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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Monday, February 23, 2009

The Real Lessons of the Great Depression

(By Michael Barone, TownHall.com) - "Not since the Great Depression." "Not since the 1930s." You hear those phrases a lot these days, and with some reason. As Congress prepares to pass the Democratic stimulus package, it may be worthwhile to look back at Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and consider how well it worked as policy -- and politically.

posted by BP News Bureau | 3:06 PM

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Murray N. Rothbard's America's Great Depression is required reading on this topic. Rothbard places the blame for the depression squarely on Hoover's shoulders, as it should be, but he makes the case that Roosevelt could have averted the depression and chose to engage in demagoguery instead, promoting a fascist agenda, and extending the depression by 10 years. Anyone reading this will also be amused (or saddened, as the case may be) to note that Bush repeated and Obama is repeating the mistakes of Hoover and Roosevelt, nearly verbatim.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:21:00 PM  

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