And To Think.

Hat tip to the Acton Institute's Blog. Too good not to repost in full. Considering how almost a trillion dollars is about to go up in smoke.

William F. Buckley, 1956:

[I’d] sooner be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand members of the faculty of Harvard University.


Rassmussen poll results, 2009:

Forty-four percent (44%) voters also think a group of people selected at random from the phone book would do a better job addressing the nation’s problems than the current Congress, but 37% disagree. Twenty percent (20%) are undecided.