“You wouldn’t have seen a cap&trade bill, or a “stimulus” bill of that sort (though there probably would have been something), or a medical insurance bill under a Republican Congress in 2009.”
NCLB and Medicare Part D were passed by a Republican Congress, were they not? When HillaryCare was first proposed, did our “leaders” in the GOP oppose it on principle? No. They proposed their own slightly-less-bad version. Your assumption that those three bills would not have been passed by a Republican Congress - for a Republican President - is not in evidence. It’s all about the Party, not the Principle with these people.
“As for Nixon vs McGovern, that was for Nixons 2nd term. How could you have permitted McGovern to get in ?”
Both libs. It has to end somewhere.
NCLB ? I liked it, it annoyed the teachers unions no end. Its goals were unrealistic, but its methods have been very useful in many places. The end result was a host of Democrats got on board vs their own backers in the NEA, etc.. This breach can be exploited, if someone with imagination works at it.
Medicare part D was a very marginal change compared to what these people are up to now. It wasn’t “slightly less bad”, it was orders of magnitude less bad. Thats the point - wouldn’t you prefer a pinprick to a stab in the heart ?
“It’s all about the Party, not the Principle with these people.”
Its all about politics and personal ambition for most politicians, it always has been and always will be, time without end, amen. What you said was just as true in 1909 as today. Politicians haven’t changed, in this case its just a passing spirit of unrealistic petulance in our attitudes towards them.