SENT IN BY JOHN BOY
The following were sent by cowgirl. Thanks"I think that the free-enterprise system is absolutely too important to be left to the voluntary action of the marketplace." - Rep. Richard Kelly (R-Fla.)
"If we don't watch our respective tails, the people are going to be running the government." - State Sen. Bill Craven (R-Ca.), on state initiatives
"Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands." - Sen. Jesse Helms
"I don't see why the legislature should be in the business of artificial intelligence, real intelligence or any intelligence at all." - Rep. Hunt Downer (D-La.)
"A zebra cannot change its spots." - Al Gore
"We, as Republicans, need to start rowing with one oar." - Rep. John Kasich (R-Ohio)
"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law." - David Dinkins, former New York mayor
"I don't have the brains for business. I want to go into politics." - Mao Xinyou, grandson of Mao Zedong
"I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?" - Jim Scheibel, mayor of St. Paul, Minn.
"If BS was a dollar a pound, we would have paid off the deficit at about noon." - Rep. Jim Ross Lightfoot (R-Iowa)
"Congressmen are so damn dumb they could throw themselves on the ground and miss." - Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (D-Ohio)
"I think that's self-evident, but not true." - Bill Clinton
"What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish." - Preston Manning, Reform Party leader
"I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want." - Charles Peacock, ex-director of the Madison Guaranty S&L
"Look, I'm trying to run for president! I can't sit here and debate free trade versus fair trade!" - Pat Robertson
"The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather." - Marion Barry, former mayor of Wash., D.C.
"The senator has got to understand - he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road." - George W. Bush, referring to John McCain
"It's hard for somebody to hit you when you've got your fist in their face." - James Carville, on negative campaigning
Now in reading these remarks and saying to yourself damn that was stupid. Keep in mind we elected them.
And it ain't about to get better if you watched the Iowa Caucus last eve. It would appear that many folk ain't doing there homework. The lies on both sides of the fence have been so egregious one might wonder about the level of respect they have for their constituents. Oh well,
