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GOP: back to its roots?(Insider Report)
Amid burgeoning federal deficits and the accelerating expansion of government, many conservative Republicans doubtless are asking themselves: What on earth is wrong with the GOP? According to Robert Ekelund and Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute, "the rampant fiscal irresponsibility of the Republicans is not a mystery; they are merely returning to their historical roots. The Republican Party was established as a party of big government and economic intervention. Their reputation as a party of limited government is of more recent vintage and stands on a flimsy foundation."
The presidency of Abraham Lincoln, note Ekelund and Thornton, actually gave birth to the expression "New Deal": ...
- GOP Formally Names Gingrich Speaker ; Georgian Quotes FDR in Comparing...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Kenneth J. Cooper December 6, 1994 700+ words
...formally takes over as the first GOP speaker since Joseph W. Martin...professor, compared the new GOP-controlled House to its recent...federal government's role, the New Deal. He also offered his colleagues...among the 73-member class of GOP incoming freshmen. DeLay received...
- GOP's `dimestore New Deal'
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Rowland Evans; Robert Novak January 6, 1987 700+ words
...once called the "dimestore New Deal." The emotional intensity...opponents, the Dimestore New Deal will go big league, with...Republican care for the elderly. GOP members of Congress echo...thing; the prospective GOP presidential candidate denied...
- The Democrats' New Red Meat: A potent GOP weapon since the New Deal--that...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Alter, Jonathan January 26, 2004 700+ words
...argument didn't resonate. This time the corporatist GOP runs Washington and the M.B.A. president seems...might not be saying much, but it means that a potent GOP weapon since the New Deal--that Democrats can't be trusted with money...
- The Nemesis of Reform: The Republican Party During the New Deal.
- Magazine article from: American Political Science Review Gordon, Colin September 1, 1995 700+ words
...left turn of Second New Deal in 1935, Weed suggests...increasingly vocal anti@new Deal forces. This problem...substantial rush back to the GOP in 1936. If economic...onset of the Second New Deal sharpens partisan...Democratic party does the GOP achieve a semblance...
- Our new deal nation.(For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the...
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Nuechterlein, James October 1, 2004 700+ words
...extend, by any means necessary, GOP rule over the defeated Confederacy...of course, that FDR and his New Deal have been immune from all criticism...wing historians attacked the New Deal as insufficiently radical...the "founding fathers" of New Deal historiography--James ...
- Will there be a new New Deal? As Clinton becomes the first Democrat since FDR...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe David M. Shribman, Globe Staff November 10, 1996 700+ words
...Medicaid. Until recently, the New Deal, FDR's expansion of government...because the legacies of the New Deal, especially Social Security...elderly, also resisted GOP assault. But the new breed...Republicans' departure from the New Deal and Great Society isn...
- GOVERNMENT Contract on the New Deal After half a century, the Roosevelt era...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe David M. Shribman, Globe Staff October 1, 1995 700+ words
...Society than out of FDR's New Deal. More significant is...12 Senate vote on the GOP welfare bill signals that...In fact, it is the New Deal, and not the GOP legislation on Capitol...indifference," he said. The New Deal was the first time, save...
- New Deal Fat Cats: Business, Labor, and Campaign Finance in the 1936...
- Magazine article from: American Jewish History Wald, Kenneth D. September 1, 2001 700+ words
...steadfast supporters of the GOP. The patterns were clearest...Party and strongly supported the New Deal. The same patterns appeared...responded so enthusiastically to the New Deal that they crossed class lines...Party and the popularity of New Deal recovery efforts in the ...
