Comments on: In which David Broder mistakes Ted Stevens for the Prince of Peace http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1928 BTC News: News, politics, opinion and satire Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:52:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1928/comment-page-1#comment-1127831 Joe Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:59:17 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1928#comment-1127831 In Mr. Senate mode, Stevens' fellow old timer has a "letter to the next president" book out. He comes off best in those type of things. Was Broder supportive of Byrd's strong words against the President, including against the Iraq War? Or, was this not "bipartisan" enough? In Mr. Senate mode, Stevens’ fellow old timer has a “letter to the next president” book out. He comes off best in those type of things.

Was Broder supportive of Byrd’s strong words against the President, including against the Iraq War? Or, was this not “bipartisan” enough?

]]> By: JackD http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1928/comment-page-1#comment-1127812 JackD Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:54:29 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1928#comment-1127812 Yes, he's probably senile but he was never accused of being the sharpest knife in the drawer. As for that liberal Nixon, Monty, you forgot wage and price controls and a plan to end the war in Vietnam by bombing Cambodia and so forth. Yes, he’s probably senile but he was never accused of being the sharpest knife in the drawer.

As for that liberal Nixon, Monty, you forgot wage and price controls and a plan to end the war in Vietnam by bombing Cambodia and so forth.

]]> By: Montfort http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1928/comment-page-1#comment-1127800 Montfort Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:22:30 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1928#comment-1127800 Moderate Republicanism does indeed exist. It's called the Democratic Party, which, when it comes to social and economic policy is somewhere to the right of Richard Nixon - who Chomsky says was in many ways the last liberal president (except when it came to things like dictatorial powers and domestic spying, oh and enemies lists, and Supreme Court appointments and the Southern Strategy, and war - and you find modern "liberals" supporting authoritarianism, the surveillance state, and some pretty awful Supreme Court and attorney general appointments - oh, and war). Besides the guaranteed annual income (defeated by an alliance of Northern Democrats [the proposed income was below poverty level, plus Republicans shouldn't be getting credit for Democratic-type laws], Southern Democrats [the undeserving poor shouldn't get anything, plus wages would increase and blacks would gain political power], organized labor [it would gut the minimum wage and subsidize sweatshops], and probably the welfare bureaucracy [there goes job security]), Nixon gave us the EPA, OSHA, Social Security COLA, SSI, revenue sharing, and increased funding for the EEOC, and he backed the Equal Rights Amendment, and appointed more women to high federal office than any president in history up till then. Today's Democrats can't hold a candle to Nixon. Moderate Republicanism does indeed exist. It’s called the Democratic Party, which, when it comes to social and economic policy is somewhere to the right of Richard Nixon – who Chomsky says was in many ways the last liberal president (except when it came to things like dictatorial powers and domestic spying, oh and enemies lists, and Supreme Court appointments and the Southern Strategy, and war – and you find modern “liberals” supporting authoritarianism, the surveillance state, and some pretty awful Supreme Court and attorney general appointments – oh, and war).

Besides the guaranteed annual income (defeated by an alliance of Northern Democrats [the proposed income was below poverty level, plus Republicans shouldn't be getting credit for Democratic-type laws], Southern Democrats [the undeserving poor shouldn't get anything, plus wages would increase and blacks would gain political power], organized labor [it would gut the minimum wage and subsidize sweatshops], and probably the welfare bureaucracy [there goes job security]), Nixon gave us the EPA, OSHA, Social Security COLA, SSI, revenue sharing, and increased funding for the EEOC, and he backed the Equal Rights Amendment, and appointed more women to high federal office than any president in history up till then.

Today’s Democrats can’t hold a candle to Nixon.

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