....John Boehner on Sen. Ted Cruz: "I get along with most everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life."....Bret Stephens on Cruz: "He's Shakespeare's Richard III as interpreted by Mr. Bean."....Sen. John Kennedy on Interior Department nominee Deb Haaland: "A neo-socialist, left-of-Lenin whack job."....Tucker Carlson on Joe and Jill Biden's 44-year marriage: "Their love is as real as climate change."....family members to Rep. Adam Kinzinger, in public letter criticizing his vote to impeach Trump: "Oh my, what a disappointment you are to us and to God!...You should be very proud that you have LOST THE RESPECT of Lou Dobbs, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Greg Kelly, etc., and most importantly in our book, Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh and us!"....Rush Limbaugh on feminism: "Was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society."....Rush on birth control being covered by health insurance: "Feminazis, if we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch."....Rush: "In Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering."....Rush: "There are a bunch of really crafty guys out there who probably, in the normal course of events, can't get women to look at 'em. And they've decided, 'You know what? I'm gonna go be tranny.'"....Jill Filipovic on Rush: "He was the right wing's misogynist id."....Bob Moser on Limbaugh: "One of the most influential subversives in American history. No single person...has contributed more than Limbaugh to the mass derangement of white America."....CNN anchor Brianna Keiler on Fox News: "Worshp Trump, blame Democrats, spotlight fear. Rinse, lather, repeat."....Megan McArdle on Trump: "A singular and selfish figure whose coattails are far too tattered for anyone else to grasp."....Stephen King on Trump: "Worst. World. Leader. In. The. History. Of. The. World."....Thomas L. Friedman on Trump: "Believed that he could shoot a whole branch of the U.S. government in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue and his base would stick with him. And he was right!"....Seth Meyers on the pandemic winter: "it's like my soul has a hangnail."....

....Sen. Ben Sasse on GOP: "I still believe, as you used to, that politics isn't about the weird worship of one dude...We're going to have to choose between conservatism and madness."....Sen. Marco Rubio on impeachment: "A waste of our time."....Sen. Rick Scott: "It's vindictive, it's backward-looking, it's unserious."....Judge Jeanine Pirro: "Aburd political theater."....Fox News chyron: "Dems Wasting Time With Bogus Impeachment Trial."....Donald Trump Jr.: "Beating these establishment clowns twice after years of BS and under unprecedented circumstances is a badge of honor."....former CIA director John O. Brennan on Trump attorney Michael van der Veen: "One of the most venal, soulless, and perfidious individuals ever to speak in front of the U.S. Senate, which is quite a feat."....Sen. Mitch McConnell after voting "not guilty": "There is no question -- none -- that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day."....former Rep. Donna Edwards: "I almost lost my lunch listening to Mitch McConnell today."....Maureen Dowd on impeachment defense: "Just another Trump flimflam reality TV show, meant to prove how HE was wronged, not how he wronged the country."....Rep. Jamie Raskin: "President Trump may not know a lot about the framers, but they sure knew a lot about him."....Rep. Lynn Cheney on Trump: "There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution."....Sen. John Danforth on GOP: "We have become really kind of a grotesque caricature of what the Republican Party has traditionally been."....Nikki Haley on Trump: "He went down a path he shouldn't have, and we shouldn't have followed him, and we shouldn't have listened to him. And we can't let that ever happen again."....Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: "[The media] is just as guilty as QAnon of presenting lies that divide us."....Sen. Mitch McConnell on Greene: "Looney lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country."....Rick Wilson on Greene: "Crazier than a s***house rat in a sugarcane field."....former WH chief of staff Mark Meadows: "President Biden is putting America last."....Pete Hegseth: "The party that Joe Biden represents is not just the party of America Last, they're a party of America Was Never Great."....Peter Wehner on Trump legacy: "Carnage and death and a lot of ruin...There was a savagery to our politics because of him."....Tucker Carlson on AOC's account of hiding in a Capitol office for six hours during attack: "Wallowing around in Lake Me like it's interesting to anyone but her. Narcissism on parade, the perfect symbol of a culture dying from self-involvement...There were no rioters in Sandy Cortez's hallway."....opposition leader Alexei Novolny on the Russian government: "They're imprisoning one person to frighten millions."....Thomas L. Friedman: "Russia once gave the world Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Dostoyevsky, Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn. Putin's Russia will be remembered for giving the world poisoned underwear...Putin has become America's ex-boyfriend from hell..."....

