Sunday, April 18, 2010
Rep[ublican History
What do Republicans have against history? You'd think conservatives would know a lot about the old times that they presumably want to conserve? First the TX textbook crowd decides Thomas Aquinas is more relevant to US history than Thomas Jefferson. (Somebody tell Michele Bachmann to quit wearing shirts quoting Jefferson) Then the governor of VA forgets that a little ole thing called slavery might have had just teensy weensy bit of relevance in the Civil War. & now Newt can't recall that his shutting down the government backfired. If memory serves correctly, Newt & Clinton flew home from a funeral & Newt didn't get to sit up in the front of the plane with Clinton -- that & not any more lofty reason was the proximate cause of the shutdown
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History is rather damning to the GOP - so they forget it or revise it. Their geographical base and "southern strategy" make past ties to Lincoln ironic.
There were several posters of Reagan at the Tea Parties - more irony considering he tripled our debt in his first term and introduced the era of massive deficits.
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