There was a very curious fact that I overlooked.
Like George W. Bush, Calvin Coolidge faced a Republican-controlled Congress during his entire term from 1923 to 1929.
The Republican Party controlled the 68th (+9 Senate/+118 House), the 69th (+14 Senate/+64 House), and the 70th (+1 Senate/+42 House) Congresses, from 1923 to 1929.
And, the U.S. public debt decreased from $22 billion in the summer of 1923 to $17 billion in the summer of 1929, after Coolidge had left office.
These figures, in addition to other verifiable facts about Coolidge's administration (like the fact that he and the Republican Congress cut taxes three times--in 1924, 1926, and 1928--in addition to spending cuts and debt retirements...in the middle of the Prohibition, i.e., the 1920s equivalent of today's War on Drugs), speaks volumes.
YES, VOLUMES.
And, it only serves to bolster my claim that
The Republican Party squandered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to return America to its libertarian conservative roots, betrayed the various States and the People that make up this Republic...and for what? Nothing!
