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Franken sworn in as Minnesota senator

new coup for you said:
Democrats don't run on the ticket of "small government" so the criticism isn't applicable. Kind of like how it's not hypocritical for Democrats to get caught in sex scandals because they don't run on "family values".
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They don't hold themselves to any kind of real standard, therefore when they screw the pooch they can say it's ok, as if to say, "you knew this about us when you voted for us". Kinda like Edwin Edwards here in Louisiana when he said, "yeah, I'm a crook, but at least I'm honest about it".

Eisenhower created the single greatest public works project in history (the creation of the highways) and wantonly expanded the President's ability to make war.
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Let's see, put people to work, created an infrastructure to allow our military to rapidly deploy anywhere in teh country in the event of an invasion and gave the president more power to protect the nation. How is this invasive?

Nixon instituted price and wage controls and created the War on Drugs.
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FDR was the first to institute price and wage controls. And how is the War on Drugs bad? How 'bout that war on poverty that LBJ started? Has that 11 trillion dollars stopped anything?

Reagan brought Christian morality into government
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Oh, the horror!!!

The Republicans have always been just as much about spending and government programs as the Democrats.
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That's not true and you know it. Who passed the smoking legislation?
 
apdst said:
They don't hold themselves to any kind of real standard, therefore when they screw the pooch they can say it's ok, as if to say, "you knew this about us when you voted for us". Kinda like Edwin Edwards here in Louisiana when he said, "yeah, I'm a crook, but at least I'm honest about it".



Let's see, put people to work, created an infrastructure to allow our military to rapidly deploy anywhere in teh country in the event of an invasion and gave the president more power to protect the nation. How is this invasive?



FDR was the first to institute price and wage controls. And how is the War on Drugs bad? How 'bout that war on poverty that LBJ started? Has that 11 trillion dollars stopped anything?



Oh, the horror!!!




That's not true and you know it. Who passed the smoking legislation?
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So your argument is that if the Democrats did something first it's not "big government".
 
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