A day in the life of Joe Republican (USA republican, that is)

Profiler

A day in the life of Joe Republican (USA republican, that is)

Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee.

The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.

With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to ensure their safety and that they work as advertised.

All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Joe gets it too.

He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate minimum standards the meat packing industry.

In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.

Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for the laws to stop industries from polluting our air.

He walks on the government-provided sidewalk to subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe's employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union.

If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn't think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.

It is noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined he banking system before the Great Depression.

Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime. Joe also forgets that his in addition to his federally subsidized student loans, he attended a state funded university.

Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards to go along with the tax-payer funded roads. He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans.

The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.

He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to.

Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day. Joe agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."

(sorry if this has been posted before - I got sent it in an e-mail)

I trust someone with USA republican leanings can post an equally witty Joe Democrat reply... have at it horse

Pocono Joe

I sir (or madam) am from the USA, I'm a Joe, and I'm a Republican... and I want some of what you're smoking!

Profiler

Pocono Joe wrote: »

I sir (or madam) am from the USA, I'm a Joe, and I'm a Republican... and I want some of what you're smoking!

Hi Joe!

Thanks for reading and replying!

I don't smoke, sorry!

I would however like to hear a rebuttal if you have one.

Looking forward to your reply.

Kind Regards,

Profiler.

super_furry

A rebuttal? Where's the argument? It's just some daft chain mail with as much point as a sponge. Don't get me wrong, I'd have no support at all for the Republicans, but that's just toilet wall scrawlings.

Overheal

Pocono Joe wrote: »

I sir (or madam) am from the USA, I'm a Joe, and I'm a Republican... and I want some of what you're smoking!

damn those liberals for taking away our cigarette advertisements!

Pocono Joe

Overheal wrote: »

damn those liberals for taking away our cigarette advertisements!

Cigarettes twern't exactly what I was talkin' bout... man.

super_furry

Pocono Joe wrote: »

Cigarettes twern't exactly what I was talkin' bout... man.

So you ARE a hippy!

KnifeWRENCH

Wow, did anyone else notice that this guy is a Republican AND his name is Joe Republican?!! That is a very unlikely, yet fortunate, coincidence.

Profiler

super_furry wrote: »

A rebuttal? Where's the argument? It's just some daft chain mail with as much point as a sponge. Don't get me wrong, I'd have no support at all for the Republicans, but that's just toilet wall scrawlings.

So you'd have no support for the Republican's (see #4 this thread) yet you are a Republican (see #2 this thread)

... Sir, I don't mean no disrespect sir, but I'm a might bit confused ....

Profiler

square_igloo wrote: »

Wow, did anyone else notice that this guy is a Republican AND his name is Joe Republican?!! That is a very unlikely, yet fortunate, coincidence.

Indeed, however Joe Republican has little influence over his name.

His Mammy Josephine Republican (nee Bush) and his pappy Joe Junior Republican done named him so after his great Grand Pappy Joe.

It's a hereditary thang, or so his Doctor says, and just like his receding hair line it's something Joe Junior Junior has no control on.

Victor

Profiler wrote: »

It is noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined he banking system before the Great Depression.

Which one? :pac:

SteveS

super_furry wrote: »

A rebuttal? Where's the argument? It's just some daft chain mail with as much point as a sponge. Don't get me wrong, I'd have no support at all for the Republicans, but that's just toilet wall scrawlings.

Good point. While I suppose there is some basis for saying Republicans opposed some aspects of the things mentioned, many are just silly. Republicans are somehow against paying for roads? Republicans are against unemployment? Bush (who I am no fan of whatsoever) signed a huge extension to unemployment that cost billions. Workers comp is not the boon you think it is. Basically, employees give up their right to sue their employer for an injury on the job for some mediocre coverage.

Rural electrification?!? If Republicans had their way, us ignorant country folk would be reading by oil lamp at night. Show me where Republicans opposed this.

The FSLIC no longer exists. It became insolvent so many times, it was finally absorbed by the FDIC.

I have seen a few anti-liberal e-mails floating around, but they are just as stupid as this one.

Trojan

square_igloo wrote: »

Wow, did anyone else notice that this guy is a Republican AND his name is Joe Republican?!! That is a very unlikely, yet fortunate, coincidence.

