Shhh! Don't tell them...

[viktor_haag]

Nancy Pelosi must be a highly placed Canuckistan mole!

From sea to shining sea, the American people voted for change. They voted for Democrats to take our country in a new direction. And that's exactly what we intend to do."

"From sea to shining sea"? Well, well, well... not "A mari usque ad mare"?

Or do you think she's comforting the Christian vote ("and he shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth")?

Of course, just as you folks south of the border are turning towards the "kinder, gentler" party of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Carter, and Clinton, we're suffering through a return to so-called "family values" up here.

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Not to be a killjoy

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

but it's probably a reference to AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL by Katharine Lee Bates:

Oh beautiful, for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed his grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea.

Oh beautiful, for pilgrims' feet
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America! God mend thine ev'ry flaw;
Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law!

Oh beautiful, for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America! May God thy gold refine,
'Til all success be nobleness, and ev'ry gain divine!

Oh beautiful, for patriot's dream
That sees, beyond the years,
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America! God shed his grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea!