What is your favorite Republican legislative achievement?

[Yssup Rider]

and my Bubby said don't count your chickens before they're soup.

[JD Barleycorn]

Sounds like you made pretty good case for the GOP. They pass bills and the democrats stop them. So only the GOP is doing it's job. Don't forget freeing the slaves, passing the 14th amendment, passing the Freedman's Act, passing the Civil Rights Act, giving women the right to vote, and liberating the Philippines and Cuba. I would mention the EPA but you know...

[LordBeaverbrook]

Nixon created the EPA by executive order. It wasn't Congress. If he did that now Rick Perry would make a veiled threat to shoot or lynch him as a traitor and they'd call him a RINO.

Only Repubs call anyone in their own party who doesn't toe the line a RINO and anyone more moderate not in their party communist, socialist, unamerican, unpatriotic or an America hater. Yeah the left calls Repubs some names sometimes, but not nearly as downright nasty and hateful. Oh, we'll. BTW, all those Siuthern Dems who voted against Civil Rights? They became Republicans!

[i'va biggen]

My fave was trickle down economics...

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by BigLouie

What is your favorite Republican legislative achievement?

You might start with the 13th Amendment. Though it had to be approved by the states, it was written, endorsed and enacted by a Republican Congress.

[nevergaveitathought]

my fav conservative legislative accomplishment is every time they can block some liberal nonsense or awful judge nomination

[Guest032516]

Originally Posted by TexTushHog

Not really a Republican bill. Passed with support from both parties, including a majority of Dems in both the house and Senate. Plus, LBJ was the one that broke the filibuster of Southern Democrats.

This is a good example of leaving out important details to make one side look better than it actually was.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 may have received majorities from Dems in both houses of Congress, but it received even larger percentage majorities from Republicans in both houses. This is something you NEVER hear from Dems.

Al Gore got egg on his face on this very issue. He once attributed his decision to become a Democrat to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. When it was pointed out that the bill had less support from Democrats than Republicans, he didn't have an answer either.

[Whirlaway]

Clean Air and Water, Emancipation Proclamation/13th Amendment, Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Amber Alert/Child Abduction law. Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003.

And all of the "right to carry" laws that republicans in local, state, and federal have passed.

[CuteOldGuy]

Actually, right now is a pretty good time. We have enough Republicans to block most Democrat stupidity, and not enough Republicans to pass their own.

[JD Barleycorn]

Study history. Those democrats who voted against the Civil Rights Act...you got it wrong. Those dems bolted the party in 1948 after they almost derailed Truman's reelection. The Civil Rights Act in question was in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965. You have the cart before the ass. No, the democrats who voted against the CRA of 1964 (Albert Gore Sr., Robert K. Byrd, and J. William Fulbright) were still democrats in good standing when they left or died in office. You can name one democrat who evolved and became a republican. That would be Strom Thurmond.

The reason we don't like to bring up the EPA is not because Congress was not involved but because Nixon didn't put limits on its power and started it with a radical, William Ruckleshaus, at the helm.

[gnadfly]

The Patriot Act. Although the Democrats bitched incessantly about it while Bush was President, Obama and the Pelosi controlled Congress extended it. Kinda makes you think the Dem "base" doesn't really believe in shit.

[TheDaliLama]

Psst gnadfly....they dont believe in anything other than doing anything, saying anything, give away anything................to get elected or to stay in office.

[Guest040616]

Originally Posted by gnadfly

The Patriot Act. Although the Democrats bitched incessantly about it while Bush was President, Obama and the Pelosi controlled Congress extended it. Kinda makes you think the Dem "base" doesn't really believe in shit.

Originally Posted by TheDaliLama

Psst gnadfly....they dont believe in anything other than doing anything, saying anything, give away anything................to get elected or to stay in office.

Lama amd Turdfly, you both need to take a couple of aspirins and go to bed. You should both feel better in the morning!