HMC Rich
Oh Dawsonct. JC was a national embarrassment. The law of unintended consequences resonates loudly from all political actions.
Mr. Carter should be remembered as a failure. FDR is this icon but if you compare the economies of America compared to other industrialized nations of the time, America was worse off due to government meddling. 20% unemployment compared to 11% elsewhere.
Who threw 175,000 people in jail for alternative political opinions? Woodrow Wilson. A Democrat.
Who sent a whole ethnic group into internment camps? FDR , Gee, a Democrat.
Which party never wanted to deal with slavery? Gee the Democrats. Aren’t you proud of Martin Van Buren, his party patronage and cronyism?
Which party caused the killing fields in Cambodia? I bet it wasn’t the Republicans pulling that funding since the midterm elections in ’74 populated congress with a whole lot more Democrats.
Kennedy almost got us nuked while satisfying his …human needs which the ‘below’ the beltway press kept quiet about.
Why did LBJ feel that he would be hated by his own party for the Civil Rights Act? Wow, more Democrats.
Our history had way too many Northern Men with Southern Sensibilities. It wasn’t the Republicans who initiated the Jim Crow laws.
Now, lets give the former party of the people some credit. FDR did lead America through most of the dark days of WWII and Social Security has provided a safety net (too bad it is going broke due to bipartisan mismanagement). Harry Truman led us through the end of the war and reconstruction of Europe. Kennedy cut taxes for more revenue for the government, led us to the moon, and more importantly started the Civil Rights Act. Bill Clinton balanced the budget. (So why is Obama not doing so? We know Bush II didn’t so why is BHO following in W’s footsteps?)
Now, I am certain you can bring up Nixon and other Republican mistakes with Glee. You should as long as they are the truth and not rhetoric. But why doesn’t the current President bring up the economic malaise and numbers of the late 70’s and early 80’s more often instead of the Great Depression? Because Hoover is more politically expedient than Carter. This is why the left hates history that doesn’t fit into the utopian dream.
After 100 years of slow Progressive indoctrination and the current President pushing those principles in a very expensive and at times a far left agenda, the right is going to push back and react. Yes, it is easy to make fun of a “teabagger” and call us extremists but unfortunately the shooter of Fort Hood puts it all into perspective.
The democrats are in charge now. They need to take ownership of what they are doing now and the future success and consequences. They have and will pass more bills that cost us more and more. Some of these bills will not work and some may. We shall see won’t we.
I definitely lean right but I don’t trust any of them.