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2007-08-16 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2007-08-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 And it is also a responsible position to condemn your party for acting so unruly during the time they had power. Republicans squandered the largest shift in American politics in less than 4 years. That is pathetic. I will not excuse it becaue I watched those pork projects fly by like b52's on CSPAN. Smaller government is what they voted for, largest government is what they got. All of newt's ideas were slaughtered in the first year. I did not keep tabs because I AM at war currently but that corruption and stench can be seen from miles offshore.

Democrats are rats nonetheless. It is a joke of a party started for self punishment. But the republicans should HAVE KNOWN that if I gave them a straight ticket, that meant STRAIGHT TICKET.

What a bunch of clowns.
I saw better professionalism but really, if Washington DC is that corrupt, how can you save it with a political party?

Put your platform out there if you think anyone will bite but from what I see, Americans are pissed.

I expect the lowest common denominator and unions to be the rube and the spittle of discontent, but never the party that was formed to maintain this country to become so.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-08-16 00:44|| 2007-08-16 00:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Copperheads (Peace Democrats)

Although the Democratic party had broken apart in 1860, during the secession crisis Democrats in the North were generally more conciliatory toward the South than were Republicans. They called themselves Peace Democrats; their opponents called them Copperheads because some wore copper pennies as identifying badges.
A majority of Peace Democrats supported war to save the Union, but a strong and active minority asserted that the Republicans had provoked the South into secession; that the Republicans were waging the war in order to establish their own domination, suppress civil and states rights, and impose "racial equality"; and that military means had failed and would never restore the Union.
Peace Democrats were most numerous in the Midwest, a region that had traditionally distrusted the Northeast, where the Republican party was strongest, and that had economic and cultural ties with the South. The Lincoln administration's arbitrary treatment of dissenters caused great bitterness there. Above all, anti-abolitionist Midwesterners feared that emancipation would result in a great migration of blacks into their states.
As was true of the Democratic party as a whole, the influence of Peace Democrats varied with the fortunes of war. When things were going badly for the Union on the battlefield, larger numbers of people were willing to entertain the notion of making peace with the Confederacy. When things were going well, Peace Democrats could more easily be dismissed as defeatists. But no matter how the war progressed, Peace Democrats constantly had to defend themselves against charges of disloyalty. Revelations that a few had ties with secret organizations such as the Knights of the Golden Circle helped smear the rest.
The most prominent Copperhead leader was Clement L. Valladigham of Ohio, who headed the secret antiwar organization known as the Sons of Liberty. At the Democratic convention of 1864, where the influence of Peace Democrats reached its high point, Vallandigham persuaded the party to adopt a platform branding the war a failure, and some extreme Copperheads plotted armed uprisings. However, the Democratic presidential candidate, George B. McClellan, repudiated the Vallandigham platform, victories by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman and Phillip H. Sheridan assured Lincoln's reelection, and the plots came to nothing.
With the conclusion of the war in 1865 the Peace Democrats were thoroughly discredited. Most Northerners believed, not without reason, that Peace Democrats had prolonged war by encouraging the South to continue fighting in the hope that the North would abandon the struggle.
Source: "Historical Times Encyclopedia of the Civil War" Edited by Patricia L. Faust

Haven't changed much have they?

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-08-16 08:30|| 2007-08-16 08:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Fred, that cartoon is spot-on!

Posted by Mike 2007-08-16 10:51|| 2007-08-16 10:51|| Front Page Top

#4 DemocRats disgrace?

That's far too long a list to post here - think of the ~~children~~ bandwidth!

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-08-16 15:28|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2007-08-16 15:28|| Front Page Top

#5 How could they go any lower?

At least Judas had the decency to hang himself...

Posted by Bobby 2007-08-16 16:05|| 2007-08-16 16:05|| Front Page Top

#6 #5: "How could they go any lower?"

It's easy, Bobby - the Dems keep a fleet of backhoes on retainer.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-08-16 19:12|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-08-16 19:12|| Front Page Top

#7 the Dems keep a fleet of backhoes on retainer.

Ding, ding, ding ... We have a winner for Snark O' the Day!

I was ready to reply with something along the lines of "lower than a snake's belly full of buckshot" but your snark swept the heats, Barbara.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-16 22:40|| 2007-08-16 22:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Those backhoes also come in handy for digging up voters on the eve of an election.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-08-16 22:49|| 2007-08-16 22:49|| Front Page Top

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