The individual mandate, a Republican idea which shows how far to the right the Dems have gone

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89. Nixon: the last gasp of liberalism.

Nixon also distinguished himself by these lefty actions:

* Saved America’s environment by creating the Environmental Protection Agency and Clean Air Act while approving the most sweeping environmental legislation in history.

* Simultaneously reformed welfare and brought in serious new civil-rights laws and agencies for minorities, women, the handicapped and children.

* Proclaimed the first official U.S. Earth Day/Earth Week in 1971.

* Totally reformed the government’s relationship with Native Americans, bringing new self-determination and civil rights to U.S. tribes while saving such Indian natural wonders as Pyramid Lake — the tribe even renamed its capital “Nixon.”

* Was even described as “the Abraham Lincoln of the Indian people.”

* Loved those Chinese communists.

* Spent more on social programs than defense!

* Fathered screaming ex-socialist lunatic Mojo Nixon.

There you go, hippies: Nixon was more liberal than Clinton.

http://wonkette.com/227457/richard-nixon-americas-greatest-liberal


SSI was Nixon.

In addition to successful legislation that federalized aid to the old and handicapped, and the COLA for social security, the Nixon administration succeeded in expanding aid to education, through revenue sharing programs, the creation of the National Student Loan Association to aid students from low income families attend colleges and universities, a Career Education Program to aid community college in teaching "critically needed skills, and finally through the establishment of the National Endowment for the Humanities. When Nixon's increased funding for elementary and secondary beginning with the Education Amendments of 1972 are added to Nixon's other social welfare spending programs the percentage of such expenditures increased from 49 percent of the GNP 1965 to almost 60% in 1975.20

While Presidents Kennedy and Johnson had employed the term "affirmative action," it "did not have much bite" until the Nixon administration announced a revised "Philadelphia Plan" in 1969 requiring federal contractors in the construction industry to hire minority workers. Secretary of Labor George Shultz later extended this plan to nine other cities. Shultz also issued the first guidelines requiring businesses with federal contracts to draw up "action plans" for hiring and promoting women.27 In other words, not until the Nixon administration did "affirmative action" begin to become synonymous with "civil rights." When the Rehnquist court decided in City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson, 109 S. Ct. 706 (1989) that "set asides" for minority construction workers were unconstitutional, much to the surprise of most Americans, legal specialists recalled that they had been initiated with the Philadelphia Plan twenty years earlier by the Nixon administration.

There's more...

http://www.nixonera.com/library/domestic.asp