The trap was set. The Republicans jumped right in. Let's have FDR explain it.

[speak easy]

The American Rescue Plan looks like being the most popular economic/social legislation since the New Deal. (Let the selling begin!)

And not a single Republican voted for it.

The trap was set. The coffin will be nailed shut. Here's FDR.

[Elessar Zappa]

1. Yup.

I think people are starting to see through these do-nothing slugs.

[cyclonefence]

2. Perfect!

Thank you for posting this. Goosebumps.

[3Hotdogs]

22. I think he was the best we ever had.

Not perfect, but still the best.

[malaise]

3. Great post

K & R

[DURHAM D]

4. Do you think VP Harris said to the President -

This is a big fucking deal.

[speak easy]

6. Oh - you know it !

[underpants]

8. BFD

I’ve been thinking about that for the last few days

[Danascot]

29. That would have been awesome!

[Delphinus]

5. Wow!

Eight-five years later - the GOP have not changed.

[SammyWinstonJack]

34. Sure they have, they've gotten worse.

[certainot]

57. definitely with limbaugh it got a lot worse - and now he's dead and trumpism with him

all his radio stations are squabbling about replacements and no one could generate the rationalizations and denial like he could

the trap sprung when limbaugh croaked

[BobTheSubgenius]

63. +1

Then put me down for another +1000.

[jaxexpat]

53. Their voting base as well as their heart is still in the same, wrong place.

FDR had perfect diction and elocution, too. The QOP of those days hated him for that as well.

[Zoonart]

7. Love it!

The more things change...same ole' GQP.

[Doremus]

9. Thanks for the reminder. My favorite potus. nt

[whathehell]

33. Mine too..

[DFW]

10. As they say in Texas, we have only one thing to fear,

And that is beer itself.

[speak easy]

11. ...

[lisa58]

12. Wow- thank you

[meow2u3]

13. Republicans haven't changed a bit in the past 100 years

They were elitist snobs who looked down on workers then; they're elitist snobs who look down on the working class now. Only difference now is that they accuse Democrats of their own elitist snobbery.

[JFK60]

14. Excellent post.

[drray23]

15. yeah well im not sure it will backfire for them.

they already convinced their base it was all pork and socialist agenda. At least thats what i see on twitter.

[mopinko]

20. bots.

wait til they get their checks.

[wnylib]

24. That's what they said about Medicare.

But try to take it away from them today and see what happens.

[drray23]

26. yes in the long term we will prevail

I just hope this time voters realize it before 2022. There is hope given the substantial help for families with kids. They cant just say, Trump gave me a stimulus check too, because there are other things that this bill does.

[AllyCat]

51. They are rationalizing taking the $1400 because

“It cost me $5000 in taxes to get it!” Really. That is the way they are twisting this.

[Elessar Zappa]

61. It's never been about convincing their dumb base.

It’s about keeping the mushy middle on our side come 2022. And I think this bill will help accomplish that.

[Tommymac]

16. I thought Pres Joe could be another LBJ trying to unite the country after a National tragedy...

never crossed my mind that he could actually be the next FDR.

[wnylib]

25. Crossed my mind. The right person

in the right place at the right time.

[demtenjeep]

30. what I Have been saying since before he was nominated

he is a big fn deal

[Kid Berwyn]

17. Keep it up, Team!

Good luck! — Blue the Donkey

[I_UndergroundPanther]

40. That donkey is so cute

Wish I could kiss him on his big fuzzy nose.😻

[theneworiginal]

18. The R's will regret their abstinence from this process.

It's not just that they didn't vote for it, they withdrew from the negotiation all together. They should've come up from their 660b plan to make it look like they were trying. Not doing that showed that they really don't care, despite what they say. When the economy gets a bump from this heading into mid-terms, it will not/cannot be attributable to any Repub. Trump had no policy, so they can't say that any success is an aftershock of what he did. Like the Repubs, he did nothing. He got nothing back at the polls.

The Republican party bailed on America. America will bail on them.

