27 May 2011

Quotes of the Day

"It's as if someone bought an iPod, uploaded one song, and hit 'shuffle.'"
-Steve Benen, on the ten-page, large font with lots of big pictures, "jobs plan" released by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's office yesterday.

More from Ezra Klein
"Large-print books -- you know, the ones for kids or the visually impaired -- fit about 250. The House GOP's jobs plan, however, gets about 200 words to a page. The typeface is fit for giants, and the document's 10 pages are mostly taken up by pictures. It looks like the staffer in charge forgot the assignment was due on Thursday rather than Friday, and so cranked the font up to 24 and began dumping clip art to pad out the plan."
And finally, Rachel Maddow lays out the real priorities of the current Republican-led House:



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