Government Shut Down

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Adak

For ALL the above, that would be the Republican Party!
For all the second part, the answer would be the Democratic Party.

It's not the party, the party is what the party does, and that changes regularly. The hard core conservative racists migrate occasionally, the last time to the tea party hoping the tea party would save America, but ended up getting owned and becoming shills for the fat cats.

And living in the rural South, I have a long memory of the separate drinking fountains, separate entrances, separate businesses, etc.

I spent enough time in the south during the 50's to know Jim Crow.

That's true in Federal, as well as state governments. So your racist slur is a bit off the mark, Bruce.

Unfortunately it's dead on when mimicking the conservative wing that's taken over talk radio and a huge chunk of the internet, spewing hate and lies with great abandon.

I get emails forwarded to me that are making their way through the conservative network. Mostly outrageous claims and twisted truths, but the email will contain links proving they're telling the truth. But if you go to the links they say the exact opposite, which means these morons in the header history, read it, believed it, forwarded it, but never checked it.

Originally Posted by Adak

After Kennedy was assassinated, there was a huge outpouring of sympathy and sense of loss. President Johnson used that (he was a power broker politician, I can tell you!), to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Yes, JFK's murder brought the country together, and Johnson used it to do good.
9-11 brought the country together and we know what Bush did with it.