I like Ike!

Sirota, via Kos, provides us with a great quote on social security:

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are [a] few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 11/8/54

Of course, Ike's level of Republican politics is about what the mainstream Dems are at today (some a little more left, others like the DLC a bit more to the right), but the Republicans today would never disavow such a figure so it is on to Operation Plug Your Ears and Yell NAW-NAW-NEE-NAW-NAW