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You political junkies are monsters. The West Wing was great TV and the world is poorer with the series finished.
LBJ also preceded BRAC, FOIA, COINTELPRO restrictions...
I mean, seriously, most of what he did to cajole lawmakers would not simply be frowned upon by today's media, it would quite literally be illegal.
Hey baby, wanna give and LBJ to the massive majority in my southern...
wait what?
I don't think anyone is saying it's bad TV
it's just a bad representation of politics and too many people (even prominent people) seem to think the president can just walk over to congress and browbeat boehner as if boehner has any power
The GOP is beholden to norquist and rove not their leadership
The United States of America is a poorer nation now that we're filled with people who believe that the president can stroll down Pennsylvania Avenue and force Congress to do as he wants.
I am going to disagree slightly here; It is a known and consistent phenomenon that each congresscritter (incumbents obvi) enjoys high personal approval ratings, while Congress as a whole has less American regard than dog shit, regardless of party, current majorities, etc.
Personal space? What's that?
Yeah, but if democrats and republicans like their representatives equally while still hating congress the democrats are less stupid in that calculus
because their opinions dont matter in congress
that was one of his own appointees!
Herding dixiecrats into line to do what, exactly?
Dixiecrats weren't fake Republicans.
They sure as hell weren't party line democrats
support Great Society initiatives even if they benefit black people, for one thing
remember that this lot were pulling support for the NLRA and such because Black People, as early as the 1930s
It means something different here though.
It is hard to find good, comfortable fitting pants when you're swinging some pipe; let me tell you.
Dixiecrats split from the party specifically because of the civil rights movement, anyway. So...
Yup. Trying to compare the environment surrounding LBJ and the environment surrounding Obama is ludicrous. Even the environment surrounding any President post-Nixon cannot be reasonably compared to LBJ's time--after Watergate, a lot of Presidential goodwill was completely demolished. The respect afforded the office was diminished and the media no longer extended good faith as a matter of course (ex. FDR's polio and JFK's affairs were an open but unreported secret)
Suddenly Congressmen had a lot to gain by posturing conspicuously against the White House, and the media would gleefully encourage them
Sure. The point is that the parties at the time weren't analogous to the parties of today but with mixed up names. The ideological divides were a bit different. Dixiecrat =/= Republican
A lot of Great Society initiatives were racist. Not nearly as racist as the New Deal, but still plenty racist enough.
President Josiah Bartlett was a bloodbender.
Boehner is a shitty speaker for a lot of reasons. He's a pretty piss poor excuse for a leader is one, the fact that his majority won their seats in spite of his existence is another.
The fact that that majority then voted away the ability for the majority to trade projects in home districts for votes on legislation is another.
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I think we're aware of that. The real point is that a great Democratic Party majority in Congress did not guarantee LBJ the kind of party unity and easy bill-passin'-slip-n-slide that we assume majorities mean based on today's rigid practices. Just because Democrats controlled the House and headed every committee didn't mean LBJ didn't have to contend with a critical mass of hostile Senators and Reps, often from his own party
"In this building, when the President stands, nobody sits."
*twitches fingers and makes hand gestures*
I wasn't even really thinking media goodwill so much as 'That's a nice Army base with 4,000 local jobs you got there. Be a shame if something were to happen to it.' Or, 'That's a lovely family you have there. Too bad the FBI file on you says that your black mistress lives all the way across town from them since I'm sure she'd love to go say hello' type things.
Dixiecrats are what turned the south from solidly Democratic to solidly Republican. They split off from the Democratic party over LBJ's passage of the civil rights act, among other things, and were then scooped up by Nixon and the southern strategy.
So while LBJ was able to push some things through, he wasn't exactly the wizard of washington either.
This thing is cool. It would also be cool (if not a bit lazy) cosplay.
Mazzy said in a month.
REALLY?!
hahaha yes of course, that too; I should have clarified that I meant it also had the effect of incentivizing Congressmen to imply massive top-down conspiracies and stoke suspicions of corruption against the Presidential office
yes, somewhere around 1787 is when it popped up, I believe.
But the sundering of the democratic south is directly related to Johnson's push for civil rights.
Lies. They said "this year." I would think late summer, maybe. We'd have known about it sooner if it was in a month.
Wait ... wait ...
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MAZZY IS A DIRTY LIAR!
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