Monday, December 31, 2012

Nothing To See Here, Move Along. Or: It Has All Been Foretold...



"Something has gone terribly wrong when the biggest threat to the American economy is the American Congress," said Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia... Oddly, this was foretold by no less a luminary than...



Mark Twain, who famously fulminated against the U S Congress by claiming that in his belief there was no uniquely American criminal class except for the Congress. Then there was ...


Will Rogers, who had a lot to say about government, this jewel for example: "Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?"

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