....Fox News chyron on day after Inauguration: "BIDEN'S DISASTROUS FIRST WEEK"....Sen. Marco Rubio on Biden cabinet picks: "Went to Ivy League schools, have strong resumes, attend all the right conferences, and will be polite and orderly caretakers of America's decline."....Frank Bruni on Rubio: "A little man, at least by the yardstick of integrity, which is the only endowment that matters."....Joe Scarborough on Sen. Lindsey Graham: "Wants us to forget [that the people] who beat a cop to death were inspired by Donald Trump to do so. Ted Cruz wants us to forget because he led the sedition along with Josh Hawley...You know what these people are? These are Trump terrorists. Call them by their name."....Rep. Matt Gaetz: "Liz Cheney is just yet another in a long line of America Last politicians."....Sen. Mitt Romney on Trump support for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Lies of a feather flock together."....Sen. Ted Cruz on U.S. rejoining Paris Climate Agreement: "President Biden indicates he's more interested in the views of the citizens of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh."....AOC on Sen. Josh Hawley: "You're not 'muzzled,' Hawley. You're just deeply unpopular, and aided insurrection."....William Saletan: "What Trump brought to the United States is ruthless, relentless, denialist propaganda at a scale we used to see only in dictatorships."....Newt Gingrich on Biden and Dems: "Believe if they could exterminate the Republicans, that would be one way to get unity."....Spike Lee on Trump: "Will go down in history with the likes of Hitler."....House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Trump: "It was evident all along what a disgrace he was."....Stephen Colbert: "Not impeaching Trump because he is out of office is like setting Jeffrey Dahmer free because he is full."....

....Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Biden and Dems: "Are looking for any reason to implement Communist Chinese-style spying and censorship...[Americans] shouldn't be scared into submission by Socialists who want to end their way of life."....Michelle Goldberg: "The siege of the Capitol wasn't a departure for Trump, it was an apotheosis. For years he's been telling us he wouldn't accept an election loss."....Rep. Eric Swalwell on 1/6 Trump rally: "Hate speech that inspired and radicalized people to storm the Capitol."....Sen. Mitch McConnell: "The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people."....Rep. Liz Cheney on Trump: "Summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing."....Project Lincoln adviser Ryan Wiggins: "Right now there are hundreds of brave soldiers camped out in the Capitol ready to die to protect Republican Members of Congress who are too afraid of a weak, deranged narcissist to act in the best interest of our country."....Rep. Jamie Raskin on Trump: "Is not meeting the minimal requirements of the office."....Donny Deutsch on Trump and his brand: "Fully castrated....He has no business future at all. It is over...It is going to be enjoyable to watch this loathsome lizard of a human being go down the drain."....Tim O'Brien on Trump: "An epic self-immolation...He's going to end up cornered and feral."....former AG William Barr: "Orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress is inexcusable. The President's conduct yesterday was a betrayal of his office and supporters."....Geraldo Rivera on Trump: "[Losing the election] made him crazy or revealed a dysfunction I had refused to see...He then unleashed a mob to make war on their own government."....Trump on the media: "The biggest problem we have as far as I'm concerned; single biggest problem."....Erin Gloria Ryan: "From the rioters who came with their moms, to the chickenshits in Congress who riled them up, to the 'most masculine' president ever, these are a sad bunch of men."....Rep. Cori Bush on storming the Capitol: "A white supremicist coup attempt."....Michael Moore: "Cop-killing terrorist mob."....Lawrence O'Brien on Trump: "A lawless criminal leader eager to lead people who are willing to break the law in his name."....Chris Christie, asked if the riot was an impeachable offense: "Oh sure."....Trump administration official on POTUS's behavior on 1/6: "He was a total monster today."....Michelle Obama on Trump: "Infantile."....Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Trump: "Unmoored not just from his duty or even his oath, but from reality itself."....former Sen. Jack Danforth on mentoring Sen. Josh Hawley, who objected to Electoral College results: "Supporting Josh and trying so hard to get him elected to the Senate was the worst mistake I ever made in my life...This guy is doing real harm."....David Remnick on Trump: "The three-minute-long speech he gave on Thursday night, calling for an orderly transfer of power, was as sincere as a hostage's gunpoint confession."....Mary Trump on her uncle: "If his only representation is Rudy Giuliani and the Pillow Guy, I don't think he's going to be making good decisions."....Michael Cohen: "I am certain that Donald Trump is psychotic right now. He would rather burn down the White House than turn over the keys."....Sarah Cooper on Trump: "What a petty bitch."....

