Comments on: Can we repeat the success of ’94—1894, that is?

By: Ausonius

Ausonius — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:45:03 +0000

and choked on political correctness, D.C.-itis, fear of the MSM, whatever you want to blame.

Perhaps having C o n s e r v a t i v e Republicans in the W. Bush Congress would have made a difference.

But recall that even Reagan could not kill the monstrous Department of Education: to be sure, he did not have a Republican Congress, Conservative or otherwise.

By: redpens

redpens — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:36:05 +0000

if 1894 comes back in 2010. Gun control laws, CRA, re-draw Congressional districts the way the Founding Fathers meant them to be, abolish the EPA, FCC, FTC, IRS, think of all the billions we’d save annually if we de-funded all those agencies not mandated by the Constitution.

By: pilgrim

pilgrim — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:57:04 +0000

What costs the Democrats was their decision to oppose Cleveland, and instead align themselves with “progressives” like William Jennings Bryan and Eugene Debs.

By: pilgrim

pilgrim — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:53:44 +0000

There is one big difference between now and 1894. The big difference is that Barack Obama is not anything like Grover Cleveland. Grover Cleveland denounced his own Democratic Party. He called their politics in 1894 “party perfidy and party dishonor”. That year the Democrat controlled congress passed a law that included an income tax of 2% on incomes over $4,000 annually. It was in a tariff bill it did reduce the tariff, and so Cleveland let the bill become law without signing it. In this political atmosphere the Democrats were hammered in the 1894 midterm elections, resulting in a 244 to 105 Republican majority in the House.
Adding to the Democrat’s woes was a significant Supreme Court ruling handed down in 1895. The only part of the 1894 Wilson-Gorman tariff bill that was popular with the masses, the income tax on the wealthy, was struck by a 5-4 vote as being unconstitutional.
Perhaps history will repeat itself.