Friday, January 20, 2006
DOGMAS
"The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disentrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." Abraham Lincoln From the...
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Monday, January 9, 2006
Saddam Hussein
"The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right -- we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq." Dick Cheney, August 1992...
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Thursday, September 1, 2005
EVERYTHING is being run by the political arm!
"There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus. What you've got is everything, and I mean everything, being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis." John DiIulio...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2005
The President
Teddy Roosevelt: "The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to...
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Sunday, January 16, 2005
Social Security
"President Bush plans to reactivate his reelection campaign's network of donors and activists to build pressure on lawmakers to allow workers to invest part of their Social Security taxes in the stock market... The campaign will use Bush's campaign-honed techniques of mass repetition, never...
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