05:24 am - QotD
"Paul and other libertarians are not merely advocates of
limited government; they are anti-government. Their objective is
not the correction of error but the cultivation of contempt for
government itself." -- Michael Gerson, quoted in
"Congress' Ayn Rand Caucus" by Robert Stein (and also
paraphrased in
"Why Do the Tea Partiers Want Chaos?" by Booman:
"Their ideology is informed by Ayn Rand, and her dogma that
government can only harm the elite individuals whose intelligence,
creativity and ambition make society possible. This makes them not
small government Republicans but anti-government Republicans.")
[thanks
to
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twistedchick
for linking to the Alternet article.]