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The War at Home: Republican Party
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The struggle against the war at home—against racism, police brutality and the destruction of housing and social services—is intensifying in U.S. cities. A Jan. 19 meeting of the Chicago branch of Workers World Party bore witness to that fact.
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When one party is able to impose its will without consulting others, the temptation is to run roughshod over the opposition - especially when it sees politics as a form of warfare. During late 2003, for example, the GOP developed a proposal for Medicare reform, which included the most sweeping changes since the program's establishment in 1965. Drug companies and private health-care plans - strong financial backers of the party - stood to benefit financially from the reform proposal, and the Republican leadership simply ignored opposing viewpoints. House Democrats were excluded from the conference committee reconciling the House and Senate versions of the Medicare bill. When the House vote on the bill began on November 22, 2003, it faced defeat by a two-vote margin, as a number of the Republican Party's own congressmen refused to support its $400 billion price tag. Desperate to win, the GOP leaders held open the vote (normally a 15-minute procedure) for nearly three hours, the longest House roll call ever.
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Dutson said the Collins campaign's anti-MoveOn ads were intended to raise awareness nationally of how MoveOn and left-wing blogs like Daily Kos and FireDogLake have made the moderate Maine Republican their top 2008 Senate target. The same coalition supported Ned Lamont in the 2006 Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut against Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Lieberman then went on to win re-election as an independent after defeating Lamont in the general election.
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