The last time a Republican did anything useful besides pass away

[Generic Other]

via Twitter follower Michael Beschloss:
President Eisenhower today 1956 signed act creating Interstate Highway System, called largest public works project in history:

Link to tweet

[First Speaker]

1. Actually--Nixon helped found the EPA...

...hate to give the SOB any credit, but domestically, he wasn't all that bad for a Republican...

[True Blue American]

4. Nixon also wanted health coverage

But did nothing to get it.

Of course when he started talking to the pictures on the wall, it was too late.

Trump does not like the WhiteHouse, I suggest we push him out the door as soon as possible.

[First Speaker]

5. Ted Kennedy once said the biggest mistake of his political career...

...was in not negotiating a health care deal with Nixon...

[True Blue American]

6. Right!

[Generic Other]

9. I call total BS on Nixon being some champion of healthcare

No. He did nothing to help our health care system.

President Nixon: “Say that I … I … I’d tell him I have doubts about it, but I think that it’s, uh, now let me ask you, now you give me your judgment. You know I’m not too keen on any of these damn medical programs.”

Ehrlichman: “This, uh, let me, let me tell you how I am …”

President Nixon: [Unclear.]

Ehrlichman: “This … this is a …”

President Nixon: “I don’t [unclear] …”

Ehrlichman: “… private enterprise one.”

President Nixon: “Well, that appeals to me.”

Ehrlichman: “Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason that he can … the reason he can do it … I had Edgar Kaiser come in … talk to me about this and I went into it in some depth. All the incentives are toward less medical care, because …”

President Nixon: [Unclear.]

Ehrlichman: “… the less care they give them, the more money they make.”

President Nixon: “Fine.” [Unclear.]

Ehrlichman: [Unclear] “… and the incentives run the right way.”

President Nixon: “Not bad.”

[True Blue American]

10. Teddy Kennedy seemed to think so.

[Generic Other]

11. The transcript from Nixon's own tapes says Teddy was wrong

I have been on DU for a lot of years. No one has ever defended Nixon here. Now you seem to believe it is necessary to do so twice in one thread.

This says a lot to me about you, none of it good.

[Meadowoak]

2. 1865 comes to mind, not much since.

[True Blue American]

3. I admired Eisenhower.

The last decent Republican. Worse each one. Now we have the belly crawler.

[AlexSFCA]

7. I think Nixon was the last repub who did something useful

like establishing EPA.

[dawg day]

8. We can undertake a similarly huge and transformational project for the Green New Deal

When we get a Democratic president and congress in 2020.

[BlueStater]

12. ADA (1990) was a pretty good thing too, to be fair.

But, besides that, I can't think of a single positive things Republicans have done for this country in over a quarter century.