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Short memory you have of Democrats, there, Timber. When Timothy Leary's case struck down the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, the Democratic Congress was quick to pass the Drug Control Act, the beginning of the War on Drugs. Nixon's Executive Orders were merely an attempt to enforce an IMO unconstitional law restricting the substances which one could introduce into his own body. When Reagan escalated the War on Drugs, the Democratic Congress could have easily repealed or "clarified" the law so as to benefit poor blacks, the ones who were principally hit by the War on Drugs, but no. The Democrats sold their base down the river.
Same with Get Tough on Crime, which went into full swing in the '80s and early '90s. Note these happened with a Democratically controlled Congress. The Democrats not only supported the harsh sentences, they passed them in the first place.
And your note on the effects of "Repug" Congresses is horribly mis-stated, particularly since Repugs have only had both houses for a few months, and only one for six years before that. Dems had control of at least one, often both, through all these legislative abuses you cite.
It shouldn't come as any surprise that the ever-popular "Three Strikes" laws come from "Repug" strongholds like California, New York and Massachussetts...
Furthermore, welfare checks did not decrease in size through the Contract with America, though people were heavily encouraged to actually work for a living, since they would decrease in 2 years. As a result, most of the Welfare-to-Work recipients are much better off than they would have been living off welfare.
Democrats consider minorities little more than pets. Just pat them a time or two on the head, and the public schooled populace will never realize that they are just barely getting by on dogfood.
The amazing part is not that "Repugs" have an appeal to minorities, but that Dems have brainwashed enough people not to realize that they are little more than pawns...
[ 04-08-2003, 12:39 PM: Message edited by: Thorfinn ]
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