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About the Republican Party
History
The Republican Party was born in the early 1850's by anti-slavery activists
and individuals who believed that government should grant western lands to
settlers free of charge. The first informal meeting of the party took place
in Ripon, Wisconsin.

The first official Republican meeting took place on July 6th, 1854 in
Jackson, Michigan. The name "Republican" was chosen because it alluded to
equality and reminded individuals of Thomas Jefferson's
Democratic-Republican Party.

In 1856, the Republicans became a national party when John C. Fremont was
nominated for President under the slogan: "Free soil, free labor, free
speech, free men, Fremont." Four years later, Abraham Lincoln became the
first Republican to win the White House.

During the Civil War, against the advice of his cabinet, Lincoln signed the
Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves. The Republicans of their
day worked to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, which outlawed slavery, the
Fourteenth, which guaranteed equal protection under the laws, and the
Fifteenth, which helped secure voting rights for African-Americans.

"NIMBY".

Not in my backyard. Except now the entire once can-do nation of
America, has it seems become immobilized, frozen and incapable of
doing anything about energy.

Every day, watching gas prices rise.

Political Correctness, turned on its short-sighted head, then used to
pummel our national security.

The very word: ANWR. Prompts liberals to clamp hands over their ears
- shut down their thought processes, and simply howl the words "no no
no!".

But what are liberals' proposed solutions? We cannot build new
refineries, we cannot drill for oil. Can't build nuclear power
plants, heavens no - (France is energy independent, because they've
got them all over the place).

Tree huggers have gotten us into this. Liberalism (far from being the
political philosophy of freedom it once was founded upon) has become a
political movement, whereby problems are nurtured - then used to gain
power.

any connection you think?

A little over one year ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) the unemployment ra te was 4.5%%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we're seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) the cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5%% (a 10%% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value
evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by
$1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1%% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!

Don't look now, but it appears the Democratic party is acting like a true
opposition party. Harry Reid:

"I welcome the President's decision to withdraw the controversial
nomination of Mr. von Spakovsky. It is an action I have repeatedly urged
the President to take for more than six months. Democrats stood united in
their opposition to von Spakovsky because of his long and well-documented
history of working to suppress the rights of minorities and the elderly to
vote. He was not qualified to hold any position of trust in our government.

"His withdrawal today is a victory for our electoral process. With Mr.
von Spakovsky now removed, I anticipate that we will be able to swiftly put
a functioning FEC in place. That too is what the American people deserve."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-fec17-2008may17,0,1844326...

Always wondered who Bush's pal Von Spakovsky looked like and then it came
to me. Check it out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler

If that is the only way you think the world will change then you are out
of luck. It's way too late. I prefer direct prosecutions of BushCo in
criminal court after they leave office.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/world/asia/17detain.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

U.S. Planning Big New Prison in Afghanistan

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By ERIC SCHMITT and TIM GOLDEN
Published: May 17, 2008

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to build a new,
40-acre detention complex on the main American military base in
Afghanistan, officials said, in a stark acknowledgment that the United
States is likely to continue to hold prisoners overseas for years to
come.

The proposed detention center would replace the cavernous, makeshift
American prison on the Bagram military base north of Kabul, which is
now typically packed with about 630 prisoners, compared with the 270
held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Until now, the Bush administration had signaled that it intended to
scale back American involvement in detention operations in
Afghanistan. It had planned to transfer a large majority of the
prisoners to Afghan custody, in an American-financed, high-security
prison outside Kabul to be guarded by Afghan soldiers.

CNN's Lou Dobbs Is Clueless When It Comes to the Drug War
Tony Newman, AlterNet
DrugReporter: Lou Dobbs talks nonsense to explain Mexican drug violence.
Face it: Drug prohibition creates a profit motive that people are willing to
kill for.
Mexico is experiencing a bloodbath right now thanks to drug prohibition.
Drug wars are killing more Mexicans each year than Americans are perishing
in Iraq. Three thousand Mexicans have died since January 2007. Lou Dobbs
addressed the issue on Friday, May 9, after Esteban Robles Espinosa, the
head of Mexico City's investigative police was assassinated. Mr. Espinosa's
death came on the heels of Federal Police Chief Edgar Millan being gunned
down Thursday outside his Mexico City home -- the tenth federal police
officer killed by suspected drug cartel...

Didn't this guy go to b-school? What did he learn?

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Saudis reject Bush's appeal to ease oil pricesHaroon Siddique and
agencies guardian.co.uk, Friday May 16 2008 This article was first
published on guardian.co.uk on Friday May 16 2008. It was last updated
at 18:58 on May 16 2008.

Saudi Arabia today rebuffed George Bush's appeal to increase
production and help cut record oil prices, the White House said.

It was the second time this year that the pleas of the US president,
who is visiting King Abdullah, have fallen on deaf ears.

Bush's latest request came as the price of crude oil hit a new high of
more than $127 (£65) a barrel.

"What they're saying to us is ... Saudi Arabia does not have customers
that are making requests for oil that they are not able to satisfy,"
the US national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, told reporters.

However, the oil minister, Ali Naimi, said later that Saudi Arabia had
raised production by 300,000 barrels per day on May 10 in response to
requests from its customers. He said the increase would push the
kingdom's output to 9.45m barrels a day by June.

Human beings are a strange bunch to say the least. As a collective, we are
capable of bringing about tremendous progressive changes to our societies,
while simultaneously working to destroy them from within. What is the
reasoning behind this kind of behavior?

Well, I think Bush's speech in Isreal said it best when he had the nerve to
imply someone back home could be 'pandering' to the alleged terrorist
organizations in the same way that it was done at the outset of WW2 (NOTE:
Bush's grand dad was a Nazi sypmathizer. He made a fortune doing business
with the Nazi party...look it up if you don't believe me).

Bush and his cronies in the shadows have been using the Nazi play book from
the outset. They knew what it would take to create an environment of fear in
our society, and it wasn't too hard after all. A quote from the X-Files:
"the government keeps us looking at each other so we aren't looking up at
them" comes to mind.

Moyers: 'Democracy in America Is a Series of Narrow Escapes, and We May Be
Running Out of Luck'
By Bill Moyers, Doubleday
Democracy and Elections: For all of America's shortcomings, we keep telling
ourselves, "The system works." Now all bets are off.
http://www.alternet.org/democracy/85521/?page=entire

From an Englishman:

GWBush has been in power for almost 2 full terms & the whole nation is
culminating towards the largest apathetic cluster f@ck on the face of the
planet. Burger barns, Cable TV & moronic SUVs won't save your fat assess.
What sort of serious motivation do the yanks need. Your economy is in the
toilet, your government is ruined by endemic corruption, your national
health & education is the poorest of the developed world. Something else
about illegal spying of citizens & unwinnable wars......I wouldn't live in
the USA for all the gold in China (which used to be your gold btw).