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

Friday, March 18, 2011

What if Jimmy Walker had become President- UNEASY LIES THE HEAD

Obama wrote self serving bios instead of light ditties.
SteynOnline - UNEASY LIES THE HEAD
Steyn on America
FRIDAY, 18 MARCH 2011

The President gets a touch of the Thomas Friedmans:

Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. As one official put it, “No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao’s words in Tahrir Square.”

I don’t know whether it’s that much easier being President of China. Maybe Obama should have started by being President of Costa Rica or Slovenia, and worked his way up from there. Bill Kristol:

Barack Obama ran for president of the United States. Maybe he should start behaving as one.

The Pundette adds:

Temperament does matter. And Obama’s is all wrong.

Indeed. I don’t mind the union bruisers, Marxist social engineers and lockstep zombies of the Democrat identity-group plantations voting for Obama: They knew what they wanted, and they got it. But I find it harder to understand the preening metrosexual nincompoop ObamaCons besotted with fantasies about his “temperament” (mentioning no names*). His “temperament” would seem to be one of his more obvious failings.

In New Hampshire, the same year Obama won, a Dartmouth College student got elected as county treasurer: Like Obama, she had an Ivy League education; like Obama, she looked great in a bathing suit. And, like Obama, she found all the meetings and budgets and stuff totally way more work than she’d expected. Being county treasurer in Shanghai would probably have been a lot easier. Still, it comes to something when a whiny Valley Girl sounds less like a whiny Valley Girl than the President of the United States does.

A few days ago, noting that Obama seems to like the car and driver and wardrobe budget and so forth, John Hinderaker suggested he might find it easier being king, and letting someone else take on the tedious chores of the executive. John thought this could be accomplished by a constitutional amendment, but that seems unnecessarily complicated. Why doesn’t Obama just appoint himself the czar czar?

from National Review's The Corner, March 2011

* When it came to the choice between Obama and McCain, Christopher Buckley lost both of parents, Patricia and William F. Buckley, during the last Presidential Campaign. McCain completely ignored their passing. It would be enough to ruffle anyone's feathers.

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