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Published on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
The Imminent Demise of the Republican Party
by David W. Orr

Following the election of 2004, much has been made of the weaknesses of the
Democratic Party, even its possible end. But it has escaped the notice of
our blow-dry television pundits and political observers alike that the
Republican Party, in the full blush of triumph in control of all the
branches of government and large sections of the media, stands on the edge
of certain extinction. The reasons grow daily more evident. Over the past
three decades, the moderate, business-oriented party of Lincoln, Theodore
Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower was captured by its extreme right-wing
thereby becoming a party dominated by ideologues, increasingly divorced from
unmovable facts. But no organization, political party, or nation can long
survive by ignoring realities of ecology, social justice, law, economics,
and true security. Sooner or later, it will step off the proverbial curb
into onrushing traffic of events, forces, and trends that it refused to see.
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We must hold Condoleezza Rice accountable for her misleading statements
leading up to the Iraq war and beyond before we can even consider promoting
her to Secretary of State.
So I ask you to join with me: Lend your voice to the chorus of millions of
Americans across our great land who are demanding that Condoleezza Rice tell
the truth about Iraq, weapons of mass destruction, the search for Osama bin
Laden, the fight against Al Qaida, and the war on terrorism.

I urge you to sign my petition http://ga4.org/campaign/ricehearings , so I
can take your voice with me to the committee room and the floor of the
Senate in the pursuit of the truth from Condoleezza Rice.

Sincerely,

Barbara Boxer

Helena Kvarnstrom

George W. Bush’s reëlection was not his only victory last fall. The President and his national-security advisers have consolidated control over the military and intelligence communities’ strategic analyses and covert operations to a degree unmatched since the rise of the post-Second World War national-security state. Bush has an aggressive and ambitious agenda for using that control—against the mullahs in Iran and against targets in the ongoing war on terrorism—during his second term. The C.I.A. will continue to be downgraded, and the agency will increasingly serve, as one government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon put it, as “facilitators” of policy emanating from President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney. This process is well under way.