Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch.
“Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.”
“Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”