from HuffPost:
Steven Weber
An Open Letter To RepublicansPosted July 18, 2007 | 05:15 PM (EST)
There will be serious tears before bedtime, Republicans.
Your faith is fierce, your devotion is duly noted. But before long, those noble qualities will be the very things that allow the highjackers occupying the White House to complete their sacking of the republic. Your misplaced loyalty will prove to have been the strength that is turned into weakness by the cunning, spirit destroying practitioners of the art of the overthrow.
Yet the apologists still sputter away, their sneers and snipes honed to perfect, diamond hardness. So intoxicated by the endless stream of endorphins released during their saber-rattling gallop over fifty years of progressive legislation, the Republican light brigade that once trumpeted Compassionate Conservatism is now comprised of rotting principles, thwarting functioning government and seeking to demonize common sense.
Republicans are for the most part learned men and women. They can read. They seek clarity for a country whose path has become murky. But they have thrown themselves into a fight that is palpably ignoble and their pride---so integral to their survival---is nothing but hubris when seen in the light of reason. How many hopes and ideals have been scuttled by unyielding arrogance? Is this country destined now to become a red, white and blue husk, its guts and meat consumed by the corporate-fascist bacteria that have shielded themselves with slick promises and shiny gadgetry?
Republicans, they have fooled even you into thinking that You are Them. ......(more)
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-weber/an-open-letter-to-republi_b_56815.html
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