They'll mention it more as

anonymous — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:35:20 +0000

In reply to The first rule of Starving the Beast is you do not mention “Starving the Beast"

They'll mention it more as the 2012 campaign heats up. First they have to make sure the debt limit has safely been passed:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/amid-din-serious-talk-on-d...

"Comfort the afflicted, and

AmericanDreamer — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:35:19 +0000

In reply to The first rule of Starving the Beast is you do not mention “Starving the Beast"

"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable."

--Finley Peter Dunne

Today's GOP evidently adheres to the opposite view--and calls it courage to boot. I don't happen to agree that it's always necessary to afflict the comfortable--only when they're acting greedy and selfish as too many have been in the US for awhile now. And we don't need to afflict them--just tax them more, and regulate to avoid some of their most damaging and dangerous excesses. And comforting the afflicted might not be entirely the best way to go where some tough love might serve better. Still, it seems apt as a pretty accurate description of the opposite of what is happening in the current political context.

Dunne was a American journalist who lived from 1867-1936. I discovered the following other quotes attributed to him:

Trust everybody, but cut the cards. (echoed in Reagan's "trust, but verify" in re arms control)

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

The only good husbands stay bachelors. They're too considerate to get married.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/finley_peter_dunne.html

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They'll mention it more as

"Comfort the afflicted, and