Thursday, January 22, 2004

Oh for a dictatorship

Do we need to be hit over the head?

Answer: Don't bother. There's nothing left in the American collective brain to be jogged.

"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier." Describing what it's like to be governor of Texas.(Governing Magazine 7/98)
-- From Paul Begala's "Is Our Children Learning?"

"I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator," Bush joked.
-- CNN.com, December 18, 2000

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it, " [Bush] said.
-- Business Week, July 30, 2001
  source

Referring to an executive order he issued 13 months ago to make that faith-based groups are eligible for federal subsidies, Bush said: "It's not a dictatorship in Washington, but I tried to make it one in that instance. We are beginning to see some success in opening up federal coffers for faith-based programs." - January 15, 2004.   source

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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