President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Republican Party -circa 1956- Those were the days

[mikekohr]

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower--

"Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of their right to join the union of their choice."

"Workers have a right to organize into unions and to bargain collectively with their employers. And a strong, free labor movement is an invigorating and necessary part of our industrial society."

"Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things, but their number is negligible and"--and the president says--"their number is negligible and they are stupid."



--This is the Republican Party circa 1956--

The Republican Party platform of Eisenhower's 1956 called for expansion of Social Security, broadened unemployment insurance, better health protection for all of our people. It called for voting rights--full voting civil rights for D.C. It called for expanding the minimum wage to cover more workers. It called for improved job safety for workers, equal pay for workers regardless of sex.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Ever since, Republicons have been circling the drain

and devolving as they sink lower and lower into a moral and ethical cesspool...

[Hydra]

2. The irony is that they are dragging us with them

And we're allowing them to do it!

[Vinca]

3. I remember my Grandmother had a picture of Ike in the living room.

And she talked about Ike when we took the first spin on the new Interstate highway. Now the Republicans stick their noses up at high speed rail and slash funding for Amtrak.

[denem]

4. McCarthy, Nixon, those were the days.

de dah dah.

[mikekohr]

5. "Nothing is so bad that it can't get worse."

olde Irish Proverb

[whistler162]

6. Yup... US sponsored Revolution in Iran...

take over of support for South Vietnam from the French.... slight Cuba's new leader pushing him into the Soviet camp...Yup those where the days my friend!

[mikekohr]

7. I never said that crowd was not a bunch of douche bags, just not as batshit crazy

as the current tools that comprise what is little left of the Republican Party of olde.