The Pamphleteer

Are There Any "Good" Republicans ?

2009-09-25T15:44:00.002-04:00

“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

2009-09-03T10:14:00.002-04:00

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 !!!!

WAR ON THE AMERICAN WORKER

2009-08-04T15:20:00.005-04:00

A steady drift toward poverty and homelessness
is what more and more Americans have to look forward to thanks to almost thirty years of Reaganesque Republican Economic policies.

The current economic collapse known as
The "Recession"
is only the latest salvo in the not so secret war
Business is waging against the American worker.

Lower wages, mass layoffs, lost pensions,
and a "stab in the back" mentality are the rule
while jobs slowly have dwindled away.
Corporations have no sense of responsibility
toward their workers. Businesses relocate into foreign nations and then call on these very same people to fight wars to protect the "business" interests of the very same corporations who have cheated them out of a livelihood.

What is wrong with this picture?

CEOs are getting record salaries and bonuses
while the workers are expected to grovel and work harder for less pay.
If they don't, management ratchets up the fear,
pointing to the already legion number of men aimlessly wandering in the cities with packs on their backs during the day, and haunting the streets like zombies at night.
Any dissenters will be out the door with no severence pay.
The out of control destruction of The U.S. Economy
due to corruption and greed has to end now.
This is the "change" we need which surmounts all others
if The United States is ever to return
to "we" the people.

FIGHT CORORATE GREED

2009-04-07T21:52:00.000-04:00

The same people who for years have complained about "welfare"
with laser -beam precision while the country goes to hell
now defend "welfare" when the payments go out
to executives who are "bailed" out while workers
loose their jobs and families are being evicted from their homes.

Why should these people be provided a "golden" parachute
denied everyone else ? Give one good reason.
These "bailouts" will cost taxpayers more
than "welfare" has cost during its entire existence.
And these "bailouts" are going to the people who have enjoyed
tax "breaks" for years.

Why should they be any different ?
These are the people who caused
the financial collapse, and now they get pampered
while others are living out of their cars
and homeless shelters are swelling beyond capacity.
Don't let them get away with it !
This is the biggest swindle in American History.

OBAMA takes on Republican Critics

2009-04-02T13:58:00.000-04:00

In his 2d Prime time address
to The American Nation ,
President Obama answered "critics"
who have been quick to point out
he has yet to solve the massive problems
left over from The Bush/Cheney Administration.

“Bankers and executives on Wall Street
need to realize that enriching themselves
on the taxpayers' dime is inexcusable,"
the president said referring to the AIG scandal
and the Bush "Bailout".

"The days of outsized rewards and reckless speculation
[ which caused the current economic catastrophe ] are over.”

Directed toward those who accuse Obama
of leading the U.S. down a road to "communism"
the president declared he doesn't intend to
" demonize every investor or entrepreneur who seeks to make a profit".

However, his goals for the future are clear.
After thirty years of catering to Oil companies
and putting off the inevitable,
The president seeks to develop new technologies
retarded for years by oil company lobbyists

"Investment in renewable energy will lead to new jobs,
new businesses, and less dependence on foreign oil.”

Finally, President Obama had a word
for those baffled by the unavoidable
"spending" the new intitatives will require,

“At the end of the day,
the best way to bring our deficit down
in the long run is not with a budget
that continues the very same policies
that have led to a narrow prosperity
and massive debt.
Republican critics have a short memory,
because, as I recall,
I'm inheriting a $1.3 trillion deficit.
We will recover from this recession,
but it will take time, it will take patience,
and it will take an understanding that when we all work together;
when each of us looks beyond our own short-term interests
to the wider set of obligations we have to each other -
that’s when we succeed.
That’s when we prosper.
And that’s what is needed right now.”