My friends on Facebook have often seen my writing railing against America's Republican Party. My intent has always been to write heavy, and not lightly, on this subject. Below is a Dirty Dozen list as to why I'm so troubled by what they've done in the past and what I know they will do in the future.
1) We'll begin with the nation's oldest newspaper, the New Hampshire Gazette, which identifies the Republican War Hawks who won't go to war themselves, nor have their children do the fighting:
nhgazette.com
I would also like to add in one other Republican-led war, The Drug War leading to too many American citizens becoming victims of increasingly militarized police forces, becoming orphans of the courts and prisoner stats in a Republican-owned prison system that trades on the stock market and has also become the largest imprisoning system on the planet:
huffingtonpost.com
2) Republicans doing heavy lifting for US corporations cozy Third World dictators for economic benefit, leaving little to no benefit for the citizens whose nations were raped:
home.iprimus.com.au
3) Nixon breaks into National Democratic Headquarters:
washingtonpost.com
4) Reagan political operatives delayed release of American hostages held in Iran until after Carter was defeated:
nytimes.com
5) Reagan Administration provides 1,500 missles to Iran for hostages and also in exchange for Iran shipping weapons to the Contras attempting to overthrow the democratically-elected government of Nicaragua:
brown.edu
6) Under Governor Jeb Bush's secretary of state, Katherine Harris, voter registrations rolls are purged to limit voting of Democrats and then Bush-Cheney outright steal the election from Gore using a GOP-majority US Supreme Court:
nymag.com
michaelparenti.org
7) Bush-Cheney, again, steal a presidential election, this time from Kerry by rigging votes in Ohio in 2004:
[NOTE: Read page six to end below]
harpers.org
my.firedoglake.com
8) Bush-Cheney tax cuts for the wealthy:
epi.org
crooksandliars.com
9) Bush-Cheney prescription drug bill amounts to free money for pharmaceutical companies and hardships for seniors:
cepr.net
politicalaffairs.net
10) Hundreds of Bush-Cheney Administration lies in run-up to the War on Iraq:
cnn.com
billmoyers.com
11) GOP voter suppression strategies:
america.aljazeera.com
crooksandliars.com
12) The worst of the worst of the worst of the Republican Party in America -- The Southern Strategy ... a political strategy solely reliant on racism to win national elections:
nydailynews.com
salon.com
thenation.com |
