5 Ways the Republican Party is destroying America

[Democrats_win]

1. The Iraq war: physically, fiscally and morally.
2. Underfunding education
3. Ramming religion down our throats.
4. Scandals (Delay, Rove, Coingate, election fraud, Abu Ghraib etc.)
5. Doing nothing for our future energy needs.

[evlbstrd]

1. Just 5?

That was too easy.

[tofubo]

11. 26

a: they stole the 2000 election
b: they facilitated 911
c: they implemented the removal of some of our most basic civil liberties with the passage (by changing agreed upon language, and then not allowing congress to read it) the t.r.e.a.s.o.n.o.u.s act of 2001
d: they lied their way into iraq
e: they stole the 2004 election
f: they are stealing billions in iraq and from the u.s. taxpayers
g: they are marginalizing scientists and educators
h: they are shipping jobs overseas without a care in the world
i: they are putting their patsies in positions of power all over, from local school boards to u.n. ambassadors and everywhere in between
j: they are putting this country into unsustainable deficits by spending like there's no tomorrow (after the rapture, of course, there won't be) and cutting taxes on every rich som-bitch and corporation know to man
k: they are injecting not only religion, but specifically christianity into our public works, life, and laws
l: they are killing tens of thousands and torturing hundreds and letting the guilty go free
m: they have fuckheads like sensenbrenner shutting down hearings on civil liberties (by passing the omnibus talk to the hand act of 2004 - props dswjs)
n: they let santorum open his mouth in public and don't call him on his STUPID shit
o: they let a partisan hack like tomlinson fuck with the one man with more integrity than the entire administration put together
p: condoleezza rice, i want to hurl, nuff said
q: the same people spouting WAR, WAR, WAR are profiting by having ownership and employment with defense contractors
r: josé padilla lost his right to habeas corpus, who's next ??
s: sibel edmonds free speech rights got replaced with a zipper
t: hijacking tests on 9/11, bomb tests on 7/7
u: giuliani in ny on 9/11, giuliani in london on 7/7
v: the head of london transportation is the ex-assistant to the cia director
w: aipac allegedly committed treason, how many of both parties have spoke, accepted campaign contributions, etc ?? (atc and denny too)
x: family planning clinics cannot talk about anything but abstinence
y: you cannot talk truthfully against this administration without being labeled a traitor
z: the entire george bush administration and the national republican party are fucking god damn treasonous assholes and gonzáles is using the INACTION of the justice department to cover for them, with the grease the skids, look the other way mentality of a complicit congress

[evlbstrd]

15. That's a great list.

Treasonous bastards.

[raccoon]

21. Right on, tofubo!

[Initech]

2. There have been more scandals under Bush than Clinton!

And it only took one to impeach Clinton!

Someone should keep track. Oh wait, this website already does!

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. 6. Systematically chipping away at the bill of rights and the constitution

[bliss_eternal]

13. Don't you love the way they treat it like a 'rough draft'?

:eyes:

[applegrove]

4. At least it is all getting clear to the Americans. A short list. Simple.

Touches on many more truths than just 5.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. 7. Dumbing down political (and all, really) discourse in America

to a fourth grade level.

[bliss_eternal]

14. Are you certain about grade four?

It seems they just want us to all follow in line with their policies, lock step, kinda' like you learn to do in kindergarten...

[marmar]

6. Hmm

!. In
2. Every
3. Fucking
4. Way
5. Imaginable!

:cry: :grr:

[longship]

7. I would put global warming in top five.

If it isn't there yet, it will be there soon enough.

[wli]

8. 6. unpreparedness for Peak Oil

[leftofthedial]

9. Patriot Act

destruction of the integrity electoral process (killing democracy)

[Elwood P Dowd]

10. You missed a big one

Economic policies that are putting putting millions of Americans out of work and the rest fighting for low-wage service jobs.

[oscar111]

12. 1OO,OOO die in our streets/yr - the homeless

how do you folks keep forgetting to list that?

you see them daily.

also, .. another way is

14 million Job Shortage.

see sig for sources\

PS 3 million involved with homeslss situation/yr, they die at three times normal rate. Works out to 1OO,OOO excess deaths due to heat, cold, rat bites, hunger... and criminal attacks, poor ability to treat ills at "home" in an alleyway pile of rags for a bed, and many other reasons.
4 billion would end all homelssness... taxcuts for the rich totalled 35O billion.

Job Shortage can end at NO cost... WPA harnesses the labor power of the jobless, which now is unharnessed.

[bliss_eternal]

16. Ah yes, the Raygun years. When he closed down mental

health facilities, and turned the mentally ill out to the streets. Many of which still live on the streets in CA today.

:(

[Indie Filmmaker]

17. Top Five Reasons the Republican Pary is making America better

5) The Daily Show has lots of material.
4) We don't misunderestimate anything anymore
3) Shorter lines at the pharmacy
2) Sundays have greater free time because prayer is in school
1) The world is much simpler when everything is black and white

[newyawker99]

20. Hi Indie Filmmaker!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[OneBlueSky]

18. 6. trying to destroy Social Security . . . n/t

.

[Caleb]

19. 6. Twin deficits

7. Erosion of civil rights