Who Said It?

Sunday, May 01, 2005

By Rob on May 1, 2005 at 01:05 pm

"When the Founders wrote the Constitution and gave the Senate the power of advice and consent on Presidential nominations, they never intended the Senate to work against the President, as this Senate is doing, by engaging in a wholesale stall and refusing to act on large numbers of the President's nominees."

Are those words from Dick Cheney? Bill Frist? Tom DeLay?

Nope, they're the words of the Democrat Senator from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy. Reading them one could imagine that he's talking about today's contentious battle over judicial nominees in the Senate, but in reality he was speaking of President Clinton's nominees back in 1999.

Its amazing what a Republican President can do to a liberal Senator's principles, isn't it?

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To paraphrase Ann Coulter, the best part about being a liberal is that history always begins this morning.

Great call on the “Swingin’With Dino” CD in your Amazon ads.

Buckley F. Williams on May 1, 2005 at 04:05 pm

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Thanks.

It doesn’t get much better than Dean Martin.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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