5th of July

[stoutfellow]

This is belated, I know, but I spent quite a bit of time trying to find the quote in my collection of Molly Ivins. I finally gave up and resorted to Google. The following is attributed to Lowell Weicker, Connecticut Senator and Governor, and sums up a good chunk of "the way it spose to be", to me.

I've always been a big supporter of the Constitutional right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition government for redress of grievances. It's just that I never envisioned it taking the form of thousands of people screaming 'you asshole!' at me.

Comments

[akatsukami.livejournal.com]

Hmph. Well, the state income tax might have been tolerable, even if he did use some pretty dubious tactics in getting it passed. For him to have lectured us on the need for higher government revenues, and then to turn around and cut the tax on home decoration services...he's lucky that we only shot off our mouths at him.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Didn't the chimp have that experience yesterday?

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Well, as far as I can tell, it wasn't thousands, but yeah.