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often wondered what I did in the darkness that envelops me after
I indulge in a Manhattan enema. I think I know. I write
stuff on napkins at the O Club, and call myself "Old Spook." Except
the booze makes me much smarter while I'm there, and my stuff is all
copacetic. Then I come here and wallow around.
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g Old Spook #1
Face reality: as long as the Dems and non-conservative Republicans run
DC, the market will be distorted by government interference and
regulation. They only choice you have is to force a less intrusive (but
intrusive nonetheless) solution, and then work to whittle it down, and
dig in at the grass roots to put more people like Cantor and Coburn
into office. They can unwind this mess but it will take years. And it
will take money, hard work and time to overcome the shallowness of the
lazy ignorant or leftist indoctrinated voters.
That means, as we say in church, you need to put your time, treasure and talent to work for your belief.
Or you can just get angry and sputter and rage impotently.
I've done both. The former is harder, but better.
Term limits is a good place to start. Most of the trouble comes from
people like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd who have been entrenched in DC
for too long by willing idiots. And it hits the GOP as well - look how
fossilized Trent Lott become.
8 years is enough as a president, it should be enough as a
congressional rep. 2 terms is good enough for a president, it should be
good enough as a senator.
Lets at least give clearing the decks a fighting chance. Start there.
g Old Spook #2
It was so much simpler when I could kill people and break things.
Agreed.
Time may be coming to wipe the thing (US GOvernment) clean and start
all over again. Or at least haul it into drydock and remove 200+ years
of barnacles.
A lot of this goes back to the fundamental error: the 16th amendment
and the subsequence Revenue ACt of 1913, as well as expansionist judges
overly broadening the "commerce" clause to allow the Federal Government
into far too many things.
The question is how do we remove the cancer without killing the patient at the same time?
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How come my ass hurts?
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