It's poor old Joe Sixpack that we have to feel sorry for.

I'd say it must have been tough getting carded at the liquor store. And what about the bullying. Enough to drive a man to drink.

super_furry

Profiler wrote: »

So you'd have no support for the Republican's (see #4 this thread) yet you are a Republican (see #2 this thread)

... Sir, I don't mean no disrespect sir, but I'm a might bit confused ....

I think you're very confused actually.

Crash

Trojan wrote: »

It's poor old Joe Sixpack that we have to feel sorry for.

I'd say it must have been tough getting carded at the liquor store. And what about the bullying. Enough to drive a man to drink.

I hear that poor bastard had to get a hawaiin drivers license under the name of "McLovin" to get away with it. Awful sad news.

Manic Moran

Well, if we're going to be as incredibly simplistic as that email, I might point out that none of the evil commie liberal hippy types may have had the freedom to protest in favour of water standards*, socialised medicine, labelled shampoo**, unpolluted air and so on and so forth, if it wasn't for the fact that for a few years of his life Joe Republican raised his right hand, and spent his youth facing down Nazis or the Warsaw Pact in cold, wet miserable mud far from rural electricity or shampoo, instead of spending it sitting on Berkeley Commons pontificating about how evil the world is and just not using the shampoo in the first place.

Ridiculous email which fails on two counts. One being that Republicans are not against everything in that list, and the other being the assumption that they think that all the items on that list are worthwhile.

NTM

*Wasn't flouridation of water part of an evil Communist plot to violate the integrity of our precious bodily fluids?

**I really don't think Joe Republican really appreciates the benefits of knowing what goes into shampoo. ECLHTs may care, not sure that JR does. I mean, hell, he's been jabbed with needles with every cocktail known to man before going and living in a foxhole for a bit, what's a few E-numbers?

**(b) OK. Let's say someone actually cares what's in shampoo. I'm about to go have a shower. According to the label, it consists of water, sodium laureth sulfate, sodium lauryl sulfate, cocamide MEA, zinc carbonate, glycol disterate, dimethicone, fragrance, cetyl alcohol, guar hydropropyltrimonium chloride, menthol, magnesium sulfate, sodium benzoate, magnesium carbonate hydroxide, ammonium laureth sulfate, benzyl alcohol, sodium chloride, methylchloroisothiazolionone, methylisothiazolinone, sodium xylenesulfonate, blue 1, red 4. For the record, this is the first time I have ever bothered to read this part of the label (maybe I'm a Republican). Fantastic. Just what am I supposed to do with this information? Thank you liberals! I now know that I'm putting guar hydropropyltrimonium chloride in my hair! My life is now enriched. :-/

NTM

Manic Moran

25 minutes later, as I sit here with damp hair and deathly afraid I may have exceeded my recommended daily allowance of methylisothiazolinone, I feel like going on a small rant about labelling.

There's an email going around about stupid warning signs on things, like 'Warning: Do not dry cat in microwave.' Well, one of them is a warning on a packet of American Airlines peanuts: "Warning: Contains peanuts"

Ever since I saw that email, I've been keeping an eye out for this packet any time I've flown on American. Sadly, they seem to dish out pretzels these days. Fortunately, however, SouthWest still gives out peanuts, and I have examined their packets on two separate flights.

The front is simple enough. The SouthWest logo, and big letters saying "Peanuts." Flip to the back, and there are two pieces of much smaller writing. First, the ingredients list. Fortunately, because it's a very small packet of peanuts, the ingredients list is short: "Peanuts" (Who'd've thunk it?)

More amusing, however, is the little legal note underneath the ingredients list. "Packaged in a facility which processes peanuts and other nuts." Phew! I am always worried about those packages of peanuts which come from nuclear reprocessing plants.

Could someone explain to me as to why in God's name someone thought it would be a requirement to put "These peanuts were packaged in a nut packaging facility" on the pack of peanuts? I've never seen that sort of notification on anything but a packet of peanuts, so obviously the Legislature sat down one day and took the trouble to decide to mandate the placing of this packaging notification solely on peanut packaging. They could have diverted their efforts towards world peace or solving the national debt, but no, they thought it worth their time to make sure that everyone could read in writing on the back of their packet of airline peanuts that their peanuts were packaged in a nut packaging facility.

