I remember late '08Plotting quasi Marxist state Grabbing for GMThe banks were in our foldMake health care a "right"Supremos got involved, andThursday it was judgment dayBaffled people look my wayLooking at my liesI see me stammeringI never realizedHow awkward this makes me

Oh, MandateWell, you were an illegal method of takingSo they gave you a new nameOh MandateWell they saved you and Nancy stopped shakingThey decreed you

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by precedent, by implication, by erosion, by default, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until the day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology. ~ Ayn Rand