"... Should any political party attempt to abolish social securtiy, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear from that party again in our political history.

There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things.  Among them H.L. Hunt..and a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas.  Their number is negligible and they are stupid."


--President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a letter to his brother Edgar, Nov. 8, 1954

"... Should any political party attempt to abolish social securtiy, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear from that party again in our political history.

There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things.  Among them H.L. Hunt..and a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas.  Their number is negligible and they are stupid."


--President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a letter to his brother Edgar, Nov. 8, 1954

On economics and military issues, Ike was a liberal compared to today's so-called "conservatives."  Those few stupid billionaires, such as H.L. Hunt were staging a slow coup starting after WWII.  As Eisenhower was warning the country in 1960 about a "military-industrial complex," the oil men and the social reactionaries were pooling their resources.  The liberal social policies and the counterculture of the 1960s only caused the azzholes to dig in their heels and push harder.  In the early '70s we saw the birth of the Heritage Foundation and other think tanks seeded by Big Oil  and staffed by the Christian Right.  In a few short years, they got Ronald Reagan elected.  They have been poisoning America's soul with the dogmas of greed and armageddon ever since. 
Eisenhower's problem was his he didn't think:  "Whoever has the most toys when Jesus comes back wins!"
The founding prophet for Gingrich and Dubya, Sen. Barry Goldwater, lived long enough to see the "Newt Deal."  Even he disowned these clowns. 

"... Should any political party attempt to abolish social securtiy, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear from that party again in our political history.

There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things.  Among them H.L. Hunt..and a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas.  Their number is negligible and they are stupid."


--President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a letter to his brother Edgar, Nov. 8, 1954


If Ike could see his party today, he would barf.  I'm sure he is rolling over in his grave.

And if Ike were alive today, and he could see what his Republican Party has deteriorated into, he would never stop throwing up.

And if Ike were alive today, and he could see what his Republican Party has deteriorated into, he would never stop throwing up.

They would treat him like they treat McCaine.  It wouldn't matter if he was the general who won us the war, if he voted against just one of their tax cuts for the rich, they'd call him a RINO (Republican in name only).  The GOP is getting that extremist!  Wake up, America!

They would treat him like they treat McCaine.  It wouldn't matter if he was the general who won us the war, if he voted against just one of their tax cuts for the rich, they'd call him a RINO (Republican in name only).  The GOP is getting that extremist!  Wake up, America!


Sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better.  We can only hope.