UPRIGHT
Patriot Post, Wednesday Chronicle – Vol. 09 No. 26
“The House just passed the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade carbon emissions control act. If it passes the Senate, expect the president — the bill’s pusher-in-chief — to sign it at first opportunity. I have not read the bill, so I should not comment on it at length. But then, neither has any congressman read the now 1000-pages-and-plus wonder. So they should not have passed it. We are supposed to believe it is a good bill because we must trust the congressional assistants who wrote it. If anything is a testament to ‘the power of belief’ it’s the enthusiasm for a bill that has not been read, much less understood.” –columnist Paul Jacob
The only emissions problem is on Capitol Hill
“This climate bill has nothing to do with saving the planet or the polar bears. The problems that this legislation claims to address do not exist. Regulating our behavior and limiting our freedom will not have any effect on the climate. It is a pure power and money grab…” –radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh
“So why does President Obama so often get history wrong, so often call for utopian schemes he would hardly adopt for himself, and so often distort by misinformation and incomplete disclosure? Partly the culprit is administrative inexperience, partly historical ignorance. But mostly the disconnect comes because Barack Obama believes he is a philosopher-king, whose exalted ends more than justify his mendacious means.” –columnist Victor Davis Hanson
“There is a tendency for newly installed presidents, like adolescents suddenly liberated from adult supervision, to do the exact opposite of what their predecessors did. …[S]ome of it, and especially in the case of Barack Obama, seems to come from an adolescent-like confidence that everything done by those who came before is (insert your own generation’s expletive here). … As parents know, it takes time for an adolescent to grow up.” –political analyst Michael Barone
“I once asked evangelist Billy Graham if he experienced temptations of the flesh when he was young. He said, ‘of course.’ How did he deal with them? With passion he responded, ‘I asked God to strike me dead before He ever allowed me to dishonor Him in that way.’ That is the kind of seriousness one needs to overcome the temptations of a corrupt culture in which shameful behavior is too often paraded in the streets.” –columnist Cal Thomas
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