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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 10:11 AM
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Radical States: GOP Forcing Their Nightmarish Right-Wing Vision on People Who Elected Them
http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/149959/radical_states:_gop_forcing_their_nightmarish_right-wing_vision_on_people_who_elected_them/

SNIP -When President Obama took office amidst the worst recession in three generations, he immediately focused his energy on enacting a comprehensive plan to revive the nation's economy. Newly elected Republicans, however, have interpreted their temporary rise to power in an entirely different way. Where Obama saw an immediate need to grow the nation's economy, GOP leaders are seizing their moment to force longstanding GOP fantasies upon the people they govern.

Several GOP-led states are pushing plans to strip state workers of their collective bargaining rights. Twelve states are considering unconstitutional bills "nullifying" the Affordable Care Act. Arizona Republicans are lining up behind a plan to unconstitutionally strip citizenship from millions of Americans. New Hampshire Republicans have returned to the GOP's favorite pastime of denying gay Americans their constitutional rights. Given the opportunity to lead, far-right politicians have decided instead to ignore the nation's needs and pursue their own narrow, unpopular ideological vendettas
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Lindsay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 10:17 AM
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1. It's kinda looking like
that vast right-wing conspiracy writ larger and larger with each passing day.
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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 10:21 AM
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2. True dat: "far-right politicians have decided instead to ignore the nation's needs and pursue their
own narrow, unpopular ideological vendettas"
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Tippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 10:23 AM
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3. K&R.......It is time for all of us to speak out............
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist....Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:14 PM
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4. Yes
thanks
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