Theodore Roosevelt quote ---->

[napkinz]

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Citizens-UnTied/478986762118129

[Laelth]

1. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[CountAllVotes]

2. K&R

For good old President Theordore Roosevelt!!

& recommend!!!

[bvar22]

3. K&R for the Trust Buster!

We could sure use a president like that today!

Without Teddy to clear the path,
I don't believe we would have had an FDR.

[Art_from_Ark]

20. We could certainly use the "trust-buster" aspects of TR,

as well as his conservationist and humanist sides, and I'll let it go at that.

[Trust Buster]

25. Here I is.....LOL

[Art_from_Ark]

30. Do you have a cape and sidekick?

[Trust Buster]

31. No, when I was thinking what screen name to go with.....

.....Teddy Roosevelt and his Trust busting ways seemed to sum up what I think is necessary to address our economic and political problems of today.

[napkinz]

32. I loved Trust Busters!

"That's a big Twinkie!"

... oh wait, wrong movie.



Welcome to DU!

[frylock]

4. BULLY!

[elleng]

5. Roosevelt said it all.

[Cha]

6. Roberts says "pffff" to you President Roosevelt..

thanks for the quote, napkinz.. too bad the extreme court 5 are rabid fascists.

[napkinz]

7. a sad day ...

[Cha]

8. Freaking yeah.. this is it in a nightmare little nutshell.. thankz napkinz

[grahamhgreen]

9. Does he want a pony, too?

[lpbk2713]

36. No ... a Teddy bear.

[WillyT]

10. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[jwirr]

11. Our corporate rulers would have hated him as much as they hated his nephew if he were president

today.

[dflprincess]

14. Franklin was Teddy's 5th cousin

Eleanor was his niece (his brother Elliot was her father). I seem to recall from a biography of Eleanor that Teddy was the one to walk her down the aisle at her wedding to Franklin.

[jwirr]

19. That is right. Sorry for the mistake. I think I am getting older. Maybe too old.

[Cha]

12. RIP Democracy..

The question is.. are we going to do something about it? I say.. Hell Yes We Are!

[ReRe]

13. This is my favorite one. n/t

[napkinz]

21. Yes We Can! (do something about it) ... :)

[dflprincess]

15. I'm currently reading Delores Kearn Goodwin's biography of Roosevelt and Taft

The parallels between then and now are striking and I keep having a mental disconnect as I realize 100 years ago I would have been a Republican.


As a side note, I'm not that far into the book but I'm really impressed at what impressive (and way ahead of their times) Taft's mother and wife were.

[L0oniX]

17. What is good for the country is above party.

[Trust Buster]

27. Glad to hear it, I have it on my Kindle Wish list.

[L0oniX]

16. K & R ...and the SCOTUS is corrupt.

[napkinz]

22. Steve Marmel: SCOTUS Just Became $COTU$

April 2, 2014

We live in an age where Chris Christie apologizes to a large donor for misspeaking, because he knows the right words can get his campaign billions. We live in a world where two brothers can spend money to kill a local, Tennessee train program. Or convince 40% of American that they don’t need government health insurance. We live in a world where money talks, loudly. And the more you have, the louder your voice.

Was there any doubt the Supreme Court was going to rule this way? The same people who said “corporations are people?” Of course they were. So we go to the page, or twitter to complain. And what trends on twitter? “CancelColbert.” Meanwhile, every state that didn’t like an election result in is making it more difficult to vote.

So here’s the deal. This mid-term is the most important election of your lifetime. PERIOD. It will then be followed by the most important of your lifetime. PERIOD.

The house and the senate are set to unravel healthcare for millions. And shift more money from the poor to the rich. And 2016 will decide the fate of the Supreme Court, who have been systematically making this country less fair for years. So you can tweet and meme. You can raise the issues you want to raise. But if you don’t vote, if you don’t get your friends to vote… if you don’t take this anger you have today and use it to leap over the hurdles you will have to vote…

…there’s nothing this place, Twitter, Instagram or democracy can do for you.

THE ONLY POWER YOU HAVE IS YOUR VOTE.

If you don’t use it, you’re the one that’s rolled over and accepted it.
So let’s #GetAngry and #StayAngry.

But more importantly, it’s time to #GetFocussed and #StayFocused.

Steve Marmel

http://aattp.org/steve-marmel-scotus-just-became-cotu/

[toby jo]

24. "… and shift more money from the poor to the rich."

Christ, how much more do we have for them to get?

[napkinz]

26. they want it all, and they want it now!

[BlindTiresias]

23. Always has been

The SCOTUS for the majority of its composition has been corrupt and a direct antagonist to the welfare of the people. The institution has consistently fought for the interests of the already wealthy and powerful. The left needs to wake up and realize that the SCOTUS is not and will not be on their side no matter how many appeals hey make to the constitution. In short it needs a radical revision as there is something about its construction that is elitist, aristocratic, and highly insular making them natural allies of our own corporate aristocracy.

[JDPriestly]

18. Republicans have attacked all the great steps forward that Franklin D. and Teddy Roosevelt made.

They are trying to dismantle the structures that the two Roosevelts constructed in our government to protect us "common people." And the worst is that the Republicans are using the racism of their voters to keep them in power to dismantle that legacy. Yet it is precisely the Republican racists who would most benefit from the laws the Roosevelts signed into existence.

[Trust Buster]

28. Very true.......good post

[sdfernando]

29. The robber barons of that era were not at all enamored

with Teddy Roosevelt, even though he was a republican. They feared him and as a way to neutralize him they had McKinley name Roosevelt as his V.P....after all the V.P. is the most useless job in the federal government. As V.P. Roosevelt couldn't do anything of substance. But the robber barons forgot one little detail.

[AngryOldDem]

33. Thanks for this.

I just finished reading Doris Kearns Goodwin's "The Bully Pulpit." All I could think of toward the end was that past is definitely prologue and that history does indeed repeat itself.

No wonder TR wanted to run again in 1912. I can only imagine what he would say if he saw the present state of affairs.

Excellent book, by the way.

[Trust Buster]

34. Thanks for the review tip.

I read her book on Lincoln and enjoyed it immensely. I'll give Bully Pulpit a read. Thanks.

[napkinz]

35. kick

nt