"Republicans approve of..."~

[sheshe2]

[Shrike47]

1. Great quote; he got that right, and nothing's changed.

[Oldtimeralso]

2. Amen!!!

The only thing that has changed is that the top has gotten greedier.

[lastlib]

3. "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose....."

"The more things change, the more they stay the same......"

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. We can add about modern Republicans re Vets and Children:

Republicans are all for supporting troops until they come home and actually need some care.

Republicans are all for so-called "pro-life" anti-choice policies, in love with fetuses, until they arrive and come home as children who need educations, food, and safe cities to play and grow in.

[niyad]

13. would you consider posting that wonderful pic from the wendy davis thread that speaks to this?

and perhaps even as its own thread, so it can be rec'ced?

[ReRe]

5. Mr President...

... 'they already done gone and bought the gubment, all the while tellin' everybody they was tryin' to drown it in the bathtub, sayin' the gubment was a bad, bad thing. It's a shell game, Mr President Truman, Sir.'
.............It looks like a shell game to me, IMHO...

[calimary]

6. I'm afraid I don't give a flying flaming banana peel about what the republi-CONS approve of.

I am just automatically not interested. NOT interested! What they want is a return to the Bronze Age. What they want is a revival of the Confederacy. What they want is everybody but the rich kicked to the curb. What they want is to keep people from voting because that's the only way they can win anymore. What they want is to turn the clock back on all the progress and gains we've made as people, and as a nation. What they want is for women to shut up and go back to the kitchen (when we aren't spreading our legs on demand). What they want is for the black guy in the Oval Office to be the mere janitor who leaves when the "real" (read: Anglo) President arrives. What they want is all brown people to "self-deport," and all black people to return to plantations. What they want is for religion to run everything, and not just any religion but some narrow, pinched, antiquated, irrelevant, cruelty-based neo-Puritanism. What they want is for everything to be of by and for the military, and for every individual to be forced by law to be packin' heat. What they want is to silence any voices that don't belong to the one percent.

What they want is IRRELEVANT to me. And in many cases, disgusting to me. I'm just not interested in what they want. What they want is bad, unjust, unfair, selfish, short-sighted, irrational, unrealistic, not fact-based, stupid, and just simply WRONG. And profoundly damaging to the future of our country and all of us who are part of it.

[sheshe2]

7. I couldn't agree with you more.

Yikes for a minute there I thought you were made at me.

Great rant, calimary.

[calimary]

8. WHAT??? How on earth could I ever be mad at you, sheshe2?

[sheshe2]

11. Oh, it was only for one second...

I nominate you to lead the charge, for the 2014. You are awesome with your righteous anger.

We are fired up and ready to go! Let's make it so~ it's our time.

Hey calimary...

[calimary]

25. Hugs! Only if you are there too!!!

[sheshe2]

26. We stand together, calimary!

It's what women do.

[MarianJack]

9. He told the truth and...

...the republicans thought it was Hell!

PEACE!

[Stuart G]

10. k and r...thanks for posting. great quote..nt

[oldandhappy]

12. wow

Good perspective. I sometimes forget it has always been this way.

[niyad]

14. some things harry got exactly right--like this quote.

[lupinella]

15. K&R n/t

[dchill]

16. K & R.

[blkmusclmachine]

17. .

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[gordianot]

18. My Grandfather knew Harry Truman in the early 1930's why he became a Democrat.

The values expressed by Democrats from the New Deal were instilled in me very early by my Grandfather. Everyone has their flaws on the fundamentals Harry Truman is and will always be correct. Like the fictional Holden Caufield in "Catcher in the Rye" Harry Truman despised "phonies" the central characteristic of twentieth and now twenty first century Republicans.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

22. My grandfather was an FDR Democrat as well ...

... big fan of Henry Wallace, too, who preceded Truman as VP.

[gordianot]

24. Harry was involved in veterans affairs where my Grandfather met him.

Truman despised MacArthur and his heavy hand with bonus marchers that was a conflict just waiting to happen. FDR had almost religious status when I was growing up. My Grandfather's family were Republicans and were distant relatives to the Bush family, there was no love lost with that branch.

[barbtries]

19. that is priceless. thank you.

i never saw it before, and now i think i must gank for my fb page.

[Dopers_Greed]

20. K&R

[lark]

21. Ike, the last good republican.

Wouldn't give a plugged nickle for any of them these days.

[spanone]

23. still applies to the reTHUG party of today.