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Harry Hope
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The Republican Party has ceased being a political party and has
instead become a cult, unable to question authority (unless it's Bill
Clinton), while sipping their spiked Kool-Aid, knowing full-well it
could lead to their demise.
Zoologists believe this to be the first time in recorded history that
rats have refused to leave a sinking ship.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/gop-buries-head-in-sand-a_b_44901.html
04.03.2007
GOP Buries Head in Sand and Discovers Sand
By Robert J. Elisberg
The Republican Party, it's recently hit a new level of paradox, a
level never thought even able to exist, much like the once-accepted
belief that if a human being held its breath until its head exploded
it would no longer be able to function.
The Republican Party, on the one hand, pushes to protect everything
that is important from the past in order to help build as strong a
future as possible.
On the other hand, it has become the Stupidest Party in the Entire
World.
Now, to be clear, this doesn't mean every Republican in America is
stupid.
They're not.
Indeed, many have interesting ideas in varied areas worth developing.
It's just that, as a party, they have turned Mass Obedience into an
art form.
The Republican Party has never been one that gave much credence to
independent thinking.
Free-thinking Hippies gave Republicans the heebie-jeebies during the
Love Generation.
Free-thinking college professors give Republicans the willies today.
Free-thinking, period, gives Republicans the cold sweats at any time.
So, walking in comforting lock-step is always something Republicans do
well.
The famous 11th Commandment of Republicans has always been, "Thou
shalt not criticize another Republican."
However, when blindly playing Follow the Leader, it generally helps
having a leader worth following.
"Thou shalt not criticize another Republican" might make for a grand
tea party, but it will ruin a political party.
When someone is hitting themselves in the head with a baseball bat, we
all learned from childhood that we should try to get him to stop.
But Republicans today are not only not getting the person to stop,
they're asking for their own baseball bat to try it themselves.
There's an inexplicable point to all this, but first it's important to
understand the background:
In a recent Pew Research Poll,
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=313Americans
favored the Iraq Pullout bill by a massive 59%-33%.
(When George Bush won the 2004 presidency by just 3%, he declared a
mandate.)
Yet Republicans voted almost to a person against it.
Americans think the Iraq War is not going well by 67%-30%, but
Republicans voted to increase that war with the president's "Surge."
Americans say there is solid evidence of global warming, by a gigantic
77%-16%.
But the Republican Party supports the president questioning science.
Americans favor stem cell research by 56%-32% - but this remains the
only veto by George Bush in his presidency - and blindly Republicans
sustained it.
On and on, the Republican Party is walking out of step with America
and off the plank into the deep briny below.
Pick any issue, it's a buyer's market.
Keep in mind that these documented facts don't live in an isolated
vacuum.
They show up where it counts (literally) - in the voting booth.
No one should wonder why Democrats swept Congress.
As recently as 2002, a Pew Poll showed Americans split 43%-43% in
their party identification.
Today, that number has opened a Grand Canyon-like divide, with 50% of
Americans considering themselves Democrats and only 35% Republican.
And that, quite simply, is the inexplicable point.
The Republican Congress still robotically follows their leader into
whatever sinkhole he takes them.
It's as if they have become lemmings, content to follow George Bush as
he waddles them off a cliff.
It is utterly inexplicable to see professional politicians - who can
read polls better than anyone - throwing their careers away.
Because that's exactly what they're doing.
In a mere 19 months, every member of the House of Representatives is
up for re-election, and if Republicans insist on blindly,
unthinkingly, hypnotically following a wildly unpopular president and
his inner-circle, and supporting disastrously unpopular issues, as
their walls of Styrofoam crumble, they will go down in flames worthy
of a Wagnerian opera.
The Republican Party has ceased being a political party and has
instead become a cult, unable to question authority (unless it's Bill
Clinton), while sipping their spiked Kool-Aid, knowing full-well it
could lead to their demise.
Republican Way disciples can insist that all this isn't so.
But that doesn't make it not so.
As the Deputy Chief to the Vice President gets convicted of lying;
as the Attorney General teeters on resignation;
as the president's chief advisor comes under investigation for misuse
of the General Services Administration;
as the crown jewel military hospital is revealed in disrepair,
as the president's approval plummets to 30% - and as Americans say
they are dissatisfied with the direction of the United States by
61%-28%...the Republican Party closes its eyes to reality and follows
its leader, just because he's its leader.
Zoologists believe this to be the first time in recorded history that
rats have refused to leave a sinking ship.
