Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Party Names Should Change: Democrats = Socialists, Mod. Dems & Republicans = Republicrats, & Tea Party + Libertarians = Whigs

Euphemisms are rampant, the worst is "Progressive"!
Progressivism is out and out Socialism verging on international Lenin style Communism, so why not say so? [M]
Dems Show Centrists the Door - WSJ.com

Moderate Rep. Jane Harman resigns from Congress and the DLC suspends operations—more signs that the Democratic Party apparently has decided to stay the course.

By JOHN FUND FEBRUARY 8, 2011,

Two news items on Monday confirmed the perilous condition of moderates within the Democratic Party. Rep. Jane Harman of California, a respected moderate who was on the outs with Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, announced she was resigning from Congress to head the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. And then the Democratic Leadership Council, which dominated the party during the Clinton years, said it was on the verge of bankruptcy and would be suspending operations.

"Progressives are winning the battle for the party," Progressive Congress president Darcy Burner told Politico.com. "The corporate-focused DLC type of politics isn't working inside the Democratic party."

The DLC's decline is one more illustration that the core of the Democratic Party apparently has decided that no course correction is needed after what President Obama called its "shellacking" in the midterm elections. ...

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