THEY SAID IT!

"I hurt more than anyone could imagine and without my faith your constant cruelty would destroy me. ... Each time you print it hurts my family and now I have lost them along with everything I have worked for during my 64 years of life. I am human not an animal to keep whipping." - Disgraced Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham's self-pitying prison letters are an absolute riot. Reading the full versions must be like chicken-soup for the Republican-hater's soul. *** **** *** "Secrecy is the freedom zealots dream of: no watchmen to check the door, no accountant to check the books, no judge to check the law. This secret government has no constitution. The rules it follows are the rules it makes up." - Oddly enough, this Bill Moyers quote is from 1990. The more things change, the more they stay "teh suck". *** **** *** "And finally, new rule in two parts: (A) You can't call yourself a think tank if all your ideas are stupid; and (B) If you're someone from one of these think tanks that dreamed up the Iraq War and who predicted that we'd be greeted as liberators, and that we wouldn't need a lot of troops, and that Iraqi oil would pay for the war, that the WMD's would be found, that the looting wasn't problematic, that the mission was accomplished, that the insurgency was in its last throes, that things would get better after the people voted, after the government was formed, after we got Saddam, after we got his kids, after we got Zarqawi, and that whole bloody mess wouldn't turn into a civil war, you have to stop making predictions." - Bill Maher, making the kind of sense that got him fired from his cushy network gig.