15 Awful Things Republicans Would Do If They Had the Chance

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The Republicans have already gotten a pretty good head start on their list of ways to screw up the country. Gee Dubyah implemented them during his reign as King George I.

Now its up to us to un-do the damage.

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The republicans needed to get into power to implement these points. You so-called "liberals" are doing just fine implementing all of these, from my vantage point. And point 14) could be prevented by a little preemptive Lining everyone who doesn't conform to "Liberal Democrats Way" up against a wall and shot in the head action, huh? Mighty "Liberal" of ya, I say. Stay classy Alternet. Thanks for the laughs.

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12 is wrong they make noise about immigrants.
Bush and his gang and all the Republicans for 8 yards did nothing to stop them from coming. They want people here that no one cares about for they can pay them next to nothing.

But he did build those concentration camps that Halliburton said that they build in the middle of the desert for someone.

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It all comes down to socialism for the rich and none for the poor.After all,those top ten percent have greater stakes in the economy than the remaining 90%.
In a short while the US will resemble Tsarist Russia before the revolution. An oligarchic system has nothing to do with democracy,unless the great majority of people is constantly fooled by special interest groups.
In the end, values and social issues is all that matters to some. The economy and the rights of the working man are insignificant, compared to the debate on abortion. And to say that it could all be so simple; if you don't want an abortion,don't have one,and start minding your own business.

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Is there really that much difference with the Obama administration then?

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Scary as hell.

Another way to approach it is to imagine what things would be like if the Republicans had stayed in power in 2006--say, through a terror attack, a sudden drop in IQs, or a new generation of vote-flipping software.

We wouldn't even be talking about global climate change, health care reform, re-regulating the corporations, etc., etc.

Our wounded vets would still be lying around in their own urine--and no one would know. You wouldn't be reading this, because the internet would be gone.

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see what havoc Bush & the Crime Family already did to this country. Our President has had to waste nearly his first year in office trying to undo the terrible mess the former administration left in its wake. Never give the Rs a chance to implement any more of this wicked agenda. These soulless people hide behind Christians to pull off this mass destruction of our Government, the Constitution and the People of America; which just gives Christianity a bad name. The intelligent among us must never let the Rs get control of anything ever again, and they must be removed from every segment of our Governments as soon as they can be eliminated with each election. I watch the Senate daily and if you did too, you would see how despicable they are and that they don't have our interests in mind at all, they just want to line their own pockets and ruin this country even further than they already have.

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Myself, I think that any Republican politician from the county level on up should be disenfranchised before they do any more damage and most (perhaps, in the interest of fairness, all) of the Republicans in the federal system should be put on trial for their crimes. That said - I think this article went over the top and that's never a good thing because when you make parts of your argument unreasonable you give your detractors an opening into which to insert the wedge of incredulity.

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than an unfettered democrat government! Out of control spending, rising unemployment, criminal unions gaining more power over the government and their members, payoffs to organization to get flawed legislation passes - as we see wit healthcare), a government filled with corruption (the number of democrats embroiled in favorable loans, not paying taxes etc is astounding and seems to surpass repubs), and a government that ignores the will of the people - corporation bailouts and universal healthcare!

So the real point is a government without checks will be a bad government, as we now see!

for the benefit of everyone lets hope we gain some more balance in the government in the next election with more independents playing a larger role!

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they're already doing all of those.
Sad, truly sad.
Pray for revolution.

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Report: White House Counsel Greg Craig to Resign

By urging Rove and the Judiciary Committee to reach a settlement, Obama’s Justice Department lawyers avoided going to federal court and taking a position on Bush’s broad claims of executive privilege, which the former president said extended beyond his presidency.

“The President is very sympathetic to those who want to find out what happened,” Craig said in early March just as a deal to secure Rove and Miers’ testimony was reached. “But he is also mindful as President of the United States not to do anything that would undermine or weaken the institution of the presidency.

There is a basic flaw in Obama's argument, it is not his job to protect the presidency, it is his job to protect the constitution. If he continues on this path, it is treason and he should be impeached.

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This has been the modus operandi of the GOP since (at least) Nixon. Frankly I think there is a book somewhere in the above article, though reading phrases like "negatively impactful" is like running fingernails down a blackboard.

