"It's not okay. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be." —RickSantorum on contraception
One could ask Rick Santorum an endless number of questions about this quote.
"Mr. Santorum, do you fly in airplanes?"
"Mr. Santorum, do you go to the doctor when you're sick?"
You get my drift. "How things are supposed to be" pertains only to selected things.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Dueling quotations
"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." -- Grover Norquist
"How is it possible that a government, half supplied and always necessitous, can fulfil the purposes of its institution; can provide for the security, advance the prosperity, or support the reputation of the commonwealth? How can it ever possess either energy or stability, dignity or credit, confidence at home, or respectability abroad? How can its administration be any thing else than a succession of expedients temporizing, impotent, disgraceful? How will it be able to avoid a frequent sacrifice of its engagements to immediate necessity? How can it undertake or execute any liberal or enlarged plans of public good?" -- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #30
Hamilton was trying to sell the nation on the new Constitution, which would create a strong federal government. The Articles of Confederation government was failing for a number of reasons, but what it boiled down to was that the governments of the several states had more power than the the national government, and the states were reluctant to help each other out in times of trouble.
The Constitution won out, of course, and it has worked as advertised for a good long time. But the battle for states' rights continues unabated. The current crop of so-called conservatives, I think, would really like to return to the days of the Articles. It's just another example of the mentality that wants to keep reviving ideas that never worked.
"How is it possible that a government, half supplied and always necessitous, can fulfil the purposes of its institution; can provide for the security, advance the prosperity, or support the reputation of the commonwealth? How can it ever possess either energy or stability, dignity or credit, confidence at home, or respectability abroad? How can its administration be any thing else than a succession of expedients temporizing, impotent, disgraceful? How will it be able to avoid a frequent sacrifice of its engagements to immediate necessity? How can it undertake or execute any liberal or enlarged plans of public good?" -- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #30
Hamilton was trying to sell the nation on the new Constitution, which would create a strong federal government. The Articles of Confederation government was failing for a number of reasons, but what it boiled down to was that the governments of the several states had more power than the the national government, and the states were reluctant to help each other out in times of trouble.
The Constitution won out, of course, and it has worked as advertised for a good long time. But the battle for states' rights continues unabated. The current crop of so-called conservatives, I think, would really like to return to the days of the Articles. It's just another example of the mentality that wants to keep reviving ideas that never worked.
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