Comments on: You Have Me To Kick Around Some More

By: Thomas O. Meehan

Thomas O. Meehan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:58:57 +0000

The Happy Warrior also promised that the Civil Rights Act would never create a regime of racial preferences.

By: Norwegian Shooter

Norwegian Shooter — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:16:31 +0000

I have to defend the Happy Warrior. “Whole world collapsing around him”? ’72 wasn’t even his biggest set-back. And his world didn’t collapse. He was a US Senator at the time and would be reelected in 1976, after refusing to be drafted for the presidential nomination. He ran for Senate Majority Leader after that election. h/t Wikipedia.

New to me, Humphrey authored the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act, which was passed in 1978. It set employment and inflation goals and required the Fed to try to reach them. It called for 0% inflation in 1988! Apparently this law is still on the books, although it probably never had much bite. Interesting, though.

Don’t rely on a quote from HST to damn Humphrey post 1972. That’s a low blow – I mean HST was on blow when he wrote it.

By: Tomas O. Meehan

Tomas O. Meehan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:25:19 +0000

David Lindsay’s chance to make a real impact on our politics is now! With his genius for applying archaic British phenomena to American political realities, he is perhaps the only one who can help us Institute a House of Lords and an Honors List.

This British institution is the royal road (pardon the pun) to disposing of our many useless, senile and silly old characters from the Senate and House. Lord McCain sitting in chamber with Lords Lautenberg, Byrd, Spector, is surely preferable to having his grasping, palsied old hands on the levers of power. An honors system would be advisable as well. I’m sure that Senator Rockefeller would rather be Baron Rockefeller than a mere Senator.

David are you listening?