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(9,302 posts) Wed Mar 10, 2021, 05:42 PM Mar 2021

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The trap was set. The Republicans jumped right in. Let's have FDR explain it. [View all]

The American Rescue Plan looks like being the most popular economic/social legislation since the New Deal. (Let the selling begin!)

And not a single Republican voted for it.

The trap was set. The coffin will be nailed shut. Here's FDR.

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The trap was set. The Republicans jumped right in. Let's have FDR explain it. [View all] speak easy Mar 2021 OP

Yup. Elessar Zappa Mar 2021 #1

Perfect! cyclonefence Mar 2021 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author 3Hotdogs Mar 2021 #21

I think he was the best we ever had. 3Hotdogs Mar 2021 #22

Great post malaise Mar 2021 #3

Do you think VP Harris said to the President - DURHAM D Mar 2021 #4

Oh - you know it ! speak easy Mar 2021 #6

BFD underpants Mar 2021 #8

That would have been awesome! Danascot Mar 2021 #29

Wow! Delphinus Mar 2021 #5

Sure they have, they've gotten worse. SammyWinstonJack Mar 2021 #34

definitely with limbaugh it got a lot worse - and now he's dead and trumpism with him certainot Mar 2021 #57

+1 BobTheSubgenius Mar 2021 #63

Their voting base as well as their heart is still in the same, wrong place. jaxexpat Mar 2021 #53

Love it! Zoonart Mar 2021 #7

Thanks for the reminder. My favorite potus. nt Doremus Mar 2021 #9

Mine too.. whathehell Mar 2021 #33

As they say in Texas, we have only one thing to fear, DFW Mar 2021 #10

... speak easy Mar 2021 #11

Wow- thank you lisa58 Mar 2021 #12

Republicans haven't changed a bit in the past 100 years meow2u3 Mar 2021 #13

Excellent post. JFK60 Mar 2021 #14

yeah well im not sure it will backfire for them. drray23 Mar 2021 #15

bots. mopinko Mar 2021 #20

That's what they said about Medicare. wnylib Mar 2021 #24

yes in the long term we will prevail drray23 Mar 2021 #26

They are rationalizing taking the $1400 because AllyCat Mar 2021 #51

It's never been about convincing their dumb base. Elessar Zappa Mar 2021 #61

I thought Pres Joe could be another LBJ trying to unite the country after a National tragedy... Tommymac Mar 2021 #16

Crossed my mind. The right person wnylib Mar 2021 #25

what I Have been saying since before he was nominated demtenjeep Mar 2021 #30

Keep it up, Team! Kid Berwyn Mar 2021 #17

That donkey is so cute I_UndergroundPanther Mar 2021 #40

The R's will regret their abstinence from this process. theneworiginal Mar 2021 #18

The R's will regret their abstinence from this process. theneworiginal Mar 2021 #19

very good post !! monkeyman1 Mar 2021 #23

A wonderful blast from the past. But Oldem Mar 2021 #27

I heard the theory that the GQP got "rolled by the Dems". BigmanPigman Mar 2021 #28

They got plenty of nothin'. BarbD Mar 2021 #32

Some things never change. SunSeeker Mar 2021 #31

Love it Joinfortmill Mar 2021 #35

Back in the day when the voters were smarter Bev54 Mar 2021 #36

FDR had 59 Democrats out of 96 Senators Thunderbeast Mar 2021 #37

FDR nailed it! burrowowl Mar 2021 #38

85 years down the road and nothing has changed with those bastards. Warpy Mar 2021 #39

Yes! Call those rotten bastards out continually.. I_UndergroundPanther Mar 2021 #41

Sorry, Warpy, you're wrong Bob_in_VA Mar 2021 #43

My memory is a lot longer than yours is Warpy Mar 2021 #45

Your memory is not long enough and is selective grantcart Mar 2021 #46

Uh Warpy Mar 2021 #60

Oh, yeah. Sounds familiar. LudwigPastorius Mar 2021 #42

We've known this all these years. Mickju Mar 2021 #44

Suck it GOP Blue Owl Mar 2021 #47

sounds exactly like what they say about Obamacare. Hamlette Mar 2021 #48

K&R burrowowl Mar 2021 #49

Not as well known...but LBJ got a lot done... Sancho Mar 2021 #50

LBJ kicked ass. His domestic agenda was massive. appalachiablue Mar 2021 #55

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Mar 2021 #52

History is so cool! Wild blueberry Mar 2021 #54

Link to full text BadgerKid Mar 2021 #56

It is a speech I return to from time to time, speak easy Mar 2021 #65

I'll be back to steall that.... Historic NY Mar 2021 #58

They got nothing.. movingviolation Mar 2021 #59

Wow. That really nailed it. underpants Mar 2021 #62

FDR opened that speech with this warning about the 1936 campaign - speak easy Mar 2021 #66

That video is powerful Nasruddin Mar 2021 #64

Astounding how RWers, most of whom almost certainly benefitted Dark n Stormy Knight Mar 2021 #67

Reaganism is over! speak easy Mar 2021 #68

Yes! Though I'm thinking it's well *past* time! Dark n Stormy Knight Mar 2021 #71

Same old Republicans!!! The Wielding Truth Mar 2021 #69

Not a political trap. It was creation of needed legislation, with dems doing wiggs Mar 2021 #70