Can anyone even imagine a Republican today endorsing the labor movement, despite the fact that the statements above are so evident in wages and working conditions?
This is so amazing I had to share it - a reminder that the Republican Party, once upon a time, actually celebrated labor unions and thought that expanding Social Security was a good thing. No wonder the John Birch Society thought Eisenhower was a Communist agent! By 1964 the right wing Goldwaterites had seized the upper hand in the GOP, and today the Republican Party is so reactionary that Ike wouldn’t recognize it.
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Advocating Progress: How the Republican Party in Virginia is planning to marginalize urban voters in the next election.
(Slate.com) - In the busy mind of Virginia state Sen. Charles Carrico, voters can be divided into two species. The first: “people in my district,” which covers a swath of the state’s rural southwest. These voters are real people. The second species: voters in “metropolitan…
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I am a lifelong, proud Democrat. But, even though I have a lot of friends who are Republicans, I’m glad I’m not a member of today’s Republican Party. Because today’s Republican Party is just too damned mean.
Just look what they did to Bob Dole yesterday. Over the years, Dole’s one of the Republicans I’ve admired the most and grown close to. He’s an American war hero. He’s a true patriot. He was an outstanding senator from Kansas. He was a very fair and effective majority leader of the Senate. He’s a wonderful, warm, funny human being. But what his fellow Republicans did to him yesterday is shameful.
As one who triumphed over his own war injuries, Bob Dole has long championed the rights of the disabled. Yesterday, fresh out of Walter Reed Hospital, he came to the Senate in his wheelchair to seek the support of his fellow Republicans for the United Nations Disabilities Treaty — which would not make any changes to American law, but merely encourage other nations to grant disabled persons the same opportunities they enjoy here in the United States.
One by one, his Republican colleagues walked up to shake his hand — and then stabbed him in the back. Only eight Republicans joined all Senate Democrats in voting for the treaty, even though it’s already been endorsed by 155 other nations. Opponents argued that endorsing the treaty would undermine national security, thereby branding Sen. Dole as some kind of traitor or terrorist.
In the fiscal cliff negotiations, by refusing to raise tax rates on the top 2 percent, Republicans already proved they don’t care about the middle class. Yesterday, by embarrassing and repudiating Bob Dole, today’s Republicans proved they don’t care about the disabled, either.
BILL PRESS, writing for The Hill, “Senate Republicans Publicly Repudiate Bob Dole.”
The GOP is fast becoming The Party Of No Fucking Shame.
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This entire scandal involves Republicans, in and around, the Tampa area. The right wing entertainment wing of the GOP [FOX, Rush, Hannity] and Republican leaders like Rep. Eric Cantor try to pin it on Obama. WTF?
Let’s not forget that Eric Cantor knew about Patraeus (who was, BTW, rumored to be a likely GOP presidential candidate) before the president. So when is Darrell Issa going to investigate him?](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdt06kgypx1qzsnxyo1_500.jpg)
This entire scandal involves Republicans, in and around, the Tampa area. The right wing entertainment wing of the GOP [FOX, Rush, Hannity] and Republican leaders like Rep. Eric Cantor try to pin it on Obama. WTF?
Let’s not forget that Eric Cantor knew about Patraeus (who was, BTW, rumored to be a likely GOP presidential candidate) before the president. So when is Darrell Issa going to investigate him?
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Senate GOP votes down Veterans’ Jobs Bill
The modern Republican party in one sentence.
Republicans claim to be strong on National Defense, but they are lying. Just like they lie about everything else.
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Wow, did we piss a few people off with this one on our facebook page today. FUN!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Armchair-Patriots/173343349350173
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Jeff Danziger/Huffington Post (09/14/2012)
Jay Townsend, GOP Spokesman: 'Let's Hurl Some Acid At Those Female Democratic Senators'
A spokesman for Rep. Nan Hayworth (R-N.Y.) is facing criticism after advocating violence against female Democratic senators in a Facebook post.
Jay Townsend, the official campaign spokesman for the freshman representative, went on a vicious online rant on Saturday, which he began by taunting a constituent who voiced criticism about an earlier post on gas prices. “Listen to Tom. What a little bee he has in his bonnet. Buzz Buzz,” Townsend wrote.
“My question today… when is Tommy boy going to weigh in on all the Lilly Ledbetter hypocrites who claim to be fighting the War on Women? Let’s hurl some acid at those female democratic Senators who won’t abide the mandates they want to impose on the private sector.”
He attached a link to a Free Beacon article that claims female senators pay their male staffers more than their female staffers.
A moderator of the NY19 U.S. House of Representatives Civil Discussion Center page responded to Townsend, asking him to “please refrain from calling our members names.” The unnamed moderator also asked if Hayworth knew about his comments or whether he had “gone rogue.”
Comments from outraged constituents quickly followed. “’Hurl some acid’ Jay Townsend? Do you realize what that means?” wrote one person. “Acid attacks are particularly brutal, aimed almost solely at women, with the intent to maim and disfigure. I couldn’t imagine a worse piece of invective from someone who puts the Republican war on women in quotes.”
Another commenter: “Mr. Townsend, do you think we live in Afghanistan?”
Richard Becker, a Democrat running to challenge Hayworth this year, released a statement on Townsend’s incendiary comments.
From his campaign spokesman Barry Caro: “I’d be fired — immediately and with cause — if I said stuff like this. Which begs the question: why is Jay Townsend still Nan Hayworth’s spokesman. … Does she agree that we should ‘hurl some acid’ at politicians her campaign disagrees with? These comments are simply unprofessional and should never cross the lips of a Congressional spokesman.”
“This isn’t some obscure supporter or no-name right wing provocateur, and we’re not playing ‘six degrees of condemnation.’ This is Nan Hayworth’s official campaign spokesman saying some truly disturbing things on her behalf. The people of this district deserve to know whether Nan thinks what her spokesman is saying is ok — and if not, what she’s going to do about it.”
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The Republican response – as we saw dramatically articulated this past week in Tampa – is to further reduce taxes on the rich, defund programs for the poor, fight unions, allow the median wage to continue to fall, and oppose any limits on campaign contributions or spending. It does not take a great deal of brainpower to understand this strategy will lead to an even more lopsided economy, more entrenched wealth, and more corrupt democracy.
It’s worth noting that the GOP is moving to dismiss climate change at a moment when the scientific evidence on our warming planet continues to pile up. To take one example: In 2010, UC Santa Barbara’s William Freudenberg gave a presentation in which he revealed that “new scientific findings [since the IPCC report in 2007] are found to be more than twenty times as likely to indicate that global climate disruption is ‘worse than previously expected,’ rather than ‘not as bad as previously expected.’
