Joining the Nazi Party when it was the thing to do, shacking up with an American officer immediately after the surrender, and then fast-tracking her ‘rehabilitation’ by marrying Walter Legge (two for the price of one here!) — She made the Vicar of Bray look like Amateur Hour.

Romney asked all the candidates to release their tax returns. He then also made those remarks about Trump in particular. Then he repeated the call for all to release their returns. Transcript is here.

I’m well aware of the history, and I’ve looked at many charts and I’ve written many comments on the subject.

When I wrote today that we hadn’t had that situation since Coolidge, “that” was referring back to this (which had immediately preceded it):

“And a Republican Congress can’t pass conservative legislation and make it stick without more conservatives in Congress AND a Republican president, preferably a conservative one.”

When I discussed the Bush administration, I made it clear that did not conform to the “conservative president” qualification. Same for Eisenhower, of course.

Somewhere I have a post on the whole thing; don’t have time to find it now.

In summary, though, to make it more clear:

Since Coolidge we have not had (a) a Congress controlled by the GOP and with a significant conservative presences in it; plus (b) a conservative president. We have a chance for that now and would be throwing it away with Trump.

With Bush and Eisenhower, neither were conservative.

I allude to this situation here, here, and here (at that latter link I discuss Eisenhower).

In fact, I’ll repeat some of what I said in that last link—

The GOP was in control of Congress and the Presidency during Bush’s first term. And Bush, unfortunately, although he was socially conservative and mostly (not totally) conservative in foreign policy, was really not fiscally conservative.

That’s it. No other Republican president has had a Republican Congress (sometimes one body or the other, but never both at once) since Eisenhower. And he only had both houses of Congress with him for 2 years of the 8 he was in office.

You have to go back to before FDR to find a Republican president and Congress except for those exceptions. Take a look at the charts. They are very edifying. You’ll see, also, that from FDR to the early part of the Clinton years the Democrats had smooth sailing during their presidencies, with both houses controlled by Democrats as well.

For the sake of those who are not familiar with Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs, and their indescribably surpassing beauty, I hope to point out my belief that Kinch is here with “nasty” describing Elizabeth Schwarzkopf’s personal politics during the Nazi Regime; by that, I assume, he is in no way ascribing “nasty” to the Four Last Songs themselves. As it happens, those “Songs” in some goodly part represent a reaction to — an appalled reaction to — the waste Nazism made of German high art, which high art Strauss thought himself to represent as a participant.

That is because the Left is an alliance. The Republican coalition in 1862, developed for defeating slavery of blacks or whites, failed in accomplishing several primary objectives.

Civil War II, is inevitably going to be a result of the failures of Civil War I.

really? then i guess you never looked at the chart i put up nearly a half dozen times..

United States Presidents and control of Congress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Presidents_and_control_of_Congress#/media/File:Combined–Control_of_the_U.S._House_of_Representatives_-_Control_of_the_U.S._Senate.png

coolidge presidency ended 1929

1955-1957 we have republicans in control of congress, senate and presidency – Dwight D. Eisenhower

the funny thing about hte left.

they are so backwards and following such an old 1930 playbook

they cant avoid cameras, open mike, cell phone, etc. because the old play book does not caution them about that, or tell them.

from their language, names of organzztions, tactics, etc.
all 1930…

A Republican Congress can’t pass legislation and make it stick without a Republican president. And a Republican Congress can’t pass conservative legislation and make it stick without more conservatives in Congress AND a Republican president, preferably a conservative one.

We have not had that situation in this country since Coolidge, except for a few years during the George Bush administration, and at that time the Congress GOP was less conservative than now, and George Bush was not a conservative. Plus he was focused on Iraq and foreign policy.

Right now we have the opportunity for the most conservative Congress in years plus the first conservative president since Reagan (Cruz may even be more conservative than Reagan). And yet the voters in the GOP primaries seem poised to throw it away in their rage at the GOP.

In contrast, the Democrats have had both overwhelming majorities in Congress and Democratic (liberal) presidents many many times since Roosevelt, and it’s been during those times that they’ve moved their agendas forward.