Oh, yes: "If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the
conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life."
In other words:
However, my boundless faith in the inefficiency, ineptitude and occasional malfeasance* of the Federal Government does leave some room for hope.
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* Or, at least, misfeasance. A lot of the bureaugentsia couldn't work up a really good mal even if it was their only ticket out of perdition.
I like this one:
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The Obamacare screw should have totally been a Robertson.
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I dunno. I was thinking more along these lines.
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I wish I had as much room for hope as you, but I am afraid Obamacare is like Andromeda, only Wildfire's self destruct device went ahead and detonated.
The Obamadestrain, sort of like.
"If the bill is passed, there'll be a thousand mutations! We'll never be rid of it!"
Mike James