WTF Is It Now?!?

"Columnist Paul Krugman found irony in Condoleezza Rice's post-coup advice to the restored President Chávez to "respect constitutional processes." That would be the same constitution that Chávez's opponents had tried to throw out, of course. But my favorite quote of the Venezuelan coup is in this passage from The New York Times: "Asked whether the administration now recognizes Mr. Chavez as Venezuela's legitimate president, one administration official replied, 'He was democratically elected,' then added, 'Legitimacy is something that is conferred not just by a majority of the voters, however.'

"How true. Sometimes a majority of the voters lose out to a 5-4 vote on the Supreme Court."
- Molly Ivins

Things that make you go "hmmmmmmmmm...."
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tony Sanchez said Thursday that Gov. Rick Perry is 'not known as a truthful person,' implying he thinks Perry lied about his profit on an Austin land sale. Sanchez said he doesn't believe Perry's explanation that his trustee's sale of the property for a $235,000 profit in May 1999 occurred only coincidentally after then-Gov. George W. Bush signed a law that raised land values in the area. (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/politics/1373565)