Is the GOP the party of bigotry???

[tedzbear]

The answer seems obvious to me. In yesterday's vote in the Calif. assembly for the gay marriage bill, the nays were all Republicans.

The willful neglect of the black hurricane survivors in New Orleans was orchestrated by a Republican administration who rewards the rich with tax cuts while only paying lip service to the needs of the poor.

While I know today's CNN poll was worded in a way that put the emphasis on the hurricane, not the government's response, it still shows a shocking divide where half the nation backs Bush even when his failures are obvious.

At least those of us who voted for Kerry can feel free of guilt for this tragedy, while the Republicans will have to play catch up in order to sleep at night. But a good portion of those Bush followers probably feel no remorse, I'm afraid.

Today we can see in chilling detail how Germany allowed Hitler to achieve his cruel aims, right here in America! Those of us on the left must continue to fight against the tyranny of bigotry now sweeping our nation.


:patriot:

[Autonomy]

1. YES. n/t

[mattclearing]

2. For the past forty or so years, yeah.

Pretty much ever since the Civil Rights movement pushed the Dixiecrats out of the Democratic Party.

[whistle]

3. YES!

[bushisanidiot]

4. Yep, they are. Freeptards are falling all over themselves to call

the hurricane victims "welfare queens" etc..


To: johnny7
The welfare queens of NO have realized that they can draw a check in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio just as easily as NO. Why would they want to go there again? Gang infested and destroyed, NO is history as far as they are concerned. I am bettin many thousands of these folks are now TEXANS permanently..............Hook'em!.........



12 posted on 09/07/2005 6:25:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (United States Marine Corps.....An army of WON!...........)
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To: Pondman88
So now they are spreading the poverty around by sending them to different states so that they can foot the bill.



20 posted on 09/07/2005 6:31:18 AM PDT by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: johnny7
Barb is right. It's like the bum kicking a can down the street responded when asked "Whatch doin'", he said, "Movin'".



21 posted on 09/07/2005 6:32:21 AM PDT by azhenfud (He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
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To: BackInBlack


"What she said is true. I bet the vast majority of those on the Astrodome were on some sort of "public assistance" before the storm, and now they get more public assistance. What's the big deal with what she said???"

The big deal is that she wasn't being PC and spoke the truth.

I hope, like Barbara Bush, these refugees can return back to NO and their culture asap.



30 posted on 09/07/2005 6:36:30 AM PDT by niteshift
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To: Red Badger
The welfare queens are the same all over, they can tell their friends what agency will be giving out grants /vouchers for school clothes, supplies, rental assitance ultility payments;they have no reason to work, they breed like cockroaches. Someone tell me why not one of these baby's daddie's made arrangements for their children to leave town,because their resources are spread on the average to 5-6 children with different women.I pray for the communities that see these people settle there; who have always been totally dependent on the goverment for their basic needs.I saw the neighborhoods first hand working as a home health nurse it is scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



48 posted on 09/07/2005 6:49:13 AM PDT by dubyawhoiluv
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To: lillybet
Wasn't the leftist and media, just telling us that starving is euphoric? Terry Schiavo was not in any pain at all! These folks went maybe 48 hrs. Terry went about 13 days. Also, if you look at the refugees, they are about 80% obese. Poverty. Does a body good.



51 posted on 09/07/2005 6:55:42 AM PDT by Ron in Acreage (It's the borders stupid! "ALLEN IN 08")
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To: BackInBlack
" Part of the reason there's so much trash around is that the City doesn't bother to do clean-up here very often."

I wonder about that. Do you really think the city cleans up less often in bad neighborhoods, or is it just that it gets skanked up so much quicker there?

At the stadium in N.O. they said the garbage (including excrement) was ankle deep inside. Does everyone really have to just drop stuff wherever they are? Couldn't they take it outside?

56 posted on 09/07/2005 7:02:52 AM PDT by Pessimist
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To: dubyawhoiluv
I saw the neighborhoods first hand working as a home health nurse it is scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know people whose only "job" is to see how much "free money" they can get from the government (to them, city/county/state/federal is all "the government"). A woman I know urged her daughter, then 16, to "get pregnant as soon as she could" so that they could get another set of welfare/food stamps/WIC/ etc...............


