To go from the sublime to the ridiculous:From the Washington Posts gossip column, I offer the following quips from speakers at the Washington Press Club Foundations annual Congressional Dinner. If you take pleasure in any of these, say three Our Fathers and three Hail Marys.From Rahm Emanuel, proposing himself for Vice-President: "Ive spent more time in the executive branch than Barack, and Ive spent more time with Bill than Hillary.From Sen. Mitch McConnell, on the race between "a New York senator who was born in Illinois, and an Illinois senator who was apparently born in a manger."Sen. John Cornyn, noting that the NY Times didnt attend this year: "Their table didnt go to waste. They just donated it to MoveOn.org at a discount."