It looks as if Rove is on the verge of realizing his dream of creating a permanent position for the Republicans.

Unfortunately for him, it’s in the minority.

–Maureen Dowd in the New York Times today.

“Just so we don’t have to go through this whole resignation thing again,” one ballsy reporter asked, “have you ever patronized a prostitute?” Paterson thought for a minute. “Only the lobbyists,” he said.

-Soon to be New York Governor David Paterson

Stolen from Salon.

“[Ben Stein, in the new pro-Creationist documentary Expelled] uses “straw man” tactics to attack, mainly The Origin of the Species, as Darwin wrote it in 1859. That’s like a music critic reviewing “the latest” by only referring to Edison’s wax cylinders.”

– Orlando Sentinel film critic Roger Moore, who while not being James Bond, did manage to sneak into a private screening he had been uninvited to, in his review of the film.

“It was close, but in the end I went for Obama.”

Barack Obama, after casting his ballot for himself today

“[It's]like saying you’re opposed to stealing but not quite sure that bank robbery qualifies.”

(When asked if he would consider it torture if he himself were subjected to waterboarding, Mukasey replied “I would feel that it was.”)