tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412826294594900386.post8920980008059667011..comments2023-04-12T08:12:17.855-05:00Comments on yellowarmadillos: Sequester: cuts in spending versus projectionsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12068839756237461498noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412826294594900386.post-81207523992531010462013-02-26T05:50:29.481-06:002013-02-26T05:50:29.481-06:00I don’t wish to get this post off track but in the...I don’t wish to get this post off track but in the referenced article by Eugene Robinson he uses this phrase “The enemy, truly, is us.” Clearly a reference to one of my favorite quotes whose genesis is from the “Forward to the Pogo Papers” by Walt Kelly in 1952. I find the original text absolutely eloquent and I repeat it below.<br />“There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.”<br />Walt Kelly 1952<br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07669679191229234850noreply@blogger.com