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In the spirit of fairness in reporting, I am sure the author could come up with a dozen or so awful things that the democrats are now doing that are catastrophic for our country. How about a trillion dollar deficit?, or trying to have the government take over the health care industry? Yeah that's smart, have an entity that has proven they cannot run a health care system (medicare) take over making my health care decisions. Why is it that people keep putting their trust in government when history shows us that is not a very wise thing to do?

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Read it in Truthdig,

Don’t Let Abortion Destroy Health Care Reform

How much muscle will the bishops now put behind the broader effort to pass health care reform? Their credibility as advocates for social justice hangs in the balance.

E.J. is right about their credibility, I want to ask those bishops why they support war against Muslims.

The truth is that even with the Stupak restrictions, health care reform would leave millions of Americans far better off than they are now—including millions of women. This skirmish over abortion cannot be allowed to destroy the opportunity to extend coverage to 35 million Americans. Killing health care reform would be bad for choice, and very bad for the right to life.

E.J. Dionne’s e-mail address is ejdionne(at)washpost.com.

The Truthdig comments are running very strongly against him. He really stirred some people up. I don't think the right-to-lifers know what they have done.

Women are PISSED, I think next they will be thinking about GETTING EVEN.

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....to keep the republicans from regaining control of the government would be for the dems to stand up and actually represent the people who voted them back into power....which they are not. This seems to happen every time around that the dems gain control. Yes, the republicans suck, bigtime, and have a scary agenda for this country. But quit playing people for fools, dems. I'm so very sick of this "lesser-of-two-evils" bullshit. You either stand up for low-income, working poor in this nation or F**K you. At this point, I am more than content to sit by and watch this whole damn nation go right down the toilet before I give any support whatsoever to a politician who will turn around and stab me in the back....even if it's a little stab as opposed to being gutted by the repugs.

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Sell out America to the highest corporate bidder.

Why don't they just rename themselves the "Tea Party" and be done with it?

When the grand old party was handed over to the lunatic fringe of American politics at their convention in the summer of 1964, it was only a matter of time before it was destroyed from within. Who would have thought it would take forty-five years for that to happen? Better late than ever, I suppose - but DAMN! Did they have to take the rest of us down with them?

In his column in Monday's New York Times, the usually astute Paul Krugman ended that morning's piece with this rare (for him) clunker:

"The point is that the takeover of the Republican Party by the irrational right is no laughing matter. Something unprecedented is happening here - and it's very bad for America."

No, Paul! BAD PAUL! What is happening here is very good for America! Can't you see? The Republican Party - the party of Strom Thurmond, Jerry Fallwell, Jesse Helms and Ronald Reagan - IS IN THE PROCESS OF COMMITTING SUICIDE! There is no other way to describe what is now happening to them! Paul Krugman, I admire you as much as any writer I can think of - but you must understand that this will not be "very bad for America". Trust me on this one, okay? Good Paul!

A party by any other name....

Tom Degan

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And the dems, (under the CORPORATE DLC and Rahm Emanuel), are different HOW?! So far this administration has maintained the EXACT policies on the theft of our civil liberties, such as ...free speech, freedom of assembly, etc) as the previous one. The 'healthcare reform' would institutionalize private insurance companies as the ONLY provider and secure their continued monopoly. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue, with this president talking about UPPING troop levels in the latter case. The banks were 'bailed out,' with no accountability on their part; with the taxpayers holding the bag. A growing police state is continuing, as witnessed by the G20 talks in Pittsburgh where the president AUTHORIZED the use of martial law. The only 'change' I see is that of style, with no substance. Face it folks, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE GOP AND THE DEMS; IT IS A FALSE CHOICE. UNTIL WE FORCE MULTIPLE PARTIES; WE WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE THE LEAST DEMOCRATIC OF MODERN DEMOCRACIES. Time to clean house, and as for the writer of this article; WHO IN THE DLC DO YOU WORK FOR?!

