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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Sunday, July 24, 2011

History For Dummies

Dante Atkins over at Daily Kos points out that FDR never would have stood for Boehner's shenanigans on the debt ceiling.

Well, no, I guess not.  In fact, I'm not certain the Congress even VOTED on the debt limit in the '30s.

But whatever.  This is why the Manic Progressives over at DK drive me insane.

FDR had majorities in both Houses of Congress.  There were progressive Republicans in the Congress as well.

There were not certified nihilists running the House into the ground.

Better example would be to compare the fate of Truman's Fair Deal at the hands of the Do-Nothing Congress.

Idiots.  Don't play with sharp objects, Dante.

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