Official bash REPUBLICANS instead of DEMOCRATS thread

[Coexist]

gee - wonder how quickly this one will sink.

[kevinmc]

1. Mainstream America has baled on the GOP.

Poll: Most say Iraq war hasn't made U.S. safer Bush, Republicans receive lion's share of blame for stalemates on domestic issues.

WASHINGTON -- For the first time since the war in Iraq began, more than half of the American public thinks the fight there has not made the United States safer, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll found.

While the focus in Washington has shifted from the Iraq conflict to Social Security and other domestic matters, the survey found that Americans continue to rank Iraq second only to the economy in importance -- and that many are losing patience with the enterprise.

Overall, more than half -- 52 percent -- disapprove of how Bush is handling his job, the highest of his presidency. A somewhat larger majority -- 56 percent -- disapproved of Republicans in Congress, and an identical proportion disapproved of Democrats.

There were signs, however, that Bush and Republicans in Congress were receiving more of the blame for the recent standoffs on such issues as Bush's judicial nominees and Social Security. Six in 10 respondents said Bush and GOP leaders are not making good progress on the nation's problems; of those, 67 percent blamed the president and Republicans, while 13 percent blamed congressional Democrats. For the first time, a majority, 55 percent, also said Bush has done more to divide the country than to unite it.

Some authorities on war and public opinion said the figures indicate that pessimism about the war in Iraq has reached a dangerous level.

"It appears that Americans are coming to the realization that the war in Iraq is not being won and may well prove unwinnable," said retired Army Col. Andrew Bacevich, a professor at Boston University. "That conclusion bleeds over into a conviction that it may not have been necessary in the first place."

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050608/NEWS06/506080475/1012

[displacedtexan]

2. You're missing a K.

I suppose the thread is capable of sinning, but...
Hm.

Anyway, my Blog Box column this week (on the DU homepage tomorrow morning) is all about bashing Republicans.

It's time to kick some Repuke ass around here!

[Coexist]

3. LOL! thanks for the edit help!

Can't wait to read your column.

Let's all focus our considerable energy on the NeoCons instead of wasting is pissing and moaning about the good guys.

[impeachthescoundrel]

6. You are so right

I really get tired of seeing poeple bash Democrats. republicans have a hell of a nerve after they presented the swift boat liars.I too hate republicans and everything they stand for.We can all recognize a DISTRACTION whan we see one, cant we?As if we don't have the attention span to follow an entire saga of LIES.I am becoming more angry by the day.

If anyone watched CSpan this morning, there was a whopping 15 minutes of "open phones". The person who was taking the calls had some newspapers with current topics, none of which included the DSM. We can't let this one die.And I am sure we won't,no matter what they do.

And how about Janice Rogers Brown?And the congressional republicans who were afraid or unwilling(or both)to vote NO on her?There is a special place reserved for them in the very depths of hell. Right next door to her.Yes I know that Nelson-FL-D voted with them.And my cynicism leads me to believe that that was Jebby's fault.

How much longer do we have to live with this EVIL? I could go through the list of grievances but I won't; we all know them too well. Like a man who called CSpan about a month ago said: "I hope we can get the republicans out of there for 100 years".I pray every day that they will be exposed.There is too much at stake.




End of rant for now.

[eallen]

4. The GOP has become a marriage of the religious right & corporate welfare..

It is truly frightening to observe the degree and rapidity with which the religious right has taken control of the GOP in the last ten years. Today, anyone else who supports the GOP is deluded. We need to constantly harp on the fact that the GOP now serves only two interests. First, it is trying to remake this nation as a Christian theocracy, by banning abortion, birth control, gay marriage, gay rights generally, stem cell research, any science that conflicts with fundamentalist Christianity. Second, it is a funnel for corporate welfare, of which the medicare prescription benefit is a large example.

[wicket]

5. Fuck Tom DeLay and all of his corrupt cronies!

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[CitrusLib]

7. Sanctimony and hypocrisy are the mating calls of Republicans.

[Goldeneye]

8. I hate republicans and everything they stand for.

[Coexist]

9. Republicans still believe in supply-side economics!

History means nothing to them.

[Telly Savalas]

10. Some of this GOP bashing is rather tepid.

Looks like we're infested with DINOs!

:hide:

[Coexist]

11. ha ha ha!

but what is there to talk about instead of if we dislike Kerry/Dean/Obama/Clinton/Gore/Clark/Nelson?

There are no real world issues that we need to be spending our energies on, so this is what we do for fun while things are going so great.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

12. Radical rightwing, Extremist Christians are Hurting this Country