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

Monday, October 17, 2011

A reminder of last month's dumbest person - Michael Steele in a Dress?

Michael Steele in a Dress? - WSJ.com

Michael Steele made Republicans cringe with his many gaffes during the two years he chaired the Republican National Committee. Now Republicans are gleefully compiling "The Thoughts of Chairwoman Debbie," a collection of the bizarre statements made by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who took over the Democratic National Committee last month.

"We own the economy," she said this week at a breakfast sponsored by Politico.com. "We own the beginning of the turnaround, and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery." The economy, she said, "has turned around" since President Obama took office, leaving many reporters who had asked her about rising unemployment numbers scratching their heads in puzzlement. "I've really seen such a velocity of spin with so little heft behind it," one told me.

Last week she said that Republicans "want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws...
The week before that statement, Ms. Wasserman Schultz announced that the GOP was engaged in "a war on women" ...
But her biggest faux pas may have come when she accused Republicans of being against having a U.S. car industry. "If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars,"...

Wasserman Schultz household owns a 2010 Infiniti FX35, a Japanese car.
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