Very nicely done, very specific, meaty and detailed. A great way to truly appreciate strong will, commitment and character. Shoe shiner to Ambassador to India and US representative in the UN and a well storied Senatorial career. His ability to communicate comes through in your article. No doubt, the most important aspect of his entire life. Excellent work, I appreciate your presentation. It did justice to his career and personal character.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the antidote to everything wrong with today’s Democrat Party. He believed in data, consequences, and moral seriousness—three things modern Democrats openly sneer at. Moynihan could work for Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon without having a meltdown or demanding ideological purity tests. Today’s party would cancel him in a heartbeat for the Moynihan Report, for “benign neglect,” or simply for talking honestly about social decay. He understood that compassion without truth is cruelty, and that policy divorced from facts is just theater. Moynihan wasn’t “evolving.” He was thinking. That kind of Democrat no longer exists.
So true Richard! Moynihan was classy and morally grounded in a way that would have made him unelectable today. He voted against abortion as a devout Catholic. He was a thoughtful man who was willing to listen and collaborate with Reagan.
The guaranteed income idea always bounces around. Interesting idea, yet it must be coupled with the end of all other social welfare systems. No more Section 8, SNAP, WIC, Medicaid, Pell grants, etc.We will need a few social workers to look after all those who cannot manage but we cannot keep all these inefficient programs and add another social welfare program.
With all the programs we have to prevent “ hunger” we changed the language to call it “ food insecurity” to provide an excuse for why 80% of minority females are obese. Not the “ fat gene” but just fatsicolas who eat too much.
Yes, they're insecure about food so they consume as much of it as possible in each sitting, because who knows when their next meal will be? (Usually a few hours later.)
Long gone. Folks keep addressing and talking about it as if it exists. Died longs go hi jacked by card carrying socialists, fascists, communists, atheists. Gone Every ist representing every ism under the sun. And we slept through it. Long gone. Fact.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a great man and a great statesman. He is sorely missed among the leadership in Congress, and by extension, missed by the nation.
He espoused lots of bad ideas. Better than any present day demotard but still a "bleeding heart" liberal. I don't care what clothes he wore, as long as it is respectful and not a slob like Sen Fetterman.
What was his final act in politics? He walked Hillary Clinton by the hand through her listening tour. Annointing her as his replacement in the senate. All that came before seems small in comparison.
What a great article about a truely great patriot. Don't you wish the Hakeem Jeffreys of this current house, would take a few lessons from his bi-partisan approach, honest motives for the American public and his classic style? Surely, one might try to emerge from the dung heap to do something great for our nation. Instead they approach it like a bunch of old maids gossiping continually about what they hate and who they hate.
Please write a “history” book, these columns are gold! I remember when people could agree to disagree and not start riots or have temper tantrums. Thank you again.
He was brought into the Kennedy campaign by former communist turned Joe McCarthy-ite Paul Corbin, himself the very inspiration for your "dirty tricks."
You moron. He was Harriman's executive assistant, carrying the briefcase -- literally -- for one of the most important figures of the 20th century, back and forth to Geneva, back and forth to Joe Kennedy's NY apartment.
Very nicely done, very specific, meaty and detailed. A great way to truly appreciate strong will, commitment and character. Shoe shiner to Ambassador to India and US representative in the UN and a well storied Senatorial career. His ability to communicate comes through in your article. No doubt, the most important aspect of his entire life. Excellent work, I appreciate your presentation. It did justice to his career and personal character.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the antidote to everything wrong with today’s Democrat Party. He believed in data, consequences, and moral seriousness—three things modern Democrats openly sneer at. Moynihan could work for Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon without having a meltdown or demanding ideological purity tests. Today’s party would cancel him in a heartbeat for the Moynihan Report, for “benign neglect,” or simply for talking honestly about social decay. He understood that compassion without truth is cruelty, and that policy divorced from facts is just theater. Moynihan wasn’t “evolving.” He was thinking. That kind of Democrat no longer exists.
So true Richard! Moynihan was classy and morally grounded in a way that would have made him unelectable today. He voted against abortion as a devout Catholic. He was a thoughtful man who was willing to listen and collaborate with Reagan.
The guaranteed income idea always bounces around. Interesting idea, yet it must be coupled with the end of all other social welfare systems. No more Section 8, SNAP, WIC, Medicaid, Pell grants, etc.We will need a few social workers to look after all those who cannot manage but we cannot keep all these inefficient programs and add another social welfare program.
With all the programs we have to prevent “ hunger” we changed the language to call it “ food insecurity” to provide an excuse for why 80% of minority females are obese. Not the “ fat gene” but just fatsicolas who eat too much.
Yes, they're insecure about food so they consume as much of it as possible in each sitting, because who knows when their next meal will be? (Usually a few hours later.)
Can you imagine Moynihan debating identity politician Obama on issues of race?
Nice remembrance of a singular figure in our history, Roger.
Long gone. Folks keep addressing and talking about it as if it exists. Died longs go hi jacked by card carrying socialists, fascists, communists, atheists. Gone Every ist representing every ism under the sun. And we slept through it. Long gone. Fact.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a great man and a great statesman. He is sorely missed among the leadership in Congress, and by extension, missed by the nation.
He espoused lots of bad ideas. Better than any present day demotard but still a "bleeding heart" liberal. I don't care what clothes he wore, as long as it is respectful and not a slob like Sen Fetterman.
What was his final act in politics? He walked Hillary Clinton by the hand through her listening tour. Annointing her as his replacement in the senate. All that came before seems small in comparison.
What a great article about a truely great patriot. Don't you wish the Hakeem Jeffreys of this current house, would take a few lessons from his bi-partisan approach, honest motives for the American public and his classic style? Surely, one might try to emerge from the dung heap to do something great for our nation. Instead they approach it like a bunch of old maids gossiping continually about what they hate and who they hate.
Please write a “history” book, these columns are gold! I remember when people could agree to disagree and not start riots or have temper tantrums. Thank you again.
He was brought into the Kennedy campaign by former communist turned Joe McCarthy-ite Paul Corbin, himself the very inspiration for your "dirty tricks."
You moron. He was Harriman's executive assistant, carrying the briefcase -- literally -- for one of the most important figures of the 20th century, back and forth to Geneva, back and forth to Joe Kennedy's NY apartment.