Sipsey Street Irregulars: "I think you're going to need a bigger bus."

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

"I think you're going to need a bigger bus."

Joy McCann has the best line of the week regarding the Gunwalker Scandal.

The unresolved questions at this stage seem to be less about how this was screwed up so badly, but rather who authorized this debacle and how high up the food chain it goes. As Ed Morrissey already noted, it looks like the president will be tossing [the] acting head of the ATF, Kenneth Melson under the bus. But given the scope of this scandal, the horrific damage which resulted (including the loss of American agents’ lives) and the sheer stupidity of the plan, well…

I think you’re going to need a bigger bus.

5 comments:

bondmen said...: Oh my goodness, this whole expose is just so much fun! Is it over when all the wrongdoers resign? Or will there be CONgresscritters with the intestinal fortitude to see justice carried out to the full extent of the law?; June 21, 2011 at 9:11 AM
Col Bat Guano said...: In that spirit, Just before the piranhas bite, here's to Melson and critters singing:

"farwell and adue to you fare straw buyers
farewell and adue to you buyers for cartels,
for we recieved our orders to dive under the bus
never more shall we see you again."

Thank God!; June 21, 2011 at 9:33 AM
Anonymous said...: There just isn't any bus ever built big enough for all the tossing barry has done - maybe they can use that fleet of school buses from down in Nawlins?

It will be 'telling' if melson is allowed to resign/retire with pension/benefits AND particularly telling where he ends up getting hired afterward. Anybody else remeber where the 'investigating officer' at Chappaquidick ended up after retiring from the Mass. SP?; June 21, 2011 at 10:17 AM
Mark Matis said...: But if you DO get a bigger bus, can you still call it the "short bus"?; June 21, 2011 at 10:35 AM
Joy McCann said...: I just need to note that an html error in that article didn't make it clear when I was talking, versus when I was quoting Jazz Shaw.

The error has been corrected, but that great zinger is actually Jazz's, from this article:

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/06/20/gunwalker-the-fast-and-furious-scandal-expands/; June 21, 2011 at 2:49 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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"I think you're going to need a bigger bus."

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