[theneworiginal]

19. The R's will regret their abstinence from this process.

It's not just that they didn't vote for it, they withdrew from the negotiation all together. They should've come up from their 660b plan to make it look like they were trying. Not doing that showed that they really don't care, despite what they say. When the economy gets a bump from this heading into mid-terms, it will not/cannot be attributable to any Repub. Trump had no policy, so they can't say that any success is an aftershock of what he did. Like the Repubs, he did nothing. He got nothing back at the polls.

The Republican party bailed on America. America will bail on them.

[monkeyman1]

23. very good post !!

[Oldem]

27. A wonderful blast from the past. But

present-day repugs do NOT believe in any of these programs and would NOT offer alternatives if they regained power. It's been that way at least since Reagan.

[BigmanPigman]

28. I heard the theory that the GQP got "rolled by the Dems".

While they were into taking a ton of time reading the whole thing to appease Johnnson the senators got tired and bored and left the chambers allowing the Dems to move on it. Their focus on Dr Seuss and Mr Potato Head and not the plan was a big mistake.

[BarbD]

32. They got plenty of nothin'.

Mr. Potato Head and Dr. Seuss is all they got.

[SunSeeker]

31. Some things never change.

[Joinfortmill]

35. Love it

[Bev54]

36. Back in the day when the voters were smarter

There was no Fox News

[Thunderbeast]

37. FDR had 59 Democrats out of 96 Senators

The GQP has not paid a price for obstruction. History tells them that obstruction, suppression, and Gerrymandering are a winning formula for a minority party. Demographics will continue to erode statewide Republican power in swing states (unless they are successful at voter suppression).

After Jerrymandering congressional districts to their benefit, look to the GQP to make a wholesale push to award electoral votes by district.

Rural conservative states have a structural advantage baked into the Constitution...A legacy of slave-state compromises. Democrats MUST compete in these states by selling the benefits of a progressive agenda. It will be hard work, and take generations.

[burrowowl]

38. FDR nailed it!

[Warpy]

39. 85 years down the road and nothing has changed with those bastards.

Remember the health insurance plan they had all ready to go in 2017, if we just let them abolish the ACA?

They had NOTHING. They just wanted to take away what little we'd been able to get.

It's past time to start calling them out and I mean from the White House, from Congress, and all over the air waves.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

41. Yes! Call those rotten bastards out continually..

[Bob_in_VA]

43. Sorry, Warpy, you're wrong

We were told by the Repugs back in 1994 that if the country would reject the Clinton health plan and elect Repugs to the House and Senate, giving them control, why they had this splendiferous health plan ready to roll out. So the country put the Repugs in office in 1994 and they did nothing. We've been waiting 27 years for the Republican health care plan. Nothing.

Of course to be fair, Alan Grayson, a Democratic Representative from Florida some years ago, did note that the Republicans had a health plan - "don't get sick, and if you do, die quickly".

[Warpy]

45. My memory is a lot longer than yours is

FED knew we needed universal health care, so did Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson (who did get us Medicare, at least) and even Nixon. All were stonewalled by conservatives in Congress. When Obama came along, he basically floated the idea of the Heritage Society's flawed plan, thinking Republicans would go for their own damned plan.

He was wrong. It passed with concessions to Republicans and without a single Republican vote.

That party has to be called out on this stuff, publicly, loudly, and often.

FDR wasn't afraid to do it. It's time for the current crop to step up and give people like AOC some help.

[grantcart]

46. Your memory is not long enough and is selective

1) Teddy Roosevelt was the first to call for national health insurance

2) Sen Arlene Spector stated that because President Obama had made a bipartisan effort to include Republicans in the process he was motivated to change parties and with Franken's election became the 60th vote. There is no evidence that if President Obama went with a strictly partisan bill that we would have reached 60 votes. It is also unlikely (IMO) that Roberts would have crossed the SC aisle and found it constitutional.

[Warpy]

60. Uh

1) Yes, he was, but it wasn't until the Great Depression that anyone else though it was important.

