List the good things accomplished by Republicans

[begin_within]

Well, like, um...

[Taverner]

1. I can name a few

- The SALT talks
- The EPA
- Nixon's Mission to China


But that's it

[Blue Meany]

3. Nixon's Resignation

[DCKit]

8. You have a point, but that's the old-style, liberal, democracy lovin' Republican party.

The NeoRepublics would kill all those things in committee.

[JuniperLea]

9. That's my list too...

I honestly cannot think of another.

Wait... Reagan's Amnesty counts... and GHWB's admonition of Reagan's VooDoo Economics (Trickle ON Economics).

[gratuitous]

2. They provide jobs to so many nincompoops

Unfortunately, the fun and amusement is mostly canceled out by their incompetence.

[Blue Meany]

4. They help comedians keep stay employed

[EOTE]

5. The ADA.

Well, at least they didn't stand in the way of its passage.

[Dogmudgeon]

6. Ending slavery

There's that.

--d!

[True_Blue]

7. Does the 19th century count?

Lincoln freed the slaves..

[MineralMan]

10. Losing the Congress in 2008?

[kudzu22]

26. They lost it in 2006, but who's counting?

[Brilliantrocket]

11. Letting the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 expire

One of the few good things. It's sad that gun owners need these assholes just to keep owning guns.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

19. I'm sorry but is that supposed to be a joke?

:wtf:

[krispos42]

21. I agree. It was a Third Way attempt to look tough on crime

Didn't do squat except help get Republicans elected and actually boosted sales of the weapons they supposedly wanted to restrict.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

22. There were a lot of things that helped get Republicans elected in 1994

It wasn't just the assault weapons ban- and it was hardly a reason to vote for them. Let's just allow people to own guns, any kinds of guns, and let them take them wherever. That'll solve all of our crime problems and ensure that Democrats always get elected.
:sarcasm:

In case you haven't noticed, the Republicans (along with the NRA) will ALWAYS accuse Democrats of being "gun grabbers" even if nobody even proposes any kind of gun control measures.

[krispos42]

24. Yeah, there was.

But understand that the AWB wasn't some mental exercise or abstract concept or political idealology. It affected what people had spend hard-earned money on, a physical object in their home.

Imagine if, when Congress passed TARP, there was an immediate automatic withdrawal from everybody's bank account to pay for it, instead of some bureaucratic process to allocate funds in the nation's capital hundreds or thousands of miles away.

Same thing... it was immediate and personal. And part of the reason people got motivated was because it did so little, it was obviously an attempt to gain political capital and mentally prepare the country for the next restriction.

[cynatnite]

12. The Do Not Call List...

I gotta admit that this wasn't a bad idea by the repubs. It's worked well.

Of course, if that's the only good thing they've done...that's not saying much.

[Cleita]

13. Years ago there was a book titled

"Irish Erotic Art" as a joke. There isn't any, so the book was all blank pages. I think a book titled, "Good Things Done by Republicans" would be as equally blank.

[ngant17]

14. Abe Lincoln freed the slaves 150 years ago

but that was short-lived, after some other radical Repugs helped to kill him off. And the party has gone downhill since then.

[Brother Buzz]

15. Saint Ronnie signed MLK holiday into law

I find it interesting the pubs don't toot their horns much on that one.

[Taverner]

17. Only because he was pushed and prodded into doing it

If it were his choice, Gen Sarnoff would have a day

[slackmaster]

16. 13th Amendment, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act

Not a whole lot since then.

[blondeatlast]

18. Teddy Roosevelt supported the United Mine Workers and established

the National Park Service.

The (Barry) goldwater family helped found Planned Parenthood In Arizona.

[bluestate10]

20. Republicans claim Lincoln, but Lincoln would run to become modern democrat. nt.

[AsahinaKimi]

23. Dwight D. Eisenhower was a Republican

"On the domestic front, he helped remove Joseph McCarthy from power"

also:

" Eisenhower did not end New Deal policies, and in fact enlarged the scope of Social Security, and signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956"


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower

[neverforget]

25. Yep, the Interstate Highway System

[kudzu22]

27. Title IX; The EPA

Both passed/signed by Nixon

[jmowreader]

28. Eisenhower started the Interstate Highway System

The problem you've got is this: Republicans stopped being beneficial to society the day Nixon left the White House. (Yes, it's true: Nixon, as big a scumbag as he was, did some good things for America like the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and OSHA.)

[Hannah Bell]

29. freeing the slaves?