Time to quit p*ssy-footing around & call Republican Party what they really are-ANTI-AMERICAN.

[kpete]

Here's what UnAmerican really is!
By Thom Hartmann

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It's time to start calling people out - because there's no more room in this critical debate over America's future for individuals who are fundamentally anti-American. That includes the politicians - the so-called newsmen - the phony economists - and the greedy CEOs who have no problem destroying this nation just for a few bucks. They spew poll-tested terms like "job creators" to push for even more tax breaks for transnational corporations that already pay nothing in taxes. While forgetting that this nation was founded as a result of an anti-corporate revolt against the world's largest transnational corporation at the time - the British East India Tea Company. They call up hucksters like Thomas Friedman to tout so-called Free Trade policies that sell off our factories and manufacturing jobs to the lowest bidders around the world. While forgetting that our nation's first Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton laid out an 11-point plan literally called "The American Way" that promoted protectionsism and promoted American industires - and NOT so-called Free Trade. They give millionaires and billionaires the power to run amok in our politics - claiming that corporations are people - and as people have a right to free speech - and to dump as much money in our elections as they damn well please. While forgetting that none of the founding fathers considered corporations important enough to not even mention them in our nation's Constitution.

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They rally around a war criminal like Dick Cheney whose incompetence is only outweighed by his brutality. Here's a man who was head of the anti-terrorism task force in the White House in 2001 - who was warned by former Vice President Al Gore to keep an eye out for Al-Qaeda - and who neglected to hold one meeting on the threat of terrorism - but instead spent his time figuring out how to divvy up and sell off the oil fields of Iraq. We got hit on 9/11 because Dick Cheney dropped the ball - he didn't keep us safe - he's guilty of gross negligence. And to cover up his grotesque mistake - Cheney resorted to war crimes - to torture - and illegal invasions. There's nothing more anti-American than torture. Historian David Fischer explained the sentiment of our founding fathers toward torture during the Revolutionary War by writing, "American leaders believed it was not enough to win the war. They also had to win in a way that was consistent with the values of their society and the principles of their cause." That's why when General George Washington captured 1,000 Hessians in the battle of Trenton during our war of independence - he carefully sent instructions to his soldiers on how to treat the prisoners - writing, "Treat them with humanity, and let them have no reason to Complain of our Copying the brutal example of the British Army in their treatment of our unfortunate brethren.... Provide everything necessary for them on the road."

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The summary point is - this is what the billionaires who've seized control of Dwight Eisenhower's once-proud Republican Party are offering us today - this is their vision of America. More wars, more billionaires, and a devastated middle class. For thirty years - they've campaigned and spoken openly about their dislike for our government - that extraordinary gift that was created by the Founding Fathers is, as Reagan said, the "problem and not the solution" to our problems. I beg to differ. I love America and believe in America, and am encouraged by the knowledge that most Americans agree with that sentiment. It's time to quit p*ssy-footing around and call the hustlers running the Republican Party - and their mouthpieces on the right - what they are. They're anti-American.

more:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Hartmann-Here-s-what-UnAm-by-Thom-Hartmann-110903-655.html

[EFerrari]

1. I've been thinking about this topic all week.

You can't claim to love America and try to take it apart at the same time. And that has been the Republican M.O. since that old felon was in office. Republicans actually hate this country, that's the only explanation for their decades of destructive behavior.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I could not agree more...

Thomas Hartmann has got it right.

Recommended.

[TwilightGardener]

3. I've been doing that:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1873939&mesg_id=1874331

I hope everyone joins in. Kudos to Mr. Hartmann, I'm a nobody and it doesn't take courage for me to say it.

[Odin2005]

4. I've been calling the Pukes Un-American traitors for a while now

[gateley]

5. You can't call yourself an American if you're willing to let people

become homeless, go hungry and die just to advance your political agenda.

[deacon]

6. They are. k/r. They hate hard working people. n/t

[jberryhill]

7. Who was stopping you before? And this will have the effect of...?

[TwilightGardener]

8. If others who have more media pull start suggesting this, or at least

imply that Democrats are saying this, we might get somewhere. It might take hold.

[phantom power]

9. This is completely tangential, but "pussy-footing" refers to cats -- no asterisk required :-)

[Warren Stupidity]

13. no shit.

sort of a show stopper for me. Plus the irony, it hurts!

[Brickbat]

14. Hee, I opened this thread to post exactly that.

[Quantess]

31. The asterisk makes p*ssy footing sound dirty!

[greytdemocrat]

10. Yep

Speak Truth to Power!!!

[bluestate10]

11. I am one DUER.

That has consistently called that party both anti-american and wholly anti-Constitution. I have no qualms about having done so.

[Warren Stupidity]

12. It is ironic that the headline pussyfoots around the word pussyfoot.

How can I take the article seriously when it insists on spelling pussy-foot as p*ssy-foot, as if the term referred to a vagina with some sort of foot like qualities, rather than the structure at the end of a cat's leg?

