If your workplace is safe; if your children go to school rather than being forced into labor; if you are paid a living wage, including overtime; if you enjoy a 40-hour week and you are allowed to join a union to protect your rights -- you can thank liberals. If your food is not poisoned and your water is drinkable -- you can thank liberals. If your parents are eligible for Medicare and Social Security, so they can grow old in dignity without bankrupting your family -- you can thank liberals. If our rivers are getting cleaner and our air isn't black with pollution; if our wilderness is protected and our countryside is still green -- you can thank liberals. If people of all races can share the same public facilities; if everyone has the right to vote; if couples fall in love and marry regardless of race; if we have finally begun to transcend a segregated society -- you can thank liberals. Progressive innovations like those and so many others were achieved by long, difficult struggles against entrenched power. What defined conservatism, and conservatives, was their opposition to every one of those advances. The country we know and love today was built by those victories for liberalism -- with the support of the American people.

--Joe Conason

Also the greatest stumbling block to be overcome for passage of the 1964 Civil Rights act was a threatened filibuster by Southern Democrats. Republicans worked in committees to make sure this would not happen. It's all in the REAL history records for people who want to educate themselves.

I agree. Let's get rid of all the liberals and conservatives and keep the libertarians. THAT would be a livable world.

same tire ole argument...it's irrelevant which party was for what 50 years ago. try worrying about today. both parties are for special interest. if we had 10 parties they would be for special interest however what has the GOP done for the poor lately besides medicade..which retard w didn't allot how it would be paid for.

You know something, I have read a lot of your posts, and I gotta say....

I like your style. (not in the gay way or anything...............not that there's anything wrong with that.)

But at least you're consistent.

Really no point in arguing which bowl of poo tastes better.

Hi msharmony...
Bye msharmony...

suffice to say that this article is full of propaganda, fallacious and misleading logic, and general BS.

Also the greatest stumbling block to be overcome for passage of the 1964 Civil Rights act was a threatened filibuster by Southern Democrats. Republicans worked in committees to make sure this would not happen. It's all in the REAL history records for people who want to educate themselves.

AND I believe a Republican President fought to get rid of slavery......

Also the Democrats have a Senator in Washington(Right now) that was not only in the KKK, but part of their leadership, whas his name again? Oh that right Byrd.

not sure I like you mentioning my name after 'bowl of poo'...but hi and bye to you too,,lol

A working person is a mule , he carries the worlds burden on his back and the liberals and the republicans don't care . They both suck the life out of them .

You know something, I have read a lot of your posts, and I gotta say....

I like your style. (not in the gay way or anything...............not that there's anything wrong with that.)

But at least you're consistent.

Really no point in arguing which bowl of poo tastes better.

Hi msharmony...
Bye msharmony...

Better Version!

Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe because some stupid commie liberal fought to ensure their safety and that they work as advertised.

All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance -- now Joe gets it, too.

Joe prepares his morning breakfast; bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.

In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and the amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.

Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for the laws to stop industries from polluting our air.

He walks on the government-provided sidewalk to subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe's employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union.

If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn't think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.

It is noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FDIC (or the NCUA, if he's part of a credit union) because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.

Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime. Joe also forgets that his in addition to his federally subsidized student loans, he attended a state funded university.

Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards to go along with the tax-payer funded roads.

He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans.

The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.

He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to.

Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day. Joe agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."

http://www.nobeliefs.com/RepublicanDay.htm

Also the greatest stumbling block to be overcome for passage of the 1964 Civil Rights act was a threatened filibuster by Southern Democrats. Republicans worked in committees to make sure this would not happen. It's all in the REAL history records for people who want to educate themselves.

The votes for the 1964 Civil Rights act were as follows: Republicans favored the bill 138 to 34; Democrats supported it 152-96. Don't you just hate it when facts get in the way of your bias?

Just in case your bias needs fixin', it was 'The ONE', 'Obama the Most Munificent' (PBUH) who RAIDED the Medicare funds and STOLE $500 BILLION to GIVE to Medicaid (a welfare program) to secure the votes of his 'new coalition' of the 'üntermenschen' ... better check your fact book ... 'pubs had NO power to do anything to prevent 'The ONE', 'The Lord Most High Obama' from doing any damned thing he desired - the 'craps had the numbers - and USED 'em. This is THEIR fault.

Exactly.

AND I believe a Republican President fought to get rid of slavery......

Also the Democrats have a Senator in Washington(Right now) that was not only in the KKK, but part of their leadership, whas his name again? Oh that right Byrd.