"Ryan should stop being so lovable. People who intend to hurt other people should wipe the smile off their faces."

Writes Maureen Dowd , smiling.

"We have to fight the dangerous streams in culture, the consumerism and narcissism and me-ism that erode the borders of our moral culture."

"We can’t put shallow celebrity before core decency. We have to have a deeper faith in the human spirit. As they say, he who has the he...

When it comes to the Constitution and the Affordable Care Act, one must wonder who is the little lamb brought up as a pet.

"This court, cosseted behind white marble pillars, out of reach of TV, accountable to no one once they give the last word..." That...

"Isn’t this the last guy who should be pointing fingers and accusing others of taking pills for recreational purposes?"

Maureen Dowd takes a shot at Rush Limbaugh , kind of missing the point, because no one doubts that Rush paid for his own recreational pills....

Gov. Corbett suggests that Second Mile groomed children for Jerry Sandusky.

Chris Wallace, on Fox News Sunday, did an excellent job of drawing out Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, who, bound by ethical restraints,...

"It would appear to be the rare case of a pedophile caught in the act, and you’d think a graduate student would know enough to stop the rape and call the police."

"But [Mike] McQueary, who was 28 years old at the time, was a serf in the powerfully paternal Paternoland. According to the report, he ...

"We have had several Texas presidents, but none so deeply, intensely Texas as this guy would be."

Man, Rick Perry is freaking out the New York Times. Gail Collins is all: You think of Rick Perry, you think of Texas. And more Texas. Perry...

Maureen Dowd: "Perry told the students, 'God uses broken people to reach a broken world.' What does that even mean?"

That's in a column that's all about portraying Perry as the epitome of a special American-style of idiocy: The Republicans are now t...

"It’s still impossible to sum up what Obama’s presidency is about right now, except saving his own job."

That's how Maureen Dowd sums it up this week. Lot of insults for Republicans too: "They’re revolutionary Bolsheviks who want to eat...

Obama wisecrack: "Maybe I should throw the game."

Spoken during the 2008 campaign, in the context of observing all the problems the next President would face. Quoted by Maureen Dowd , who, n...

"While Perry was playing the retro trigger-happy cowboy, Obama was playing the retro henpecked husband."

Maureen Dowd: In Cannon Falls, Minn., the president compared negotiating with House Republicans to negotiating with his wife. “In my house,”...

"What if the people who hate government are good at it and the people who love government are bad at it?"

Maureen Dowd observes that "Obama and John Boehner have been completely outplayed by the 'hobbits'": Consider what the tow...

"I can hardly wait for The Althouse Woman to tear Maureen Dowd a new one today on MD's put down of Bob Dylan performing in China."

Meade reads me that comment from AllenS at the Crocus Café just as the last track of the vinyl record "New Morning" ends. We...

Maureen Dowd speaks of Obama's "righteous self-regard."

In context: At first it was exciting that Obama was the sort of brainy, cultivated Democrat who would be at home in a “West Wing” episode. B...

Rush Limbaugh on Maureen Dowd: "I know every detail because I know the guy" she loved and who was cruel to her.

Rush Limbaugh offers a somewhat sympathetic but teasing and gossipy explanation for why Maureen Dowd isn't fun to read anymore: What hap...

I was in a fisking mood over the weekend.

I had to go after: 1. Robert Gibbs defending Obama's stance on Don't Ask Don't Tell. 2. Maureen Dowd attempting to portray Sharr...

What's with powerful women and thick bumpers of bangs?

Drudge is — I think — implicitly asking with this alignment of photographs: What drives intelligent women to that hairstyle? Are they think...

Maureen Dowd says Christine O'Donnell, like Barack Obama, is "smart to think of politics in terms of passion and myth."

That is, Barack Obama, the presidential campaigner. As an actual President, the "passion and myth... are sorely missing."  Obama’s...

"How did the first president of color become so colorless?"

Asks Maureen Dowd: The president is everywhere, trying to get more aggressive and recapture some of his “Yes we can” mojo in an effort to fe...

Maureen Dowd says "Rush Limbaugh... mocks 'Imam Obama' as 'America’s first Muslim president'" but what did he actually say?

Here 's Dowd's column. You can search the radio show's transcripts here . It was a joke : "If it was laudatory to call Bill...