I hereby declare that the Republican Party should be dissolved.

[saltpoint]

It's not serving any useful purpose for the betterment of the people.

So out it goes.

[Kagemusha]

1. Freedom of association.

End.

[saltpoint]

2. Manipulation of said freedom of association, as in the arrests of

protestors, eclipses the GOP's right to assemble.

One entity may not supercede another's manifest right to speak in the public domain.

[ReadTomPaine]

7. The GOP could be dismantled overnight by a Democratic president...

thanks to laws the GOP themselves have brought into being.

All we'd have to do is use the relevant parts of the Patriot Act and a few of the choice executive orders put into place under the current administration. Worded in their current fashion, the GOP can easily be construed as a terrorist supporting organization. Almost any group can.

In fact, that's the fastest way to get rid of the Patriot Act. Use it in some fashion against the GOP and watch how quickly they decide it wasn't such a good idea after all. We'd have to votes to repeal it inside of week. Once people get burned, they learn not to play with fire.

[smalll]

3. Sure, and let's submit to random searches from corporations - and

make health care "mandatory" -- sorry, no. It may be easy to forget, after two terms of G. W. Bush, but fundamentally, America is NOT about FORCING people to do things they don't want to do!

Nice try, Robespierre.

[saltpoint]

5. Whatever. I'm voting Democratic.

Recommend same.

[saltpoint]

8. On the subject of the French, Robie ain't my guy. I like Chopin, nevermind

that the driver's license gives an address in Poland, and also Louis Malle. Hell of a director.

Au Revoir Les Enfants? Among the best there is.

[jgraz]

4. We need a courageous prosecutor to hit them under the RICO Act.

You do have freedom to associate, unless it's a criminal conspiracy.

[saltpoint]

6. Your last phrase there gets at my point, jgraz.

bingo.

[conscious evolution]

21. Criminal conspiracy is exactly what the repub party has become.

Imprison their ass's.

[Jamastiene]

9. Well, I declare...

the same thing too. So spot on. :thumbsup:

[saltpoint]

10. It's official then, Jamastiene. I want the Republicans out of there by

next weekend -- at the latest.

I'll even volunteer to help load the U-Haul.

[TwilightGardener]

11. How do you get rid of it? It won't flush, and it's toxic--

the whole party would have to be buried in the political equivalent of a superfund site or Yucca Mountain.

[saltpoint]

12. LOL! Let's bury it in Dick Cheney's underground bunker!

Misery loves company.

[lligrd]

13. They Sure Seem To Be Begging For Someone

to put them out of their misery. Of course, they are doing an excellent job of self-annihilation.

[saltpoint]

18. Agree. We couldn't hire any Jack Ruby-types who could do it better than

they're doing themselves.

I wonder if Ruby had lived longer if he might have pre-empted Brit Hume on FOX. Highly tangential, but it gives you a workup on my attitude to all that fair balancing they do at that network. If pressed, I don't think I could make a stronger case for Brit's creds than for Ruby. Ruby ran a strip joint bar with an extraordinarily low-life clientele. If anything, he'd have been vastly over-qualified for FOX News.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

14. Can we annex

off the South again?

[Donnachaidh]

15. been saying that for months n/t

[Swamp Rat]

16. The repukes are already dismantling themselves.

:)

[B Calm]

17. I agree. We are witnessing the fall of the republican party..

[saltpoint]

20. Agree with you -- they are in a state of high flux right now and more than

a little unmoored.

I use the example of John Danforth, a certified minister and former U.S. Senator from Missouri. He doesn't have my vote. He's a Republican and too conservative, but on the other hand, he looks downright evolved next to someone like Tom Coburn or Orrin Hatch or Saxby Chambliss, etc. Not all that long ago, most Congressional Republicans were more like Danforth and not at all like Cornyn, Sessions, and Santorum.

Many Democrats in the Senate left the Senate because of the onslaught of these Neanderthal Republicans. I wish they'd stayed.

In 06 we showed Santorum the door -- long overdue -- and we need to get a few more out in 08. I'd love to see John Warner's Virginia seat to to a superior Warner, Mark, and Colorado is looking encouraging also. Maybe one or two others. Build a stronger Senate majority. We're hanging by a thread currently and could use a boost. The voters have to do their part and make better choices than Mel Martinez, Jim Bunning, and James Inhofe.

[saltpoint]

19. Hey Swamp Rat. Good morning. Yes, the GOP is not in the best of

conditions for the upcoming 08 season. They're fielding a weak team against some impressive blue opponents. It seems now that they aren't going to retain the White House and may lose some Senate seats, too -- Virginia, Colorado, Nebraska... still maybes but looking pretty encouraging.

The PR hit the Pukes have taken is considerable. It could repress their turn-out and elect a lot of state and county Democrats in districts where the GOP has held strong for years.

And we sure could use a change.