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Jim Beard

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50. I was never so shocked in my life

Sat May 21, 2016, 03:02 PM

May 2016

when I learned that my congressman in the days of my youth, George Mahon, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee voted against every single Great Society program. May the bastard rot in hell. Good ole conservative Lubbock.

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"There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos" [View all] villager May 2016 OP

A very stupid quote. America has prospered by staying in the middle of the road and by avoiding Trust Buster May 2016 #1

+1. By and large, America is economically center-right and socially center-left, Nye Bevan May 2016 #2

Bullshit. Just tired right wing propaganda. Ferd Berfel May 2016 #51

. Nye Bevan May 2016 #54

your point being? quakerboy May 2016 #55

OK, Barack Obama won the last two elections, Nye Bevan May 2016 #57

Thats where that dichotomy comes in. quakerboy May 2016 #62

Gallup? Ferd Berfel May 2016 #56

Somehow, I trust Jim Hightower's analysis of American politics vastly more than either of yours. nt villager May 2016 #3

What they meant to say was, "I got mine." WhaTHellsgoingonhere May 2016 #5

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How dare he be a liberal in a dysfunctional state! villager May 2016 #9

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Well, we might each "suspect" a lot of things, which might be different. But I'm glad we share... villager May 2016 #14

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But when you look at the kind of Congress-folk Texas used to be able to elect... villager May 2016 #22

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I was never so shocked in my life Jim Beard May 2016 #50

Of course they'd both be Clinton supporters. Hortensis May 2016 #23

Same here. ananda May 2016 #15

Yes! mountain grammy May 2016 #37

Except for the fact that he blatantly ignores U.S. history, right ? Trust Buster May 2016 #59

Bzzzzzzzt! Thanks for playing RufusTFirefly May 2016 #10

+1. For use of "swarthy subversives," especially! nt villager May 2016 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author rjsquirrel May 2016 #16

Actually, Bernie has articulated a wider acceptance of democratic socialism that at any time since villager May 2016 #20

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Not this cycle, true. I suspect this century will remain full of surprises. villager May 2016 #24

FDR didn't follow the yellow line. He asked for a 100% top tax rate. RufusTFirefly May 2016 #25

Exactly, they conveniently ignore inconvenient truths. Trust Buster May 2016 #60

These were all ideas whose time had come, and then Hortensis May 2016 #28

You're right those were things who's times had come. The trick is to see it coming and not A Simple Game May 2016 #43

Well, yuck to that little idea. We have something Hortensis May 2016 #46

Well Said Jim Beard May 2016 #63

Question, RufusT: SCantiGOP May 2016 #40

Like many programs, Social Security had a number of precursors RufusTFirefly May 2016 #42

The way it is supposed to work.. sendero May 2016 #47

bee ess tenderfoot May 2016 #48

+1 nt Fresh_Start May 2016 #53

Forgot about this one. Thanks for "dusting it off". libdem4life May 2016 #4

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Rush Limbaugh has one similar to that as well redstateblues May 2016 #8

Does he? Perhaps you'd like to post it here. nt villager May 2016 #11

I don't do that. I didn't mean that as a compliment. redstateblues May 2016 #29

You "don't do that" because you can't. nt villager May 2016 #36

and to the right are Yonnie3 May 2016 #17

Which makes one wonder why our entire system is built on false dualities that can only be 'met'... Shandris May 2016 #18

Absolutely true. alarimer May 2016 #27

K & R! TIME TO PANIC May 2016 #30

You'll also find the crown there. (nt) muriel_volestrangler May 2016 #31

This thread is full of moderate republicans. TIME TO PANIC May 2016 #32

I think moderate Republicans self-identify as "mainstream Democrats" now villager May 2016 #39

... and meanwhile cost us elections. TIME TO PANIC May 2016 #41

the old right is now falsely imagined as the new "center" villager May 2016 #44

Exactly Zambero May 2016 #33

Glad I don't live in Texas (no armadillos) - or 1930's Germany (no democratic left). pampango May 2016 #34

Maybe at a later date they will explain how America became a center-right nation against the will of That Guy 888 May 2016 #61

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine Tierra_y_Libertad May 2016 #35

As ever, Paine knew what was up. nt villager May 2016 #38

Moderates = Republicans that are too cowardly to say so tenderfoot May 2016 #45

It's an excellent quote and totally true. tenderfoot May 2016 #49

I love that Jim Hightowerism ;-) n/t ReRe May 2016 #52

Right. Brilliant. And totally meaningless. Nitram May 2016 #58