MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat – worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.
BOB BARRIt is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
More Bob Barr Quotes
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After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders.
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Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture.
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I sense that conservatives have largely already tuned out to the coming elections, after six years of burgeoning federal spending and inaction on key issues, such as immigration.
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Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties – from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.
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The Republican Party has become the party of the government status quo, and conservatives see no reason to reward it with their votes.
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Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.
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The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
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People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
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The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a ‘fairness’ issue, is the typical ‘wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing’ ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues.
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Taking privacy cues from the federal government is – to say the least – ironic, considering today’s Orwellian level of surveillance.
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Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
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On taking office, Obama promised the ‘most transparent’ administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
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There is no legitimate use whatsoever for marijuana. This is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place in medicine, no place in pain relief.
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Courts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country.
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This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.
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