Horace Busby Quotes
Nowhere else in the democratic world has another parliamentary incumbency stood for so long or become so nearly beyond prospects for change.
Referring to the Democratic Party's control of the U. S. House of Representatives:
Horace Busby, Presidential Assistant [Democrat], Quoted in The Des Moines Register, July 3, 1988
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Complimenting FDR's assistant just after the Roosevelt 1932 presidential victory:. Moley's prediction was amazingly accurate.
His use of the noun “Democracy” refers not to a form of government but the specific institution of the Democratic Party. Smith, like many of the Founding Fathers was deeply suspicious of political parties. See also {614907}. Smith had written to most of the then likely Presidential candidates of both major parties asking for their position on the Mormons who were facing persecution wherever they went. None of the politicians would make any satisfactory commitments. Smith took Direct Action and became the only major religious official to have run for the Presidency of the United States until Pat Robertson tried and failed in 2000. Smith’s assassination shortly thereafter cut his run for the Presidency short before it made much headway and politically he had no chance to affect the race.
The “hickory ramrod” referred to Andrew Jackson (Old Hickory). Henry Clay was his Whig Opponent.
The speaker was having trouble with some of his own party members in passing the President's budget. The press wanted to know when he would bring the budget to a vote.
That is not terribly different from other democracies including the United States.
The House Rules Committee had evolved into a very powerful committee which controlled the debate rules of every piece of legislation that came before the House. This Congress—the worst in American History—passed fewer bills than any other. Those that ever got out of the Rules Committee had Rules that prohibited the minority from even offering amendments.
He made this statement to his party colleagues and they pleaded with him not to issue it as a public statement and he agreed.
Although Roosevelt was the most popular American president since George Washington, the right wing of his own party hated him. He had pledged not to run for a 3rd term and his 2nd was close to ending.
