Ultimate irony here: Franklin Roosevelt -- the father of American socialism, progenitor of Progressives, founder of failed Liberal policy that the government can tax & spend its way back to prosperity.
This same FDR would today be considered the most wild-eyed of radically conservative Tea Partiers, if he advocated returning the Federal Government employees to 1,023,341!
Talk about your bipartisan agreement -- can't we all just agree that in this area at least, Roosevelt had the right idea?
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I like it! OK, GOP. Here's the theme for 2012.
"Let us balance the federal budget by harkening back to the policies of that small-government advocate of yesteryear - Franklin Delano Roosevelt."