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Subject: Republican Party

The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP, despite being the younger of the two major parties. The party’s platform is generally considered right of center in the U.S. political spectrum.
The Republican Party has the second most registered voters as of 2004 with 55 million, encompassing roughly one-third of the electorate. Polls over the last two years have found that 20% to 34% of Americans self-identify as Republicans.
There have been eighteen Republican Presidents, compared to fifteen Democrats. Republicans currently fill a minority of seats in both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, hold a minority of state governorships, and control a minority of state legislatures. (Wikipedia Feb 2010)

US politics

Obamacare: Loopholes and enforcement

If you boil a frog very slowly, he may not jump out in time to save himself.

Poorly written law can sometimes be successful when the vast majority of people agree with the intent and there is bipartisan support to correct errors.

This is not the case with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.

However, the most astounding thing about Obamacare is that the individual mandate is basically a misnomer — there are no penalties on individuals for not buying health insurance. Or are there? ECRV2Y9MMZ86

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Economic uncertainty escalates

Whether the inflation 'money hurricane' will hit now, is less certain.

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. No one knows the full economic impact of this law. Never has legislation of such complexity and importance been passed by Congress and signed by the President on a purely partisan vote, against the wishes of the majority of the American people. The outlook for inflation has changed suddenly from a high level of probability to undetermined — uncertainty as to disbursement timing, combined with the outcome of elections in 2010 and 2012, provides possible scenarios under which things could get radically worse, or better.

US Politics

Why Obama is sacrificing House Democrats

Many Americans see Obama as cold, arrogant, and didactic.

In order to ram through Congress unpopular healthcare legislation that will radically increase the fiscal deficit and decrease the quality of healthcare for hundreds of millions of Americans, President Obama has asked fellow Democrats to ‘fall of their swords’, voting for his bill even though it might cost them their jobs in November 2010.

This article describes how a president that has little regard for the Constitution or historical precedent, with a radical agenda, could, with impunity, do things that few Americans realize.

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