How the Far Right Handed Dems a 60-Vote Majority

Surely it's time to replace the Neocon GOP with a party that supports the people...errr...wait a minute. It is already here and it's called the Democratic party.

One party rule MAY be dangerous but it's not the Dems fault that they're that party. If the GOP would shake loose from the stranglehold of the radical right maybe we'd have a viable opposition. Until then, I'm glad they're in the wilderness. The extreme right is a menace to a free society.

You could not be further off the mark. We live in a corporate state, much more akin to fascism than socialism -- look them both up. Mussolini said it most succinctly: "Fascism would be better called Corporatism, because it is the perfect union of state and corporate power." America has lurched so far to the right that what Clinton represented would have been Republican thirty years earlier. We have one party, which goes by two names: The Dems (the "don't hate me" party) and the Repugnicans (the "anything I can steal is mine" party). It bows to Wall Street, the Military Industrial Complex (as the last real Republican warned us it would), and corporate giants like Big Oil, Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Agriculture.

"A far left, pseudo Socialist party (the Dems) and a centrist, "me too" party (the Reps)"
Whoa! Can you tell me what do you mean by 'far left' and 'Socialist' here? Like which model of government: Norway? Soviet Union? North Korea? Or all of the above?
Because I don't think you have the slightest idea what the word really means.

Nobody is saying Specter is 'born-again'. What happened here is Specter still thinks for himself. Yes, I think all would agree that he is protecting his career, but he is also well-known for his independence, something today's GOP is obviously lacking. If Specter were as far-right as the rest of the party is drifting, he wouldn't HAVE to defect. However, he's a center-right moderate and there is no place in the GOP for moderates. I predict that he will handily defeat the anti-tax extremist Toomey in the general. And he should. We're not bugling the triumph of the Dems, we're pointing out the implosion of the GOP.

Take the blinders off!

Courtesy of AntiWar.com

...many Americans actually believed Obama shared their opposition to Bush’s wars. In fact, he had repeatedly backed Bush’s warmongering and its congressional funding. Many Americans also believed he was the heir to Martin Luther King’s legacy of anti-colonialism. Yet if Obama had a theme at all, apart from the vacuous "change you can believe in," it was the renewal of America as a dominant, avaricious bully. "We will be the most powerful!" he declared.
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In his first 100 days, Obama has excused torture, opposed habeas corpus, and demanded more secret government. He has kept Bush’s gulag intact and at least 17,000 prisoners beyond the reach of justice. On April 24, his lawyers won an appeal that ruled Guantanamo prisoners were not "persons" and therefore had no right not to be tortured. His national intelligence director, Adm. Dennis Blair, says he believes torture works. One of his senior officials in Latin America is accused of covering up the torture of an American nun in Guatemala; another is a Pinochet apologist. As Daniel Ellsberg has pointed out, America experienced a military coup under Bush, whose secretary of "defense," Robert Gates, along with the same warmaking officials, have been retained by Obama.

All over the world, America’s violent assault on innocent people, directly or by agents, has been stepped up. During the recent massacre in Gaza, reports Seymour Hersh, "the Obama team let it be known that it would not object to the planned resupply of ’smart bombs’ and other high-tech ordnance that was already flowing to Israel" and being used to slaughter mostly women and children. In Pakistan, the number of civilians killed by American missiles called drones has more than doubled since Obama took office.

In Afghanistan, the U.S. "strategy" of killing Pashtun tribespeople (the "Taliban") has been extended by Obama to give the Pentagon time to build a series of permanent bases right across the devastated country where, says Secretary Gates, the U.S. military will remain indefinitely. Obama’s policy, one unchanged since the Cold War, is to intimidate Russia and China, now an imperial rival. He is proceeding with Bush’s provocation of placing missiles on Russia’s western border, lying that they are a counter to Iran, which he accuses, absurdly, of posing "a real threat" to Europe and the U.S. On April 5, in Prague, he made a speech reported as "anti-nuclear." It was nothing of the kind. Under the Pentagon’s Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program, the U.S. is building new "tactical" nuclear weapons designed to blur the distinction between nuclear and conventional war.

Perhaps the biggest lie – the equivalent of smoking is good for you – is Obama’s announcement that the U.S. is leaving Iraq, the country it has reduced to a river of blood. According to unabashed U.S. Army planners, as many as 70,000 troops will remain "for the next 15 to 20 years." On April 25, his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, alluded to this. It is not surprising that the polls are showing that a growing number of Americans believe they have been suckered – especially as the nation’s economy has been entrusted to the same fraudsters who destroyed it. Lawrence Summers, Obama’s principal economic adviser, is throwing $3 trillion at the same banks that paid him more than $8 million last year, including $135,000 for one speech. Change you can believe in.