Quotes of the Day

From Ace of Spades HQ:

At this point in his presidency, Obama speaks with only one tone, the slightly exasperated and sometimes not-merely-slightly exasperated "adult in the room" who constantly has to correct his fellow Americans, who are always flying off the handle, calling for options that "aren't who we are", betraying our values, and so on. He's always so disappointed in us.

-- Jim Geraghty in Obama Actually Thought He Was Being Reassuring Tonight

He speaks that way because he's just biding him time until retirement.

Obama repeatedly peddles euphemisms and false assurances. Reality refuses to conform to Obama's prescriptions. Obama is as impervious to experience as the worst men who ever lived. Obama does not trust the American people with the truth in part because he believes the American people cannot be trusted with the truth and in part because the truth is inimical to his projects.

Obama's antipathy to the United States and to the American people render him unfit for the high office he holds.

-- Scott Johnson of PowerLine

We are getting the exact government we elect.

Opponents of gun control are saying, as they do after every killing, that no law can unfailingly forestall a specific criminal. That is true. They are talking, many with sincerity, about the constitutional challenges to effective gun regulation. Those challenges exist. They point out that determined killers obtained weapons illegally in places like France, England and Norway that have strict gun laws. Yes, they did.

But at least those countries are trying. The United States is not.

-- Front page NYT pro-gun control editorial quietly admitting that gun control would be a futile gesture on the country's part

There's a little problem called the Constitution. The same document that protects your right to spread this crap is the same one that protect my right to own a gun.

"Freedom is more powerful than fear." Now let me take your guns away based on a secret list that only I control.

-- Glenn Reynolds on Obama's speech tonight That would have saved 16.5 minutes of the county's life.