User: Madutek

Re: Republicans

On: Supreme Court Declines to Hear Obscenity Case

"Excuse me - but your post is not Insightful - infact it's not even FACTUAL ... The last real Republican was Eisenhower."

That's strange: Eisenhower advocated a view he called "moderate republicanism" and was constantly fighting with the old vanguard that considered themselves the real republicans. He really wasn't all that different from the current republican administration in a lot of ways: He purposely misspoke in public to avoid difficult questions. He once admitted to this tactic, saying "If that question comes up, I'll just confuse them." This led many to question his intelligence. He told his cabinet to claim responsibility for decisions that he made. That way, they would take all the blame while he stayed above the conflict. This gave the impression that he was not in control of his own administration. He was so pro-business that he even appointed large business owners to many of his cabinet posisions instead of politicians. A conflict of interest scandal erupted when one of his cabinet members was reluctant to sell his GM stock. When he spoke of 'personal responsibility,' he claimed that many laws that would help the common man at the expense of big business were "socialist". When the government of Guatemala interfered with US business interests, the Eisenhower administration secretly supported a coup in that country. Eisenhower justified this move to others in the US government by claiming that the Guatemalan government supported communism. No intelligence agency would back up this claim, but Eisenhower pointed to the fact that Guatemala had bought arms from Checkoslovakia. What he failed to mention was that he had been selling arms to other countries in the area, but had instructed US allies not to sell to Guatemala, leading predictably to their purchase from Checkoslovakia. So predictably, in fact, that a member of the US government was waiting for the boat full of weapons when it arrived. He practically forced them to arm themselves so that he could point to the weapons as evidence that they supported terror^h^h^h^h^h^h communism, justifying an overthrow of the government that was really in large part about business.