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It must be nice to live in a world where you get to define your terms (and thus your enemies) willy-nilly without regard to standards or rationality. Most of us are constrained by the real world, and are thus at a disadvantage. I suppose, though, that gives everyone the equal right to describe your views as they like, too.
You have, I understand, voted Republican. That means that the list of horribles Greger previously supplied are now verified as applicable. I appreciate that concession. It clarifies so much. I'm sure this discussion will be so much simpler in the future.
If, because I have voted for Republicans, I am guilty by association of everything Republican elected officials have done, then you and Greger are guilty by association of everything the Democrats have done. The list of sins committed by the Democrats is much longer than the sins committed by the Republicans. Thanks for admitting that you and Greger have and do wallow in the pig sty of the Democratic Party.
I'll gladly take that mantle, as the list of accomplishments so outstrips the "horribles" that they become almost irrelevant. Let's compare notes, shall we? Starting at the top, and sticking with the last century:
Warren G. Harding: Known for -Tepot Dome. 'nuff said. Calvin Coolidge: The Great Depression.
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Along with Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, Coolidge won the passage of three major tax cuts. Using powers delegated to him by the 1922 Fordney–McCumber Tariff, Coolidge kept tariff rates high in order to protect American manufacturing. He blocked passage of the McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Bill, which would have involved the federal government in the persistent farm crisis that affected many rural communities. The strong economy combined with restrained government spending to produce consistent government surpluses, and total federal debt shrank by one quarter during Coolidge's presidency. Coolidge also signed the Immigration Act of 1924, which greatly restricted immigration into the United States. In foreign policy, Coolidge continued to keep the United States out of the League of Nations, but he engaged with foreign leaders and sponsored the Kellogg–Briand Pact of 1928. ... Coolidge has often been criticized for his actions during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the worst natural disaster to hit the Gulf Coast until Hurricane Katrina in 2005
The president set forth an ambitious social reform agenda, known as the Fair Deal, which included national medical insurance, federal housing programs, a higher minimum wage, assistance for farmers, repeal of the Taft-Hartley labor act, increases in Social Security and civil rights reforms. Truman’s proposals were largely blocked by conservatives in Congress; however, he had some legislative successes, such as the Housing Act of 1949, and also issued executive orders (at the end of his first term) to end segregation in the U.S. armed forces and to prohibit discrimination in federal government jobs.
Eisenhower: NASA, Interstate Highway System;
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Throughout his presidency, Eisenhower adhered to a political philosophy of dynamic conservatism.[129] He described himself as a "progressive conservative"[130] and used terms such as "progressive moderate" and "dynamic conservatism" to describe his approach.[131] He continued all the major New Deal programs still in operation, especially Social Security. He expanded its programs and rolled them into the new cabinet-level agency of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, while extending benefits to an additional ten million workers. He implemented racial integration in the Armed Services in two years, which had not been completed under Truman.
Richard Nixon (whom he tried to jettison), the Vietnam War, Bay of Pigs. Kennedy: Space program; Cuban Missle Crisis; Green Berets; proposed tax reductions; Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Johnson: Great Society programs (Medicare, Medicaid); Civil Rights Act.
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Department of Transportation.[32] The department was authorized by Congress on October 15, 1966 and began operations on April 1, 1967. Congress passed a variety of legislation to support improvements in transportation including The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 which provided $375 million for large-scale urban public or private rail projects in the form of matching funds to cities and states and created the Urban Mass Transit Administration (now the Federal Transit Administration), High Speed Ground Transportation Act of 1965 which resulted in the creation of high-speed rail between New York and Washington, and the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966
(Wikipedia) Nixon: Spiro Agnew; Watergate; Clean air, Clean Water Acts, EPA; Bombing of Laos; Cambodia; Vietnam escalation; SALT treaties; stagflation; end of the gold standard; and a mixed bag of other legislation and vetoes. Oh, and Watergate. Ford:? Carter: ?? Reagan: Iran-Contra. Recession. Bush: Iraq I. Recession. Clinton: little blue dress; a lotta nuttin. Bush: Iraq II; Great Recession. Obama: Recession recovery; ACA Trump: the Scandal a Day Program.
