{"id":309,"date":"2017-02-03T00:02:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hippy.com\/hip\/uncategorized\/the-republicans-are-weakening\/"},"modified":"2017-02-03T00:02:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:02:55","slug":"the-republicans-are-weakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/letters-to-hippyland\/the-republicans-are-weakening\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republicans are Weakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tNow is not the time to become apathetic or quit.<br \/>\n-Bu$h&#8217;s approval rating is below 40%.<\/p>\n<p>-Support for the war is at 2 in 5 people and dropping.<\/p>\n<p>-Karl Rove has the C.I.A. pissed at him over Vallery Plame&#8217;s identity&#8230; Rove is Bush&#8217;s Brain&#8230; and Bush has a lot of secrets&#8230; the republican party cannot dictate who is important is who is not in the c.i.a.; this doesn&#8217;t bode well for his credibility with our organization -loosely quoted from anonymous cia source in Time Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>-Sen. Frist (Rep.) voted his conscience on stem cells&#8230; his base is running from him, so even Rep.&#8217;s with a shot at the white house in 2008 are getting leary of the dangers of catering to the conservative base&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-John McCain (Rep.) frequently appears to cater to the people in his district (who voted for him) and not the George Bush&#8217;s of the world.<\/p>\n<p>-The gang of 14 who avoided the nuclear option for fillibusters is a sign that bipartisan politics might still work.<\/p>\n<p>-Bush put Roberts in on supreme court during a recess&#8230; even republican newspaper writers are referring to this move as the president waiting to get his way (much like a big baby as opposed to the leader of the free world).<\/p>\n<p>-the general public now know who Tom Delay is and high numbers don&#8217;t approve.<\/p>\n<p>-The president blew his political capital less than 3 months into his presidency&#8230; with his social security reform that people on a whole reject.<\/p>\n<p>-Hunter S. Thompson (an outspoken critic of Republicans) is dead and now has the powers of a qhost&#8230; since he died, almost 80% of the Republican&#8217;s schemes are beginning to fall apart.<\/p>\n<p>-polls show that almost 3 in 5 people would vote for a dem. as opposed to a rep. next year, the way things are being run right now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-Afghanistan is no longer contained, Iraq is a fucking mess, al-Quaida is stronger than it was in 2001, and Iran\/Pakistan\/India\/N. Korea all know are military strength has been weakened&#8230; all under Republican dominated congressional control.<\/p>\n<p>-an Iraq veteran ran for mayor in an Ohio town that has been under republican control for something like 20 years&#8230; he NARROWLY lost (which means he did better than most dem.&#8217;s have there in the past)<\/p>\n<p>-John Bolton is still around the corner&#8230; he is not a sympathetic-looking man.<\/p>\n<p>-If the Democrats make a killing at the ballot box in 2006, it does not look good for the president&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-The pussies who ran off to Canada\/Europe are missing out in what looks to be the most fun in politics since Watergate.<\/p>\n<p>-There was no internet in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>-90% of people under the age of 35 are intending to vote democratic in the future&#8230; what a shitstorm&#8230; if they vote with the numbers they did in 2004&#8230; well, they sky&#8217;s the limit&#8230;<br \/>\n______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Obiously, now is not the time to get apathetic about the future of our great nation&#8230; stay strong; keep hope alive; and open your doors, hands, and hearts to everyone jumping the S.S. Republican Ship&#8230; don&#8217;t say i told you so, man&#8230; otherwise the cycle of hate continues&#8230; and remember there are a few Republican leaders that, while they might be anti-abotion and waste time with things like the 10 commandments in courthouses, some of them are decent people that deep down in their hearts, they didn&#8217;t want ameriKa to be as bruised as it now appears to be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>God isn&#8217;t dead, he just decided that we were smart enough (stem cells, mapping the human genome) to fight our own battles&#8230; we are no longer the primitive people you read about in the Bible.  and now people are realizing, hey, maybe we did get duped by bush; if kerry wouldn&#8217;t have come off so liberal and more centrist he probably would&#8217;ve done a decent job!<\/p>\n<p>God bless America!!!<\/p>\n<p>p.s. even jesus, on the cross, cried out, eloi, eloi, sabacthani&#8230; (my God, my God, why have you forsaken me)&#8230; sometimes it takes an evil prick like george bush\/the romans to change mankind for the better.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n<p>e-mail: jason (rawk_82@yahoo.com)<\/p>\n<p>Posted by: Jason<br \/>\nViews: 13604<br \/>\nTopic:9\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now is not the time to become apathetic or quit. -Bu$h&#8217;s approval rating is below 40%. -Support for the war is at 2 in 5 people and dropping. -Karl Rove has the C.I.A. pissed at him over Vallery Plame&#8217;s identity&#8230; Rove is Bush&#8217;s Brain&#8230; and Bush has a lot of secrets&#8230; the republican party cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-hippyland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}