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Title: GOP: The Party of Brownshirts
Source: Information Clearing House
URL Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17541.htm
Published: Apr 16, 2007
Author: Paul Craig Roberts
Post Date: 2007-04-16 22:58:59 by Brian S
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04/16/07 "ICH" -- -- Neoconservatives have turned the Republican Party into a Brownshirt Party.

Look at the evidence. While real patriots flee the party, the remaining supporters cling to power by asserting dictatorial dominance for President Bush. The Republican Attorney General denies that the US Constitution provides habeas corpus protection to American citizens.

Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, Republican candidates for the 2008 presidential campaign, believe the president has the power to imprison US citizens indefinitely without warrants or trials.

The “conservative” Federalist Society favors concentrating more power in the executive. Neoconservative ideologues claim the right to impose American hegemony over all others--especially over Muslims.

All of these Republican tyrants and budding tyrants claim to be protecting liberty and democracy.

Polls show that the percentage of Americans who tilt Republican has declined to 35 percent. Republican recruits are refusing to run for Congress. Ken Mehlman, until recently the party’s chairman, says many voters have lost confidence in Republicans. To win back people’s confidence, Mehlman says the party will have to become less reliant on white males and expand its support among Hispanics and blacks.

Decency and intelligence have departed Republican ranks. The party’s shrunken base consists of ignorant and fearful people who believe Muslim jihadists are going to murder them in their beds, rapture evangelicals who believe that war in the Middle East is the prelude to their being wafted up to heaven, the military-security complex reveling in power and fortune, and resentful and frustrated people who can freely vent their anger and hate on “terrorists.”

This collection of fear, delusion, greed, and resentment comprises the 30 percent of Americans who constitute Bush’s base. The Republican Party has made itself so unattractive that Democrats believe that it is now possible for a woman or a black to win the presidency.

The Republican Party lost its majority for the following reasons:

Greedy transnational corporations offshored US manufacturing jobs and destroyed the hopes and livelihoods of blue-collar Reagan Democrats. The gains from offshoring are diffused, but the costs are concentrated.

The same greedy and short-sighted corporations have spent the first years of the 21st century destroying the prospects of American middle class university graduates by offshoring jobs in professional services and by importing foreigners on work visas who work for less.

Neoconservatives captured conservative philanthropies, cut off funding to true conservatives, and used the captured conservative foundations to entrench themselves as advisors to the Republican party. The same neoconsertives that Reagan fired as a result of the Iran-Contra scandal occupy important policy positions in the Bush administration and dominate the National Security Council.

Republican “law and order” apathy to civil liberties easily transferred to the “war on terror.” Republicans regard civil liberties as protective devices for criminals and terrorists. Republicans mistakenly believe that the law can be cut down selectively so that only certain despised groups are deprived of its protection.

The Bush administration lied to the American people and invaded two countries on false pretenses for indefensible reasons that the administration has never acknowledged. The war has had catastrophic consequences that are now apparent to a majority of Americans, but the Republican Party still supports the continuation of the war.

The Bush administration has destroyed American prestige and moral aura with torture scandals and disregard for Iraqi, Afghani, Palestinian and Lebanese civilian lives.

The Bush administration’s budget and trade deficits have undermined the dollar. The Bush administration is calling for currency realignments that will lower the real incomes of import-dependent Americans.

The Bush administration’s determination to exercise American hegemony through warfare, and its assaults on civil liberties, the separation of powers, American prestige and on good American jobs and the value of the dollar have destroyed the party’s support.

America’s virtue is its Constitution. An administration that attacks the Constitution attacks America’s virtue. The true dangers that Americans face come from George W. Bush and Richard Cheney and their neoconservative Brownshirt Party. Subscribe to *Paul Craig Roberts*

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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

Decency and intelligence have departed Republican ranks. The party’s shrunken base consists of ignorant and fearful people who believe Muslim jihadists are going to murder them in their beds, rapture evangelicals who believe that war in the Middle East is the prelude to their being wafted up to heaven, the military-security complex reveling in power and fortune, and resentful and frustrated people who can freely vent their anger and hate on “terrorists.”

