I'd pay money to see something like that today.
/johnny
***What Has Made Congress More Polarized?***
When CODE DUELLO ceased to be a moderating effect on the more radical members of Congress.
Before that you could call the curr out and force him to defend his words.
Now they can hurl mud with impunity.
Polarization resulting from Democrats becoming Socialists, Communists and Marxists. Obama has exacerbated this conversion.
marxism
“Again, to illustrate this point, DW-NOMINATE suggests that Congress became much less polarized in the 1920s and 30s,”
Historically ignorant hogwash.
The 19th century Democrats were ‘conservative’ populists, and in the 20th century liberal populists took over the Democrats, but the southern Democrat wing remained until after the 1960s. As such, the democrats in 1930s had 2 wings, one liberal and one conservative.
The Republicans have moved right, by absorbing the rump Democrat conservative wing that the Democrats left.
As reagan put it, “I didnt leave the Democrat party, the Democrat party left me.”
The Congress wasnt less polarized, it was just the power of the left wasnt as great and division were regional not party based.
Now in the age of Obama the Democrats are more ideologically polarized than ever. Have they ever been this leftist as a party? No!
Idiot, this is the natural result of the Dims making deals with the GOP and failing to live up on them. This goes back to Clinton and really even Reagan and the $3 in spending cuts for the then record tax increase he signed.
If you continually lie to people, you can hardly be surprised when they are not interested in dealing with you again.
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Hate Group Associations Disqualify Obama That Scytl link is by Michelle Malkin.
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It doesn't matter; because we'll be told it is the FAULT of the mean Conservatives!
While...
Mere taxpaying saps, who have long tracked trends in governmental policies, said their studies of congressional LAWS found that Democrats are now more LIBERAL than they have been in more than a century. Their common sense show a dramatic uptick in polarization, mostly caused by the sharp LEFTward move of the Democratic Party.”
“What Has Made Congress More Polarized?”
Lying democRAT, marxist thugs! Don’t forget the state run media.
What Has Made Congress More Polarized? The 2000 Presidential election. The Dems bared their fangs when Gore lost despite receiving more votes than Bush, and they have been on a vindictive warpath ever since. If anyone tries to tell you the problem was caused by the GOP moving right, ask them what happened to the Blue Dog Democrats.
>> What Has Made Congress More Polarized? <<
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Easy: the election of representatives that know their job is to ‘represent,’ not to meet the scum in the rotten middle.
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