Power Line - What He Said: "There's an old Abbott and Costello routine where Lou Costello responds to one of Bud Abbott's propositions with the rejoinder, 'That's a great idea! In fact, I was just about to think of it myself.' That's how I felt about Roger Kimball's observations about the scene in Wisconsin yesterday, especially the observation about the irony that this showdown is taking place in Madison, named for the founder who warned us about the dangers of factions acting against the public interest."
That would be in the Federalist papers #9 and #10. And Federalist
#10 contains one of my all time favorite quotes from Madison:
A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it; in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district, than an entire State.
He was correct about what's wicked. He missed that FedGov and the Communists could make it happen to the whole country at once.
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