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We're a bunch of kids, innocent and ignorant of the world. We have one aunt, Aunt Reppy, who comes over and takes the family credit card and buys herself a Cadillac and drives us to the store and buys us ice cream cones while she packs the huge trunk full of stuff for her house. :)

Next week comes the other, Aunt Demmy, who looks at the credit card bill and gasps and says we all need to work together to pay down the debt, and that means no ice cream for us! :(

The following week Aunt Reppy returns, and she is very happy to see the credit card all paid off, so it's another new car and another trip to the ice cream shop! (and the jewellers and furriers...) And on the way Aunt Reppy reminds us who is the fun aunt and who makes us work and sacrifice to pay off our debts.

I hate Aunt Demmy. Aunt Reppy is cool! Ow, my tooth hurts and I feel sick.

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The Democrats let them do most of these things right now.

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I'm still laughing at the news today about how the Republican National Committee just realized that their own insurance coverage for staffers (CIGNA) has been covering abortions for the past 18 years!!!

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RE: Bi--spammer!

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The very first thing poor Dennis tries to say, he gets wrong, and John Kennedy would tell him!! If we were to reduce or eliminate income taxes on the only people paying federal income taxes over a 20% rate - the achievers - not only would employment skyrocket, but money coming into the U.S. Treasury would shoot up. It did so in 1963 and again when Presidents Reagan and Bush 43 did it.

High income taxes limit employers from taking risks. High income taxes keep income to the Treasury DOWN.

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Don't forget the plan to privatize everything in sight, making government small enough to drown in a bathtub (Karl Rove's expression, I think).

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it is about what the corporations want. This is why the Dems often appear soft. They are getting paid off by the corporations the same as the neo-nuts.

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One word best defines conservatives, whether Republican, Blue Dog, Fascists, Communists, etc throughout history:

EVIL!

Authoritarianism, especially if only for the wealthy at the expense of the downtrodden, is evil, period.

The Republicans' only purpose is to be an impediment to all that is good.

My prediction, though, is that Obama will be a 1-term president, and Sarah Palin (or somebody even worse) will be "elected" in 2012.
Some say the end of the world will be in 2012. But I think it will instead be in early 2013, right after the Republican president puts us all out of our misery by starting a full-scale nuclear war.
Sadly, this scenario is all too possible, in my opinion.

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From where I sit at the bottom of the shitter, we already got all 15 of those horrible things to varying degree thanks to the 'Merkaaner owning-class made up of of Dims and Repukes.

This nation needs an enema.

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Don't forget what is high on their list of What's Wrong With America. They want a drug free Amerika, which means the death penalty for anyone doing any illegal drugs. Zero tolerance is their mantra.
Back to the good old Nixon-Reagan days - and more.
In fact, let's repeal the Civil Rights Act, which is what Rush, Beck and Hannity really want to do.
Let's not stop there.
No more lawsuits against corporations. Buyer beware.
No more bankruptcies (go to paupers prison).
No regulations for the corporations, just laws to keep the people from harassing companies.
A Republican wet dream.
What a Rush!

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but almost everything you mentioned has already been done to the country when Bush was in power. If you can believe it some masochistic Americans loved it and want more.

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Unfortunately for America, the democratic party is also in favor of militarism, destruction of unions, abolition of abortion rights (see Stupak amendment), degredation of public education, reduced taxation on the wealthy and deregulation of the financial sector and the environment. The only reason I vote for Democrats is that they're not the party of the far right religious wing nuts who hate everybody who doesn't look, think, act or worship like they do. Doesn't bode well for the future of the country.

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After failing in 1934 the oligarchs tried again after deciding how to go about taking over everything from the top down to the bottom up. With the election of Reagan the long road to destruction of the Republic from the inside began. From the stagnation and reduction of earnings for us to the destruction of the Middle Class to the militarization of police forces to the loss of the Bill of Rights or sever reductions of its powers. The economy was another factor they took control of and moved to where we are today. It wasn't yet time to let it all collapse so Bush/Obama put a stop to it but didn't fix it. We can continue on to the abyss at anytime. They are waiting for the "right time" to let the other shoe drop then come in to "fix" us with a new polity in place. A fascist militaristic fundamentalist kind of gov't. They planned this from the beginning. They wanted to control all the factors to make sure all of our "choices" would lead to them. And them alone.

