The State of Things
A couple of comments on the State of the Union address:
"I am disappointed but not surprised that the president has once again chosen to trot out this same old pig — albeit one with a slightly new shade of lipstick."
- Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo
"I hope we won't act like children. The Democrats in the House, if they're not appropriately considerate of the president of the United States, then that will agitate those of us on our side, and then we'll respond in kind, and then the American people will turn us off."
- Mississippi Senator Trent Lott
...and a couple of comments not specifically referring to the State of the Union address, but nonetheless entirely appropriate to the occasion:
"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage." - H.L. Mencken
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
- P. J. O'Rourke
"I am disappointed but not surprised that the president has once again chosen to trot out this same old pig — albeit one with a slightly new shade of lipstick."
- Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo
"I hope we won't act like children. The Democrats in the House, if they're not appropriately considerate of the president of the United States, then that will agitate those of us on our side, and then we'll respond in kind, and then the American people will turn us off."
- Mississippi Senator Trent Lott
...and a couple of comments not specifically referring to the State of the Union address, but nonetheless entirely appropriate to the occasion:
"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage." - H.L. Mencken
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
- P. J. O'Rourke
Labels: Subversive Ideas
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by Fraser MacKenzie, Online Editor @ 1/24/2007 07:04:00 PM