[krispos42]

17. That's exactly the point I was going to make! n/t

[Bucky]

23. Yeah, the OP was being a real pussy about it

Toying around with the word "pussy" like it was a ball of yarn.

[BeFree]

27. My Gawd, I can't believe this shit

Out of 300 words and a great message, yall focus on a friggin asterisk? WTF?!?!?!

You had a great chance to knife the repuglycans and you end up dissing an OPer?

Mods should delete the fuck out of yall.

[Quantess]

32. Look at this way: we are kicking the thread.

I happen to think the asterisk makes it seem dirty. Like, "Hey, neighbor! I just planted a p*ssy willow in my yard. Come over and look at it."

[Quantess]

38. ...

"come over and help me trim my p*ssy willow"
:rofl:

[Bucky]

44. How exactly would I "knife" the Republicans in a DU thread? Do you think our scorn matters?

I was only making a little pun. Try not to be so thin skinned, amigo.

[Prana69]

42. Seriously? Did you consider that the OP might have used the * so the thread would ...

...not be hidden / rejected as a search result for people who use spam / p*rn filters that would reject the word "pussy" because of it's se*ual connotation? Do you understand how heavy handed those filters are?

A great post by the way. Worth taking seriously.

P69

[GoCubsGo]

15. Thom is too nice.

"Treasonous bastards" is far more appropriate for those treasonous bastards.

[pansypoo53219]

16. sedition.

SAY IT!

[defendandprotect]

18. True -- but isn't dismantling Social Security and Medicare also "anti-American" ... ???

Obama has already done great damage to Social Security in interrupting the full

funding of the program -- in NOT increasing the income cap on Social Security --

and in STOPPING COLA payments -- !!


Sadly, Obama and Dems are also taking these wars into the second decade!

And still approving extension of tax cuts for rich -- !!



Think you'd better rethink this one -- !!



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[on point]

19. plus anti-science, anti-economics, anti-reality in general!!

[The Wizard]

20. ANTI-AMERICAN scumbags

would be more accurate.

[highplainsdem]

21. K&R

[gordianot]

22. Republicans want a very different America from what we were taught in school

Not that High School Civics was accurate but it was idealistic inclusive and naive. When you studied OHenry the "robber barons" were terrible and reading the "Jungle" created disgust. Well kids guess what? Take every villain, every disgusting movie antagonist, the greediest mercenary criminal, demagogue, con men and women, racist and outright hypocrite, roll them up into one neat package they have a refuge in the Republican Party Grand Old Party. The "Dark Angels" prevail in the Republican party today. It was not always so but they won out. A similar infection exists in the Democratic Party but it has not become as prevalent. Dominance from force and greed is the Republican way.

[raouldukelives]

24. K&R

[Tennessee Gal]

25. Un-American is precisely right. Thanks for the article.

[Cleita]

26. I wrote my Republican Congressman, Kevin McCarthy,

and said just that a few months ago. I said he and his party were unAmerican and listed the reasons for, and the legislation they have proposed, as being anti-American. He never wrote back. I sent a copy of my letter to Senator Barbara Boxer in case he thought he could ignore it. Of course, me alone saying that is meaningless. We all have to write our Republican elected officials and tell them they are being anti-American and spell out why. Then they might realize it.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

33. Don't forget to phone and phone often. It works better than email.

[bonniebgood]

28. Todays Repug Party is

Anti-Constitution period. The United States Constitution is a "job killing regulation"
they can do without.

[gtar100]

29. k&r

Our mission is pull the tea-bagger's heads out of their collective asses.

[Auntie Bush]

30. Finally someone with some good sense and tells it like it is...the TRUTH.

The republicans are ALL Anti-American!

What's American about hating our government?

What's American about wanting and working for our economy to fail so they can take control of it's finances and give them to the rich?

What's American about denying help to our poor, elderly, disabled, middle class and schools?

What's American about wanting to succeed from the union. How many other states will follow and we have another civil war? That's really American!

I frankly can't see how many sicko's in this country can vote for the ReThugs.

[Broderick]

34. start massive recall elections

We have seen and proven what success they can be!

[penndragon69]

35. Anti American party, no.

The party of SATAN....most definitely!

[Raine]

37. That's exactly what they are, unfortunately

they got to the label first and branded us with it. It may be too late to make it stick on them unless from the top down we all use it on them.

[Supersedeas]

39. Profits trump Patirotism -- until it is time for a little sloganeering for War Drums

Support the Troops is just short hand for protect our oil interest, cheap oil maintains their way of life.

[Beartracks]

40. K. Too late to R . n/t

[Zorra]

41. Thom is often a bit too kind like that. Republicans in 2011 are

totally anti-life.

[Overseas]

43. I agree. That's one major reason compromising with the GOP is so disorienting.

After millions voted for the Democratic agenda, why would our party compromise with the Party of Torture and Corporate Supremacy?

[mother earth]

45. The GOP has long been bought & paid for.

True conservatives are all dead, what's left are the greedy pigs they've become.

[Mnemosyne]

46. K&R...