62 posted on 09/07/2005 7:08:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (United States Marine Corps.....An army of WON!...........)
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To: AmericanMade1776
And, of course, the crime rate around the Astrodome has already spiked.



8 posted on 09/07/2005 7:17:12 AM PDT by Hank All-American (Free Men, Free Minds, Free Markets baby!)
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To: AmericanMade1776
GIT A ROPE!



16 posted on 09/07/2005 7:19:01 AM PDT by texas_mrs
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[aquart]

22. Working poor are NOT "welfare queens."

For instance, 2000 Marriott Hotel employees are missing. The rest have checked in from their various evacuation centers and other places out of state. VALUED EMPLOYEES.

These were the people who provided the bedrock of New Orleans tourist industry.

They didn't make a lot of money at it. But there is no New Orleans without them.

[Memekiller]

5. Well, let's see...

This is a sample of what I've been hearing here in Houston the past few days:

1) I won't give money to looters.
2) They all came here to collect our welfare checks.
3) We should lock the door on the Astrodome and not let them out.
Etc., etc., etc...

[bleedingheart]

6. yes

[Horse with no Name]

7. What do you expect when organizations such

as the KKK, skinheads, neo-nazi's, and radical X-tians are under one tent?
Methinks they take up most of the space.

[aquart]

8. Honestly?

Sorry, but Democrats simply have different code words.

Please, this is NOT a time for self-congratulations.

WAY too many of us voted for the worst of Bush's policies.

[Horse with no Name]

10. Speak for yourself

I didn't vote for any of this shit.

[sniffa]

14. can i have a List of the code words?

i wanna make sure i throw them around.

[BootinUp]

19. please elaborate. n/t

[tedzbear]

20. I disagree.

The response to Katrina shows a clear divide in our nation. You need to give examples of your accusations, then we can talk.

I have never voted for any Repug.

[Lerkfish]

9. um....out on a limb....YES!

absofricckinlutely.

[Not Me]

11. Rhetorical question.

[Seeker30]

12. I think of them more as the party of hate and death

[porphyrian]

13. Entitlement and Exclusivity

Qualities I fucking hate in just about anybody.

[Cats Against Frist]

15. Yes, I would say that a lot of the problems we're having

stem directly from the racial divide, and the GOP has affixed itself FIRMLY, at least, on the surface, onto the "white" side. Though, at the top levels, I think they couldn't really give a fuck about any American, regardless of color, but their rallying call stirs up the inner Klansperson, in a lot of people.

[MN ChimpH8R]

16. Does the poop wear a funny hat? nt

[Ravenseye]

17. Yes

Is there any question? What group of people do the Republicans embrace that need more to gain equal rights which the Democrats don't?

None.

They are anti-black, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-nonchristian, anti-, anti-, anti-.

Then they manage to get one or two blacks, women, gays, or nonchrisitans to stand up and say "Hey i'm a republican too!"

No. I'm sorry. Republicans gained their foothold in the south and rural parts of this country because the Democrats passed the civil rights bill, and the Republicans fought against it...because they are racist. Bigoted. small.

You can be a registered republican, and a conservative, and not be racist or bigoted...but if you are, you're in the minority.

[BootinUp]

18. Is a frog's @ss water tight?

[snippy]

21. Of course, at least according to the RNC Chairman.

When he wasn't defending Karl Rove last week, Republican Chairman Ken Mehlman managed to squeeze in an apology to African-Americans for his party's cynical use of racial divisions and wedge issues like affirmative action, busing and fear of crime to win elections.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05200/539941.stm

[BlueJac]

23. yes

[burythehatchet]

24. yo pecka..it knows no bigotry

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25. yes

[tsuki]

26. Yes, they folded the remains of the Dixiecrat wing into the Republican

Party after Johnson's Civil Rights Act. It appears that the old Dixiecrats are now in charge of the Republican Party and the Murdock/Saudi News Corporation.

Open racism is now becoming acceptable in America again.

[TahitiNut]

27. "Wedge issues" are EXPLOITED on both sides of each issue.

Whether for political or economic gain, one need merely look at who benefits by the perpetuation of the 'wedge issue' to see exploitation.