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SHUT DOWN THE BULLIES
Fascism is a lie told by bullies. –Ernest Hemingway In 2011, Republicans threatened to destroy the Nation’s credit rating unless their budgetary demands were met. Yet President Barack Obama could have...
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LIKE NAZIS, LIKE REPUBLICANS: PART ONE (OF FIVE)
Adolf Hitler, Germany’s Fuehrer for 12 years, had a favorite phrase: “So oder so.” It meant: “One way or the other.” That might sound innocuous. But, in Hitler’s case, it carried a sinister tone–as...
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LIKE NAZIS, LIKE REPUBLICANS: PART TWO (OF FIVE)
After winning the 2012 Indiana GOP United States Senate primary, Republican Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock appeared on the May 9 edition of CNN’s “Starting Point.” There occurred this exchange...
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LIKE NAZIS, LIKE REPUBLICANS: PART THREE (OF FIVE)
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resolved to meet with Adolf Hitler, the German Fuehrer, to peacefully resolve the latest Nazi-created crisis. Having conquered Austria, the German dictator...
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LIKE NAZIS, LIKE REPUBLICANS: PART FOUR (OF FIVE)
Adolf Hitler is dead. But his my-way-or-else “negotiating” style lives on in today’s Republican party. During the summer of 2011, Republicans refused to raise the debt ceiling unless Democrats agreed...
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LIKE NAZIS, LIKE REPUBLICANS: PART FIVE (END)
In April, 2011, the United States government almost shut down over Republican demands about subsidized pap smears. During a late-night White House meeting with President Barack Obama and key...
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HITLER, THE GOP AND SCORCHED EARTH: PART TWO (OF THREE)
During the summer of 2011, Republicans refused to raise the debt ceiling unless Democrats agreed to massively cut social programs for the elderly, poor and disabled. If Congress failed to raise the...
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HITLER, THE GOP AND SCORCHED EARTH: PART THREE (END)
With more than 240,000 employees, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the third largest Cabinet department, after the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. The Defense Department is...
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NEGOTIATING REPUBLICANAZI STYLE: PART ONE (OF FIVE)
Robert Payne, author of the bestselling biography, The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler (1973), described Hitler’s “negotiating” style thus: “Although Hitler prized his own talents as a negotiator, a...
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NEGOTIATING REPUBLICANAZI STYLE: PART TWO (OF FIVE)
On February 12, 1938, two Chancellors–Adolf Hitler of Germany, and Kurt von Schuschnigg of Austria–met at Hitler’s retreat at Obersalzberg, Germany. At stake lay the future independence of Austria....
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NEGOTIATING REPUBLICANAZI STYLE: PART THREE (OF FIVE)
After winning the bloodless conquest of Czechoslavakia by threatening France and Britain with war, Adolf Hitler turned his attention to Poland. When his generals balked, warning that an invasion would...
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NEGOTIATING REPUBLICANAZI STYLE: PART FOUR (OF FIVE)
In November, 1995, Newt Gingrich, then Speaker of the House of Representatives, carried out his threat to shut down the government. Then he unwisely admitted that he did so because President Bill...
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NEGOTIATING REPUBLICANAZI STYLE: PART FIVE (END)
In 2011, Republicans threatened to destroy the Nation’s credit rating unless their budgetary demands were met. As Ernst Casier, chairman of philosophy at Hamburg University once warned: “Those who...
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HITLER, THE GOP AND “SCORCHED EARTH”: PART ONE (OF THREE)
Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments for the Third Reich, was appalled. His Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler–the man he had idolized for 14 years–had just passed a death sentence on Germany, the nation he claimed...
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HITLER, THE GOP AND “SCORCHED EARTH”: PART TWO (OF THREE)
During the summer of 2011, Republicans refused to raise the debt ceiling unless Democrats agreed to massively cut social programs for the elderly, poor and disabled. If Congress failed to raise the...
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HITLER, THE GOP AND “SCORCHED EARTH”: PART THREE (END)
On December 13, 2014, the U.S. Senate passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund almost the entire government through the September 30 end of the fiscal year. But one Federal agency was pointedly...
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GOP: “GIVE US AMERICA–OR WE’LL DESTROY IT!”
On December 13, 2014, the U.S. Senate passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund almost the entire government through the September 30 end of the fiscal year. But one Federal agency was pointedly...
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THE COSTS OF TIMIDITY: PART ONE (OF TWO)
“[Barack] Obama needs to find his voice now in ways that, during his time in the Oval Office, he was too often reluctant to do, perhaps fearing the immense power of the bully pulpit. “But now there is...
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THE COSTS OF TIMIDITY: PART TWO (END)
During the summer of 2011, Republicans threatened to destroy the Nation’s credit rating unless Democrats agreed to massively cut social programs for the elderly, poor and disabled. President Barack...
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LIKE HITLER, LIKE TRUMP–“LET THEM DIE”: PART ONE (OF TWO)
Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments for the Third Reich, was appalled. His Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler—the man he had idolized for 14 years—had just passed a death sentence on Germany, the nation he claimed...
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