What My Father Did Was ‘Cowardice’

Quotes of the day:

"All President Obama has to do now is find a way to pay for a health-care overhaul — and devise a public option that’s maybe not really public — while keeping the stakeholders in those seats at the table — but not letting them get so comfortable that the left will get up — and then give it all the shine of bipartisanship." — Rick Klein, ABC News

"I think he smells some blood in the water on the national-security issue. It’s almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it’s almost as if he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point. I think that’s dangerous politics.” — CIA director Leon Panetta, on Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his frequent criticism of the Obama administration (in The New Yorker magazine)

“The force of the economic storm is receding. There are encouraging signs of stabilization across many economies.” — U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, at Group of Eight talks in Southern Italy

"For the extremists who believe my father is a hero: it is imperative you understand what he did was an act of cowardice." — Erik von Brunn, son of the man who opened fire at The Holocaust Museum, killing a security guard