The Wrong Side of History (Kristoff NYT) **MUST READ** hilarious

[underpants]

(edited for copyright purposes-proud patriot Moderator Democratic Underground)

The Wrong Side of History

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/opinion/19kristof.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1258762526-Sa8ma8n/msPbb8FpZCqkNg

All dire — but also wrong. Those forecasts date not from this year, but from the battle over Medicare in the early 1960s. I pulled them from newspaper archives and other accounts.

Yet this year those same accusations are being recycled in an attempt to discredit the health reform proposals now before Congress. The heirs of those who opposed Medicare are conjuring the same bogymen — only this time they claim to be protecting Medicare.

Daniel Reed, a Republican representative from New York, predicted that with Social Security, Americans would come to feel “the lash of the dictator.” Senator Daniel Hastings, a Delaware Republican, declared that Social Security would “end the progress of a great country.”

John Taber, a Republican representative from New York, went further and said of Social Security: “Never in the history of the world has any measure been brought here so insidiously designed as to prevent business recovery, to enslave workers.”

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[SpiralHawk]

1. "Sputter. Whine. Fume." - Republicon Homelanders Against America

Republicons = consistently wrong.

[cbayer]

2. underpants,

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[underpants]

3. ..

I thought that was only in LBN

:shrug:

[cbayer]

4. Nope, it's anywhere on the site. We don't want to get into hot water with the copyright

holders. Just be aware, that someone may come by and snip this for you.

Sorry.

[Octafish]

5. The rich always fear having to pick up the tab.

One would think they'd be grateful to live in a just nation.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. A just nation wouldn't permit them their ill-gotten gains.

"Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime
oublié, parce qu' il a été proprement fait."

[unpossibles]

7. interesting to see how little has changed

then again, since the GOP is always facing backwards wistfully, I suppose their POV doesn't change, and come to think of it, we get the same view too: their asses. I cannot fathom why they still have any political credibility anywhere.