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“If there’s another terrorist attack, it will be because the mess the Bush administration ignored in Pakistan and Afghanistan spun beyond anyone’s control ...”
“If "American Idol" can sing out for change on Fox in prime time, it ill becomes Obama, of all presidents, to remain mute in the White House.”
“Until there is true transparency and true accountability, revelations ... will keep raining down drip by drip, disrupting the new administration's high ambitions.”
“Whatever shape journalism ultimately takes in America, make no mistake that in the end we will get what we pay for.”
“President Obama can talk all he wants about not looking back, but this grotesque past is bigger than even he is.”
“It is justice, not a storm, that is gathering. Only those who have spread the poisons of bigotry and fear have any reason to be afraid.”
“It wasn't just trillions of dollars of wealth that went poof in the bubble. Certain American values also crumbled and vanished.”
“Sending a juicy C.E.O. -- or six -- to the gallows is at most a crowd-pleasing opening act to the heavy lifting of reform and rebuilding we still await.”
“Culture wars are a luxury the country -- the G.O.P. included -- can no longer afford.”
“The notion that Americans must all rise and fall together is the ideal we still yearn to reclaim, and that a majority voted for in November.”
“Barack Obama must savor the moment while he can. It may never get better than this.”
“As in every other turn of our culture of denial, outside events will force the recognition of harsh realities.”
“This G.O.P. ... with talking points instead of ideas and talking heads instead of leaders, is not unlike those 'zombie banks' that we’re being asked to bail out.”
“In reality, Daschle’s tax shortfall, an apparently honest mistake, was only a red flag for the larger syndrome that much of Washington still doesn’t get.”
“[The Republican Party] is as AWOL in this disaster as the Bush administration was during Katrina.”
Courtesy of The New York Times