NTM

Pocono Joe

Profiler wrote: »

So you'd have no support for the Republican's (see #4 this thread) yet you are a Republican (see #2 this thread)

... Sir, I don't mean no disrespect sir, but I'm a might bit confused ....

Sorry, but I thought your original post was rather useless. But since you are somewhat put out that I didn't respond in kind, here goes (Don't wish to confuse you more.) Do you feel better now?

You might be a (USA) liberal if...

You think that if someone is getting richer, someone,
somewhere, must be getting poorer.

You think that protestors outside nuclear power plants are
dedicated activists, but protestors outside abortion
clinics are dangerous zealots interfering with a legal
activity.

You believe that more federal regulations will make your
life better.

You believe that even though the top 20 percent of
taxpayers pay 80 percent of income taxes, that the rich
are not paying their “fair share.”

You think that Rush Limbaugh’s listeners are
mindless “dittoheads,” but you have never doubted anything
that you heard from Michael Moore.

You believe in global warming today just as firmly as you
believed in global cooling back in the 1970s.

You believe that the network news is a better indicator of
what “real” news is than talk radio, Internet news sites,
and blogs.

You believe that there was never, ever a problem with
biased news coverage until Fox News went on the air.

You believe that Mikhail Gorbachev deserves more credit
for losing the Cold War than Ronald Reagan deserves for
winning it.

Your parents gave you an acre of preserved rain forest for
your first birthday.

You mentally subtract 100 points from someone’s IQ if the
person speaks with a Southern accent.

You think that Dan Rather got a raw deal.

You panic if you discover that you’re out of chick peas.

You think that the phrase “separation of church and state”
is in the Constitution.

You pride yourself on your global awareness, global
sensitivity and global outlook, but can’t name your state
legislator or school board representative.

You are dedicated to helping the poor, the downtrodden and
the less fortunate, but you have never given blood.

You have not seen "The Passion of the Christ," and you
don’t know anyone who has seen it.

You believe that a woman should make it on her own,
without depending on her husband (except for Hillary
Clinton).

You believe that professional, working women should never
be judged on their appearance (except for Katherine
Harris).

You believe that rich people should not be allowed to
contribute so much money to candidates for office (except
for George Soros).

You believe that government should make a special effort
to hire members of traditionally oppressed groups, such as
African-Americans (except for Clarence Thomas, Colin
Powell and Condoleezza Rice).

You feel a deep sense of common cause with oppressed
groups, such as Hispanic immigrants (except for Cuban
Americans fleeing Castro).

You believe that a mother’s wishes for her child,
especially a mother’s last, dying wish for her child,
should outweigh the wishes of a father who had long before
deserted his family (unless the child is named Elian
Gonzalez).

You think people in south Florida, who can’t figure out
how to work a butterfly ballot, ought to have the final
say in choosing the president of the United States.

You have no problem with Hollywood movie starts flying
around in private jets to give speeches on the evils of
SUVs.

You think that raising taxes will reduce the budget
deficit.

You deplore prejudice and bigotry in all its forms, but
think that everyone in the “red states” is an idiot.

You are more concerned, more often, with the rights of
convicted felons than you are with the rights of small
business owners.

You uphold a woman’s right to choose, unless a woman
chooses adoption, chooses to be a stay-at-home mom,
chooses to homeschool, or chooses to start a business.

You are more concerned with Vice President Cheney’s links
to Halliburton than with Saddam Hussein’s links to
international terrorism.

You have used the phrase, “in Europe, the government pays
for health care and vacation,” without irony.

You are worried about how the French view Americans.

You believe that nativity scenes should be banned from
public view, but that anyone objecting to
pornography “only has to look the other way.”

And finally, you are almost certainly a liberal if you
refuse to admit that you’re a liberal, and accuse anyone
of calling you a liberal of McCarthyism.

Manic Moran

You have not seen "The Passion of the Christ," and you
don’t know anyone who has seen it.

Wait.. I haven't seen it, and I don't know anyone who has.

But I did see two priests protesting out front the cinema with signs, one said "Down with this sort of thing", the other said "Careful, now"

NTM

Hobbes

tbh, tldr.

