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Some of the images from the run-up to Sunday’s landmark health care vote in the House of Representatives should be seared into the nation’s consciousness. We are so far, in so many ways, from being a class act.
A group of lowlifes at a Tea Party rally in Columbus, Ohio, last week taunted and humiliated a man who was sitting on the ground with a sign that said he had Parkinson’s disease. The disgusting behavior was captured on a widely circulated videotape. One of the Tea Party protesters leaned over the man and sneered: “If you’re looking for a handout, you’re in the wrong end of town.”
Another threw money at the man, first one bill and then another, and said contemptuously, “I’ll pay for this guy. Here you go. Start a pot.”
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For decades the G.O.P. has been the party of fear, ignorance and divisiveness. All you have to do is look around to see what it has done to the country. The greatest economic inequality since the Gilded Age was followed by a near-total collapse of the overall economy. As a country, we have a monumental mess on our hands and still the Republicans have nothing to offer in the way of a remedy except more tax cuts for the rich.
This is the party of trickle down and weapons of mass destruction, the party of birthers and death-panel lunatics. This is the party that genuflects at the altar of right-wing talk radio, with its insane, nauseating, nonstop commitment to hatred and bigotry.
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The toxic clouds that are the inevitable result of the fear and the bitter conflicts so relentlessly stoked by the Republican Party — think blacks against whites, gays versus straights, and a whole range of folks against immigrants — tend to obscure the tremendous damage that the party’s policies have inflicted on the country. If people are arguing over immigrants or abortion or whether gays should be allowed to marry, they’re not calling the G.O.P. to account for (to take just one example) the horribly destructive policy of cutting taxes while the nation was fighting two wars.
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With a freer hand, the Republicans would have done more damage. George W. Bush tried to undermine Social Security. John McCain was willing to put Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from the Oval Office and thought Phil Gramm would have made a crackerjack Treasury secretary. (For those who may not remember, Mr. Gramm was a deregulation zealot who told us during the presidential campaign that we were suffering from a “mental recession.”)
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A party that promotes ignorance (“Just say no to global warming”) and provides a safe house for bigotry cannot serve the best interests of our country. Op-Ed Columnist - An Absence of Class in the G.O.P. - NYTimes.com
when this statement was made, they were talking not only about the republican party, but also the democrat party.
anytime the democrat party is trying to pass a bill that will limit a right of the people, they always bring the same old matra of "its for the children".
what a crock, the democrat party is just as bad as the republican party these days.
both parties stand for nothing but bigger goverment, more power for themselves and less freedom for the people they are supposed to be serving.
The name is the DEMOCRATIC PARTY of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA not democrat party. Have some respect for us if not yourself.
to me the Democratic party of the USA was always about not limiting the freedoms and rights of its citizens.
the democrat party that is currently in power has nothing in common with the Democratic party of the USA, they have more in common with the socialist party than anything to do with the USA.
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The plutocrats have very effectively used the Republican Party name to cover their looting of the US economy starting with Nixon and culminating with Bush. Their goal was to concentrate wealth by huge deficit spending and financial deregulation. They have accomplished that goal but some working people are recognizing that they have been robbed.
People keep calling republicans racist. What have they done thats actually racist? Other then Opinion what actions have they taken that makes them racist
Further more why do some of you label the entire party has racist. Do you think there is no racist in the democrat party and by that standard that would make the entire democrat party racist.
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