Pensito Review reporters on the scene.

t’s true that Arnold Schwarzenegger will be leaving Sacramento in disgrace in January, and the Washington Post gets it right that the genesis of his failure lies in the fact that he was a political novice and outsider — just like the current Republican candidate to take his place:
After nearly six years in office, [...]