Quote of the day

From Maxed Out Mama, on the House passage last week of the Waxman-Markey carbon tax bill:

At some point, the peasants will revolt. It is almost as if this bill was a conspiracy of California Democrats who feel the need to bankrupt the rest of this country so that California will have an equal chance at funding, or something like that.
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Let's hope it can be stopped in the Senate. Even if it is, our nation has lost something here, and that something is the principal legislative body's grasp on reality. It is as if the House of Representatives suddenly passed a vote to reduce gravity by 10 percent in order to lessen the costs of obesity to putatively cut Medicare costs in the future. Truly amazing.

More here. Our descent into madness continues unabated. The surest way to destroy our economy, and thus our nation's future, is to dramatically raise the cost of energy, while our competitors on the world stage seek to lower theirs. To do so in the face of the worst recession since the Great Depression is lunacy writ large.

It's like you're running a marathon having shot yourself in the foot at the starting line. You're limping along in pain relying on your good foot, when, halfway through the marathon, you decide to shoot yourself in the good foot to "even things out", in the demented belief that you'll somehow run faster with both feet shot to bits. Here's a hint: If you couldn't run well on the one foot that was shot out, you likely still can't run well on that foot when you shoot the other foot out. Even if you're ahead of the field when you do it, you'll soon be overtaken, and you'll lose the race. Except in this case, losing the race means a life of poverty and privation for your people.

Perhaps, before destroying our nation by listening to the false prophets of the religion of Global Warmism, who apparently see our salvation in the self-inflicted destruction of our economy and its means of production, we should ponder the story of the Xhosa.

As President Reagan said in his first inaugural address back in 1981, when the country was still reeling from the Carter years,

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden.