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The Patriot Post Chronicle 8-4-2010
From The Federalist Patriot
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The Foundation
"When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another." --Thomas Jefferson
The Demo-gogues
What he said: "When I look back on what we've accomplished in the last 18 months -- preventing the country sinking into a great depression, stabilizing the financial markets, saving the U.S. auto industry, oh, and, by the way, passing health care -- I'd say that's a pretty good track record. But until the unemployment rate is down and the economy is where it needs to be, I'm not going to be satisfied." --Barack Obama
What he meant: "When I look back on what we've accomplished in the last 18 months -- scaring voters about the country sinking into a great depression, regulating the financial markets into submission, taking over the U.S. auto industry, oh, and, by the way, ramming health care down your throats -- I'd say that's a pretty good track record. But until the unemployment rate in the public sector is down and the economy is where it needs to be -- utterly dependent on government -- I'm not going to be satisfied."
CLass warfare and lies: "I don't see any reason why we should renew a tax cut that only gives a tax cut to the wealthiest people in America, increases the deficit and doesn't create jobs. That doesn't make any sense." --House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Consummate Demo-gogue: "I understand the frustration of people in Arizona, but what we can't do is demagogue the issue, and what we can't do is allow a patchwork of 50 different states, or cities or localities, where anybody who wants to make a name for themselves suddenly says, 'I'm going to be anti-immigrant, and I'm going try to see if I can solve the problem ourself.' This is a national problem." --Barack Obama
A little "Yoda" speak: "Drain the swamp we did, because this was a terrible place." --Nancy Pelosi (D-Dagobah), who suggests we ignore the corruption of Reps. Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters
The fundamental issue: "I think that there are very few constitutional limits that would prevent the federal government from rules that could affect your private life. ... The federal government, uh, yes, can do most anything in this country." --Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA)1, who will no doubt be re-elected by the lemmings in his district
Editorial Exegesis
"The federal government, according to Democratic Rep. Pete Stark, can do anything it wants. If there are indeed no checks on the state's power, as the congressman claims, then the state is a tyrant. Stark, who represents San Francisco's East Bay area, let the left's secret slip when he told constituents at a July 24 town-hall meeting in Hayward that he believes 'there are very few constitutional limits that would prevent the federal government from rules that could affect your private life.' His response came in reply to a constituent's thoughtful question about the federal health care overhaul. ... 'How can this law be constitutional?' she asked. 'But more importantly than that, if they can do this, what can't they?' Stark, as arrogant, dismissive and evasive as always to the people he's 'served' for 37 years, said that 'the federal government can do most anything in this country.' His opinion on government power is shocking enough. But even more surprising is that the congressman would be so forthcoming in a public forum. The political left, which is grounded in progressive ideology, has long worked to hide from the public its agenda to use the government to impose its will on the country. ... In their core, progressives believe they have the answers to society's problems and are eager to force them on the state's subjects, even if doing so violates the natural rights that the Constitution guaranteed would be protected by a republican style of government. Stark is right: Washington has the power to do whatever it wants. But it doesn't have the moral authority, either in constitutional law or in the realm of human decency. When it crosses into the dark region where it does most anything it wishes, it's become a tyrant." --Investor's Business Daily2
Upright
"How one answers these questions depends, fundamentally, on one's belief about the role of government and its relationship to and impact on the economy. Is government the greatest engine of economic growth and prosperity or should the fate of America's financial future be determined by the ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit of the American people?" --columnist Ken Connor
"Democrats are preparing to let the George W. Bush tax cuts on high earners -- on investors and job creators -- expire. They want more revenue to feed the government beast. Most voters take a different view. They want to put government on a diet. To slim it down, make it more lithe and limber, and stop it from choking off the recovery of the private sector economy." --political analyst Michael Barone
"These are truly extraordinary times. With every passing day, we are witnessing what can only be called the People versus the Government. The distrust and disdain Americans of all political persuasions feel toward the White House and Congress is extraordinary." --columnist Alan Caruba
"Both recent and future budget deficits have been blamed largely on the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, and to a lesser extent on the war on terrorism, but the data contradict these myths. In reality, spending is almost exclusively the problem." --Heritage Foundation's Brian Riedl
"Our liberties depend on our preserving the integrity of the Constitution and the mechanisms it established to deter tyranny. To the extent we dismantle those safeguards, we imperil our freedoms. When the political class is filled with those who are ideologically committed to certain political ends irrespective of the legality of the means used to achieve them, our system of checks and balances breaks down, which is one reason John Adams warned, 'Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.' November's elections cannot come fast enough." --columnist David Limbaugh |
