Quote Of The Week

"If we're going to stick with the banking on the family name thing, could we just make the Senate the House of Lords and stop pretending?"

-Rachel Maddow on The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC has no more imagination than I have) on 12/15/08, reacting to news that a)Caroline Kennedy may be chosen to replace Hillary Clinton as United States Senator from New York; and b)Representative John Salazar may be selected to replace Ken Salazar (D.-Col.), who is expected to be named by Barack Obama as Secretary of the Department of Interior