[Because sometimes you just don't have time to listen through the whole album...]

#1. "How many more Goodlings are out there?" (digby)

#2. "When we see Gonzales testify, all we're seeing is the unclean rump of a dog with stomach cancer. Sooner or later, it will start to howl in pain." (tristero)

#3. "It's long been clear that we citizens are superfluous as far as the political establishment is concerned, but it's always bracing to be reminded of it nonetheless." (digby)

#4. ".... [A] self-serving little passion play in which they are regular blue collar guys from Buffalo and corn fed farmers from the Midwest (Real Americans!) who just happen to summer on Nantucket and get invitations to white tie state dinners with the Queen of England." (digby)

#5. "Representative Tom Davis told Mr. Bush that the president's approval rating was at 5 percent in one section of his northern Virginia district. ... Traffic's moderate, not so bad. Coming your way down the other lane are, I dunno, something like 10 cars a minute. In other words: Five drivers are hurtling your way every ten minutes that are so batshit crazy they actually approve of George W. Bush. (tristero)

#6. "I think the idea that Democrats absolutely must compromise (or "soften" their stance) on abortion rights is a fallacy created by the religio-political industrial complex to raise their profile and enhance their clout." (digby)

#7. "There is no corner of the conservative movement that has any intellectual integrity left." (digby)

#8. "I have always found it very, very creepy when powerful types, in the locker room or in the white house, find it necessary to reaffirm their position by publicly humiliating others." (digby)

#9. "[Quoting Hazlitt: We] betray the cause by not defending it as it is attacked, tooth and nail, might and main, without exception and without remorse." (digby)

#10. "Mitt Romney may look like Mr Perfect but I am getting a distinct whiff of the weird coming off this guy. Too bad he doesn't dress in earth tones or the press might even notice." (digby)