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It would behoove all the lumpen-PROLETARIAT of the Common Population that flock to the Republicans to realize that the Republicans are the Wolves and they are the chickens being led by the wolves and quit siding up to the Republicans for benefit, as all Republicans are led by the Conservative EXTREMISTS, who only use them to assist in the Republican's Conservative EXTREME Agenda, Republicans care nothing about the hard times of any member of the Common Population and it is stupid to think they do. Of the TWO Parties, ONLY the Democratic Party should represent the Common Population. It is time for the "blockheads and dummies" as George H.W. Bush calls the lumpen-proletariat Republicans to withdraw from the Republican Party and quit being led by the likes of Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, et al. 90% of the population is the Common Population and NO Common Population person, will EVER, NEVER EVER be represented by the Republican Party in deed, only rhetoric. It is time for all members of the Common Population to realize that the TWO Political Parties in the United States are NOT EQUAL for the Common Population ---- the Common Population should be represented by the Democratic Party and the Elite Capitalists WILL BE REPRESENTED by the Republican Party. As long as 1/2 of the Common Majority think somehow the Republican Party represents them and continue along the lines of being "blockheads and dummies" as George H.W. Bush's so aptly described, the Republican Conservative EXTREME can do whatever they want to; and destruction of the Common Population is the Right-Wing Conservative Agenda. The only power of the people is pulling together as the 90% Majority Common Population ---- Our MAJORITY POPULATION is our only power and our power needs to be organized in the party that represents the Left, the Democratic Party, so that the Democratic Party can be made to represent the Left; -- the Right is NOT an alternative.

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No. 16 Give all insurance companies a massive tax cut... and then call that health care reform.

No. 17 Put all Social Security receipts into the Wall $treet casino.

No. 18 $ellect JEB! (Bush) ass president in 2012. Whoa! President JEB? Give that some thought.

No. 19 Bomb the Islamic REPUBLIC of Iran in the name of Jeeezass!

No. 20 Give more money and $upport for the bigoted, racist, sexist apartheid policies of Zionist fundamentalist wackos in the theocrazy of Israel. Sorry. They are what they are!

No. 21 Declare the United $tates (of Perpetual War Profiteering) to be a KKKristian nation.

No. 22 Enforce KKKristian prayers in public $chool.

No. 23 Privatize everything... especially public beaches and all municipal sewer systems.

No. 24 Corp-ratize the prisons for the $ake of $lave labour.

No. 25 Manditory death penalty for pot smokers... and all flag burners.

Heck! I could go on forever about the Neanderthal neocon nuts in the Republican party.

Needless to say... I'm no big fan of Democrat-rats... but VOTING FOR A REPUBLICAN IS LIKE VOTING FOR $OMEBODY TO CUT YOUR THROAT.

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Kathleen Marquardt, founded Putting People First, an anti-animal rights group. In her 1993 book, Animal Scam: The Beastly Abuse of Human Rights, she says:

"The real agenda of this movement is not to give rights to animals, but to take rights from people—to dictate our food, clothing, work, recreation, and whether we will discover new medications or die."

Identical assertions could have been made about the abolition of human slavery, the crusade to end child labor, the liberation of concentration camp prisoners from Nazi physicians or an end to the experimentation upon black humans by white humans.

Marquardt writes that the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) "now encourages vegetarianism, the banning of fur, and the eventual end to all animal research, not just ‘cruel’ animal research." Marquardt writes that the Humane Society now supports vegetarianism.

According to Marquardt, "The typical animal rights activist is a white woman making about $30,000 a year. She is most likely a schoolteacher, nurse, or government worker. She usually has a college degree or even an advanced degree, is in her thirties or forties, and lives in a city."

Marquardt cites studies indicating that animal rights activists tend to identify with liberal causes such as feminism and environmentalism. "Every year," writes the Reverend Andrew Linzey, author of Christianity and the Rights of Animals, "I receive hundreds of anguished letters from Christians who are so distressed by the insensitivity to animals shown by mainstream churches that they have left them or are on the verge of doing so." It is not surprising, therefore, that Marquardt reports that "Most activists share a bias against Western civilization and its Judeo-Christian foundations."

According to Marquardt, the "political clout" of the animal rights movement "is surprisingly bipartisan. But most of the leading politicians working with the animal rights movement are liberal Democrats." Marquardt mentions Senator Barbara Boxer of California, Nevada Congressman Jim Bilbray, Charlie Rose of North Carolina, Tom Lantos and Gerry Studds.