Spot on.

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...  posted on  2007-04-16   23:59:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Brian S (#0)

America’s virtue is its Constitution. An administration that attacks the Constitution attacks America’s virtue. The true dangers that Americans face come from George W. Bush and Richard Cheney and their neoconservative Brownshirt Party.

Amen to this.. excellent article by Roberts as always..

Zipporah  posted on  2007-04-17   5:45:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Brian S, SKYDRIFTER, tom007, ..., bluedogtxn, MUDDOG (#0)

But we're the fascists, remember that. Talk about projection.

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

robin  posted on  2007-04-17   9:44:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: robin (#3)

Remeber the old GOP tactic of hanging the label on the other side before it can get hung on them?

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...  posted on  2007-04-17   9:45:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: ... (#4) (Edited)

The Republicans are fascists ... the Democrats are communists ... glad we live in a "free" country where the choice is ours !

I might add that the Dems had an absolute mandate to go after the scoundrels and did not a friggin thing.

What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

noone222  posted on  2007-04-17   9:49:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: ... (#4)

Yes, but for some reason it became known as Clintonesque. He really is given too much credit.

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

robin  posted on  2007-04-17   9:49:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: noone222 (#5)

I might add that the Dems had an absolute mandate to go after the scoundrels and did not a friggin thing.

They have Gonzales in a perjury rap and they will soon have Rove in court over his obstruction of justicce and destruction of evidence.

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...  posted on  2007-04-17   9:53:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: ..., noone222 (#7)

Pelosi took impeachment off the table immediately. Conyers didn't make a peep, even though he had done a lot of work toward impeachment.

They seem to be going after the small fry, as though to cut the legs out from under the regime. I don't know if it will work.

What we need is a squealer. I think Gonzo just might be it.

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

robin  posted on  2007-04-17   9:56:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: robin (#3)

To win back people's confidence, Mehlman says the party will have to become less reliant on white males and expand its support among Hispanics and blacks.

Just another nail in the coffin.


I've already said too much.

MUDDOG  posted on  2007-04-17   10:37:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: robin (#8)

What we need is a squealer. I think Gonzo just might be it.

He may be too late. Kyle Sampson may already be fulfilling that role.

Today's Must Read.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-04-17   10:39:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: aristeides (#10)

who were the "others" who told Gonzales this? The White House has a different version of the conversation -- that it was broader, about three districts (New Mexico, Milwaukee, Philadelphia) where voter fraud wasn't being aggressively pursued. Sampson's version, which has the conversation focusing on Iglesias, implicates Bush much more directly in his removal. So who did Gonzales get this version from? Does he remember that?

That's encouraging.

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

robin  posted on  2007-04-17   10:42:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Brian S (#0)

PCR bump

Dr.Ron Paul for President

Lod  posted on  2007-04-17   10:46:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: robin (#11)

Sampson's version, which has the conversation focusing on Iglesias, implicates Bush much more directly in his removal.

Quite a Feliz Navidad for Iglesias -- you're fired.


I've already said too much.

MUDDOG  posted on  2007-04-17   10:47:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: MUDDOG (#13)

I suspect Iglesias is going to end up having a much more pleasant, successful, and fulfilling life than the people who fired him.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-04-17   10:49:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: robin (#3)

But we're the fascists, remember that. Talk about projection.

The professional politicians of this country, with a very small number of exceptions (Ron Paul, Russ Feingold, et al) are a contemptible and cowardly lot, the likes of which Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams would have publically horsewhipped.

It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.

bluedogtxn  posted on  2007-04-18   11:24:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: bluedogtxn (#15)

The professional politicians of this country, with a very small number of exceptions (Ron Paul, Russ Feingold, et al) are a contemptible and cowardly lot, the likes of which Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams would have publically horsewhipped.

I'm with you on Jefferson, not that faggy beer maker.

Paul Revere  posted on  2007-04-18   11:28:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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