Posted on 12/26/2012 11:30:11 PM PST by Olog-hai
When asked about the roots of political partisanship in Washington, retiring Senator Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) traces the issue to Newt Gingrich.
“I can see it very directly going back to 1994 and Newt Gingrich,” Conrad told C-Span in an interview. “He had a view, to take over the House of Representatives one had to bring down the institution and things have never been the same since.” …
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What an idiot. It goes way back, at least to Nixon vs. Hiss, which the Rats never forgot until Watergate gave them their chance.
Yes, 1780’s
Screw this sick scumbag Conrad. He knows better.
The hyper-partisanship began with Ted (the Swimmer) Kennedy’s “borking” of Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork.
That was a few years before Gingrich.
Conrad made a good point. Maybe it was about that time that the hard working people of this country started to wake up to the insane, self destructive "progressive" policies of the lemming Democrats. More and more, but not enough, people started to become aware of the "stealth socialism" being practiced by the far leftist leaning Democrats.
Stealth socialism was expressed in the housing bubble caused by Dodd/Frank policies. The current administration has launched a direct attack on the Christians of this country with forced subsidy of abortions, same sex marriage, and other threats.
The Democrats constant drum beat of attacks on free enterprise are carried out with budget-less wildly uncontrolled spending, constant whining about "fair share" of taxes (only directed to those who pay taxes), to provide more benefits to those who pay no taxes, more and more borrowing, and constant steps toward one world government.
Maybe Conrad continues to be blissfully unaware of the economic (and cultural) collapse facing the USA and other countries practicing destructive socialistic policies. Maybe he and other progressives cannot connect the dots, but many people have been connecting the dots, and they are frightened.
Yes I remember the good old days of comity-like that shared between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton.
Haha, when I read it was Conrad I was thinking that he probably wears loafers because he hasn't quite puzzled out that shoe lace thing.
Man we have got some commie dummies in DC.
I might add that if Conrad thinks that partisanship is something new he has no sense of American history.
I watched this doosh on C Span yesterday. He said if the tax rates stayed the same as in the Clintonista era we would be looking at trillion dollar surpluses every year.
I thought I was watching SNL for awhile.
Yeah, too bad we can’t have back the good old days when we viciously attacked Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan and taxed and spent the the compliant republicans went along with our schemes. Things have never been the same since Gingich and his conservatives took over the House!!
Ya and Newt will still get up in front of the camera and say that the republican party needs to move left.
These GD politicians are as worthless as the “Ts” on a boar hog.
Alternative media was already having an impact. Rush had 2 NYTimes bestsellers and Newt had a following on his “special orders” CSPAN broadcasts...all before the ‘94 “tantrum”. Conservatives were finally getting their opinions unabashedly articulated, and the MSM still had no clue about the tsunami headed their way.
Before ‘94, as long as Dems ran DC and Brokaw, Jennings and Rather could promote the more enlightened Rockefeller Republicans, people did get along because it was one party rule.
And sometime after '94, the internet blew up...and the Dems are no longer in charge of messaging, no matter how hard they try.
Now if we can just get a Speaker more testicular than a Ken doll, maybe we can start talking about conservatism again.
In the 20th c it was Wilson, FDR, Truman (who was bitterly partisan, whatever else he was), LBJ, and Carter — and of course, the Partisan Media Shills. Thanks Olog-hai.
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