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

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Heckuva Job, New York State GOP & Nevada, New Jersey, California


Heckuva Job, New York State GOP -
National Review Online- 11/3/10

This is embarrassing:

Schumer 65%, Townsend 33%

Gillibrand 61%, DioGuardi 37%

Cuomo 62%, Paladino 34%

And to put this drubbing in proper perspective . . .

DeMint 63%, Greene 28%

If you can outperform arguably the worst candidate in the history of the politics by only five to nine percentage points, you really have to ask if there’s any Republican Party to speak of in New York State at all.

---or in Calif., NJ, Nev. - The GOP got testy at Tea Party Outsiders and gave tepid support if any.

The /County Club' perk loving co-opter insiders in the GOP would rather be the elite and not get their hands dirty on the new 'sons of liberty' who are just the little common folk.

The GOP attitude was clearly stated by the penultimate Republican Insider who keeps putting his foot in his mouth, former Senator Trent Lott: Trent Lott, the former senate majority leader from Mississippi, made news last summer when he said this of incoming tea party-backed senators “As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/03/trent-lott-to-demint-i-meant-mcconnell-should-reach-out-to-tea-party-senators/#ixzz14G4GnD4B
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