First of all, I can't remember the last time that conservatives had something good to say about a foreign official. That in itself is newsworthy.
I wouldn't have a problem with this if "fiscal conservatives" were man enough to raise taxes when times are good.
If you can't spend your way out of recession, then you also can't cut your way into profitability. Any good corporation knows that if you are in debt, you increase your revenue.
If "fiscal conservatives" had raised taxes while the economy was good so that we weren't running deficits during good economic years, then I would listen to what they have to say with a kinder ear. A true fiscal conservative is not scared to raise taxes.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