Sen. Kelly Loeffler: "Every Georgian knows that Jon Ossoff is a pathological liar. And he's a trust-fund socialist who's never had a job, other than through the Chinese Communist Party."....Tucker Carlson on Ossoff: "The sum total of your personal achievements could fit comfortably in the ashtray of a sports car."....Trump: "The 'Surrender Caucus' within the Republican Party will go down in infamy as weak and ineffective 'guardians' of our Nation, who were willing to accept the certification of fraudulent presidential numbers!"....Sen. Ben Sasse on Sen. Josh Hawley vote challenge: "Adults don't point a loaded gun at the heart of legitimate self-government."....Arnold Schwarzenegger: "There is no question about who won the presidential election, and continuing this charade is stupid, crazy, and evil."....Thomas L. Friedman on Trump followers: "A discredited, powerless minority of crackpots waiting around for Trump's latest tweet to tell them what to do, say, and believe."....Eric Trump on Biden victory: "I will personally work to defeat every single Republican senator / congressman who doesn't stand up against this fraud."....David Pflouffe in response: "Like being threatened by a bowl of Jell-O."....Thomas Friedman on Wednesday's planned vote: "A legislative attempt at a coup d'etat...It is disgusting."....Seth Abramson: "The number of Republican House members who'll publicly spit on American democracy on January 6 is going to blow people's minds."....Sen. Tim Kaine on GOP obstructors: "Their ambition is ten times the size of their backbones."....Anderson Cooper on GOP: "More afraid of their supporters than of selling out democracy."....Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Trump and GOP senators: "Essentially taking a flamethrower to our democracy when it comes to public confidence."....Laurence Tribe: "Cruz and Hawley represent two complementary flanks of the New Fascism, the greatest domestic threat we have faced in at least a century."....HRC: "What we're seeing right now is a president with nothing left to lose."....retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey on Trump: "Essentially a con man."....Sen. Kamala Harris on Trump phone call to GA secretary of state: "The voice of desperation...A bald-faced, bold abuse of power."....Richard Wolffe on phone call: "It was Meadows who was polishing the turd...The threat to our democracy is no less real for all of Trump's buffoonish attempts at autocracy."....top GA election official Gabriel Sterling on Trump's phone call: "Nobody I know who would be president would do something like that to a secretary of state."....Neal Katyal on phone call: "Donald Trump is talking like a Mafia boss, and not a particularly smart Mafia boss at that...Maybe that works in the Soviet Union."....Andrew Weissman: "Can anyone not understand now that this Georgia call, and the Ukraine call, are the tip of the Trump iceberg? More to come, surely."....former DOJ inspector general Michael Bromwich on Trump call: "This is probably the most serious political crime I've ever heard of."....Carl Bernstein: "This was something far worse than Watergate...We have both a criminal president of the United States in Donald Trump and a subversive president of the United States at the same time, in this one person."....Michael Tomasky on Sen. Josh Hawley: "His...sincerity rests in his devout pursuit to get his nose farther up Donald Trump's posterior than any other Republican senator."....George Will on the Hawley-Cruz cohort of senators: "Will violate the oath of office in which they swore to defend the Constitution from enemies 'foreign and domestic.' They ARE its most dangerous domestic enemies."....Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Cruz demanding an emergency audit of election results: "Can you please get a grip?...This is embarrassing."....Jennifer Rubin: "There must be a response to a president who exploits his office for the purpose of overthrowing an election."....James Carville on Trump GOP: "This entire thing has fallen apart in front of our eyes, and it's fun to watch."....Bret Stephens on Trump: "America's willful arsonist, the man who lit the match under the fabric of our constitutional republic."....Stephen King: "Who would have guessed that this stupid showman-cum-huckster could do so much damage?"....Jimmy Kimmel: "The 'Million Moron March' is [Wednesday]. President Trump says he will be there. Of course he will."....Lloyd Green: "On Wednesday, the Republicans' transition to the party of the Confederacy will be complete...A coup attempt in all but name, this is how democracy dies."....Sarah Cooper: "Sorry everyone, my New Year's resolution was to try to not make criminals hilarious."....Dan Rather on 2020: "A dumpster fire igniting a nuclear meltdown."....Rep. Jim Jordan: "Tomorrow, the Constitution will be defended and people will see the truth."....Trump on January 6th in D.C.: "Be there, will be wild!"....