Secret Memo From the Past to Save Republican Party

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<snip> Since the Republican Party today comprises many of the same legislators who wrote the aforementioned anti-Roosevelt tract, look out for an imminent similar attack from the opposition party. Insert all the relevant aphorisms about history here, please: First time history second time farce; those who do not learn are doomed to repeat; it's not dead it's not even past; it is a slaughterbench, etc.

Here's how House Minority Leader John Boehner outlined his party's take on Obama's budget last week: "It's everything that he said that he was never going to be for when he ran for president. Now it's time for him to keep his word."

The whole New York Times story from 1933 is pasted below, so keep it in your back pocket for reference. You're going to need it.

http://gawker.com/5170995/secret-memo-from-the-past-to-save-republican-party



I just discovere this in my bookmarks from 2009. Check out the news article...the pubs don't advance much, they keep doing the same tired old thing.