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villager
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Thu Jan-25-07 11:08 AM Original message |
Poll question: When did the Republican party first commit treason? |
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skooooo
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Thu Jan-25-07 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
1. Coup against FDR? |
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villager
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Thu Jan-25-07 11:12 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Google "Smedley Butler" for more, but here's a quick link: |
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hobbit709
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Thu Jan-25-07 11:12 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. They tried to talk Gen. Smedley Butler into it. |
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Recursion
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Thu Jan-25-07 01:33 PM Response to Reply #1 |
19. Google it. Smedley Butler should have gotten his 3rd Medal of Honor for stopping it |
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Greyhound
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Thu Jan-25-07 03:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
22. Best reason for DU to exist. The immense collection of knowledge that |
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Rosemary2205
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Thu Jan-25-07 04:31 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I learned more here in 1 yr than 12 years of school. |
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Swamp Rat
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Thu Jan-25-07 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
2. (((Calling Octafish!))) |
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kenny blankenship
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Thu Jan-25-07 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
3. Left out Watergate |
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villager
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Thu Jan-25-07 11:12 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I'll put it in! (Maybe 'cause that's the only time they were *caught?*) |
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porphyrian
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Thu Jan-25-07 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
7. I wonder how many acts of treason they would tolerate from Democrats. |
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villager
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Thu Jan-25-07 11:16 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. We've been a little soft on them, yes. Prescott Bush should've gone to jail |
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porphyrian
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Thu Jan-25-07 11:17 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. So much would be different now, it's impossible to imagine exactly. - n/t |
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KansDem
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Thu Jan-25-07 11:19 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. For one thing, we wouldn't have had a Bush (or Bob Dole) on the GOP ticket since 1976! |
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porphyrian
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Thu Jan-25-07 11:41 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Would G.H.W. have been head of the CIA if we'd punished Prescott? |
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KansDem
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Thu Jan-25-07 12:32 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Good question! |
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villager
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Thu Jan-25-07 11:21 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. It's like a parallel universe, to imagine the "actual America" |
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porphyrian
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Thu Jan-25-07 11:42 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Maybe Alan Moore can do a graphic novel about it or something. - n/t |
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villager
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Thu Jan-25-07 12:07 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. hurm... |
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happyslug
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Thu Jan-25-07 01:10 PM Response to Reply #7 |
18. THE GOP "waived the Bloody shirt" from the 1860s till the 1930s. |
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Bucky
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Fri Jan-26-07 01:28 AM Response to Reply #18 |
30. To be fair, Democrats deserved to lose in the 1860s & 1870s |
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happyslug
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Fri Jan-26-07 10:14 AM Response to Reply #30 |
33. I agree, but the GOP continue to waive it while into the 1930s |
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Recursion
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Thu Jan-25-07 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
15. 5 minutes after they lost the progressive TR wing n/t |
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villager
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Thu Jan-25-07 12:51 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. that's about right... |
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carolinayellowdog
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Thu Jan-25-07 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
20. "I am a Stalwart and Arthur will be president"-- Guiteau 1881 |
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villager
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Thu Jan-25-07 03:18 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. did that pave the way for the rise of McKinley and naked corporatism? |
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carolinayellowdog
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Thu Jan-25-07 04:30 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Paved the way for Republican loss of the White House |
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villager
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Thu Jan-25-07 05:39 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. yet McKinley's bagman, Mark Hanna, was a "role model" for Rove |
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tom_paine
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Thu Jan-25-07 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
26. The Republic Party: Committing Treason Against Americans for 72 years |
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Festivito
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Thu Jan-25-07 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
27. Didn't they start in Columbus, OH, supplying Germans in WWI? |
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villager
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Fri Jan-26-07 01:19 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. "Treason: A party tradition." |
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kath
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Fri Jan-26-07 01:24 AM Response to Original message |
29. You forgot Iran-Contra. |
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villager
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Fri Jan-26-07 11:33 AM Response to Reply #29 |
34. I only had ten slots.. and there's *so much* GOP treason to keep track of! |
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GeorgeGist
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Fri Jan-26-07 09:35 AM Response to Original message |
31. When Lincoln... |
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villager
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Sat Jan-27-07 03:59 AM Response to Reply #31 |
35. you mean, the Southern states should've been allowed to secede? |
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Raffi Ella
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Fri Jan-26-07 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
32. I don't know... |
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PhilipShore
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Sat Jan-27-07 05:04 AM Response to Original message |
36. Other: The Military-Industrial-Complex and the Nuclear Age |
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villager
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Sat Jan-27-07 01:53 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. That's actually a very good point -- and it makes Harry Truman |
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