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  1. GDIS Pathe

    Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    I think if we're defining US territory as including it's leased possessions, ala New Orleands then it might be the leased territory of the Zhoushan/Chusan Islands south of Shanghai off the coast of Ningbo in China.
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    in early 1977, new House Speaker O’Neill anticipates and concedes to President Carter on water projects ? ?

    Reagan was dumb as a doorknob but had relatively capable staff to shepherd his legislative efforts through Congress and build links across the aisle (and also trade arms for hostages and get caught up in scandals). Carter and his staff was... less then capable at managing relations in Congress...
  3. GDIS Pathe

    in early 1977, new House Speaker O’Neill anticipates and concedes to President Carter on water projects ? ?

    It turns about the co-equal branch of government does not like being tread upon by the Executive. I don't understand the point being made, if you just spent weeks and months hammering out a budget and then send it to the President who suddenly decides to start trying to kill projects you've just...
  4. GDIS Pathe

    in early 1977, new House Speaker O’Neill anticipates and concedes to President Carter on water projects ? ?

    Why? Tip O'Neil answers to the voters of his Congressional District and the 292 Democratic members of Congress who elected him Speaker, not Jimmy Carter. It is not O'Neil's fault that Jimmy Carter decided, with no prior warning, to attempt to cancel 19 water projects which had already...
  5. GDIS Pathe

    in early 1977, new House Speaker O’Neill anticipates and concedes to President Carter on water projects ? ?

    The Water Projects were symptoms of a problem not the cause of them, Jimmy Carter was a holier-then-hou outsider who thought he could walk all over an elected body of 435 Representatives and 100 Senators. He was wrong.
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    Nixon’s Supreme Court nominee Harrold Carswell becomes an unlikely hero ? ! ?

    McGovern described his record as being one of mediocrity and racism, the Supreme Court hardly needed any more of either
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    Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    Thinking on the 1920 election, We know Frank Lowden is going to be the hapless Liberal, he straddles the old-guard/moderate line, is amendable to both Eastern finance and Midwestern/Western agriculture, a perfectly fine candidate in normal times after four years of Root he's going to be on the...
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    WI: James F. Byrnes became FDR’s running mate in 1940?

    Good for him, David T (may he Rest in Peace) has a post on Taft's Civil Rights record.
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    WI: James F. Byrnes became FDR’s running mate in 1940?

    Being pro-Civil Rights until it comes to using the federal government to enforce said civil rights is a position in and of-itself. Barry Goldwater opposed giving the federal government a broad role in desegregating the South, Bob Dole did not. I don't think the fact that one of those men was on...
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    WI: James F. Byrnes became FDR’s running mate in 1940?

    What makes you think there won't be a Goldwater type around? The man himself has a bright career ahead of him in booming conservative Arizona, and the burgeoning breed of lean mean West/Southwestern/Mountain West GOPers birthed from the buzzsaw of SoCal Capitalism, the John Birch Society, and...
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    WI: James F. Byrnes became FDR’s running mate in 1940?

    Dewey isn't going to lock in a more liberal minded Republican Party any more then two terms of Dwight Eisenhower locked his brand of 'modern' Republicanism. Dewey has to work with the Conservative Coalition to pass his agenda in Congress, the Democratic half of that coalition is conservative...
  12. GDIS Pathe

    Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    France, twice the pride... it's going to be a long fall from grace. Speaking of falls, wikibox of the 1918 U.S. Senate elections, I think the technical term for this is a shellacking.
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    Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    New Orleans as a Shanghai in miniature, with the racial divide mixed in, now that's a pressure cooker if there ever was one. It is going to be an end of an era with New York's total domination of Presidential tickets and rosters coming to a close, though the Indian Summer of Al Smith eventual...
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    WI: Dick Cheney Became President in 2005 with Supermajorities in Congress?

    Yes, Dick Cheney was in a position to become President, but the Republican Party was not in a position to get a super majority because the task of getting a super majority with modern polarization is an incredibly difficult I'm not sure you're getting the point. You can't just snap your fingers...
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    WI: Dick Cheney Became President in 2005 with Supermajorities in Congress?

    Modern polarization and partisanship have made getting a landslide election a virtually impossible task in the current era The question you asked requires extraordinary departures from the reality of American politics in the early 2000s and as such requires an extraordinary explanation to...
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    WI: Dick Cheney Became President in 2005 with Supermajorities in Congress?

    Yes, so we're *only* talking about a LBJ, FDR in 36, Nixon 72 landslide and a greater popular vote margin then Ronald Reagan, right. The worst terror attack in American history occurring on the incumbent President's watch occurring six weeks before a Presidential election, after the partisan...
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    WI: Dick Cheney Became President in 2005 with Supermajorities in Congress?

    A 13 point over performance from 2004 is 63% of the vote. The last President to get more then 63% of the vote was James Madison in *1808,* we are talking about a greater popular vote landslide then Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Roosevelt and Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan Not happening.
  18. GDIS Pathe

    Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    Fundamentally the GAW has shattered both the legitimacy and the functionality of central government in the CSA and it will take a very long time for that to be pieced back together especially when American troops are busy inflicting their own form of punitive justice for one of the continent's...
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    If the 22nd Amendment Had Not Passed, Would Eisenhower Have Run for a Third Term?

    On Foreign Policy? War in Cuba, War in Laos, and a stand-off over Berlin. On Domestic Policy and Civil Rights? Nothing of substances with some tepid mealy mouthed statements of support at best.
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    WI: Second American Civil War of 1876

    The excerpt reveals that New York's Bourbon Democrats were in the tank for their man, and that McClellan was boasting and receiving letters boasting about his ability to raise an army. Given that virtually the entirety of Little Mac's service in the Civil War can be established as a testament to...
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