SnarkyBytes

“Those who want to expand government, by definition, want to expand the use of force to achieve their goals. It should therefore come as no surprise that liberal individuals and groups are inclined to use violence to further their goals even outside the domain of government. ” – Joe Huffman

Socialism: If we just kill enough people we can make it work!

“While our economy is enormously complicated, it seems reasonably clear that the current slump has turned into the “worst downturn since the Great Depression” precisely because of the ill-advised policies of the Obama administration. Those policies contradict the lessons of history, and there is no reason why their failure should be unexpected.” –John Hinderaker

It’s not like we haven’t been through this before. We know what economic policies work and which ones don’t. The economy is in the state it is because the US government refused to reign in the credit bubble over the last decade. Market distorting actions of Fannie and Freddie along with the push for a higher rate of homeownership drove housing prices higher into a bubble land. Bank deregulation allowed incredibly risky, highly leveraged options and derivatives to be created and sold by parties that KNEW they would decline in value. Because of regulatory capture, federal regulators refused to take any actions to halt the banks’ gravy train.

Obama, Pelosi, Reid and their fellow co-conspirators used the resulting economic crisis to try to remake the US into a European style socialist state. They’re not interested in the state of the economy because like all good socialists they think that they can “scientifically” manage the economy because they’re just that smart.

None of the results were unexpected.

They just thought you were too stupid to blame them for it.

We don’t have a problem with you because of what you believe, but because of what you do. –Laura W.

I’m sorry you’re dealing with whatever grievously crappy hand life has dealt you, but we all get our serving of sucky pie, so tuck in and quit whining already. –Phlegmmy

The public is looking for ways to forget it voted for Obama. A narrative of fraud and deception is building around the 2008 election, as the polls for this disastrous presidency plummet. People who don’t want to admit they voted for Obama have an appetite for believing they were tricked into doing so. Laying blame at the feet of a media they increasingly distrust will be very attractive. –Doctor Zero

For the past two years I’ve said that when the worm turned on Obama you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who would admit to voting for him. It’s going to be messy.

“I don’t believe, the president doesn’t believe that the Tea Party is — is a racist organization. I don’t believe that,” –Vice President Joe Biden

Looks like Ben Jealous woke up under the bus this morning. Ouch.

“Most of the world is friendly or neutral, and we are equipped to deal with the bits that aren’t.”

–LabRat

“For example, many of the rights that our Bill of Rights provides for persons accused of criminal offenses are virtually unique to this country. If our understanding of the right to a jury trial, the right against self-incrimination, and the right to counsel were necessary attributes of any civilized country, it would follow that the United States is the only civilized Nation in the world.”

–Samuel Alito, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

“In the past, Professor Reynolds has mentioned his support for ending qualified immunity, the special protection from liability afforded to government employees. I agree with him. If anything, public employees should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us.” –Radley Balko

Qualified Immunity breaks the Power/Responsibility relationship. It allows individuals to wield the mighty power of the government without any of the responsibility. Any system that relies on people acting right is made of fail from the start.

“Worst-case thinking leads to bad decisions, bad systems design, and bad security. And we all have direct experience with its effects: airline security and the TSA, which we make fun of when we’re not appalled that they’re harassing 93-year-old women or keeping first graders off airplanes. You can’t be too careful!”

–Bruce Schneier