On Friday 28 April 2006 14:03, Mike McCarty wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Friday 28 April 2006 12:24, Steve Lamb wrote: > >> Yes, and that's why the largest government programs in history have > >>been enacted by a Republican controlled Congress with a sitting > >> Republican President. > > > > Roosevelt was a Republican in name only and nobody disagrees with that. > > "Teddy" Roosevelt was a Populist Socialist, though he did run on > the Republican ticket. > > It's amazing. He was busily signing papers making monuments of > everything in the USA, like the surface of the Grand Canyon, > trying to beat out Congress overriding his veto of a bill to > stop him grabbing every square inch of land in the USA for > government use. They had to use a clock to know which was the > last Executive Order he got signed before the bill finally passed. Politically, he reminds me of Governor Tom McCall, another popular moderate-to-leftist Republican. He signed the first beverage container deposit legislation (the "Bottle Bill") in the US into law in 1971, promoted responsible city planning (urban boundaries, etc), cleanup and public ownership of beaches and waterways. Best known outside Oregon for saying in 1971, "We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going." -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber
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