QotD, Maureen Dowd edition.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  July 25th at 12:00 PM  | 

Yes, Maureen Dowd. We may not have a “nation of cowards” on race, as Attorney General Eric Holder contended, but we may have a West Wing of cowards on race. Although I’m somewhere between Holder and Dowd on this one: we have a national political party of cowards on race, and it’s the Democratic one.  As we’ve just had Andrew Breitbart graphically, if perhaps not | Read More »

Jim Messina: heckuva job on Sherrod, guys. [Corrected.]

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  July 21st at 07:00 PM  | 

[UPDATE: The previous link was incorrect; now fixed. My apologies. - ML] (Via AoSHQ) Every time I think that the Shirley Sherrod story cannot make the administration look more foolish, new details come out [link fixed - ML]. …three Democratic sources said deputy chief of staff Jim Messina singled out the White House’s initial response to the incident for praise in the regular 8:30 a.m. staff | Read More »

Vilsack heading for the bus?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  July 21st at 10:00 AM  | 

While Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack starts up the job of pretending that it was all his fault that Shirley Sherrod got fired, the administration that actually canned the woman is beginning its own process.  This is how it starts, you know: There’s an arc to these things.  Next you hear about ‘every confidence in [X],’ then it’s ‘the President stands behind [X] 100%,’ then it’s | Read More »