Quote of the Day

"I don't remember my mental state on 9/12/01 in perfect detail, but a broad-brush outline would be that I was freaking out...

...It simply put, wasn't the best day to be making decisions. Obviously, the country's top leaders need to make decisions in crises. At the same time, they're bound to be fallible like everyone else. And, like everyone else, eventually they need to calm down, step back, and evaluate what's happening. But Cheney and his hagiographer see it as a virtue that he continues to make decisions based on the panicky and inaccurate vision of events we had on 9/12."
--Blogger Matthew Yglesias, on why governing with a 'September 12 mindset' is very insane.

[PS- Jon Stewart interviewed the Cheney biographer last night. The incident Stewart refers to, in which Fox News' John Gibson mocked his post-9/11 grief, can be heard here.]