Common Dreams - Republican Vigilantism - http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0411-26.htm
Asserts that the GOP's tactics have become increasingly extreme, including going against the rule of law itself and making threats of violence against judges they don't like. |
Foreign Policy in Focus - Assessing the Republican Party Platform - http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5529
Describes how a GOP win in 2008 will bring expanding wars, subversion of international law, violation of treaties, and unconstitutional actions. |
In These Times - Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore - http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/979/
An essayist asserts the once great party of Lincoln and liberty, made up of pragmatic Main Street businessmen, has changed into a cabal of angry plutocratic hypocrites. |
Los Angeles Times - Reagan Wouldn't Recognize This GOP - http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-edwards24-2009jan24,0,3344794.story
Reagan presidential campaign insider and Heritage Foundation co-founder Mickey Edwards writes on how Reagan's ideals and philosophy have been polluted and warped by today's GOP and those calling themselves his most fervent admirers. |
Mother Jones - Conversation with a Conservative: Clyde Prestowitz - http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/09/prestowitz_intro.html
Reagan administration veteran Clyde Prestowitz explains that the last four years of Republican rule have put the country on the wrong track. |
Mother Jones - Conversation with a Conservative: Peter G. Peterson - http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/10/peterson_intro.html
The Commerce Secretary in the Nixon administration explains that the Republican Party "has lost its moorings" in recent years. |
Newsweek - Why Rush is Wrong - http://www.newsweek.com/id/188279/page/1
Conservative Republican David Frum laments how Limbaugh, the de facto spokesman for the GOP, is driving moderates away and turning the GOP into an angry and unanimous dittohead cult. |
Republican Hypocrisy Revealed - http://armchairsubversive.com/
While trumpeting itself as the party of "traditional family values", there is a large number in the GOP who engaged in pedophilia, adultery, and lewd acts. |
Salon - An American Heresy - http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/04/27/al_gore/index_np.html
Former Vice President Al Gore says the GOP push to dismantle the filibuster is part of a larger movement to undermine the founding principles of the United States. |
Slate - Corrupt? Absolutely. - http://www.slate.com/id/2110601/
With the GOP attaining a majority in Congress, both liberals and conservatives find the Republicans have now turned into what they've been criticizing for so long. |