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[Woland]

Molly Ivins was one of my favorite political writers, not only because I agreed with her and we were right, but because she was witty to boot. I will miss reading her each week.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070201/ap_on_re_us/obit_ivins

[jinju]

[On the other hand]

[jinju]

[Woland]

[sundubuman]

wow, not surprised that "Shrub" outlived both Molly and Anne Richardson, but George Herbert still kicking around as well.

She was a funny lady, RIP.

here are a few of her more famous quips-

�"I'm sorry to say (cancer) can kill you but it doesn't make you a better person," she told the San Antonio Express-News in September 2006, the same month cancer claimed her friend former Gov. Ann Richards.

� "If you think his daddy had trouble with 'the vision thing,' wait'll you meet this one," Ivins on George W. Bush in "The Progressive," June 1999.

� "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili," on Bill Clinton, from the introduction to You Got to Dance With Them What Brung You

�"Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?", in a 2002 column about a California political race.

� "The poor man who is currently our president has reached such a point of befuddlement that he thinks stem cell research is the same as taking human lives, but that 40,000 dead Iraqi civilians are progress toward democracy," from a July 2006 column urging commentator Bill Moyers to run for president.

� "Many people did not care for Pat Buchanan's speech; it probably sounded better in the original German," Ivins in September 1992, commenting on the one-time presidential hopeful's speech to the Republican National Convention.

� "I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults," from a March 1992 column.

� "I love Texas, but it is a nasty old rawhide mother in the way it bears down on the people who have the fewest defenses," Ivins wrote in September 2002.

� "....our very own dreaded Legislature is almost upon us. Jan. 9 and they'll all be here, leaving many a village without its idiot," from a December 2000 column.

[Ya-ta Boy]

I'll miss Ms Ivins. She was a hoot. And a damn fine political writer.

[Woland]

[Woland]

Here's a link to Paul Krugman's tribute to her in the NYTimes:

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/opinion/02krugman.html?hp

He includes a series of quotes fromm her column in 2002/3 showing how she predicted quite accurately the mess we are in. Here's a sample: