The Ponderosa: Reid's scorn validates Bush's worth

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Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Sunday, May 08, 2005

Reid's scorn validates Bush's worth

In the course of a discussion on filibusters and Senate rules, Washington's top Democrat gave the 60 juniors a lesson in partisan politics, particularly about the commander in chief. "The man's father is a wonderful human being," Reid said in response to a question about President Bush's policies. "I think this guy is a loser.

"I think President Bush is doing a bad job," he added to a handful of chuckles.

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Who give a rat's ass what Harry Reid thinks? Were Reid a member of the GOP he'd be lampooned in the media as a vapid, intolerant, mediocrity -- unremarkable, uninspiring.

In 50 years he will be remembered only by his great grandchildren.

Scorn from this pixilated old crank should be worn as a badge of honor. Loser, indeed.

The Ponderosa

Sunday, May 08, 2005

Reid's scorn validates Bush's worth

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