Posted by
Tim Blessing on Monday, February 11, 2008 11:02:22 PM
I know from experience with Congressmen and Senators that they are fed up with Left and Right.
I know that a majority of them in both houses silently consider themselves Libertarians.
They could not say that before now because they wanted to wait to the appropriate time to take command.
The extremists on both sides have held sway for a long time.
In the Democrat Party, they have held control since the Johnson administration.
In the Republican Party, they have held power since Reagan.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupt's absolutely.
Both Parties suffer from it and that is why the two party structure has broken down.
I don't care to argue every last detail of every last issue.
Extremists like Jesse Helms on the right and Ted Kennedy on the left push the debate to extremes rather than working within the mainstream.
Let's put this way, I don't care to listen to Ted Kennedy extoll the virtues of the 1960s and 1930s or some on the right who like to extoll the slogans of the 1980s.
You Democrats and Republicans who have been shut out can't think for yourselfs. You need a mythical figure to conjure up a better time: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan.
You might say your caught in a psychosis: Roosevelt Freak, Kennedy Freak, and Reagan Freak.
I study leaders in my spare time: Most of them accomplish one or two things rather than a great deal of things.
Roosevelt I made the environment a national achievement and he didn't start a war.
Wilson is a failure, except for the creation of the Federal Reserve System.
Warren Harding: Corruption, but the Budget and Accounting Acct of 1921. The most significant government legislation outside the Constitution.
Franklin Roosevelt: Social Security and The War.
Eisenhower: The Interstate Highway System and laying the groundwork for the cold war and not Truman.
Lyndon Johnson: He lost the Vietnam War and Civil Rights.
Nixon: China and Watergate.
Ford: The Pardon
Reagan: He lead us out of the Cold War. There was no victory.
Clinton: Economics and impeachment.
George Bush: A total failure.