oh noes

[psocoptera]

Gingrich on health insurance: "They will have destroyed their party much as Lyndon Johnson shattered the Democratic Party for 40 years with the enactment of civil rights legislation in the 1960s."

Hmmm.

Comments

civil rights legislation

[eastgategirl.livejournal.com]

And almost fifty years later, who would contest the necessity and benefits of LBJ's commitment to the civil rights legislation of the '60s?

[q10.livejournal.com]

godsdammit! the republicans make it so fucking hard to be even vaguely on the right about anything, because the risk of being associated with them is just too great.

[uncleamos]

With material like this to work with, you'd think the worthless, cowardly, average candidate of the democratic party would suck less.

[adfamiliares.livejournal.com]

I can't decide if this is (staggeringly) unfortunate phrasing, produced by focusing on the political to the exclusion of the moral, or the mask of the conservative movement slipping for a moment.

[orawnzva.livejournal.com]

I dunno... he practically came right out and equated health care reform with civil rights legislation, which is the next best thing to admitting that health care is a civil right. That seems pretty fortunate to me...

[myalexandria.livejournal.com]

oh, it's definitely the mask slipping.

[ccommack]

I would say that those are not mutually exclusive.

[jaipur.livejournal.com]

Dang.
Wow.