Un American Republican
Partisanship
November 23, 2004
The election is over and the Republicans
won the fight for Washington, D.C.. Now, they will begin to fulfill their
agenda and work toward their un-American ideals of democracy. It has been
just a few weeks but they have made a great start:
Republicans changed their party rules to
insure the House Majority Leader Tom De Lay, (R-TX) will keep his
leadership post even if he is indicted for corruption in Texas. Where is
the honesty and morality of this?
Senate conservatives made Senator Arlen
Specter, (R-PA), an abortion-rights moderate, and chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee answer to religious activists who were angered when he
said that anti-abortion nominees for the Supreme Court would have trouble
winning approval. They made him promise to fall in line with the
Republican majority controlling the Senate. Democracy by the “stong arm”,
a favorite Mafia tactic.
Legislation to overhaul the nation's
intelligence agencies was “taken of the table” by J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL)
the Speaker of the House on November 20th. This stopped
national security reforms to make Americans safer. Their promises to make
us safer and to make changes were lies.
Republicans have raised the national debt
because they cannot find it in their hearts to reign in spending as
promised. On November 17, 2004 , by a vote of 52 to 44, (along party
lines), the Senate passed a bill to raise the national debt limit to $8.18
trillion, an $800 billion increase. The next day, the House of
Representatives passed a bill to raise the debt limit as approved by the
Senate. The deal was sealed when Bush signed it into law on the 19th. He
too couldn't pass up more spending and debt. Actually he has never vetoed
a spending bill, instead opting for more government.
Republican actions thus far show they are
not concerned about national security or our crushing national debt. And if
anyone “gets in the way”, well, they know how to deal with them, ask Senator
Specter.
Basically, they are a bunch of rich white
guys, disconnected from reality who don’t have to worry about their personal
security or financial future, so the hell with the rest of us.
It is un-American for Congressmen to think
only of their party, religion, and personal interests.
