John Dean: "The Dwindling Republican Business Base, It's the Economy Stupid"

[DeSwiss]

The Dwindling Republican Business Base: It's the Economy, Stupid

Findlaw.com

By JOHN W. DEAN
Friday, Jan. 25, 2008

As the stock market gyrated wildly this week, given the precarious state of the American economy, the New York Times published a table relating to anti-recession efforts in times past. In scanning it, I could not help but notice that among the last eight recessions, all but the first, in 1948, occurred during Republican presidencies. (The first occurred when Republicans controlled Congress.)

Here are the recessions and their Republican presidents:
August 1957 to April 1958 (Eisenhower),
April 1960 to February 1961 (Eisenhower),
December 1969 to November 1970 (Nixon),
November 1973 to March 1975 (Nixon and Ford),
July 1981 to November 1982 (Reagan),
July 1990 to March 1991 (Reagan),
March 2001 to November 2001 (Bush II).

As we all have watched the stock market this week, thoughts of past major crashes have no doubt popped into the minds of many. Republican presidents oversaw them. Herbert Hoover, of course, was president when the great crash of 1929 occurred, and Ronald Reagan was president with the most recent serious crash - Black Monday in 1987.

The Republican Party has long been the favorite of the business world. But when one steps back to look at the facts objectively - as business leaders who want to remain in business must do, and now seem to be doing - the question must be asked: Is a Republican bias actually good business?

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- Mark Felt, Alexander Butterfield and John Dean, three Republicans from our recent past who are unique because they also possessed a conscience and integrity. The first was Deep Throat who hinted where to look, the second was Deep Finger, who pointed to where the truth could be found, and the third was Deep Doctor who diagnosed a "cancer on the presidency." There are none such as these in Repukedom now.

We've had SEVEN recessions in the past FIFTY years -- and every single one of them have come under Repuke Presidents. Presidents who all initiated tax cuts for their rich friends. And each time they were given, a recession soon followed. And untold suffering was then dealt to middle and lower income Americans, while the wealthy wallowed in their riches -- again.

With this article, John Dean has again taken on the role of America's "social doctor." One who has again diagnosed the cause of the problems we all face: CANCER. But this time his examination is not limited to the presidency, but upon the source of this malignancy: The Republican Party itself. It is the source from which this nation's greatest troubles have almost always emanated. And the reason it can be found at this source, is because this is where greed, avarice, bigotry and psychopathy lives, and can be found in abundance. Repukes lack the ability to empathize with their fellow humans and they possess a unconscionable willingness to step upon the corpses of the sick, the dying and the fallen, as they seek to further feather their nests with the bounty stolen from others. Selfishness is their "Mark of Cain." This is the true source of the malignant cancer that John Dean spoke of 35 years ago.

It takes a mind-boggling level of cognitive dissonance for anyone not to see this. To be unable to connect the dots. One's bigotry and hatred and fears must remain at their highest levels for any American to pull the levers for Repukes. The Repuke message is one of fear and distrust, in order to point the finger of blame "elsewhere." Their history is one of inflicting pain and death, for the sake of greater profits. And their methods are "divide and conquer," in order to weaken us so that we won't fight back.

And the cancer lives on....

[stellanoir]

1. John Dean has truly learned his lesson,

These dissenting voices from the right back far more of a wallop than those from the left.

Although, today the Kennedys made me cry.

I'd never cried over a political speech before.

That was weird.

[DeSwiss]

3. Hey stellanoir....

...glad to see your post!!! :-)

I suspect that your tears are like those of my own and so many others. When we hear the words of truth and of hope, and then look around and see where we are today, there is much to cry about. We can't understand how it is that we've sunk so low, so fast......

Take care, and keep the Kleenex handy. I'm afraid that there will be more tears to shed before this is over....

DeSwiss -

[stellanoir]

5. That's the thing that blows me away

that we've sunk so far so fast.

Still I've been saying for a long while that "perhaps superpowers are no longer appropriate for this still new millennium."

Dunno for sure. Just seems as such.

I didn't waste a tree but tackily used my shirt to blot my tears. Just for the enviro record.

[zbdent]

2. amazing, isn't it? All the horrors that the Republicans make of the Carter years ...

and not one recession in the whole ... must have done something right then ... of course, David Stockman said in his book that there would be serious reductions in the deficit if Reagan had just done exactly what Carter had laid out ... instead of what he did, which ballooned the debt/deficit ...

[DeSwiss]

4. And its gets worse as one pans back further....

...and looks at the historical role this "party" has played in the suffering of this country. From Grant's administration with its war profiteers (with a Bush among them), the program of genocide and exclusion against Native Americans, to the late 19th and early 20th century Robber Barons and Wall Street tycoons who plundered the land and the people. All the way to our worst hour, The Great Depression. All Repuke efforts at gaining and/or sustaining their wealth, position and power.

At any cost. -




PS - Love your sigline..... - ;-)

[zbdent]

7. sigline ... HHGTTG or B5?

or both?

[DeSwiss]

11. This one!

"The universe is already mad. Anything else would be redundant." - Londo Mollari Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

- That sounds so like me!!!

[zbdent]

16. Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so

is from the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy;

Londo is from Babylon 5.

Glad you like either or both.

[eridani]

6. If someone in 1973 had told me that in 35 years I'd eagerly seek out anything with a John Dean--

--byline, I'd have asked them for a hit of whatever it was that they were smoking. My, how times do change.

[DeSwiss]

12. I hear ya!!!

Same here.... :P

[SpiralHawk]

8. republicons are NOT conservatives. They are radical borrow-and-spend liars

They just use the word "conservative" as a propaganda talking point.

Never, ever refer to republicons as 'conservative' for it is wrong on every count.

[DeSwiss]

13. I would agree....

...and not only that, but the term "liberal" has also undergone a similar twisting and redefinition from its original meaning.

Word etymologies is a particular interest of mine and I can think of at least one example of a similar warping of a word's meaning: "uptight." The word uptight was used in a early 60s song by Stevie Wonder which originally meant things were GREAT! It later came to be used when referring to someone who is closed-off, not with it, or square. And all this happened within a matter of a few years. Why? I haven't a clue.

But I think there are any number of definitions of a Conservative rendered by others that appeal to me, but none more so than John Kenneth Galbraith's:

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

[zbdent]

17. same with "pro-life"

bomb em, execute them, cut off their life support when they can't pay their bills ... yup ... "pro-life" ... a fetus in the safest place on Earth, in a place where you don't actually feed the child, and they're "protecting" them ... as soon as the kid draws first breath ... eff you, kid ...

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. K&R!

SEVEN recessions in the past FIFTY years and all under REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS!


Hear that lurking Freeps? Care too comment?

You bunch of LOSERS!

[havocmom]

10. GOP cannot get it through their thick skulls: We all do better when we ALL do better

lesson not learned.

[bdamomma]

14. we just know how to govern better than them.

they love their wars too much.

[DeSwiss]

15. They can't comment.....

...at least not in their usual manner. Which is not to respond to the question or point being made intelligently with facts or proof otherwise, but to point the finger at Dems and say "well they did it too!"

- But we didn't. Ergo...... {chirp, chirp, chirp}

[opihimoimoi]

18. K&R....we Dems who don't know U>S> Recession History, gatta read this

[drbtg1]

19. John Dean made a mistake.

He wrote "July 1990 to March 1991 (Reagan)" when we all know that was Bush I.

Still a Republican. Even more incompetancy.