Comments on: Laura Ricketts Gives the Cubs the First Major-League Sports Franchise to Have an Openly Gay Owner

By: Bulldog53

Bulldog53 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:40:57 +0000

Oh THE CUBS ARE GAY

+infinity

By: ms621

ms621 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:34:25 +0000

Thank Wikipedia! (who knows if these things are even true?)

I’m pretty sure he did sign the legislation to create the EPA and OSHA. He also pushed through the RICO Act to go after organized crime and shady business practices.

Not sure about the rest of that off the top of my head and I had no knowledge of him pushing legalization of pot either.

By: ThatsSoTaguchi

ThatsSoTaguchi — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:51 +0000

Thank Wikipedia! (who knows if these things are even true?)

By: ms621

ms621 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:29:09 +0000

Thank you Taguchi, I’ll go sit in the corner with my dunce cap now.

By: ThatsSoTaguchi

ThatsSoTaguchi — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:28:18 +0000

Nixon also made significant noise about legalizing pot (as did Carter), if my somewhat hazy memory of pro-pot documentaries can be trusted.

By: ThatsSoTaguchi

ThatsSoTaguchi — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:27:22 +0000

But Barack does like black people more.

By: ThatsSoTaguchi

ThatsSoTaguchi — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:26:40 +0000

“Although often viewed as a conservative by his contemporaries, Nixon’s domestic policies often appear centrist or liberal to later observers, commenting after the end of the Keynesian consensus. While the rightward shift in the Republican Party started in the 1970s, Nixon like Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford, largely governed in accordance with Keynesian modern liberal principles on domestic issues, especially fiscal policy.[64] As President, Nixon imposed wage and price controls,[65] indexed Social Security for inflation, and created Supplemental Security Income (SSI). He also had plans to create a universal minimum income and universal health care, but was not able to realize either.[64] The number of pages added to the Federal Register each year doubled under Nixon. He eradicated the last remnants of the gold standard, created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), promoted the Legacy of parks program and implemented the Philadelphia Plan, the first significant federal affirmative action program, and dramatically increased spending on federal employees’ salaries.[citation needed] ….

During the Nixon Administration, the United States established many government agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Supplemental Security Income program, and the Office of Minority Business Enterprise; the Post Office Department was abolished as a cabinet department and reorganized as a government-owned corporation: the U.S. Postal Service. Nixon proposed in 1971 to create four new government departments superseding the current structure: departments organized for the goal of efficient and effective public service as opposed the thematic bases of Commerce, Labor, Transportation, Agriculture, et al. Departments including the State, Treasury, Defense, and Justice would remain under this proposal.[66]

On January 2, 1974, Nixon signed a bill that lowered the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 miles per hour (90 km/h) in order to conserve gasoline during the 1973 energy crisis.

By: ms621

ms621 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:24:13 +0000

So, we’re just pretending as though BHO doesn’t exist? Okay.

He’s a year into his presidency, too early to judge in my opinion.

By: ms621

ms621 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:23:34 +0000

LBJ, hands down, with Nixon a close second.

Fine, I’ll agree with LBJ, but I think you are putting too much emphasis on Nixon’s foreign policy which was liberal in that he chose to engage China and Russia. His domestic policy was most certainly not liberal however. And I would rank Carter and even Bush I ahead of Nixon.

By: The412

The412 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:20:00 +0000

And I would wager that Carter is actually probably the most liberal president of the past 60 years.

So, we’re just pretending as though BHO doesn’t exist? Okay.