[lbo-talk] Hitch does standup

[Maria Gilmore]

Johnson was sure as hell no prince, but he did get some types of legislation passed that no one else had up til then and no one has been able to since.   It was a classic meeting of preparedness and opportunity: he was a master of Congress and he was given a window to act with the death of JFK, which he seized in order to ram thru more social spending than anyone ever has in American history.   I understand Johnson's White House actually authored and passed more legislation than any administration ever has, to this day.    

Today it seems we have a weird mirror situation with the Bushies; Dubya and his crew capitalizing on the opportunities presented by a terrible event that shook the US Govt.    

***There is no such thing as apolitical art. ***

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  From: andie nachgeborenen 

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  Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 9:47 PM

  Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Hitch does standup

  This is a modern liberal thing, McGovern and after. Lyndon Johnson was an unashamed, cut-em-off-at-the-pass, take-no-quarter, bring-their-balls-home-in-a-bag sort of liberal. He was a son of a bitch, but, like Huey Long and FDR, he got things done, many of them good. (He prised Marshall out of the SG''s office and plunked him onto the 2d Cir and then the SCt, saying, I want them to see a n-word on the bench, get your black ass up there!) We need some not-nice liberals. A Lyndon Johnson without the war. . . . jks
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