Marquardt admits, however, that "some Republicans are animal rightists, too. Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas often supports animal rights causes—except, of course, those pertaining to cattle, a major business in Kansas. Senator Robert Smith of New Hampshire was a founder of the Congressional Friends of Animals. Bob Dornan of California, one of the most conservative House members, is an animal rights advocate—he cosponsored legislation banning the use of animals in testing cosmetics and received a PETA award. And Manhattan Congressman Bill Green promoted legislation that would have shut down over 90 million acres of federal land to hunting, fishing, and trapping."

Marquardt states further that "Although he’s not an elected official, a conservative political figure who, surprisingly, is on the other side is G. Gordon Liddy, author Will and a key figure in the 1972 Watergate uproar. When I went on Liddy’s radio show, he and PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk greeted each other with hugs and kisses and lots of warm words.

"With allies in both political parties and across the ideological spectrum," concludes Marquardt, "the animal rights movement has been able to score some great successes, regardless of which party controls the White House or Capitol Hill."

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This is an excellent list but it doesn't go far enough. Articles on and posts to right-wing websites make clear that, given the chance, conservatives want to shut down the public school system; fund higher education only insofar as it stays with the conservative line; overturn Civil Rights and Affirmative Action law; make science subservient to religious ideology; and control the media so that they speak only with a conservative voice.

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They have been on a binge drinking the Reagan juice for much too long but they are running out of gas because the social irresponsibility of corporate hedonism has gotten to the point of shooting the world right out from under their feet in free marketeering and in New American Century Imperial Wardreams...
We cannot afford either anymore and they have pretty much cooked their goose.

This the New World Century requiring a view and respect for world wide interdependence and learning to live within the means of our planet. It will require population control and zero growth not ideological dogmas formulas. A world that is not a human anthill of starvation and poverty and over-population.

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Sadly, it seems that most of the things mentioned in the article have already begun; at least, to some extent. What scares me the most is that the present make-up of the Supremes might just bring these 15 and many more to conclusion. With the addition of Alito and Roberts, there is a conservative majority who believes that if it isn't in the constitution, then it shouldn't apply. And unfortunately, they all look very healthy to me!

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"12) Unleash de facto ethnic cleansing against 12 million immigrant men, women, and children, making them contemporary equivalents of the Jewish scapegoats that Hitler blamed for hardships Germans experienced during a prior period of capitalist economic distress."

So are you saying that European Jews are really illegal aliens? I didn't know that.

Also I must invoke Godwin's Law at this point. Article is Fail.

dboy

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Why?

1. Because republicans are elected and dig us into a hole.
2. When the democrats get elected, and try to dig us OUT of that hole, people complain the dems aren't helping, that they're just throwing dirt on them while trying to dig, so...
3. We elect the republicans again, and they dig us even deeper.

Eight steps backwards, four steps forward, then back eight more steps.

This retrogression needs to stop.

America, the world's badass teenager, needs to grow up and start acting like a responsible country, instead of a spoiled, entitled adolescent brat.

We need to support local communities, and at the same time, encourage scientific advancement.

We need to instigate medicine that benefits all, and at the same time, heavily tax the wealthy, who can afford it more.

Stepping on the poor and calling it progress because you have millions and they have nothing is NOT nation building. It's unsustainable.

None of us win unless all of us win, and they say a society can be judged by how it treats its lowest members. I think, if there is a god, he's not too happy with what the rich (and the conservative middle classes who are sympathetic towards the rich) are doing.

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Okay, I'll bite, I'll be the party pooper.

Need I remind my fellow lefty liberals that Bill Clinton's most lasting legacy is George W. Bush? That Democrat officials in black-dominated, white-controlled counties in Georgia, Tennessee and Illinois threw out more than enough black votes to elect Al Gore?

Just when, exactly, is Obama planning on closing Gitmo?

When is Obama, who seems to have written off the Middle East as a major policy arena (for this term), planning to start treating the Palestinians as fully human, and start demanding Israel close the illegal settlement blocks NOW? Obama can't even refer to them as "settlement blocks", instead of settlements, which suggests quaint rural kibbutz'.

Why does Iran have to submit to nuclear inspectors when Israel doesn't even have to admit it has a bomb?

