'Mister, we could use a man like Eric Cantor again...'

[deminks]

Archie Bunker's theme song (that 'loveable' old angry white man/sarcasm off)

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080409150028AAj3iz9

"Those Were The Days"
by Lee Adams and Charles Strouse

Boy, the way Glen Miller played. Songs that made the hit parade.
Guys like us, we had it made. Those were the days.
Didn't need no welfare state. Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee, our old LaSalle ran great. Those were the days.
And you know who you were then, girls were girls and men were men.
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.
People seemed to be content. Fifty dollars paid the rent.
Freaks were in a circus tent. Those were the days.
Take a little Sunday spin, go to watch the Dodgers win.
Have yourself a dandy day that cost you under a fin.
Hair was short and skirts were long. Kate Smith really sold a song.
I don't know just what went wrong. Those Were The Days.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/eric-cantors-hoover-leanings/2011/07/29/gIQA7itChI_blog.html

By happy coincidence, the name “Cantor” has exactly the same number of letters as “Hoover.” This means that the various ways the name of Herbert Hoover was once used to blame the 31st president for the Great Depression can now be revived for Eric Cantor. Thus, instead of “Hoovervilles,” those encampments of the homeless and unemployed (one was situated in New York’s Central Park), we will have Cantorvilles. And instead of “Hoover Blankets,” as newspapers used to cover the shivering homeless, we will have “Cantor Blankets.” Instead of the term “Hoover Flags,” for pockets turned inside out to signify a total lack of money, let’s run “Cantor Flags” up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes.

This is Cantor’s big chance to become a historical figure — or a punching bag. He and his fellow (very) conservative Republicans stand on the brink of doing in their era what Hoover did in his. They could, just as Hoover did, stick to their ideological guns and let the economy go down the drain. They will be pure. We will be broke.

They could insist on a balanced budget at precisely the time when economic conditions require deficit spending. On paper, everything will look good. In reality, the economy will tank. They could continue to extoll the wholly exaggerated virtues of small business and tailor tax cuts for them, and the budget would suffer and few jobs would be created. They could sink the bond market, rattle investors both domestic and foreign, make states suffer on less federal aid, weaken the dollar and convince Martians that they don’t want to come here. But they would, as did Hoover, take solace in adhering to an ideology that was proved disastrously wrong in the last century. No reason, it seems, not to do it all over again.

[flor-de-jasmim]

1. Archie was much more lovable than the current crop...those WERE the days!

[Turbineguy]

2. There was most likely congressional involvement

in the Great Depression. But it's connected to Hoover. Obama will wear this one. Cantor will skate. Anyway, the crazies would never believe it was Cantor's fault.

[demgrrrll]

3. I don't see that at all. What are you basing your assumption

that "Obama will wear this one". Wishful thinking?

[Turbineguy]

6. Hardly wishful thinking.

More the opposite.

[deminks]

4. Actually, Bush is still wearing this one, according to polls.

And the thugs are pushing us off the cliff.

[HereSince1628]

5. Long ago my history teacher said "people either loved or hated Hoover"

Well, actually he said, back in 1929 people went to bed saying either God-damn Herbert Hoover or God-Bless Herbert Hoover.

In the security of a small town high school classroom in 1968 it was pretty clear to us which of those two groups was delusional and how the US had progressed away from the dangerous path of vampire capitalism. It was clear that this nation had learned a lesson and we'd never be going back to 1929.

Amazingly, all it really took for capitalism to regain its destructive ways was for the last generation that lived the Roaring 20's and the Crash as adults to shift their addresses to nursing homes and cemeteries. Now, a couple decades after their passing you'd never know that there had been any lessons learned.

[B Calm]

8. I remember my dad was pissed when they re-named Boulder Dam.

[gordianot]

9. I agree completely but this time there is a new twist.

The total delusion of "one America" the current generation of Americans is much easier to manipulate than those from the Great Depression.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. Would that make the GOP the 'Cantorville Host'? nt

[hootinholler]

10. "chance to become a historical figure — or a punching bag"

You say that as if the two are exclusive. I say he will become both.

-Hoot