Fred Thompson's comprehensive education plan: Be smart or get a whup'n.
Fred Thompson's long term plan to secure our borders is to destroy all other countries. He destroyed two this morning using only a six iron.
Four our of five dentists agree: You should avoid getting punched in the mouth by Fred Thompson. The fifth dentist hates you.
Fred Thompson promises that his foreign policy will be like a good action movie: Full of cool one-liners and explosions.
Fred Thompson can improve a floundering economy simply by glaring at it menacingly.
Fred Thompson's sheer willpower is so strong it can microwave a burrito.
When Fred Thompson is elected President, he'll be the tallest American President ever, beating Abraham Lincoln by an inch and Jimmy Carter with his fist.
In the series Law & Order, Fred Thompson plays the title character.
And often the best thing Washington can do is let the states, school districts, teachers and parents set their own policies and run their own schools.
It is appropriate for the federal government to provide funding and set goals for the state to meet in exchange for that funding. However, it is not a good idea for the federal government to specifically set forth the means to be used in order to reach those goals.
This in no way diminishes the important role played by the national government, including ensuring our national security, and regulating interstate commerce to promote free markets.
Why is it appropriate to run our money through Washington before we get it back? He says that like it's an axiom or something, but it is not at all clear to some of us that running money through Washington adds value. I'm more with the Republican Revolutionaries of '94 and Ron Paul of today: abolish the department of education.
I recognize that changes in transportation and communication have created legitimate federal interests where none previously existed. My votes reflect that. But the idea that the commerce clause allows the Feds to regulate anything effecting commerce, no matter how remote, hopefully, is something we can all agree is not acceptable.
Source: The Fred Factor, by Steve Gill, p.164 Jun 3, 2007