Tag Archives: Washington DC

TV Days: President John F. Kennedy: ‘Imagine What Fox News Would Say’

Source:The New Democrat  Here’s one thing that I love about Jack Kennedy. He wasn’t anti-government and neither am I, but he did have a healthy skepticism about what government could do for people. Meaning he didn’t want government trying to … Continue reading

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C-SPAN: President Bill Clinton’s 1993 Inaugural Address

Source:FRS FreeState Before Bill Clinton became President of the United States, Liberal Democrats were seen as tax and spenders, soft on Crime, soft on defense, soft on welfare, anti-private enterprise, anti-success, anti-wealth, pro-centralize power, “that the Federal Government had all … Continue reading

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Reason Magazine: ‘How Medicaid & ObamaCare Hurts The Poor’

Source:FreeState Now It’s not that we have a Federal health insurance program for the poor that’s the problem. But how it’s setup and run that is the problem because Medicaid was never setup to be run affordably and efficiently. The … Continue reading

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American Rhetoric: President William Jefferson Clinton’s Farewell Address

Source:FRS FreeState Before Bill Clinton became President of the United States, Liberal Democrats in America were seen as something we are not. We had all sorts of negative stereotypes about us, not all of them unfair. Because there are Democrats … Continue reading

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CATO Institute: Ilya Shapiro: ‘ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion Violates Federalism’

Source:FreeState Now I would’ve gone farther to bring down healthcare costs with things like preventive care, taxing junk food and drink, getting junk food and drink out of public schools, encouraging people to eat healthy and exercise, mandatory physical education … Continue reading

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The New Republic: William J. Dobson: A Victory For Democratic Foreign Policy

Source:FRS FreeState I had just turned five years old and was in kindergarten when President Jimmy Carter left the White House in January in 1981. After losing reelection in a landslide to Ronald Reagan in November 1980. I remember President … Continue reading

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James Miller Center: President Lyndon Johnson: Remarks on Decision to Not Seek Reelection (1968)

Source:FRS FreeState When President Lyndon Johsnon decided not to run for reelection in March of 1968, the United States was very divided, but they were united around the fact that they didn’t like Lyndon Johnson as their President. His approval … Continue reading

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Journeyman Pictures: The Real Story Behind the Clinton Scandals

Source:The New Democrat  The real story behind the Bill Clinton scandals was that most of them were bogus. The Lewinski affair and the China scandal from 1996 were the only real stories and so-called scandals for Bill Clinton as President, … Continue reading

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NBC News: Don Harris- Howard Jarvis, Jerry Brown & the 1978 Elections

  Source:The New Democrat  The mid and late 1970s was a very rough time for America economically and 1978 is a perfect example of that and with California being the largest state in the union, perhaps Californians felt the rough … Continue reading

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C-SPAN: Representative Newt Gingrich- Speaking Against the House Democrats Budget (1982)

Source:The FreeState Back in the day when Newt Gingrich was a Junior Representative in the House and I would argue up to a certain extent even when then Minority Whip Gingrich became Speaker of the House, even though to a … Continue reading

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