I just saw a picture over at echidne illustrating a quote I have heard of before:

"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
-- Grover Norquist, noted anti-tax zealot

Not that Republicans have actually been cutting the overall size of government much, that I've noticed. They just have put themselves and all their buddies in all the $weet $pot$.

They're still doing it. You've heard, I hope, that Halliburton subsidiaries are getting no-bid reconstruction contract$? Because they've been doing such a clean, upstanding job with all the ones they got in Iraq. No questions of where a couple hundred million worth of taxpayer money might have got to, nope nope shhhhh!

Mainstream media have woken up, my butt. I'll believe it when I hear it a month from now, and three months after that.

Sorry I'm a bit bitter today. I just don't like having to plan for a future, that will hopefully involve children, under such uneasy circumstances.

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