Bourbon Democrats - when the Dem Party had Officials that stood for American Values and Reformed Corruption

Bourbon Democrat was a term used in the United States from 1876 to 1904 to refer to a conservative or classical liberal member of the Democratic Party, especially one who supported Charles O'Conor in 1872, Samuel J. Tilden in 1876, President Grover Cleveland in 1884–1888/1892–1896 and Alton B. Parker in 1904. After 1904, the Bourbons faded away. Woodrow Wilson, who had been a Bourbon, made a deal in 1912 with the leading opponent of the Bourbons, William Jennings Bryan; Bryan endorsed Wilson for the Democratic nomination, and Wilson named Bryan Secretary of State. The term "Bourbon" was mostly used disparagingly, by critics complaining of old-fashioned viewpoints.^[1]
They represented business interests, generally supporting the goals of banking and railroads but opposed to subsidies for them and were unwilling to protect them from competition. Bourbon Democrats were promoters of a form of laissez-faire capitalism which included opposition to the protectionism that the Republicans were then advocating. They opposed imperialism and U.S. overseas expansion, fought for the gold standard, and opposed bimetallism. Strong supporters of reform movements such as the Civil Service Reform and opponents of the corrupt city bosses, Bourbons led the fight against the Tweed Ring. The anti-corruption theme earned the votes of many Republican Mugwumps in 1884.^[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Democrat

Obama is no Clinton - Dems should to find someone to replace him.

This video is when President Clinton talked to the press about the 1995 Government shutdown...Putting the issue of Monica aside - Obama no how compares as a Statesman to Clinton...who you will see in the video, as annoyed as he was kept it together...Compared to Obama who acts like a five year old throwing sticks and stones. Clinton didn't run around putting up fences and barricades up with "armed" guards to protect cement sidewalks and stone monuments. Obama, simply put is behaving like a bully thug toward the American people. The armed guards and police do not care who you voted for - they have their orders and will, arrest or shoot and ask questions later. Obama should resign and the Dems should find a replacement that is a professional statesman/woman to finish his term...Obama has proven one thing to me, in five years he has learned nothing about diplomacy. It's not the color of his skin - it's the lack of content in his character...Bill was right, he was not ready for the Presidency then and he is a fairy tale...Captain Hook comes to mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EUn5YwLtB0
 

Preserving purity in the government-are not wasted by the prodigality, fraud, or peculation of your public agents -Excerpt from - Tilden's Farmer's Speech.

Excerpt of a speech Tilden made to the Farmers regarding high taxes and needed tax reform, which still rings true to this day:

"Fellow-citizens, if I were to talk to you about the culture in which you are engaged, no doubt I could point out what and who your enemies are. I could point out what agency it is that destroys your crops. I could allude in particular to the potato bug, with which the farmers of this county are particularly familiar. But I have to say to you that there is a bug far worse than the potato bug; a bug that consumes not merely your potato crop, but that consumes every one of your crops, consumes them partly before they are gathered and consumes more after they are gathered — and that is the tax-collector. This little animal appears every year. You may have straggled and toiled, you may have worked in your field and in your workshop, but he eats up your substance at the end of the year.

In this country far too much of the net earnings of society, far too much of the fruits of labor, are consumed in carrying on the government: and there ought to be a stricter economy in our affairs, both in the town, in the county, in the State, and in the Union. Within the last ten years there has been taken from" the fruits of industry in the American Union $7,000,000,000 to carry on the government — $700,000,000 in each year. Think what a monstrous and appalling amount! Think, fellow-citizens; whatever may be your party affiliations or party opinions, say to me whether there is not a great evil and a great wrong here which every good citizen ought to join hands with all other good citizens to rectify. I am quite aware that a state of things has existed in our country that would naturally create these evils. In the exigencies of war, issues of paper money were supposed to be necessary, and habits and tendencies the reverse of frugality and economy were engendered among the public officers. This is a condition of affairs that requires the considerate, patriotic, firm action of all citizens of all parties, of all classes. There are none more deeply interested in this reform than the farmer.

Today about half of the tax contributed by the farmer goes to the State of New York to carry on public affairs. If, therefore, that amount can be reduced one-half, it will reduce one-quarter what the tax-gatherer claims. If you do not reduce town and county taxes, that is your own fault, because the thing is perfectly within your control.

When it comes to State taxes, that is within the power of the Legislature and the executive at Albany. In regard to that, you will have no difficulty whatever if you send there the right men. There will be no difficulty in reducing the State tax one-half within two years, if the farmers only say they desire it and are determined to have it.
 

"Fellow-citizens, you have the most beautiful climate ever vouchsafed to anybody. You have here a soil capable of producing everything that the human mind can desire. You have a government framed by our wise ancestors to secure to you every blessing possible in human society.

It is necessary only for you to see how that government is administered, and to see that when the fruits of industry are gathered for the use of the toilers, that they are not wasted by the prodigality, fraud, or peculation of your public agents. I am sure, without reference to any question which may excite difference among you upon this great duty of enforcing economy and frugality, and of preserving purity in the government everywhere, you will be united as one man. It is not merely a question of what you shall lose or what you shall save. Republican government cannot exist unless the public agents and servants are pure and honest. It is, then, the very institutions won by our immortal ancestors that are at stake. To reestablish these upon a firm foundation, to hand them down to your children after you, and when you depart from the world to carry with you a sense that you have performed every obligation and every duty — these great objects should fill your mind with a sense of what you owe to the community, to mankind, and to future generations."