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The Patriot Post Chronicle 9-34
From The Federalist Patriot
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____________________________ UPRIGHT"There is a lot one could say of Senator Kennedy -- positive from supporters, negative from critics. They say one should not speak ill of the dead. True. But I am of the view that one should not lie about the dead either." --political analyst Bill Bennett
"[Ted] Kennedy left the scene of a fatal accident for which he was at least partly responsible. Then he used his extraordinary power to get off, spending the rest of his career in pseudo-remorse, playing the most liberal of Senators. It was always an act to me, even when I agreed with him politically. This was not a life well lived." --author and screenwriter Roger L. Simon
"The American people must regain the ability to distinguish between wants and needs and must shed the ridiculous notion that government exists to provide either. Our Constitution -- drafted by men well acquainted with the abusive capacities of a centralized government -- limited the roles and responsibilities of the federal government in order to allow the principle of self-government to flourish in the new nation. Government exists to preserve and protect the sphere of civil freedom within which we can work to meet our needs and our wants. Government does not exist to provide them." --columnist Ken Connor
"With its stimulus, the Obama administration borrowed more money, and realized fewer economic benefits, than the government of any other major economy. Perhaps results would have been better had the stimulus been directed at the economy instead of at the 2010 campaign." --columnist David Frum
"What if America transcended race, and Barack Obama wasn't invited? The question comes to mind as cries of racism grow ever louder from Obama's supporters. No one should be surprised. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, liberal Democrats have to accuse their opponents of racism." --columnist Jonah Goldberg
"Barack Obama's escapes from his own past words, deeds and associations have been escapes worthy of Houdini. Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has tried to demonize doctors without much success. ... Obama even gets away with saying things like having a system to 'keep insurance companies honest' -- and many people may not see the painful irony in politicians trying to keep other people honest." --economist Thomas Sowell
"It's a mistake to think of the current legislation as a health-care reform bill. It is actually a bill for the formation of a massive health-care bureaucracy charged with the task of scheming endlessly to expand its own power. The only way to prevent this kind of free-floating grant of power to the bureaucracy is to prevent it from forming in the first place, by keeping government out of medicine. ...We don't want a modified or watered down version of this health-care bill. We want no version of this health-care bill and no new health-care bureaucracy." --columnist Robert Tracinski
DEZINFORMATSIASelling health care: "As with most of us, [Ted Kennedy's] final days were another object lesson in the necessity of good health care. He thought it should be available to everyone, and he worked to make that a reality until the end. Moving toward that goal would be the greatest tribute his fellow legislators could pay him." --The Washington Post, using Kennedy's death to push socialized medicine
From the sycophants: "Mr. Obama has continued a presidential tradition, what Thomas Jefferson called neology, making up a new word or giving new meaning to an old one. ... President Obama has introduced us to 'wee wee'd up.'" --CBS's Katie Couric on Obama's most recent bizarre crack ("Do you recall anyone in the media ever hailing Bush's 'misunderestimated' as advancing 'a presidential tradition'?" --Media Research Center's Brent Baker)
Slamming the protestors: "Instead of a multicultural tableau of beaming young idealists on screen, we see ugly scenes of mostly older and white malcontents, disrupting forums where others have come to actually learn something. Instead of hope, we get swastikas, death threats and T-shirts proclaiming 'Proud Member of the Mob.' President Obama has proven quicksilver instincts, but not in this case. You would think that a politician schooled in community organizing and the foul balls of a presidential campaign would be ready to squash this kind of nuttiness." --New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd
