Roosevelt is DEAD [View All]

...and they want to kill him again.

From Daily Kos in May:

"To this day the GOP is still fighting the war that began in 1933 with Roosevelt’s election, and seemingly won’t rest until the New Deal has been completely dismantled. Conservative leaders still make the claim that Roosevelt’s policies extended the Great Depression and, in fact, made it worse. Said de facto Republican Party leader Rush Limbaugh in a(n) (in)famous rant, "Roosevelt is dead. His policies may live on, but we're in the process of doing something about that as well." Some conservatives, including former president Ronald Reagan, have attempted to twist the New Deal into an example of American fascism in action.

With the glut of recent bills that propose ending or radically altering New Deal and “liberal” policies (such as Medicare, Social Security, public education and cutting funding for infrastructure projects), can there be any real doubt that this is the agenda of the modern Republican Party?" (Thanks to DUr Marr for quote clarification)

This explains, in part, what the GOP is doing. They aren't only looking toward 2012. They've got the weight of 75 years of GOP New Deal bitterness to support. Doing something about the New Deal means starving the govt and lying to the public so that social safety nets are destroyed. This isn't just about appeasing the Tea Party...rather the Tea Party is giving them cover to achieve long-standing goals of Prescott Bush and Reagan. They are "in the process" of doing something about those goals.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/31/980973/-It-Almost-Happened-Here

I don't know why the big picture isn't painted more clearly for the American people...that this is a battle waged for 75 years and that this is the biggest threat to some of the most successful and important US programs ever created.

The Rush audio should be played daily.