"This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy."

[AuntPatsy]

Reading through this site really put things into perspective as to what is going on in today's government and just how far they will go to ensure complete victory and just who they are..not very comforting.

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Twenty-five years ago dominionists targeted the Republican Party as the vehicle through which they could advance their agenda. At the same time, a small group of Republican strategists targeted fundamentalist, Pentecostal and charismatic churches to expand the base of the Republican Party. This web site is not about traditional Republicans or conservative Christians. It is about the manipulation of people of a certain faith for political power. It is about the rise of dominionists in the U.S. federal government.

http://www.theocracywatch.org/

The Texas Republican Party produced George Bush, Karl Rove and Tom DeLay. It is, arguably, ground zero for both the most energetic grassroots activism of the Republican Party nationwide, and for influence over the Republican Party as a whole. More often than not over the past two years, considering who the Texas Republican Party has produced, it has felt as though we are almost specifically fighting against the Texas Republican Party for control of the national agenda, rather than the Republican National Committee.

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The Texas Republican Party Platform can be read as a blueprint for Bush administration policies, and reflects the values of Dominion Theology.

Dominionists believe the federal government should recede into the background. This would be achieved through massive tax cuts. Then the Church would assume responsibliltly for welfare and education. Tax cuts, Faith-based initiatives and school vouchers are the cornerstone of Bush administration domestic policies and recommended in the Texas GOP Platform. These policies are putting the U.S. on the path toward becoming what the Platform calls a "Christian" nation.

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The United Nations

p.26: "The Party believes it is in the best interest of the citizens of the United States that we immediately rescind our membership, as well as financial and military contributions to, the United Nations... The Party urges Congress to evict the United Nations from U.S. soil."

Does President Bush's recess appointment of John Bolton to the United Nations reflect this antagonism? In an interview with Juan Williams on National Public Radio in 2000:

Bolton: "If I were redoing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world."

"And that one member would be, John Bolton?" Mr. Williams queried.
"The United States," Mr. Bolton replied. more

http://www.theocracywatch.org/texas_gop.htm

[AuntPatsy]

1. Does this sound familiar, it just keeps going and going and going..

http://www.theocracywatch.org/govern.htm#Breaking

Breaking The Rules of Fair Play

Today's hard right seeks total dominion. It's packing the courts and rigging the rules. The target is not the Democrats but democracy itself. more

Operating in Secrecy

From Congressman Sherrod Brown, Democrat, who represents Ohio's 13th District and first published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

House Republicans bend rules, press for votes during wee hours to escape the light of accountability. Never before has the House of Representatives operated in such secrecy:

At 2:54 a.m. on a Friday in March, the House cut veterans benefits by three votes.

At 2:39 a.m. on a Friday in April, the House slashed education and health care by five votes.

At 1:56 a.m. on a Friday in May, the House passed the Leave No Millionaire Behind tax-cut bill by a handful of votes.

At 2:33 a.m. on a Friday in June, the House passed the Medicare privatization and prescription drug bill by one vote.

At 12:57 a.m. on a Friday in July, the House eviscerated Head Start by one vote.

And then, after returning from summer recess, at 12:12 a.m. on a Friday in October, the House voted $87 billion for Iraq. Always in the middle of the night. Always after the press had passed their deadlines. Always after the American people had turned off the news and gone to bed.

The most sweeping changes to medicare in its 38 year history were forced through the House at 5:55 on a Saturday morning.

[undergroundpanther]

4. Well I am up all night

Maybe us "nightowl" dems need to be the watchdogs.

Maybe us nightowls need to start roosting outside the capitol and hoot until people wake up!

[xchrom]

2. ever notice how uber-theocrats and the corporate universe

want the same thing -- up to a point.

they both want the federal government to shrink to the pentagon -- and leave everything else up to ''private enterprise'' and ''faith based'' institutions.

what the ''uber-theocrats'' don't realize is that they are on the corporatist leash -- and they will only be given but so much room.

[AndyTiedye]

5. The Cheap Labor Republicans Would Love to Impose a Theocracy on Workers

They wouldn't live under it themselves, of course,
they would live above it, like the sheiks in Saudi Arabia.

[HockeyMom]

3. Rep. Chris Shays of Ct.

said that same exact quote MONTHS ago. But then he is a RINO to all the Freepers.