LOL- Check out the Rethuglian website for list of their "accomplishments"

[DeeDeeNY]

http://www.gop.com/index.php/learn/accomplishment/

[walldude]

1. LMFAO.. "Republicans freed the slaves"..

Um, isn't it Republicans who want to honor the South because the war wasn't really about "slavery". They really need to get their message together... :rofl:

[underpants]

5. Liberal Republicans (now extinct) did that. There was a complete switch by the parties following

I am not sure when but basically around the turn of the century the parties flipped.

[walldude]

7. I think the big shift came more near the 50's with the shift for civil rights

I could be wrong though. And yeah if you take it at face value Republicans were involved in "freeing" the slaves, but any comparison to the Republican party today is a joke as evidenced by the history re-write they are attempting on the causes of the civil war.

[d_r]

14. no, they flipped flop before the great depresson and the new deal

arount the turn of the century I think

[philly_bob]

25. Like the posters above, that switch of Republicans has always puzzled me.

Basically, as I understand it, 150 years ago, progressives and liberals were Republicans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29

Wikipedia entry says African-Americans deserted Republican party during 30's New Deal.

But, even earlier -- around 1900 -- "The Republicans were cemented as the party of business."

Someone who knows American history -- and can decipher all the talk about tariffs and currency policy -- should write a book. It could put the nail in the Republican Party coffin.

[Ian David]

2. The GOP are like the 17-year Cicadas.

They hide underground for years and emerge just to fuck, molt and hide again.

[Oceansaway]

3. "Republicans freed the slaves"..

and now they want them back !!

[underpants]

4. This is 1869?

[underpants]

6. Where is Nixon's "Southern Strategy"?

the political strategy (Pat Buchanan was in the room) to scare whitey that the black people were going to take all their stuff

and of course they followed it down into a rabbit hole in which THEY became the Party of the South .... and still are

[madamesilverspurs]

8. Is it just me,

or is that list fucking pathetic?


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[rurallib]

11. The highlights they point out are mostly aberrations from

the main thrust of their history.

[rurallib]

9. 1957 - republicans ended racial segregation in Little Rock

and the 1957 civil rights act -- well Eisenhower surely wasn't in favor of integration. And those democrats cited as opposing the 1957 civil rights act became republicans in short order and by golly, still run the party today.

[graywarrior]

10. They can't say anything without making a dig at the dems

Their tax cut accomplishment is hilarious

"Cutting taxes proved spectacularly successful, boosting employment and economic growth for years. Sadly, the Democrats who took control of Congress in 2007 vowed to allow these Republican tax cuts to expire in 2011. This will have the effect of a huge tax increase on the American people."

[spanone]

12. whoda thunk...the republicons are the party of all minorities

[rurallib]

13. Boy- what the hell happened between 1928 to 1938?

Something happened and I think the Repubs were a major factor.

[DeeDeeNY]

15. Pathetic spin and half-truths. Even the transcontinental railroad

Crédit Mobilier scandal of the 1860s "eerily similar" to Enron scandal:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/sfeature/sf_scandals.html

[lpbk2713]

16. Shut down the entire Federal govt when Newtie was Speaker.

Oh yeah, that was a major accomplishment alright. :sarcasm:


Newt. You sucked big time then and you still suck big time now, you asshole.

[DeeDeeNY]

17. They're proud of their 2003 accomplishment

"Operation Iraqi Freedom liberated more than 23 million people." Yeah. Liberated them from water and electricity, and liberated some of them from their lives.

[malaise]

18. Liberated one million from life

and over four million from their country. Liberated wives from husbands and children.

Damn they are brazen.

[Rectangle]

19. I'm surprised they didn't list the Katrina response as one of their

accomplishments! " We Republicans sat idly by, as a great American city (full of
dark-skinned people who don't vote Republican) succumbed to flood waters
with no help what-so ever"!



:eyes: :eyes:

[unpossibles]

20. wow

I love how they take credit for civil rights, without one hint at who the Dixiecrats were, why they were/became Democrats, or how its relevant.

Also, I notice that they have not done much lately, and the last few things are total failures or outright garbage.

[Chulanowa]

21. Fucking hilarious

My first impression?

"Theodore Who-sevelt?"

Second impression?

"WHy is all the good stuff before 1900, and between 1900 and 1972, it's just 'this bureaucrat voted Republican'?"

Third impression?

"Wait... Reagan tax cuts? "Tear Down This Wall"? Contract On America? Fucking up Afghanistan and Iraq (and strangely omitting the first Gulf War)? School vouchers? These are achievements?"

Basically this reads out like "In the beginning, the Republican party was awesome. It accomplished a great many victories in civil liberties, social justice, and nationwide reform. As the years wore on, the party began to lose its drive and energy, until reaching a point of total inertia in the mid-70's. After that point the party has only gone downhill, and has had to spin its failures as achievements just to keep morale marginally boosted among the party loyal"

[Joe the Liberal]

22. The list of failures, sex scandals, corruption, waste, incompetence....

lives lost under their leadership, bad legislation, corporate hand outs ect would far outnumber these "accomplishments".

[TlalocW]

23. Who are they trying to convince/sway with these accomplishments?

Today's liberals have a pretty good understanding of history and the present to know that there was a switch in party perspective in both the democrats and the republicans over time.

A great number of today's conservatives don't like a lot of the racial accomplishments but have a pretty good understanding that they're at least to begrudgingly mention them.

A worrisome number of today's conservatives don't like the racial accomplishments and will let you know it.

Also, I like how they lead off with all the racial improvements - that the majority of Americans (for whatever reason) aren't going to diss, and then try to tack on everything from the 80s on like Reagan and the Iraq War, etc. like their thinking was, "We'll get everyone impressed with true accomplishments at the beginning, and then throw on the last few, and the readers will accept those as accomplishments as well!"

TlalocW

[DeeDeeNY]

24. The target audience is unsophisticated

They unquestioningly believe what Fox News tells them