Columnist – John Sammon
I would like to ask this question. Aside from being on the wrong side of every social advancement made over the past 100 years including Civil Rights, Medicare, Social Security, Child Labor, Women’s Rights, Equal Jobs and Housing, the right to collectively bargain, to Unionize, what has the Republican Party ever passed?

What have they ever done except oppose?

Anything that helps lower-income Americans, Republicans view as wasteful spending.

What has the Republican Party ever done just once in its entire history to advance social justice? Launching wars on tiny impoverished Middle Eastern countries based on false weapons of mass destruction to grab their oil doesn’t count.

The answer is zip. Zero. Nada. Nothing. In fact, the Republican Party has opposed all of the things mentioned above and if it had its way, none of the above would exist. It would still be an 1890′s America.

The Republicans have a long history of nothing, except bad. Three successive Republican presidents, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover were in office leading up to the Great Depression of 1932. Bush and Cheney presided over the near collapse of this country two years ago, the worst since 1932. The trickle-down economics championed by Reagan and the fantasy that money hoarded by the ultra-rich and the tax loop-hole privileges they enjoy would make life better for the dying middle class and the poor is a proven failure.

John Boehner, the current Speaker of the House of Representatives, when he isn’t crying from the rostrum, basically reiterated the same thing a few weeks ago, saying “so be it,” in other words, “let them eat cake,” when told an action could result in people losing their jobs. It’s clear. He like other Republicans hope the American people suffer and the economy goes down the drain so Republicans can gain seats in the next election. Your misery is his gain.

Not a lot has changed.

The Republicans rail about socialism and give-aways and entitlements. How many former Republican Congressmen and women have refused their Social Security benefits, those who qualify? None. How many Americans if a poll was taken, would like to see Social Security and Medicaid abolished because they are entitlement schemes enacted by socialist liberal traitors?

None, except a few nuts.

All the Republicans have done since the Civil War, the last time they were proactive, backing Lincoln and emancipating slaves, all they have done ever since is to obstruct, except for wars. They love war. They say they stand for limiting big government and opposing higher taxes —-a lie borne out by the mushrooming debts incurred under both Reagan and Bush.

Reagan, the God of Republicans, raised taxes 11 times.

What original ideas have they conceived? None. What legislation have Republicans engineered that like Social Security most Americans benefit from and endorse? None.

Reagan supporters also claim that he alone won the Cold War, though it was the ineptitude, wastefulness and corruption of the Russians themselves that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. A system that worked wouldn’t be brought down by one man. That’s nonsense only a Republican could believe.

Bush and Cheney destroyed the American economy and started two un-winnable wars.

What have Republicans ever done for the common good?

The tea-baggers screaming for blood at one of their frenzy rallies hinting that they’re going to take up arms or shoot the president, they’re all products of a government-run public schools system. They’re not going to give up their Social Security or Medicare. They like government intervention when it benefits them.

So, why do they scream? If they were honest, they’d tell you, I don’t want my money being given to niggers. Niggers can include more than just African Americans, whom conservatives secretly consider to be freeloaders and brainless animals only fit for basketball and who leech off government, when historically, black Americans have had to look to the federal government to give them redress to blatant racism and double standards. Individual states, particularly those in the South, wouldn’t do it.

Niggers now include women, gays, immigrants, Mexicans, liberals and anyone who looks different, and of course, Muslims, a religion that existed for countless centuries before some Americans decided to add them to the list of those already hated for no other reason than 9-11. Condemn an entire religion? They used to do that to Catholics and Jews. Some still do.

To mask their racism and to try and collect so-called minority votes, Republicans search for women and blacks to serve as token figureheads of their party. That chicanery at least makes some sense.

But I ask again. What have they ever done except say “No?”