2)"Change parties" is the operative -phrase you're looking for. Republicans voted as a bloc, no matter what sort of bipratisanship they shoved in to damage the program.

[LudwigPastorius]

42. Oh, yeah. Sounds familiar.

Like the Trump/GOP healthcare plan that was going to replace the ACA.

[Mickju]

44. We've known this all these years.

And yet Republicans have not changed at all and never will.

[Blue Owl]

47. Suck it GOP

Only the dumbest will continue to support your shitty party of misery and failure

[Hamlette]

48. sounds exactly like what they say about Obamacare.

[burrowowl]

49. K&R

[Sancho]

50. Not as well known...but LBJ got a lot done...

[appalachiablue]

55. LBJ kicked ass. His domestic agenda was massive.

[Uncle Joe]

52. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread speak easy.

[Wild blueberry]

54. History is so cool!

Thank you for posting this gem.

[BadgerKid]

56. Link to full text

https://speakola.com/political/franklin-d-roosevelt-let-me-warn-you-reelection-1936

One of the quotes that rings true:

Remember, too, that the first essential of doing a job well is to want to see the job done. Make no mistake about this: the Republican leadership today is not against the way we have done the job. The Republican leadership is against the job's being done.

[speak easy]

65. It is a speech I return to from time to time,

finding particular relevance to politics of the day.

There will be—there are—many false issues. In that respect, this will be no different from other campaigns. Partisans, not willing to face realities, will drag out red herrings as they have always done—to divert attention from the trail of their own weaknesses.

[Historic NY]

58. I'll be back to steall that....

//i've got a couple of Truman onea....I have to check my files.

[movingviolation]

59. They got nothing..

and they know it. They just want to keep their scam scheme going.

[underpants]

62. Wow. That really nailed it.

A keeper. Thanks.

[speak easy]

66. FDR opened that speech with this warning about the 1936 campaign -

There will be—there are—many false issues. In that respect, this will be no different from other campaigns. Partisans, not willing to face realities, will drag out red herrings as they have always done—to divert attention from the trail of their own weaknesses.

And said of GOP lip service to social security and the New Deal

The first essential of doing a job well is to want to see the job done. Make no mistake about this: the Republican leadership today is not against the way we have done the job. The Republican leadership is against the job's being done.

[Nasruddin]

64. That video is powerful

What I want to know is where that sumbich was in 2016 when we couldda really used him!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

67. Astounding how RWers, most of whom almost certainly benefitted

from the support FDR's New Deal programs provided to their parrents, grandparents, etc, not to mention the country in general (infrastructure, resources, art, etc) demonize FDR & us, his party.

Though they don't mind the inequity of those programs as applied to minorities. That this COVID relief legislation seeks to avoid that inequity is surely a mark against it, in their book.

It is so important for Dems to advertise the hell out of what they've done for our country with this new relief bill, including the fact that not a single R voted for it. And the fact that, unlike the twice-imoeached previous pResident, Biden is not holding up the checks so he can sign his own name to them.

Twitter, Facebook, sure. But also shout it from the rooftops! Put up billboards! Hire some of those advertising airplanes!

[speak easy]

68. Reaganism is over!

Yes. It is time, as Pete Buttigieg put it, the claim the new era. And shout it from the rooftops. America is back !

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

71. Yes! Though I'm thinking it's well *past* time!

But hey, better late than never.

[The Wielding Truth]

69. Same old Republicans!!!

[wiggs]

70. Not a political trap. It was creation of needed legislation, with dems doing

the heavy lifting as usual. But dems' motivation here is helping, not political traps.

The media LOVES to frame everything in terms of political wins and losses for individuals and for parties....but more often than not the important thing is not the horse race but the underlying action and motivation.

Headlines yesterday and today have to do with 'first big win for Biden'...when headlines should be describing the epic problems and the solutions that will help address them.

If they want to say that the gop is doing nothing to help, that's fine with me but a significant problem with public discourse today is polarization and making everything a dramatic personal battle that begs for clicks and eyes.