The Weekly Standard, doing its share of the all-Lott-all-the-time routine, has two priceless quotes.
Frederick Douglass: “There never was yet, and there never will be, an instance of permanent success where a party abandons its righteous principles to win favor of the opposing party.”
On Jan. 28, 1931, in the House of Commons, Winston Churchill expressed his disgust at Ramsey MacDonald’s government: “I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum’s Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as the ‘Boneless Wonder.’ My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing to my youthful eye, and I have waited 50 years to see the Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.”