The observed data does not support this claim.
I’m going to be contrary here and say that I think concealed carrry permits are a good thing. They don’t just hand them out willy-nilly and it ensures that people who have hidden firearms on their person either had some kind of background check or are breaking the law.
I don’t think it does a lot to stop crime, but it doesn’t increase it.
This wasn’t hard to find. I haven’t read it all yet, and still am unsure of the outcome. But it’s a good fight for a Republican.
https://www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=791
How far back are we looking? Freeing the slaves and reintegrating the Union strike me as seriously huge good things that Republicans once did.
Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway system.
Nixon implemented the Philadelphia Plan.
Downfall of USSR.
First Gulf War.
Eisenhower prosperity years of the 1950s.
Also, preemptively dismissing accomplishments such as Lincoln’s makes no sense. Imagine if someone started a thread, “Things accomplished by Democrats; please don’t say FDR’s New Deal!”
That’s used to say “We’re not bad, we’re The Party Of Lincoln!” to excuse all the shit they pull now.
It makes sense when you realize that all the old racist southern Democrats became Republicans starting in 1964. It would be like all the New England Patriots and Cleveland Browns swapped teams and the new Patriots take the field and you say “Hey, there’s the team that won all those Super Bowls!”
I’ll allow it for any Republican that vows to bring their party back to what it was back then.
That sounds a lot like prejudice and antisemitism.
See this list. Hint: it’s not short.
Wow. A long time Doper who hasn’t seen Airplane!
America won WWII, just about everybody else lost. Pretty hard not to be prosperous under such conditions,
While that joke was in poor taste, you really need to go see “Airplane!”. That movie is possibly the funniest comedy I have ever seen. It easily ranks among the greats.
As far Lincoln goes, the reason I disallowed him in my OP is for the mentioned reason: Republicans freed the slaves and saved the Union!
Well, but as early as the 1960’s it had become the party of racism, so I thought I would just cut off that point at the get go.
Republicans still use it all the time, amazingly.
According to an episode of Bullshit!, George HW Bush believed that porn was harmful to society. Rather than do anything to ban it, he instead commissioned a study to investigate the question. They came back to him saying that it seemed to either do nothing or, possibly even, to reduce the incidences of rape. Consequently, he changed his mind and backed down on the subject.
George W Bush was relatively pro-nuclear energy and tried to finance new installations. (Not sure if any of them took off, though.)
Didn’t Lincoln think blacks and whites couldn’t live together, shouldn’t marry, and that the freed slaves should leave the country?
His ideas changed over time and with reflection, toward a far more liberal view than he had originally.
I’ll give Trump (at least his coattails) credit for one thing. The city where I live, Corpus Christi, had a recent water quality issue due to an industrial accident that occurred at the beginning of this month. The previous mayor swept it under the rug and did not inform the public. The new mayor, who came in on Trump’s coattails, informed the public of the problem on his first day in office and began work to solve the issue.
I’m still impressed by what Eisenhower chose to do in his last major speech (before leaving office). Instead of doing everything possible to support Big Money/Big Power–usually the Republican Rule One–he actually spoke up in warning against it:
There hasn’t been one day since he said this, back in 1961, that it hasn’t remained relevant. (And largely ignored by the many who have strong incentives to ignore it. But that’s not Eisenhower’s fault.)
Great Lakes Compact - signed into federal law by W (Congress was under Democratic control but it got overwhelming bipartisan support.) Putting a formal international agreement, behind the then existing more informal structure, to protect about 1/5 of the world’s surface fresh water is kind of a good thing.
Earned Income tax Credit - Proposed under Nixon, enacted under Ford, and greatly expanded under Reagan. It’s one of our most effective anti-poverty programs and the largest for helping the working poor. It still gets support from the current batch of Republicans. Last year, facing provisions in the law set to expire, there was an opportunity to gut the program by simply doing nothing. The Republican controlled Congress didn’t just extend the provisions it made them permanent as part of the overall budget deal. If you care about anti-poverty measures Republicans are a big piece of what’s worked.
NAFTA - Although more controversial on both sides of the aisle, it was a major piece of work by the elder Bush to negotiate it even if it probably took Clinton to get it past the Democrats in Congress.
START 1 (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty / CFE (Conventional Armed Forces In Europe) - START was proposed by Reagan and negotiated by the Elder Bush. It greatly reduced strategic nuclear forces as we transitioned from the end of the Cold War. CFE was also Bush and set conventional force limits which drove drawdowns there as well.
Where are you getting this timeline? AFAICT, the determination of an industrial accident in the asphalt plant didn’t actually happen until Monday Dec. 12, just before the new mayor’s first day of office. How was the outgoing mayor supposed to have “informed the public of the problem” before that?
Not that I don’t share your admiration for Mayor McQueen’s quick addressing of this problem; I’m just not seeing negligence in the outgoing mayor’s not addressing it before it was actually known to have happened.