Mr. Obama Would Do Well to Learn from FDR About Unconstitutional Power Grabs

By: kipling (Diary)  |  January 16th at 01:01 AM  | 

In 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt won reelection in a landslide against Alfred Landon of Kansas.  The landslide carried over to Congress where Democrats gained a supermajority that dominated the House of Representatives (328 to 107) and the Senate (77 to 19).  The President and the Democratic Party seemed unstoppable.  And then, FDR made a strategic error that brought it all crashing down. In his desire | Read More »

Understanding the Modern Democratic Party

By: kipling (Diary)  |  December 7th at 12:24 PM  | 

Franklin Roosevelt forged the modern Democratic Party in the midst of the Great Depression.  Long before Rahm Emanuel spoke of “never letting a crisis go to waste,”  FDR used the economic crisis of the 1930s to bludgeon the Republican Party and unite a governing coalition that made the Democratic Party the dominant political party from 1930 to the present.*  In the process, FDR demonstrated that | Read More »