Cool things Presidents have said….

Franklin Pierce in vetoing an 1854 bill that would have provided federal dollars to help mentally ill people:
“I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity”…such spending “would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.”

Grover Cleveland in vetoing an 1887 budget appropriation intended to assist drought-plagued counties in Texas:
“I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds. … I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.”

How cold is it in Hell?

I agree with the Taliban.

Reuters reports today that the Taliban has rejected a U.S. offer of “honorable reconciliation.”

Hillary babbled some nonsense about this at a conference on Afghanistan today. But the rejection by an official Taliban spokesman refers more to BHO’s lunacy last month when spoke about reaching out to “moderate” Taliban.

“They have to go and find the moderate Taliban, their leader and speak to them. This is a lunatic idea,” said Zabihullah Mujahid.

I heartily agree. It’s a lunatic idea.