Quote of the day: Oh Arnold, Arnold, Arnold . . . plus: Frank Rich beats up once again on those eternally stand-for-nothing Democrats

"Oh Arnold, Arnold, Arnold, you were doing so well."
—Huff's rich-bitch (no doubt arch-Republican) mother, played by Blythe Danner, as she paged through the Los Angeles Times in last night's episode of Showtime's Huff


HONORABLE MENTION—
Frank Rich dumps on the gutless Democrats again

"What's most impressive about Mr. Rove, however, is not his ruthlessness, it's his unshakable faith in the power of a story. The story he's stuck with, Iraq, is a loser, but he knows it won't lose at the polls if there's no story to counter it. And so he tells it over and over, confident that the Democrats won't tell their own. And they don't—whether about Iraq or much else. The question for the Democrats is less whether they tilt left, right or center, than whether they can find a stirring narrative that defines their views, not just the Republicans'."
—from yesterday's NYT column, "Karl Rove Beats the Democrats Again"

We'll be coming back to this subject. Actually, before we leave it, perhaps we ought to let Mr. Rich finish his thought:

"Those who are most enraged about the administration's reckless misadventures are incredulous that it repeatedly gets away with the same stunts. Last week the president was still invoking 9/11 to justify the war in Iraq, which he again conflated with the war on Islamic jihadism—the war we are now losing, by the way, in Afghanistan and Somalia. But as long as the Democrats keep repeating their own mistakes, they will lose to the party whose mistakes are, if nothing else, packaged as one heckuva show. It's better to have the courage of bad convictions than no courage or convictions at all."