Posted on 11/24/2010 7:18:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A democrat Congress wrote the laws that authorized and created the EPA.
So what? Learn something about how the most important legislation passed in the US came about and you will find a president and executive branch spearheading the initiative and probably outlining and being involved in writing much of it. And the major legislation often makes good on a campaign promise made by a presidential candidate.
And, only a president can sign legislation into law. Nixon could have vetoed the creation of the EPA, except that he actually spearheaded it.
You just don't want to accept the fact that you can't blame everything on the Dims back in 1970, or since.
And who was it that signed legislation to make the incandescent light bulb illegal, and require the new fluorescent bulbs, just about three years ago?
This is a waste of time, and far from the original topic of this thread.
democrats have always been socialists/Marxists.
FDR a democrat and his democrat Congresses imposed upon America a lot of socialist laws including the New deal.
This was in the 1930’s.
You really think all these hundreds of thousands of pages of government regulations don’t cripple American manufactuers and businesses. Government/socialism doesn’t work: Just look at the TSA stooges.
That's true, and some of those liberals were Republicans, and some of them were named Bush and Ford and Nixon.
Do you know who put a moratorium on more area for offshore exploration and new drilling than any other president, and which presidents continued it?
Do you know who signed the Americans with Disabilities Act, No Child Left Behind, who supported and worked on Goals 2000 that Clinton later signed?
The problem is, with the exception of Reagan, the Republican presidents haven't been so different from the Dim presidents on many issues since the 1960s. The problem is not the difference between Democrats and Republicans, but the different between conservatives and progressives, and the progressives have been found in both parties and especially in the federal courts on many issues.
GERMANY DOES NOT SHARE A BORDER WITH MEXICO.
Including all those very conservative southern Democrats pre-1970 or so? There were NO Republican office holders in the South from the late 1800s until around the 1970s. Do you think the southern Democrats were anti-war during the 1960s?
As I've said, you don't understand the make-up of Congress that existed in the time period I mention above. All southerners in Congress were conservative, and Democrats. And there were many very liberal Republicans from northern states. And the voting alignments around various issues were different than what we have today, where most Dims are very liberal and most Republicans conservative on most issues.
You need to find some of the voting records on major legislation pre-1970 and see how the Democrats and Republicans voted on various issue. It will probably be as much by region as by party on many issues.
Slashing the tax burden on companies almost always helps to stabilize the economy and encourages companies to expand, and take risk.
You’ve just shown how it’s working for Germany (which has to shoulder the burden of the EU on its back)
The precedents even here in the USA are too numerous that only the willfully ignorant can miss it.
Count them -— Warren Harding, JFK, Ronald Reagan, even Clinton in his second term ( nudged on by Congress of course ), and Dubya after 9/11.
Tax cuts together with SPENDING RESTRAINT, that’s the real ticket.
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