Rep. Darrell Issa on WH spokesman Jay Carney: "A paid liar."....Former Obama aide David Plouffe on Issa: "Mr. Grand Theft Auto and suspected arsonist/insurance swindler."....Michael Gerson on Eric Holder: "Incompetence."....Dana Milbank on Bachmann retirement video: "Her trademark mixture of bombast, paranoia and error."....John Avlon on Bachmann: "Represented the worst of modern American politics...Degraded national debate, consistently chose fearmongering over facts, and exhibited every impulse of the demagogue and the ideologue."....Gabriel Gomez on Ed Markey: "Pond scum."....Rush Limbaugh on Obama and Christie: "A master-servant relationship."....James Taranto on Cambridge, MA: "A town full of communal narcissists."....Rolling Stone on The Great Gatsby: "Shush. Listen. That's blind ambition being thwarted by flawed execution."....

Tweets re the author of Game of Thrones: "A horrible, horrible man."...."About three deaths away from being called a Dark Lord."...."I hope you realize the hatred I have for you."...."You can't just write a book and not care about your characters. You. Just. Can't. Do. That."...."If George Martin was in Auburn right now I'd stab him in the heart."...."You're a sick man."...."I hate you George Martin!"...."What the hell is wrong with you! You sick-headed author, you don't think normally. I hate you."...."I'm about to murder the writer."...."You ruined my life!"...."He kills everything that I love."...."George Martin needs to be brought to justice."....

Penn Jillette on Donald Trump's hair: "Looks like cotton candy made of piss."....Alex Pareene on Barbara Walters: "Her entire public life has been an extended exercise in sycophancy and unalloyed power worship."....Mark Morford on NRA: "A twitchy clown car of paranoia and failure."....Joan Walsh on Mark Sanford: "Rather loopy, and somewhat creepy."....Sarah Palin on the media: "The reliable poodle-skirted cheerleader for the president."....Rich Stowall on 'Alpha House': "Runaway bigotry...Cowardly and unclever lampoonery...Liberals just aren't funny."....

Former SC Gov. James Edwards: "If we don't get every vote we can out, Obama will be a dictator. He's practically a dictator now."....Sen. James Inhofe: "Our president, Obama, has been doing everything he could to stop the private ownership of guns in America."....Rush Limbaugh: “What the regime is doing is buying up all the ammo, so that the guns that you do have are useless.”….Mike Lupica on NRA president Wayne LaPierre: "Fronting for the big gun companies who help fund the NRA...LaPierre isn't a patriot, he's a pimp."....Niall Ferguson on his own anti-gay remarks on John Maynard Keynes: "As stupid as they were insensitive."....

Tom Brokaw on White House Correspondents Dinner: "What we're doing is saying...'We're Versailles. We'll let the rest of you eat cake.'"....Sarah Palin on WHCD: "Pathetic...Nerdprom...DC assclowns."....NJ Gubernatorial candidate Barbara Buono on Chris Matthews: "Ass."....Jon Stewart on George W. Bush library: "The Hard Rock Cafe of catastrophic policy decisions."....