Kevin Drum:

QUOTE OF THE DAY….From Samuel Popkin, political science professor at UC San Diego, on potential problems with Cindy McCain’s business activities:

“You can’t run a beer company out of the White House.”

Oh, I don’t know about that. Considering what’s been going on there over the past seven years, I’d say that running a beer company out of the White House might raise its moral tone a bit.

Right you are, Kevin!

What continues to surprise me is the religious-right crowd. In my neck of the woods, alcohol consumption is a no-no. It’s very “un-Godly”, you know. And if you travel across the state line to drink, you’re shunned. Even by family! Yet these very same people will gladly install Cindy McCain, purveyor of the sinful ale, into the White House.

Imagine the uproar if Michelle Obama had owned such a business.

Via Michael D. of Balloon-Juice:

On CNN’s The Cafferty File

Question: What will Hillary do now?

Response: She-ll keep going on the road to the White House, where she-ll meet the nation’s first black president.

Both quotes are honest and commendable. Especially with Hillary taking that small jab at herself.

Bush is trying to tie $770 million in food aid to his $70 billion Iraq war funding measure.

With the exception of taxation, of course…

From MediaMatters:

Work that crowd, Pat! Your finger-pointing helps people like me forget how you and your kind have spent a life-time selling the rest of us Americans down the river.