The best saterical of right/left I saw was in a comic called "Swamp Thing". I forget the actual name of that particular story but if I recall the writers were peeved that people kept calling them hippies when they were card carrying Republicans. So they did a special "Right wing" version which basically ripped the piss out of everyone. I believe some swamp fans were not too impressed.

Jim_Are_Great

Manic Moran wrote: »

Could someone explain to me as to why in God's name someone thought it would be a requirement to put "These peanuts were packaged in a nut packaging facility" on the pack of peanuts? I've never seen that sort of notification on anything but a packet of peanuts, so obviously the Legislature sat down one day and took the trouble to decide to mandate the placing of this packaging notification solely on peanut packaging. They could have diverted their efforts towards world peace or solving the national debt, but no, they thought it worth their time to make sure that everyone could read in writing on the back of their packet of airline peanuts that their peanuts were packaged in a nut packaging facility.

NTM

Though this may be taking things the tiniest bit off-topic, considering what the topic actually is , I see that as no bad thing.

That warning is actually found on loads of products. It was on the box of the (entirely nut-free) cereal I ate just now. The reason that the warning is there is that some people can suffer pretty severe anaphylaptic shock if they ingest the tiniest amount of nut product, so I think the legislature did a good thing by alerting these people which products they can and can't have. I imagine the reason that the warning found its way onto the peanut pack is because the legislation was couched in broad terms so that all manufacturers who suspected they may have some nut traces in their product were bound by it, or something like that. Considering the litigious nature of modern society, it's just safer for manufacturers to put that warning there.

So, in answer, the legislature probably came to mandate a peanut warning rather than fix social/economic problems in the same way that a group of intelligent, politically-minded internet users came to discuss a silly partisan email a few weeks before a massively important election.

Manic Moran

Considering the litigious nature of modern society, it's just safer for manufacturers to put that warning there.

Now there is something that the Legislature needs to do something about.

NTM

amacachi

With yet more legislation?

iwudluvit

Profiler wrote: »

A day in the life of Joe Republican (USA republican, that is)

Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee.

The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.

With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to ensure their safety and that they work as advertised.

All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Joe gets it too.

He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate minimum standards the meat packing industry.

In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.

Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for the laws to stop industries from polluting our air.

He walks on the government-provided sidewalk to subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe's employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union.

If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn't think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.

It is noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined he banking system before the Great Depression.

Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime. Joe also forgets that his in addition to his federally subsidized student loans, he attended a state funded university.

Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards to go along with the tax-payer funded roads. He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans.

The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.

He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to.

Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day. Joe agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."

(sorry if this has been posted before - I got sent it in an e-mail)

good grief.

and who finances the companies behind and supports the businesses of coffee pots, cars, radio, pharmaceuticals, mass transit systems. etc. etc

Oh I give up.

If i was going to wire a rebuttal I'd write along the lines of.. Joe Liberal gets beaten up in the downtown slums because no-one's toughs on criminals and drugs and think it's all free choice and the poor criminals need molly coddling.

or.......hang ten......read this instead!

ACTION
Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke,
You gotta understand,
It's just our bringin' up-ke
That gets us out of hand.
Our mothers all are junkies,
Our fathers all are drunks.
Golly Moses, natcherly we're punks!

ACTION AND JETS
Gee, Officer Krupke, we're very upset;
We never had the love that ev'ry child oughta get.
We ain't no delinquents,
We're misunderstood.
Deep down inside us there is good!

ACTION
There is good!

ALL
There is good, there is good,
There is untapped good!
Like inside, the worst of us is good!

SNOWBOY: (Spoken) That's a touchin' good story.

ACTION: (Spoken) Lemme tell it to the world!

SNOWBOY: Just tell it to the judge.

ACTION
Dear kindly Judge, your Honor,
My parents treat me rough.
With all their marijuana,
They won't give me a puff.
They didn't wanna have me,
But somehow I was had.
Leapin' lizards! That's why I'm so bad!

DIESEL: (As Judge) Right!

Officer Krupke, you're really a square;
This boy don't need a judge, he needs an analyst's care!
It's just his neurosis that oughta be curbed.
He's psychologic'ly disturbed!

ACTION
I'm disturbed!

