As the defense of innocents like Terri is our standard, the lefties carry the flag of her demise into their battles.
We persevere.
The following is boilerplate published before the election. Is it part of the new manifesto?
So, if you win power here, please don't assume it validates anything you've done. If you win, it's because of Mark Foley and Theresa Schiavo and Randy ''Duke'' Cunningham and Donald Rumsfeld and George W. Bush and Jack Abramoff and Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter and Dick Cheney and Hurricane Katrina and 2,800 dead soldiers and because, as my mom used to say, enough is enough and too much stinks.
Heartfelt plea to potential new political power brokers
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Before the Republican Party fell into a coma, I think I heard it say that if it were in power for more than two terms or twelve years, we should take it off life support.
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern." -- Lord Acton
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." -- Douglas Adams
"You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!" -- Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (quoting an unnamed Senator)
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." -- John Adams
"I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate." -- John Adams
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." -- John Quincy Adams
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds " -- Samuel Adams
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." -- Aesop
"He's a politician. That's a notch below child molester." -- Woody Allen, Annie Hall
"Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics." -- Kingsley Amis
"When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget." -- Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst (D-AZ)
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