Political one liners

Nearly every promise Obama made about Obamacare has turned out to be a flat-out lie.

So EpiPen maker Mylan is coming under the scrutiny of the congressweasels – although that scrutiny has been tempered by the revelation that Mylan’s CEO Heather Bresch is the daughter of Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.).

The FDA’s rules require companies with competing injectors to exceed the specifications required by Mylan, and so far the FDA has killed or stymied almost every potential competitor that’s come along.

In fact, government meddles in the price of everything through the obscene regulatory structure, the tax structure, via subsidies and price supports and corporate welfare, all of which drive up the prices of products and services.

One reason that the concept of money so often violates common sense is that governments so often do crazy things with money.

Politicians have trouble giving up the idea of something for nothing – it's such a vote-getter.

Adolf Hitler wrote:What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

DDHv wrote: Someone commented that thinking is hard work, which is why most people don't do it. Today, checking things out is easier, but still work. A search on this phrase produced multiple references, but no exactness. A Joachim Fest is said to have reported it.

WeirdlyWired wrote:So... If I vote the straight Democrat ticket, is it a vote for the gay/lesbian candidates too?

Defending Marriage Against
an Activist Judiciary


Traditional marriage and family, based on marriage between one man and one woman, is the foundation for a free society and has for millennia been entrusted with rearing children and instilling cultural values. We condemn the Supreme Court’s ruling in United States v. Windsor, which wrongly removed the ability of Congress to define marriage policy in federal law. We also condemn the Supreme Court’s lawless ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which in the words of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, was a “judicial Putsch” — full of “silly extravagances” — that reduced “the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Storey to the mystical aphorisms of a fortune cookie.”
In Obergefell, five unelected lawyers robbed 320 million Americans of their legitimate constitutional authority to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The Court twisted the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment
beyond recognition. To echo Scalia, we dissent. We, therefore, support the appointment of justices and judges who respect the constitutional limits on their power and respect the authority of the states to decide such fundamental social questions.

dscott8 wrote:

WeirdlyWired wrote:So... If I vote the straight Democrat ticket, is it a vote for the gay/lesbian candidates too?

It's a vote for protecting their equal rights. From the Republican Party official platform on the GOP's web site:

Defending Marriage Against
an Activist Judiciary


Traditional marriage and family, based on marriage between one man and one woman, is the foundation for a free society and has for millennia been entrusted with rearing children and instilling cultural values. We condemn the Supreme Court’s ruling in United States v. Windsor, which wrongly removed the ability of Congress to define marriage policy in federal law. We also condemn the Supreme Court’s lawless ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which in the words of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, was a “judicial Putsch” — full of “silly extravagances” — that reduced “the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Storey to the mystical aphorisms of a fortune cookie.”
In Obergefell, five unelected lawyers robbed 320 million Americans of their legitimate constitutional authority to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The Court twisted the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment
beyond recognition. To echo Scalia, we dissent. We, therefore, support the appointment of justices and judges who respect the constitutional limits on their power and respect the authority of the states to decide such fundamental social questions.

The world is full of self-important self-righteous assholes tormented by a conviction that Somebody, Somewhere is Doing Something they don't approve of, and driven by a compulsion to Do Something About It At Any Cost.

WeirdlyWired wrote:Remind me next time to use emojis So I don't get these rants back.

My least favorite Supreme court Justice of all times: Antoin Scalia.

Imaginos1892 wrote:The purpose of a government is to protect its citizens from those who would do them harm.