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7. Republican National ‘INSECURITY’
8. Republican NAZI Tactics — The ‘Big Lie’ Strategy
9. Republican Sex Scandals
10. Republican Stupid-Speak & Political Stunts
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12. Republican Voter Suppression
13. Republican-Tea Party Racism
14. Republican-Tea Party — Obama Assassination Threats
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I am convinced that this racist THUG Rush Limbaugh, is a closeted homosexual and a pedophile. Like many other Republican hypocrites mired in tortured self-loathing, it looks like Mr. Oxycontin — having earned hundreds of millions of dollars bashing homosexuals — is finally letting his guard down.

If not, then how do you explain why the “champion of homophobic conservatism” paid Sir. Elton John, the “king of homosexuality,” one million dollars to serenade Limbaugh and his fourth wife, at their weekend wedding reception? ….or did poor John mistake Limbaugh’s wedding for a re-run of Lady Diana’s funeral?

In 1971 Limbaugh attended Southeastern Missouri University, where, according to reports, he had a brief but heated affair with Elliot Sanders. So gay is Limbaugh, guarantees Sanders, that, “none of his marriages was ever consummated.”

After several failed stints with Missouri radio stations Limbaugh moved to Sacramento, CA, where he met and became “friends” with Norm Woodruff, a flamboyant, openly gay man with a great deal of influence in the local radio scene. Woodruff, who mentored Limbaugh in the ways of affluence and elitism (traits Rush mocks today), would later die of AIDS.

Homophobia is a central part of Republican electoral strategy, and Rush whose cash-cow audience consists of racist, homophobic religious right-wingers — over the years, has had no choice but to hide in the closet while throwing homophobia laced bombs at fellow homosexuals.

Note: The King of all BLACK UNCLE-TOMS, Justice Clarence ‘Pubic Hair‘ Thomas, who officiated in Limbaugh’s 3rd marriage, was among the distinguished NUT-Bag guests ….and so was Fox News’ syphilitic LIAR Sean KLANnity.

[ WHY I THINK RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A CLOSET GAY FASCIST ]

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Hypocrisy at the Limbaugh wedding! Elton John, one of the world’s most prominent gay-rights activists, performed at the fourth wedding of Rush Limbaugh, who opposes same-sex marriage and has had harsh words for homosexuals in the past.

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Michael Musto Explores The Limbaugh — Elton John Connection

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Notes: Don’t ask, don’t tell (DADT) is the common term for the policy allowing openly gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals to serve in the United States military, in contravention to federal law Pub.L. 103-160 (10 U.S.C. § 654). Unless one of the exceptions from 10 U.S.C. § 654(b) applies, the policy prohibits anyone who “demonstrate(s) a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts” from serving in the armed forces of the United States, because “it would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability.”

The act prohibits any homosexual or bisexual person from disclosing his or her sexual orientation or from speaking about any homosexual relationships, including marriages or other familial attributes, while serving in the United States armed forces. The “don’t ask” part of the policy indicates that superiors should not initiate investigation of a service member’s orientation in the absence of disallowed behaviors, though credible and articulable evidence of homosexual behavior may cause an investigation.

Violations of this aspect through persecutions and harassment of suspected servicemen and women resulted in the policy’s current formulation as don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue, don’t harass. [ READ MORE ]

Colbert Slams “Maverick” McCain

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Eliminating “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”

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Writes: CHARLES M. BLOW

Gay Marriage and a Moral Minority

Marriage can be a sore subject for black women in general. According to 2007 Census Bureau data, black women are the least likely of all women to be married and the most likely to be divorced. Women who can’t find a man to marry might not be thrilled about the idea of men marrying each other.

Proponents of gay marriage would do well to focus on these women if they want to win black votes. A major reason is that black women vote at a higher rate than black men. In a CNN national exit poll, there were 40 percent more black women than black men, and in California there were 50 percent more. But gay marriage advocates need to hone their strategy to reach them.

First, comparing the struggles of legalizing interracial marriage with those to legalize gay marriage is a bad idea. Many black women do not seem to be big fans of interracial marriage either. They’re the least likely of all groups to intermarry, and many don’t look kindly on the black men who intermarry at nearly three times the rate that they do, according to a 2005 study of black intermarriage rates in the Wisconsin Law Review. Wrong reference. Don’t even go there…..[ READ MORE ]