MrRodgers
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It was a vote on enhancing stem cell research among comments about how if Strom Thurmond had been elected pres, we'd be better off. That had Lott resign the senate 12/2007.
In fact, both parties have reversed their roles since reconstruction. The repubs were the progressives, favored big govt. before the dems caught on and it was to 'win' the west.
First, it has been said that Lincoln rushed to get Nevada a US territory in 1861, admitted as a state in Oct. 1864 just in time to vote for him.
The repubs did this by becoming the party of big govt. and the social justice warriors.
[They] dominating the northern states and Lincoln also:
.....orchestrated an ambitious expansion of federal power.
.....helping to fund the transcontinental railroad.
.....the state university system.
.....and the settlement of the West by homesteaders. (give 'real' Americans Indian land...and get their votes)
.....instating a national currency.
.....and protective tariffs.
To paraphrase:
Democrats, who dominated the South, opposed these measures. After the Civil War, Republicans passed laws that granted protections for African Americans and advanced social justice. Again, Democrats largely opposed these expansions of power.
For 20 years prior to FDR, both parties tried to foster a larger role for the federal govt. Both parties saw how policies had benefited the bankers, railroads and manufacturers. Then tried to exploit the discontent this generated in rural America by promising the little guy some of the federal largesse that had hitherto gone to the business sector.
From this point on, Democrats stuck with this stance favoring federally funded social programs and benefits while Republicans were gradually driven to the counterposition of hands-off government.
As one professor tells it...from a business perspective, the loyalties of the parties did not really switch. "Although the rhetoric and to a degree the policies of the parties do switch places," he wrote, "their core supporters don't which is to say, the Republicans remain, throughout, the party of bigger businesses; it's just that in the earlier era bigger businesses want bigger government and in the later era they don't." (and big business gets what it wants)
In other words, earlier on, businesses needed things that only a bigger government could provide, (for them in their interest) such as infrastructure development, a currency and tariffs. Once these things were in place, a small, hands-off government became better for business.
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RE: Kasich gonna resign from GOP - 
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