GOP_USA

GOP/USA

Purpose:
Understanding the Republican Party.

TOPICS
psychopathic denial Jul 14, 08 fanatical core Jul 18, 08 flip-floppy Jul 5, 08 Global Warming: Five Facts & a Corollary ext. I'm Confident Jul 5, 08 obsessive zeal Jul 18, 08	Mistakes?? Jul 10, 08 the Party of Lincoln & TR Jul 7, 08 pigheaded Jul 5, 08 strong leaders Jul 8, 08 Reaganonsense Feb 10, 12, 09 We know from experience Jul 5, 08

LETTERS & COMMENTS

To Learn More (ext.)
Wish Upon A Pump (Richard Cohen, Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR20080707022T5.html?wpisrc=newsletter
Cheney's Staff Cut Testimony On Warming (Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070801442.html?wpisrc=newsletter
Capitalism's Reality Check (E. J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002264_2.html?wpisrc=newsletter
Reasons for voting Republican http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiQJ9Xp0xxU

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Republicans say that European socialism doesn't work. Maybe.
But it surely works a hell of a lot better than Reaganonsese.
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We should heed Republican objections to the stimulus plan and pay attention to their ideas for fixing the economy. However, in evaluating these objections and ideas we must bear in mind that the meltdown was mainly caused by a Republican administration.

One example: When, in 2003, fifty state governments tried to stop predatory lending (which produced the sub-prime crisis) the Bush administration sided with the lenders and thwarted them.

This response was perfectly in accord with the principles of Reaganonsense (formerly Voodoo Economics) as follows:
(1) Regulations prevent the maximizing of profits and should be eliminated. This is the screw-the-people-and-the-environment principle.
(2) All problems can be solved with tax cuts. This is the starve-the-government-to-paralysis principle.
(3) Markets are always self-correcting. This is the pie-in-the-sky principle.
(4) The government-is-the-problem principle. Recently shown to be true when it’s a Republican government.

The financial crisis, including what went wrong at A.I.G., is not just the result of a missing regulator, a gaping structural gap in the regulatory framework . . . Rather, it is rooted in the refusal of regulators, lawmakers and executive-branch officials to heed warnings about risks in the system and to use their powers to head them off. It is the result of antiregulatory bias and deregulatory zeal — ascendant over the last three decades, but especially prevalent in the last 10 years — that eclipsed not only rules and regulations, but the very will to regulate. -- NY Times, editorial 03/18/2009

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It is clear that the Bush Administration has been a disaster for our nation as well as for the world. It has damaged everything: our reputation and leadership, our ground forces (army, marines, reserves), our economy, the future of our children and grandchildren, our environment, even our tripartite constitutional government. That damage has become obvious to all except those in psychopathic denial. Nevertheless, the Republican Party's support of the Bush Administration has been constant and absolute.

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Republicans, especially candidates, must not be allowed to disassociate from the Bush Administration. They inflicted this catastrophic presidency upon US, they supported it with obsessive zeal and, despite everything, they support it even today.
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Of course, there are reasonable and conscientious Republicans who do place the good of the nation above that of the Party (for example: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Hagel, John McCain and others); however, most members are too bewitched by the party mythology or too mired in its discipline. (To support the Bush Administration, they fillibustered the Senate more than 90 times in two years.) When any Republican does stray from the current Conservative catechism, the Party’s base (its fanatical core) attacks, tries to bring them to heel or to destroy them.

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Republicans often say that theirs is the party of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.

T.R. was an ardent protector of the environment and a foe of income inequality. He was a progressive who believed that the consolidation of power and wealth in the hands of private interests threatened the morality and stability of the nation. He aimed to protect capitalism from its own excesses through prudent government intervention and by enforcing federal antitrust laws.

Lincoln strove, as much as possible, for national unity rather than partisanship. He approved the first imposition of the income tax in the US. He never became a church member and never responded to accusations that he was, in fact, an atheist. Clearly, his base was in what today are the “blue” states.

For both of them the good of the nation, not ideology or party hegemony was paramount.

It is absurd to imagine that T.R. or Lincoln would want to join, or would be accepted in, today’s Republican Party, the party of refuge for segregationists after passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act; the party of George Bush, two dicks (Nixon & Cheney), Tush Limberger, Newt Gingrich, Mich McConnel, et al.

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After 5 years in Iraq; more than 4000 dead American service people; more than 600,000 dead civilians; more than $500,000,000,000 spent (much of it wasted), some Republicans finally allowed that “mistakes” were made*. Mistakes?? Mistakes!!! Hell no! Not mistakes! There are not words to describe, nor does history provide example of, such a horrendous pileup of mismanagement, ineptitude and idiocy!
*with their avid approval and endorsement

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After nearly 8 years of pigheaded, a little flip-floppy doesn't seem so bad.

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The desire for a strong leader appears to be nearly universal. When asked, most people say they prefer a strong leader. They assume that a strong leader will be a good leader or, at least, will solve perceived problems. Unfortunately, history says otherwise. Most misery, death and destruction has been caused by strong leaders. For example: Attila, Napoleon, Genghis Khan, or, more recently: Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Hitler, Mao Ze Dong, etc. Leaders such as Washington, Churchill & Roosevelt are relatively rare.

However, George Bush gets a pass on this one. His affliction (inflicted in turn upon US) was not strength so much as it was stubborn mental constipation.

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We know from experience that

When George Bush says, “I’m confident”,
Those words are like a curse.
They mean that something very bad
Will soon be getting worse.

And,
No matter what the damage,
No matter the stupidity,
His party backs his blunders
With bluster and rabidity.

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