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Harry
instead become a cult, unable to question authority (unless it's Bill
Clinton), while sipping their spiked Kool-Aid, knowing full-well it
could lead to their demise.
Zoologists believe this to be the first time in recorded history that
rats have refused to leave a sinking ship.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/gop-buries-head-in-sand-a_b_44901.html
04.03.2007
GOP Buries Head in Sand and Discovers Sand
By Robert J. Elisberg
The Republican Party, it's recently hit a new level of paradox, a
level never thought even able to exist, much like the once-accepted
belief that if a human being held its breath until its head exploded
it would no longer be able to function.
The Republican Party, on the one hand, pushes to protect everything
that is important from the past in order to help build as strong a
future as possible.
On the other hand, it has become the Stupidest Party in the Entire
World.
Now, to be clear, this doesn't mean every Republican in America is
stupid.
They're not.
Indeed, many have interesting ideas in varied areas worth developing.
It's just that, as a party, they have turned Mass Obedience into an
art form.
The Republican Party has never been one that gave much credence to
independent thinking.
Free-thinking Hippies gave Republicans the heebie-jeebies during the
Love Generation.
Free-thinking college professors give Republicans the willies today.
Free-thinking, period, gives Republicans the cold sweats at any time.
So, walking in comforting lock-step is always something Republicans do
well.
The famous 11th Commandment of Republicans has always been, "Thou
shalt not criticize another Republican."
However, when blindly playing Follow the Leader, it generally helps
having a leader worth following.
"Thou shalt not criticize another Republican" might make for a grand
tea party, but it will ruin a political party.
When someone is hitting themselves in the head with a baseball bat, we
all learned from childhood that we should try to get him to stop.
But Republicans today are not only not getting the person to stop,
they're asking for their own baseball bat to try it themselves.
There's an inexplicable point to all this, but first it's important to
understand the background:
In a recent Pew Research Poll,
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=313Americans
favored the Iraq Pullout bill by a massive 59%-33%.
(When George Bush won the 2004 presidency by just 3%, he declared a
mandate.)
Yet Republicans voted almost to a person against it.
Americans think the Iraq War is not going well by 67%-30%, but
Republicans voted to increase that war with the president's "Surge."
Americans say there is solid evidence of global warming, by a gigantic
77%-16%.
But the Republican Party supports the president questioning science.
Americans favor stem cell research by 56%-32% - but this remains the
only veto by George Bush in his presidency - and blindly Republicans
sustained it.
On and on, the Republican Party is walking out of step with America
and off the plank into the deep briny below.
Pick any issue, it's a buyer's market.
Keep in mind that these documented facts don't live in an isolated
vacuum.
They show up where it counts (literally) - in the voting booth.
No one should wonder why Democrats swept Congress.
As recently as 2002, a Pew Poll showed Americans split 43%-43% in
their party identification.
Today, that number has opened a Grand Canyon-like divide, with 50% of
Americans considering themselves Democrats and only 35% Republican.
And that, quite simply, is the inexplicable point.
The Republican Congress still robotically follows their leader into
whatever sinkhole he takes them.
It's as if they have become lemmings, content to follow George Bush as
he waddles them off a cliff.
It is utterly inexplicable to see professional politicians - who can
read polls better than anyone - throwing their careers away.
Because that's exactly what they're doing.
In a mere 19 months, every member of the House of Representatives is
up for re-election, and if Republicans insist on blindly,
unthinkingly, hypnotically following a wildly unpopular president and
his inner-circle, and supporting disastrously unpopular issues, as
their walls of Styrofoam crumble, they will go down in flames worthy
of a Wagnerian opera.
The Republican Party has ceased being a political party and has
instead become a cult, unable to question authority (unless it's Bill
Clinton), while sipping their spiked Kool-Aid, knowing full-well it
could lead to their demise.
Republican Way disciples can insist that all this isn't so.
But that doesn't make it not so.
As the Deputy Chief to the Vice President gets convicted of lying;
as the Attorney General teeters on resignation;
as the president's chief advisor comes under investigation for misuse
of the General Services Administration;
as the crown jewel military hospital is revealed in disrepair,
as the president's approval plummets to 30% - and as Americans say
they are dissatisfied with the direction of the United States by
61%-28%...the Republican Party closes its eyes to reality and follows
its leader, just because he's its leader.
Zoologists believe this to be the first time in recorded history that
rats have refused to leave a sinking ship.
_____________________________________________________
Harry