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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 11:55 AM Original message |
What have the Republicans ever been right about? |
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intheflow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
1. Lincoln freed the slaves, Teddy Roosevelt established nat'l parks. |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
2. By convincing them of two things. |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 12:26 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Edit: |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
3. How did they develop a cult following? |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
4. interstate highways were an eisenhower thing, i think? |
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nothingshocksmeanymore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 12:11 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. The idea came out of the Roosevelt administration, though |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 12:25 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Yes, and FUCK them. |
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RandomKoolzip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 04:13 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. Did you buy your computer at a store? Wouldna happened without |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 04:18 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. The interstate highway system was intended to be just that, interstate |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 05:23 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. And it could've been brought |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 06:05 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Were you drinking a Bud? |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 06:07 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. No, actually |
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RandomKoolzip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-27-05 12:58 AM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Nice assumption. You know what they say about people who assume, though. |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-27-05 08:17 PM Response to Reply #22 |
31. No - good analogy. |
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hippiechick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 12:28 PM Response to Original message |
8. They were right in their analysis of the American People ... |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 10:40 PM Response to Reply #8 |
35. Ouch. n/t |
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Neil Lisst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
9. I felt they were right about balancing the budget. |
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Hyernel (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
10. Affirmative action quotas |
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bread_and_roses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 04:10 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. when we have a level playing field |
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Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
11. That the Soviet Union and Communist China |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 10:43 PM Response to Reply #11 |
36. There's a good case to be made that republicans spent the USSR... |
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manic expression (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 11:17 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. From what I heard |
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manic expression (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 11:23 PM Response to Reply #11 |
38. That was a case of the melting pot calling the kettle black |
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Chemical Bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
12. The "Do Not Call" list is all I can think of. n/t |
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TheBaldyMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
16. Nixon created the EPA and began diplomatic ties with China IIRC |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 07:42 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Yes I like that quote and I think it is pretty damn true |
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Humor_In_Cuneiform (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-26-05 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
18. Saddam was bad |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-27-05 02:52 AM Response to Reply #18 |
25. Lots of world leaders are bad. Repubs helped put and keep Saddam in power. |
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Humor_In_Cuneiform (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-27-05 05:53 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. I was only answering the question, what have the Repugs been |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 12:26 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. I know. I was just expanding on it. |
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BikeWriter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-27-05 02:56 AM Response to Reply #18 |
26. Sure, but he was suckered into invading Kuwait. |
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Humor_In_Cuneiform (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-27-05 05:54 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Yes? And so does that make my answer incorrect. |
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BikeWriter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 02:01 AM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Certainly he's bad, but that was the least of their reasons to invade. |
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Humor_In_Cuneiform (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 09:43 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Yes? Did you feel I was stating otherwise? I wasn't, no implied meaning, |
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radio4progressives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-27-05 01:04 AM Response to Original message |
23. "Let us impeach George Bush, and let it begin with me" (David Swanson) |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-27-05 01:55 AM Response to Original message |
24. remember when the GOP was the minority party? |
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BikeWriter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-27-05 03:27 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Exactly, and they are no longer Conservative. |
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Lexingtonian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-27-05 03:42 AM Response to Original message |
28. themselves |
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