The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.
America’s political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.
Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.
Someone once noted that a ‘gaffe’ in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.
But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I’d rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.
Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn’t mean it’s not tyrannical if you don’t want to be hugged.
I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.
Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for big government.
If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.
Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism.
Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.
I think as – all in all, it’s better to have a cool president than a not cool president.
I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.
The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.
Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.