“Should any political party attempt to abolish social
security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor
laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that
party again in our political history. There is a tiny
splinter group, of course, that believes that you can
do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil
millionaires, and an occasional politician or
businessman from other areas. Their number is
negligible, and they are stupid.”
– President Dwight D. Eisenhower, l952,
from the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association
TAKES A SATIRIST
Harry Shearer on Richard Ben Veniste sitting next to G. Gordon Liddy (who Shearer portrayed in DICK) last Sunday (Huffington Post):
“…But did no one ask Chris or his booker, “Are we, by this pair of bookings, declaring a moral equivalency between the prosecutor and the ones he prosecuted?” What other crime story would get such weirdly even-handed treatment? Can we look forward to Vincent Bugliosi and Susan Atkins side-by-side on Court TV for a leisurely look back at the Charles Manson case? Were there no Watergate-era Nixon supporters (aside from the ubiquitous Pat Buchanan) available who hadn’t had their tickets punched by a Federal warden? Where’s Jean Kirkpatrick when we need her?…”