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steve2470

(37,481 posts) Sat Oct 3, 2020, 03:57 PM Oct 2020

sincere question: what do you regard as the "golden age" of political discourse in Congress ? [View all]

I've heard about Tip O'Neill and...I forget the Republican counterpart, back in the early 1980's. Even though we disagreed strongly with the Republicans, somehow things got done and it wasn't so freaking toxic. Compromises were forged. Yes, I would love to have a 1933-style Congress where we have iron-clad majorities in both houses but that seems to be the exception to the rule.

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sincere question: what do you regard as the "golden age" of political discourse in Congress ? [View all] steve2470 Oct 2020 OP

1960 to Newt Gingrich. Volaris Oct 2020 #1

+1 stillcool Oct 2020 #2

Yup. Gingrich screwed it up forever calguy Oct 2020 #3

Speaker O'Neill was friends but political adversaries bottomofthehill Oct 2020 #4

There were a lot of tough fights then bottomofthehill Oct 2020 #5

1950s until Nixon. sinkingfeeling Oct 2020 #6

Nixon passed the clean air and water act. And from a diplomatic standpoint, Volaris Oct 2020 #8

I read Gingrich is a cause for a lot of the problems we have today JonLP24 Oct 2020 #7

Gerrymandering and the lack of pork spending has lots to do with it too Wanderlust988 Oct 2020 #9

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