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

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Washington D.C. and the Press Corp are his constituency - Arizona GOP censures McCain for ‘liberal’ record

He is three generations Navy. He has never worked anywhere, but for the government. Unfortunately, he is mostly self-interested and, in the past as part of the "Keating Five," self-aggrandizement. He speaks and acts with an eye on getting favorable coverage from the Washington Press to the detriment of the rest of us. Think of McCain-Feingold. There are times when McCain acts as a Republican Senator, in the interest of Arizonans and Americans. He did this in questioning the Obama choice for Ambassador to Norway. Although it was 'like shooting fish in a barrel,' because the candidate, George Tsunis, is a great campaign money bundler for Obama, but a bungler intellectually:

Obama's ambassador pick for Norway bobbles Senate history test, but still likely to nab job

 In the hearing, McCain acted in a stellar, informed fashion. However, this is rare. Is McCain, just reflecting the competency of his staff? But all too often, when he is on his own, without staff support, he seems ill-informed and sounds more like his pop culture daughter than he did during this hearing.

In the article below, McCain is supported by his Republican Senate colleague from AZ. Never the less, McCain is a big government statist who puts the Senate first, before the Americans he is supposed represent. m/r

Arizona GOP censures McCain for ‘liberal’ record - The Washington Post

By Associated Press, Published: January 25, 2014



PHOENIX — The Arizona Republican Party formally censured Sen. John McCain on Saturday, citing a voting record they say is insufficiently conservative.
The resolution to censure McCain was approved by a voice-vote during a meeting of state committee members in Tempe, state party spokesman Tim Sifert said. It needed signatures from at least 20 percent of state committee members to reach the floor for debate.
Sifert said no further action was expected.
McCain spokesman Brian Rogers declined to comment on the censure. But former three-term Sen. Jon Kyl told The Arizona Republic (http://bit.ly/1mIyKyy ) that the move was “wacky.”
“I’ve gone to dozens of these meetings and every now and then some wacky resolution gets passed,” Kyl told the newspaper on Saturday. “But most people realize it does not represent the majority of the vast numbers of Republicans.” ...
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