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The Stromburglar is dead. Long live the Stromburglar.

Jump to Comments Yes, folks, our great hero of the twenty-four-hour fillibuster, Strom Thrumond, is dead. Sure, he might have had some segregationist crap going on for him, but he was instrumental in doing away with the Poll Tax in South Carolina, and was the first southern Senator since Reconstruction to have a black person on his political staff.

So maybe he really was against the rights of the states being eroded by the feds, and it just happened that his cultural upbringing and the political situation of the time clouded his judgement to an extent. He did, you know, make the very true remark ?The party of our fathers is dead. The Democratic Party has forsaken the people to become the party of minority groups, power-hungry union leaders, political bosses and big businessmen looking for government contracts and favors.? And if you don’t think the Democrats have anything to do with big business, think about the politics of people associated with businesses in the muti-billion dollar entertainment cartels like the RIAA and MPAA. Stick that in your #| and smoke it.

The New Deal may well have propped up the economy before the real boom associated with WWII and given people jobs, and I’m always for infrastructure unto the last, but I don’t see Daschle or Gore or Al forking Sharpton out there endorsing the creation of government-funded jobs for unemployed welfare-recipients or real, feasible, and maintainable urban infrastructure renewal that residents are proud of, since they built and run them.

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