Republicans long for the good old days...

Or at least they long for their own distorted view of the good old days. I often hear Republicans wax poetically about the good old days. "It was a simpler time" they will say. They seem to dislike change which is fine. The problem is their rhetoric often doesn't fit their actions.

Below is a graph showing the historical use of the filibuster.

As you can see the good old days are in complete contrast with the current Republican tactics.

Similarly the talk currently in how President Obama and his Liberal (Socialist) agenda are to blame for the partisan politics of today. Yet, somehow in the past, for programs that were easily more socialist than any legislation of the past two years FDR and LBJ were able to garner infinitely more Republican support than today's Senate.


So then I guess the last excuse for the unprecedented obstructionism from the Republicans is because this is how business is done and or course the divisiveness of today is only a reaction to the partisan ways of the Democrats in the past. Except:


Republicans always have some rationale for their irrational actions and if you believe them it's only because you haven't researched the facts.

The fact is Republicans only long for the good old days when it is convenient for them and these graphs show the clear Repubocrisy of that reality.