Fri Dec 7, 2012, 01:36 AM

dballance (5,756 posts)

Isn't it Interesting Some of the Most Progressive Legislation was Enacted under Repubs?

We got the interstate system and the Environmental Protection Agency under Republican administrations. We also got national parks and wetlands preserved for the people.

Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Nixon and even Saint Reagan would be run out of their party now. They'd be called Socialists and Marxists.

It was nice when Republicans still felt the need to govern and represent the people. It's okay to have differences with the Dems. But it's not okay to bring the world to a screeching halt just because you don't get your way Boner, McConnel, Cantor, etc.

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Isn't it Interesting Some of the Most Progressive Legislation was Enacted under Repubs? (Original post)	dballance	Dec 2012	OP
Yeah, pretty much.	AverageJoe90	Dec 2012	#1
What was the Congress like back then? Who were the Speakers?	LiberalFighter	Dec 2012	#2
Democratic Congresses produced all of those good things. The Republican presidents	geek tragedy	Dec 2012	#3
Roosevelt wasn't just along for the ride.	Kablooie	Dec 2012	#4
Republican and Democratic parties from 1900 don't exist anymore.	geek tragedy	Dec 2012	#5
FDR was originally a Republican. He switched to Democratic primarily for political reasons	LeftInTX	Dec 2012	#7
This message was self-deleted by its author	dballance	Dec 2012	#6
That was the old sensible	Third Doctor	Dec 2012	#8

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Fri Dec 7, 2012, 03:47 AM

AverageJoe90 (10,745 posts)

1. Yeah, pretty much.

Even Joe McCarthy would be too moderate for some tea-baggers, and he was about as far to the right as they came!

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Fri Dec 7, 2012, 11:59 AM

LiberalFighter (45,257 posts)

2. What was the Congress like back then? Who were the Speakers?

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Fri Dec 7, 2012, 12:09 PM

geek tragedy (68,868 posts)

3. Democratic Congresses produced all of those good things. The Republican presidents

were just along for the ride.

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Fri Dec 7, 2012, 12:13 PM

Kablooie (18,028 posts)

4. Roosevelt wasn't just along for the ride.

Creating national parks was personal to him.
He had a great love of the outdoors and pushed to have it preserved.

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Fri Dec 7, 2012, 12:14 PM

geek tragedy (68,868 posts)

5. Republican and Democratic parties from 1900 don't exist anymore.

In name only have they survived.

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Fri Dec 7, 2012, 05:11 PM

LeftInTX (21,645 posts)

7. FDR was originally a Republican. He switched to Democratic primarily for political reasons

If he had stayed a Republican, they would now be the liberals.

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Fri Dec 7, 2012, 08:05 PM

Third Doctor (1,574 posts)

8. That was the old sensible

GOP. Sadly that version died out years ago. The dems from a century ago were more conservative than the repubs mostly. FDR was more on the liberal side. There was a split between the conservative and liberal wing of the Dems around 40 years ago. The cons went to the repub party (mainly southern racist dixiecrats) and that's why the GOP are bat shit crazy right now.

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