When is Obama going to start using his "legendary" communication skills to start helping Americans to understand that most of what they think they know about the Middle East is pretty much false, and they don't know very much at all?

How far back do the problems of the Middle East go? 2000 years, or to 1919?

And while we're considering the fact that there never was a Palestine, how many people who consider themselves Jewish are actually Jewish, that is to say, descendants of Abraham... Nothing we think we know about the Middle East is what we think it is, and yet, we blindly support Israel. After all, the day after Obama won the Democrat's nomination he ran off to kow-tow to AIPAC: What sort of "Change We Can Believe In" was that?

When is Obama going to start the programs that will jump start the tech industries that can export global cooling/clean up technology to the world, and create lasting, well paying jobs at home? Solving global warming isn't about hampering Chinese or Indian development, it's all about changing the way we live, produce, and consume, and the US could be a leader in that industrial revolution--or we could get left behind as we debate silly policies that try to keep our life (and corporate profits) just as it is.

When is Obama going to call for a national program to create comprehensive mass transit in every major urban area? And when is Obama going to come out against zoning laws and "planning" policies that encourage car-forward development and urban sprawl?

When is Obama going to start working to improve the education of ALL American children, and to stop letting a parents income determine the quality of their child's education? When is Obama going to start talking to Americans about how a good education for everyone benefits everyone, instead of letting the Republicans control the debate (to the extent there is one) which always leaves the shiny white kids in the upper strata being raised to take the reins of power while the mostly darker kids of the lower strata are handed the gutter and a broom with no bristles?

It's a nice diversion to attack the GOP and heaven knows they deserve it, but now our guy's in power, and I notice that way too many people are making excuses as to why they aren't demanding more of him, and why they're allowing him to slide as far as he has. FDR only became FDR because he was forced to act, forced to do the right thing, and even then he still managed to find the most expedient path available.

If we don't start to push Obama soon, Obama's greatest legacy may well be something far worse than 8 years of George W Bush, and if you think that's impossible, you need to wake up. The time for bashing the GOP has passed. Our guy is in power, and he's not living up to the expectations the voters placed upon him. Either we start to take responsibility and push him where he needs to go, or we shut up and get out the vaseline.

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and call it, "15 Awful Republicans I Would Do If Given The Chance."

#@!

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Dude, minus an outright ban on abortion and mass deportations, all of these things have already happened. Seriously, you're between 10 and 30 years behind the times on most of these points.

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Taken to the logical extreme of right wing Christic republikkkanism, Margaret Atwood's prescient novel, The Handmaid's Tale, is a must read in this context.

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It is impossible to get rid of the Rethugnants. They are so thoroughly embedded in our military and intelligence services (and have een for years) that it is impossible to get rid of them.

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2/3 of american voters back the "repugnican agenda"...as such it is no longer a repugnican agenda.. it is now the american agenda...

and while i definitely dont agree with this agenda..its not difficult to understand why it is gaining ground either.. krugman makes a good comparison to the battle anzio...and i would venture that its prolly too late for o'bumble at this point...

in either case..barring some miracle..voters will elect a far right-wing govt in 2010 and 2012..that will be much more virulent than bu$hco ever was.. and i have some doubts as to whether the country could survive that...

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One thing is for sure.....I'm more brokeAss this year than I've ever been in the last 8 years. That is my experience so far under this administration.

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Adult chimps have to be shot dead, to get them to stop attacking...Kind of like Communists and Jihadists...And their closest cousins...YOU!

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You are part of a suicide cult...I don't mind if you kill yourself, but could you please go someplace else and do it?

The only difference between you godless dipshits and Jihadists, is the way you dress.

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Abortion : Your arguement is laim and thats why reasonable people disagree.
The percentage of abortions performed that fit into your arguement is small, an educated guess is 0.5%.
Capitalism only works when there is (market share)population growth!
Which future Einstien did we not get already!
Abortions will always be available your referenced individuals.
But I find abortion on demand excessive, and most rational agree.

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"...the GOP today is more negatively impactful than ever..."

First of all, "impactful" is not a word. Don't try to impress us with meaningless yuppie buzz words; use plain English.

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Dont kid yourself, the Dems are onboard with everything on that list with the possible exception of #14. Its time to vote for a third party which will offer some real choice.

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