Next President Must Live Like Coolidge, Not Obama

IBD Editorials ^ | August 19, 2011 | The great MARK STEYN

[Kaslin]

20 minutes, but he's already delivered one of the best lines in the campaign:

"I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can."

This will be grand news to Schylar Capo of Virginia. The 11-year-old made the mistake of rescuing a woodpecker from the jaws of a cat and nursing him back to health for a couple of days and, for her pains, was visited by a federal Fish and Wildlife gauleiter (with accompanying state troopers) who charged her with illegal transportation of a protected species and issued her a $535 fine.

If the federal child abuser has that much time on his hands, he should have charged the cat, who was illegally transporting the protected species from his gullet to his intestine.

So Schylar and other middle schoolers targeted by the microregulatory superstate might well appreciate Gov. Perry's pledge. But you never know, it might just catch on with the broader population, too.

Bill Clinton thought otherwise.

"I got tickled by watching Gov. Perry," said the former president. "And he's saying, 'Oh, I'm going to Washington to make sure that the federal government stays as far away from you as possible — while I ride on Air Force One and that Marine One helicopter and go to Camp David and travel around the world and have a good time.' I mean, this is crazy."

This is the best argument the supposedly smartest operator in the Democratic Party can muster?

If Clinton wants to make the increasingly and revoltingly unrepublican lifestyle of the American president a campaign issue, Perry should call his bluff.

[decimon]

By the time I’m 55, I’d like there to be just three living current and past US Presidents — all of them Republicans.

Romney, Snowe and Graham?

[SunkenCiv]

[decimon, suspecting nothing, is surprised to see a clown car pull up next to the computer desk; a midget in a tux hops out, sets up a small stepladder next to the chair, then returns to the car, retrieves a cream pie, runs back around to the foot of the ladder...]

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, I meant Romney, Snowe, and Graham. /jk