addabox
07-09-2006, 04:05 PM
Ok, so the last pretense has been dropped. The modern Republican Party no longer has any relationship to governance whatsoever.
From CNN: (http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/28/mg.thu/)
House Republicans released a package of bills Tuesday aimed at energizing social conservatives five months before the midterm elections.
Billed as the "American Values Agenda," the measures range from legislation that would "protect the Pledge of Allegiance from attacks by activist federal judges seeking to rule it unconstitutional" to a constitutional amendment "declaring marriage to be between a man and a woman."
The full roster of vital issues to be addressed:
The GOP's "American Values Agenda" includes: Pledge Protection Act, HR 2389; Freedom to Display the American Flag Act, HR 42; The Public Expression of Religion Act, HR 2679; Marriage Amendment, HJ Res 88; Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, HR 356; Human Cloning Prohibition Act, HR 1357; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (BATFE) Reform, 5092; Internet Gambling Prohibition; Permanent Tax Relief for Families; Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act, HR 5013.
The modern Republican Party is simply a machine designed to orchestrate wedge issues to drive targeted voter turnout so they can win elections. Period. They have no interest in governing. They have no substantiative poicies, beyond Cutting Taxes Some More, which no longer is even linked to notions of "fiscal responsibility", but simply serves as a carrot that need never be paid for.
How much more of this can the country afford? We are encumbered with a ruling party utterly disinterested in addressing the real problems of the day and which only offers relentless polarization as its central organizing principle.
The one and only response to its opposition is to attack, attack, attack, decrying "liberalism" as a disease, a betrayal and a weakness.
That, or the stunning insistence that the American democratic experiment is now officially over, that the Democrats can offer nothing better because "they have no plan" and are "just as corrupt". Got that? "Yes, we are incompetent and rudderless and on the take, but so are they. And at least we're ruthless".
Wedge issues and "at least we're ruthless". What patriotism.
From CNN: (http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/28/mg.thu/)
House Republicans released a package of bills Tuesday aimed at energizing social conservatives five months before the midterm elections.
Billed as the "American Values Agenda," the measures range from legislation that would "protect the Pledge of Allegiance from attacks by activist federal judges seeking to rule it unconstitutional" to a constitutional amendment "declaring marriage to be between a man and a woman."
The full roster of vital issues to be addressed:
The GOP's "American Values Agenda" includes: Pledge Protection Act, HR 2389; Freedom to Display the American Flag Act, HR 42; The Public Expression of Religion Act, HR 2679; Marriage Amendment, HJ Res 88; Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, HR 356; Human Cloning Prohibition Act, HR 1357; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (BATFE) Reform, 5092; Internet Gambling Prohibition; Permanent Tax Relief for Families; Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act, HR 5013.
The modern Republican Party is simply a machine designed to orchestrate wedge issues to drive targeted voter turnout so they can win elections. Period. They have no interest in governing. They have no substantiative poicies, beyond Cutting Taxes Some More, which no longer is even linked to notions of "fiscal responsibility", but simply serves as a carrot that need never be paid for.
How much more of this can the country afford? We are encumbered with a ruling party utterly disinterested in addressing the real problems of the day and which only offers relentless polarization as its central organizing principle.
The one and only response to its opposition is to attack, attack, attack, decrying "liberalism" as a disease, a betrayal and a weakness.
That, or the stunning insistence that the American democratic experiment is now officially over, that the Democrats can offer nothing better because "they have no plan" and are "just as corrupt". Got that? "Yes, we are incompetent and rudderless and on the take, but so are they. And at least we're ruthless".
Wedge issues and "at least we're ruthless". What patriotism.