Abe Lincoln vs. Reagan/Bush/McCain Republicans

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By Rrrandy Wurst | September 19, 2008

“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”

Abe Lincoln supposedly said that, although it’s also been attributed to P.T. Barnum, an odder pairing there never was. Except if you compare the first Republican president (ol’ Abe) with the most recent three, plus the current hopeful. What would these guys do with the concept of government and business fooling “the people?” Hmmm, how about this?:

“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time…which is good enough for us to rape the American economy for our own pleasure and profit while sending the American government, which has the potential to control us (as in regulate), down the tubes.”

Think I’m kidding? How about this 2002 quote from Grover Norquist:



“I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

If you don’t know or can’t recall who Norquist is and why well-situated Republicans and business “leaders” would pay him mind, he heads or headed Americans for Tax Reform and the National Taxpayers Union. He has been a lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, Microsoft, and American Express, and friend and associate of Jack Abramoff imprisoned for lobbying offenses. Norquist is the moving force behind the innocently-named “Wednesday Meetings” of his “Leave Us Alone Coalition,” to which both George W. Bush and Dick Cheney send representatives.

Grover hates taxes. He has equated the Estate Tax with the Holocaust. He coauthored with Newt Gingrich the 1994 Republican “Contract with America” (since become infamous as the Contract on America). Norquist is the Right Wing Republican essence of their dearly-held belief that government is best when it is least…except, of course, when it can be used to bail-out their friends from AIG, Lehman Brothers, and sure to be other stock, bond, and mortgage manipulators. Bail them out with the tax dollars paid mostly by ordinary citizens whose homes are being lost because of those same manipulators from AIG, Lehman, etc.

This is the world–Grover’s World, Ronnie Reagan’s World, George W’s World, John McCain’s World–of government deregulation, “shrinking it enough to drown in a bathtub.” What a world! American voters have somehow bought into it for 30 years, and the polls show that Americans are all too close to buying into it again.

Abe Lincoln knew the truth. P. T. Barnum knew the truth. The truth was also known by W. C. Fields, who said “Never give a sucker an even break” (title of his 1943 film), and was, according to legend, also a ruthless businessman. If Americans continue to vote for those who screw us and our government, do we deserve an even break? A pig with half a brain wouldn’t buy that poke.

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