[Pelham]

There were plenty of Republicans in that 89th Congress who passed LBJ’s programs for him. In fact you’ll often hear conservative talking heads boasting about how Republicans were responsible passing the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Well they’re right, although that doesn’t explain why any conservative with a lick of sense would brag about it. Both Goldwater and Ronald Reagan opposed the bill, knowing where it would ultimately lead.

[chimera]

I guess I need to correct my earlier posting and note that the 88th Congress also implemented many of Johnson's initiatives, since it had a makeup similar to the 89th. Dirksen was able to whip up enough 'Pub votes to invoke cloture on debate of the Civil Rights Act. Johnson and Mansfield allowed Dirksen a moment in the sun because throwing him that bone would assure passage of the bill and so enslave an entire ethnic minority to government handouts and cement their fealty to the 'Rat party. As bloody as the consequences of that have been, bloodier still was the 88th Congress passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.

So we see the consequences of a 'Rat super majority, a minority led by a self-proclaimed moderate, and a 'Rat in the WH. The sheer volume and utter failure of legislation passed in those two sessions is something few today understand or appreciate, but it should serve as warning against the apparent drift back to the 'Rat principles.

[YogicCowboy]

Neocon Ttotskyists usurped the RNC after WWII. That is why they opposed both Goldwater and Reagan.