2009 Political Quotes

Our friend, John Hawkins over at RightWingNews, has assembled "The 40 Best Political Quotes Of 2009"; I thought I’d share some of the ones I liked them with you (emphasis mine):

40) If people plunder you on the sea, that"s piracy. If people plunder you on land, that’s the Obama administration. — Frank J.

Most people understand that some amount of Government is necessary – paying high percentages of one’s income is plunder by politicians’ to satisfy their own greed of power.  After all, a tithe to God is 10%; why do Progressive politicians believe they deserve more than the Almighty?

39) America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one. — Dennis Prager

You deserve what you earn – not what someone else thinks that you should have by dint of taking someone else’s money.  Supporting and providing for yourself and your family yields the greatest freedom for you, you family, and your fellow citizens.

37) The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. — Mark Steyn

Any of the criteria that was set before the Porkulus, especially that of unemployment rate, have been a FAIL except for two: The Feds stimulating state and local governments rather than the private sector, and Government taking over more and more of the private sector.

30) The political class can’t imagine a decentralized world where good things happen…without them. But in the real world, that’s exactly how good things happen, and how jobs are created. When government sets simple rules that everyone understands and then gets out of the way, free people create jobs. — John Stossel

The former is the current aim of the vast majority of the intellectual and political class elites – the rest of us ordinary folks want a minimum Govt that enforces a modicum of laws an then let’s us live our lives alone.   To the Libs that harrumph over helping the poor – use your personal coffers rather than the public one; charity is a personal activity – doing by government is merely a political one.

28) The big mistake of Republican leadership…

…is thinking that going through the motions of listening to their "base" is the same thing as actually listening to the base. They keep trying to drag us to where they think we should be instead of joining us where we are. — Yael

They will learn this sooner or later….methinks that trying to "envelope" the TEA Party movement, as the latest example, may well show a missing limb or two at the end of the experiment…

27) Since this is an era when many people are concerned about "fairness" and "social justice," what is your "fair share" of what someone else has worked for? — Thomas Sowell

EXACTLY!  Progressives see themselves as latter day Robin Hoods – without putting themselves in the same danger as the Merry Men and nor their raw courage.  Instead, their glee at using other peoples’ money to salve their guilt in helping others knows no bounds….

20) No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems — of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind. — Michael Barone

Thus the pandering to those that can help satisfy number one and two.

13) We seem to be moving steadily in the direction of a society where no one is responsible for what he himself did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did, either in the present or in the past. — Thomas Sowell

Freedom requires self-responsibility.  Progressives, in denigrating this essential component of our society, are already reaping the rewards of this philosophy, but deny it was their policies that is ruining peoples’ lives. For them, freedom of responsibility is the goal.  Some do not realize that once achieved, their individual freedom will be taken over by the State.  For others, that IS the goal (with them in charge) but dare not speak it aloud.  Their actions, however, speak louder than their words…

10) Umbrage is itself, generally, a lie. The ostensible victim of the offensive remark (call him or her the "umbragee") is actually delighted at the opportunity, while the ostensible offense giver (call him or her the "umbragor") is sorry to have wandered into this thicket, or is made to feel sorry as the umbrage game plays itself out. The rules of the game are perverse but simple: I scream with pain until you cry "uncle." — Michael Kinsley

The essence of a very thin skinned / always looking to whine mentality based political correctness – as #13 states, you should be responsible for yourself.  If more people did hold themselves more responsible instead of always blaming someone else for their status (or lack thereof) in life.

3) If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, ‘Your son was vaporized because we didn’t want to dump some guy’s head under water for 30 seconds.‘ — Peter King

We almost just had 300 people die because of an overbloated intelligence bureaucracy.  Being a Liberal politician generally means never being responsible and thus, not having to say one is sorry.

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