Washblog

The talking points remain unchanged. The current version of dominant Republican conservatism is a discredited mess and there is NOT a lot that can happen before the elections except Republican strategic attempts at political deception and distraction.

The overriding theme stares us and them in the face and we ignore hammering that theme at our own risk.

The Republican Party deserves impeachment as much as does the President and Vice President.

The failed Republican approach:

(1)
Fighting the war on terror while remaining strictly stuck with the Republican Tax Cut Experiment.

(2)
Fighting a war on terror that no longer has logic, common sense or any kind of national success story attached to it.

(3)
Figthing a war on terror with an eye single to how to incorporate strategy and tactics in such a way as to create exceedling lucrative opportunities to corporate supporters of the man and his party. Halliburton is a liability that proud Republicans cannot hang their electoral hats on.

Halliburton represents Republican disaster-handling at it's stupidest - borne out by the same approach to Louisiana and post-Katrina rehabilitation.

(4)
Republican child-abuse ...
The national debt reflects an abusive act this country's Republican leadership has committed on our children and grandchildren.

The Republican Party is the current grand perpetrator of long-term child abuse in this country, inflicting a financial burden and the consequences of selfish opportunism on our innocent posterity.

(5)
Lack of health care and opposition to universal health care is part and parcel of the conservative myth about a free-market system in which employers - going back to post WWII economics. Back then it was assumed that capitalism and American employers could shoulder the responsibility for health coverage for all American workers and prove to the world the wholesome power of unrestricted free-markets.

That assumption has proven to be a disaster and corporate America, primarily a Republican sponsor rewarded by grateful Republicans, has been left at a competitive disadvantage globally and unable to resist the temptation to become competitive by robbing workers of both job and health security.

This circumstance involved both parties going back to 1946, but most recently, those in power have moved the problem to its extreme absurdity.

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The Medicare Prescription Drug problem as resolved by blind, stubborn and foolish Republican politicians is a disaster and can be unequivocally laid at the feet of every Republican candidate.
Medicare D is PRECISELY what being a Republican stands for.

(7)
Republicans must run for re-election defending the federal budgeting priorities and tax cuts that openly have reduced economic, medical and educational security of our most vulnerable citizens. We must insist in our public questioning, blogging and activism that any Republican candidate defend the Bush budgeting priorities.

(8)
Bush is still posturing as some kind of "education President" who, despite the compassionate self-label, has left children behind, imposed terrible burdens on public schools, and failed to provide the necessaries to make his compassionate promises come true. Republican candidates must defend this a somehow wise and effective. They can't.

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Prime Republican bread and butter is the distraction of the pseudo Christian morality that makes political mountains out of molehills at the expense of that with which any religious believer ought to be most focussed: Compassion, justice and equality.

Any Republican blowhard who throws up one of the pseudo "moral" issues needs to be immediately confronted with a question about torture, injustice and inequality inside America and globally.

"That's nice, Mr. Republican candidate, but what does your personal morality prompt in you regarding torture, injustice, inequality and the lack of compassion your party and your radical religious right supporters ignore so pointedly?"

We can knock down the entire facade of the Republican party's pretended patriotism, conservatism and regard for humanity in general because it was built on bull, bluff, personal political chicanery and swift-bloat lies.

Let them continue to tie themselves to Bush and exhort each other not to dis their president. The party deserves indictment and impeachment as much as the president to whom they willing joined themselves at the hip.

Both are one and the same as guilty and accountable as hell.

Cross posted at Daily Kos