Republicans Offer Raw Deal in Trying to Co-Opt Author of New Deal

Augusta Chronicle, The › February 23, 2005

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Is it too late to put a family trademark on the New Deal? The way things are going, the founding father of Social Security will be an icon for the crowd that wants to unravel it. All that's left is for the Bush administration to change its theme song from Hail to the Chief to Happy Days are Here Again.

First, we had vague and fond references by the 2005 president to his 1930s predecessor. GWB makes FDR sound like a favorite ancestor whose charming-if-dusty old ideas just need a brush-up to "serve the needs of our time."

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Republicans Offer Raw Deal in Trying to Co-Opt Author of New Deal

Next, the conservative group Progress for America actually used FDR footage in an ad to privatize Social Security. This alone was enough to force grandson James Roosevelt into defending the real FDR from...

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