Because the Democrats "Believe in" Government:

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Posted by David Bernstein:
Because the Democrats "Believe in" Government:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_09_20-2009_09_26.shtml#1253886830


   During the Bush years, we constantly heard the refrain, pushed
   especially by Paul Krugman, that the government was doing incompetent
   and corrupt things because conservative Republicans "don't believe in"
   government. Put the government in the hands of true-believing liberal
   Democrats, and incompetence and corruption will virtually disappear.

   This always struck me as foolish, in part because the problems with
   government competence and integrity are structural, not individual,
   and in part because it required one to believe [1]Krugman's fantasy
   that the Republican elite during the Bush years was dominated by
   wild-eyed libertarians intent on drowning the government in a bathtub,
   or something like that.

   Anyway, here's the latest example of competence an incorruptibility
   from our liberal Democrat elites:

     The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that four New Jersey
     congressmen and its own former commissioner unduly influenced the
     process that led to its decision last year to approve a patch for
     injured knees, an approval it is now revisiting.

     The agency's scientific reviewers repeatedly and unanimously over
     many years decided that the device, known as Menaflex and
     manufactured by ReGen Biologics Inc., was unsafe because the device
     often failed, forcing patients to get another operation.

     But after receiving what an F.D.A. report described as "extreme,"
     "unusual" and persistent pressure from four Democrats from New
     Jersey â Senators Robert Menendez and Frank R. Lautenberg and
     Representatives Frank Pallone Jr. and Steven R. Rothman â agency
     managers overruled the scientists and approved the device for sale
     in December.

     All four legislators made their inquiries within a few months of
     receiving significant campaign contributions from ReGen, which is
     based in New Jersey, but all said they had acted appropriately and
     were not influenced by the money.

References

   1. http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_08_31-2008_09_06.shtml#1220310341

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"• It takes a woman to clean House. (2006 CNN interview)

• You must drain the swamp if you are going to govern for the people. (2006)

I pride myself in being called a liberal. (1996)

• Two thirds of the public have absolutely no idea who I am. I see that as a strength. This isn't about me. It's about Democrats. (2006)

San Fran Nancy Pelosi...

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
Charles Schumer

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
Charles Schumer    (please, any NY residents, remind him of this)...

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.
Charles Schumer  (please remind Chucky that prosecuting the CIA can lead to bad things)

So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.
Harry Reid  ( please remind Reid of Mass. that just changed the rules that Kennedy himself changed prior re: senate seat vacancy.)

I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.
Michael Dukakis

Couldn't help the last one...

They sure do believe in Gov't....Running our lives, micromanaging or culture, taxing all they can, and granting entitlements to those who deserve it the least.

"The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State--a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values--interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people...The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State."
Benito Mussolini, 1935, The Doctrine of Fascism

Revised, Hugo Chavez, Barack Hussien Obama 2009    Because they too, "believe in government"....