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History Lesson: Under Fascist Bush, Democrats Feared Tyranny

Paulus Textor Wrote: Jan 31, 2013 1:57 PM

IR, if the Repubs really did not support protection of the largest business enterprises, Reagan would not have bailed out Chrysler. Bush II, when R's had control of both executive and legislative branches, would have called for an end to agricultural subsidies, minimum price rules, protectionist quotas and tariffs, subsidies for "green" (ironic quotes) energy, and abolition of the Department of Energy. Before breakfast. Then he would have kept going. But clearly, he was not one to rock the corporatist boat.

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History Lesson: Under Fascist Bush, Democrats Feared Tyranny

Once upon a time, a group of people known as the "Democrats" expressed great fear of tyranny by government.This was a time long, long ago, when a man from a place called Texas, representing a people known as the Republicans, occupied the White House. Leaders of the Democrats feared tyranny by the Republicans and called the man from Texas racist, oppressive and tyrannical.

To refresh your recollection, we offer a few examples from the distant past:

Billionaire Democratic contributor George Soros. He said the George W. Bush White House displayed the "supremacist ideology of Nazi Germany" and that Bush's administration...

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