Are There Any "Good" Republicans ?

“America is in unprecedented decline.
The self-inflicted wounds of the Iraq war,
growing government debt,
increasingly negative current-account balances
and other internal economic weaknesses
have cost the United States real power
in today’s world
of rapidly spreading
knowledge and technology.
If present trends continue,
we will look back
at the BUSH/CHENEY years
as the death knell
of American hegemony.”

“America’s relative decline
since 2000
represents a far greater loss
of relative power
in a shorter time
than any power shift
among European Great Powers...
... from the end of the Napoleonic Wars
to World War II.
It is one of the largest relative declines
in modern history.
Indeed, in size,
it is clearly surpassed
by only one other great-power decline,
the unprecedented internal collapse
of the Soviet Union in 1991.”

Robert Pape
University of Chicago



"Partisans of President Bush
may blame Obama
for presiding over a strategic retreat,
but it is The Bush Administration
that assured and accelerated such a retreat."

Patrick J. Buchanan


Is Government Bailing Out the Wealthy?
"Risk has been off-loaded by wealthy Wall Streeters onto taxpayers.
Risk has become “socialized,” while rewards have been privatized.
Bailouts are part of a regime that the U.S. has followed since the 1980s,
of essentially aggrandizing wealth in the financial sector.
Over the last 25 years, we’ve seen a socialization of risk.
They don’t want socialization in medicine, or industry,
or manufacturing, but they sure as hell
want it in the financial sector."

Kevin Phillips

Traditional Republicans Buchanan and Phillips were critical
of the Bush Presidency for a number of years.
Along with Ron Paul ,
these Republicans have sought to warn rank and file Republicans
about the warped policies endorsed
by the post-1980's Republican presidents.
Oppression and dishonesty, along with "tax-breaks"
for the most wealthy of Americans,
have been cornerstones of Republican politics.

The Culture of Greed which has engulfed the society
is daily endorsed by ' talk ' radio propagandists and FOX NEWS.
The Financial Crisis has been the predictable result.
Ron Paul has the distinction of being the sole Republican
to have kept his "cool"
and voted against the Iraq War Resolution in 2002.

These Republicans lament the destruction of their party
by oportunistic "neoconservatives" and The Bush Doctrine.
Rush Limbaugh has encouraged his cult of listeners
it would be better for The United States to continue its decline
rather than allow the new Democratic Administration to succeed.
These twisted views are not consistant with the national 'interest'.
Most of all , these traditional Republicans
are appalled by the lack of respect The Bush/Cheney Administration had
for The Constitution and its ideology of military adventurism,
sanctioned torture, and promotion aggressive Zionism.

Are There Any Good Republicans ?
It would seem some at least are better than others.
Republicans would be wise to heed the advice of these critics
if they wish to salvage their disgraced political party.

INDICT "DICK" CHENEY

It should be obvious by now,
by his own admissions in the media,
"Dick" Cheney broke The Law while "serving"
as Vice president of The United States
and deserves to be prosecuted.

Cheney ordered The C.I.A.
not to inform Congress of its activities
and was shielded from Congressional oversight.
For years The Agency operated
with little to no accountibility,
plotted assassinations, coup attempts,
and abused authority
by conducting illegal surveillence
on American citizens.

President Gerald Ford outlawed "assassinations"
in 1976 after revelations the CIA tried and failed
to assassinate Fidel Castro in the 1960s.
By keeping Congress in the dark about his program,
Cheney violated established law.

Remember when the former Vice President
used to claim he constituted a peculiar fourth branch of government
unto himself, claiming executive privilege as part of the executive branch,
while with the next breath refusing to obey executive branch record keeping laws?
Now we beginning to find out what that fourth branch of government
actually was -- his own private worldwide assassination ring!
Cheney was running his own personal assassination squad.

No one is above the law.
Nixon wasn't, and neither is "Dick" Cheney.
Former Vice President Cheney
attacked Attorney General Eric Holder's decision
to investigate whether the CIA abused terror suspects
during the Bush years because
when the truth comes out
he might end up in PRISON !!

Cheney is still trying
to manipulate public opinion.
When he was vice president,
Dick Cheney got his way
by secretly wielding the instruments of power.
He is the one behind the lies
which committed The U.S.
to the debacle in Iraq
as Special Forces were closing in
on Bin Laden in Afghanistan.

The CIA released two documents
that Cheney insisted would prove
torture had, as he put it,
"prevented the violent death of thousands,
if not hundreds of thousands, of innocent people."
But when those reports were released,
they included no such proof.

The G.O.P. was seeking to head off
a Congressional probe
or a probe by an independent commission
into The Torture Program.
Now we all know why.
Cheney should be forced to testify.
The Justice Department needs
to INDICT "DICK" CHENEY !!!!