The Patriot Post Chronicle 6-9-2010

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The Patriot Post Chronicle 6-9-2010
From The Federalist Patriot
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Insight

"Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions." --author G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

"Your silence gives consent." --Greek philosopher Plato (429-347 BC)

"The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it." --American writer Elmer Davis (1800-1858 )

"I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'" --American humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)

The Demo-gogues

Very presidential: "I was down there a month ago, before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the Gulf. A month ago I was meeting with fishermen down there, standing in the rain talking about what a potential crisis this could be. And I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers so I know whose a$$ to kick." --Barack Obama

What do you mean, "we"? "Even if we are successful in containing some or much of this oil, we are not going to get this problem completely solved until we actually have the relief well completed. And that is going to take a couple more months. We also know that there's already a lot of oil that's been released, and that there's going to be more oil released no matter how successful this containment effort is. ... [The Gulf residents are] going to need help from the entire country. They're going to need constant, vigilant attention from this administration. That's what they're going to get." --Barack Obama, with what sounds like a prelude to a new tax

Belly Laugh of the Week: "I don't want us to do something just for the sake of politics that doesn't solve the problem." --BO

Chiming in: "Here's what's important. Not to be throwing the blame around, but to put America on the course to true energy independence and self-reliance and to begin to wean ourselves from our addiction to oil." --Sen. John Francois Kerry (D-MA)

He could take a few lessons, too: "I think that America has a lot to learn from Kalamazoo Central about what makes for a successful school in this new century. You could have made excuses -- our kids have fewer advantages, our schools have fewer resources, so how can we compete? You could have spent years pointing fingers -- blaming parents, blaming teachers, blaming the principal or the superintendent or the government [or George W. Bush]. But instead, you came together. You were honest with yourselves about where you were falling short. And you resolved to do better." --master finger-pointer Barack Obama in his commencement address to Michigan's Kalamazoo Central High School (He didn't really say "or George W. Bush," but we thought it would make the point.)

More Clinton class warfare: "Despite progress in some places, tax and budget systems are ineffective and inefficient in much of the hemisphere. This is partly due to how taxes are structured, with the burden falling too heavily on the lower classes and often hurting productivity. But in many places, including often in my own country, the simple fact is that the wealthy do not pay their fair share of taxes. ... Acknowledging this is not class warfare; it is not even us-versus-them rhetoric. It is a matter of recognizing that this cannot be a zero-sum game. We cannot take a winner-takes-all approach to our economic future." --Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Village Idiots

Non Compos Mentis: "Criminals have far more access to guns today than in the history of this country and that is frightening to America. We have to do something about it. You cannot live in America as the Wild West. ... But if you firmly believe that people should have access to guns at all times, then you have a totally different society. ... Access to guns will destroy America faster than any other war." --Chicago Demo Mayor Richard M. Daley, who missed the recent crime statistics showing that more guns equal less crime

Let it be: "It's a fantastic honor for the Gershwin family to give me this incredible award and for me to be awarded it by the Library of Congress. In fact, after the last eight years, it's great to have a president who knows what a library is." --"Sir" Paul McCartney with a lame joke about President Bush

Completely unlimited government: "I think a government that tries, systematically, to relieve what causes lasting misery and emphasize what gives lasting happiness will eventually win the support of the people." --former president of Harvard University Derek Bok

Deep thoughts: "What we really have is a choice whether we want to do the right things from an energy standpoint or the wrong thing. And if enough of us choose to do the wrong thing and we don't prepare for global warming and we don't make the changes that we know we should make, then we'll be extinct." --CNN founder Ted Turner

Short Cuts

"BP is saying that the campaign to clean up the oil could last until fall. You know why they call it a campaign? Because it's like an election -- it's dirty, it's slimy, and it never seems to end." --comedian Jay Leno

"Spike Lee, the moviemaker, says it's time for the president to 'go off,' to start jumping up and down and show some entertaining fury and frenzy. The rage should be directed at somebody at British Petroleum. Spike knows drama. 'If there's any one time to go off,' he says, 'this is it, because this is a disaster.' Well, thanks for that, Spike. Now we know it's a disaster." --Washington Times editor emeritus Wesley Pruden

"President Obama took responsibility for his part in the Gulf spill Thursday. He said his mistake was trusting the oil companies. He then requisitioned three jumbo jets, two limousines and one helicopter to take the family to Chicago for the weekend." --comedian Argus Hamilton

"While I'm not a golfer, I do like the idea of mulligans. For instance, who hasn't made a mistake or misspoken and immediately wished he could call for a do-over? Right about now, I'd like to take a mulligan on the 2008 election." --columnist Burt Prelutsky

(Please pray for our Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world, and for their families -- especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who granted their lives in defense of American liberty.)