It's not up to date, but it's a nice glimpse of history and good enough to paint a useful comparitive profle of the two parties.
Really, your serious about this chart? Are you sure this is not a copy of little Johnny's 2nd grade civics homework assignment that he did the morning that he was to turn it in and got a D- only because the teacher did not want to fail him.
Seriously!!
1. Mario Biaggi and Wedtech - Mario Biaggi was a life-long Democrat politician not a Republican.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Biaggi2. Jim Wright Ethics Violations - Jim Wright was a life-long Democrat politician not a Republican.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Wright3. Jim Traficant Scandal; Toricelli Bribery - Jim Traficant was a Democrat politician not a Republican.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Traficant4. Tail hook Scandal - Really, what the hell does the Tail Hook Scandal have to do with Republicans?
5. The GI Bill - More B.S.
Harry W. Colmery, a former national commander of the American Legion and former Republican National Chairman, is credited for writing the first draft of the G.I. Bill.[7][8] He reportedly jotted down his ideas on stationery and a napkin at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.[8] U.S. Senator Ernest McFarland, D-Arizona, was actively involved in the bill's passage and is known, with Warren Atherton, as one of the "fathers of the G.I. Bill." One might then term Edith Nourse Rogers, R-Mass, who helped write and who co-sponsored the legislation, as the "mother of the G.I. Bill". Like Colmery, her contribution to writing and passing this legislation has been obscured by time.[9]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill6. Swine Flu (1976; Ford) - Republicans were responsible for the 1976 worldwide outbreak of the Swine Flu????
7. Civil Rights Movement - Even more B.S.
Although Democrats had a historically large majority in the House of Representatives with 259 members to 176 Republicans, almost as many Republicans voted for the civil rights bill as Democrats. The final vote was 290 for the bill and 130 against. Of the “yea” votes, 152 were Democrats and 138 were Republicans. Of the “nay” votes, three-fourths were Democrats. In short, the bill could not have passed without Republican support. As Time Magazine observed, “In one of the most lopsidedly Democratic Houses since the days of F.D.R., Republicans were vital to the passage of a bill for which the Democratic administration means to take full political credit this year.”
A similar story is told in the Senate. On the critical vote to end the filibuster by Southern Democrats, 71 senators voted to invoke cloture. With 67 votes needed, 44 Democrats and 27 Republicans joined together to bring the bill to a final vote. Of those voting “nay,” 80 percent were Democrats, including Robert C. Byrd and former Vice President Al Gore’s father, who was then a senator from Tennessee. Again, it is clear that the civil rights bill would have failed without Republican votes. Close observers of the Senate deliberations recognized that the Republican leader, Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois, had done yeoman work in responding to the objections of individual Republicans and holding almost all of them together in support of the bill. “More than any other single individual,” the New York Times acknowledged, “he was responsible for getting the civil rights bill through the Senate.”
I could go on, but I see no more point in pointing out the outright lies and blatant fabrications in this chart.
This is what they do. Make up outright lies and falsehoods. Mix in some facts and hope that people believe it. Unfortunately, the morons, feeble-minded, dimwits and liberals usually do.