JETS
We're disturbed, we're disturbed,
We're the most disturbed,
Like we're psychologic'ly disturbed.

DIESEL: (Spoken, as Judge) In the opinion on this court, this child is depraved on account he ain't had a normal home.

ACTION: (Spoken) Hey, I'm depraved on account I'm deprived.

DIESEL: So take him to a headshrinker.

ACTION (Sings)
My father is a bastard,
My ma's an S.O.B.
My grandpa's always plastered,
My grandma pushes tea.
My sister wears a mustache,
My brother wears a dress.
Goodness gracious, that's why I'm a mess!

A-RAB: (As Psychiatrist) Yes!
Officer Krupke, you're really a slob.
This boy don't need a doctor, just a good honest job.
Society's played him a terrible trick,
And sociologic'ly he's sick!

ACTION
I am sick!

ALL
We are sick, we are sick,
We are sick, sick, sick,
Like we're sociologically sick!

A-RAB: In my opinion, this child don't need to have his head shrunk at all. Juvenile delinquency is purely a social disease!

ACTION: Hey, I got a social disease!

A-RAB: So take him to a social worker!

ACTION
Dear kindly social worker,
They say go earn a buck.
Like be a soda jerker,
Which means like be a schumck.
It's not I'm anti-social,
I'm only anti-work.
Gloryosky! That's why I'm a jerk!

BABY JOHN: (As Female Social Worker)
Eek!
Officer Krupke, you've done it again.
This boy don't need a job, he needs a year in the pen.
It ain't just a question of misunderstood;
Deep down inside him, he's no good!

ACTION
I'm no good!

ALL
We're no good, we're no good!
We're no earthly good,
Like the best of us is no damn good!

DIESEL (As Judge)
The trouble is he's crazy.

A-RAB (As Psychiatrist)
The trouble is he drinks.

BABY JOHN (As Female Social Worker)
The trouble is he's lazy.

DIESEL
The trouble is he stinks.

A-RAB
The trouble is he's growing.

BABY JOHN
The trouble is he's grown.

ALL
Krupke, we got troubles of our own!

Gee, Officer Krupke,
We're down on our knees,
'Cause no one wants a fellow with a social disease.
Gee, Officer Krupke,
What are we to do?
Gee, Officer Krupke,
Krup you!

CtrlSource

super_furry wrote: »

So you ARE a hippy!

i knew it! i always knew there was a lil' hippy in our Pocono Joe!

CtrlSource

Manic Moran wrote: »

... if it wasn't for the fact that for a few years of his life Joe Republican raised his right hand, and spent his youth facing down Nazis

It wasn't Joe Republican who brought the US into WWII though.

i love the way you people refer to "socialised medicine". You make it sound so dirty

Personally, i think all medicine should at least start be being social!

GuanYin

AH is

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CtrlSource

Even in the Politics forum, i think it's good to have a bit of levity on a day such as this

RedPlanet

The 1936 Rural Electrification Act was part of the New Deal, by FDR (Democrat)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act

The bill was proposed by John E. Rankin (D) and George W. Norris (formerly a Republic but became an Independant at the time of passage)

The Rural Electrification Act was opposed by privately owned utility companies.
I don't know whom in Congress opposed the measure, but I think we can be fairly confident that most of the opposition came from Republicans.
http://www.enotes.com/major-acts-congress/rural-electrification-act

The Mad Hatter

RedPlanet wrote: »

The 1936 Rural Electrification Act was part of the New Deal, by FDR (Democrat)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act

The bill was proposed by John E. Rankin (D) and George W. Norris (formerly a Republic but became an Independant at the time of passage)

The Rural Electrification Act was opposed by privately owned utility companies.
I don't know whom in Congress opposed the measure, but I think we can be fairly confident that most of the opposition came from Republicans.
http://www.enotes.com/major-acts-congress/rural-electrification-act

Now let's be fair: until about Nixon the Republicans weren't so bad.

Pocono Joe

CtrlSource wrote: »

i knew it! i always knew there was a lil' hippy in our Pocono Joe!

Listen, just because I had long hair, went to Woodstock, protested the Vietnam War, lived on a commune, and indulged in some of life’s excesses doesn't mean… Oh Wait... Never Mind!

Well at least I grew up!