Quotes of the day:

By Lee Russ

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at 04:41 PM

If Bush and Cheney were being sincere, then they're lying to themselves; if not, they're lying to the rest of us. My money is on the latter.

Columnist Eugene Robinson, addressing recent statements by Bush that "We've never been 'stay the course' " and by Cheney that the Iraqi government is doing "remarkably well."

Both [the leaders of North Korea and Iran] are like Hitler, who was willing to see his own people decimated and his own country reduced to rubble rather than quit when it was obvious to all that he could not win. If you can imagine Hitler with a few nuclear weapons to use to vent his all-consuming hatreds in a lost cause, you can see what a nuclear North Korea or a nuclear Iran would mean for America and the world.

Thomas Sowell, conservative columnist, playing "the Hitler card" as he laments something or other about the fact that the Democrats appear poised to take back congress, or that the media care more about Foley than N. Korea and Iran, or.....