Morning Snip:
Exemption
¶ Clyde Haberman in the Times: “Everyone’s Really Mad; Almost Mad Enough to Vote.” The important line in this litany of iratitude is the last one.
Everybody seems to be mad as hell.
Carl P. Paladino, running as a Republican for New York governor, can’t stop saying how mad as hell he is.
Mark Levine, a Democrat running for a State Senate seat from parts of Manhattan and the Bronx, mailed a campaign brochure showing a man and a woman with faces hideously contorted by rage — that’s how mad as hell they are.
New Yorkers testifying at a series of hearings that began Monday night can be counted on to tell the Metropolitan Transportation Authority over the next few weeks that they are mad as hell over proposed fare increases.
Former Mayor Edward I. Koch, who has never found a limelight he cared to avoid, has gadded about the state telling the electorate to get mad as hell at Albany and “throw the bums out†if they don’t agree to a batch of political changes he proposes.
Out in Modesto, Calif., homeowners have banded together saying they are mad as hell over property taxes.
An editorial last week in The Wyoming Tribune-Eagle urged people to get mad as hell over their school system.
The title of a new book about the Tea Party is “Mad as Hell,†which is what Tea Party types keep saying they are.
Several groups unhappy with the blitz of new airline fees have proclaimed Sept. 23 “Mad As Hell Day!†Presumably, without that exclamation point we would not grasp how really and truly seething they are.
One group seems to be exempt as a target for this free-flowing rage. Nobody ever says to voters that it may be time for them to get mad as hell at themselves.