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"The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. The party traces its beginnings to Thomas Jefferson in the early 1790s, and is one of the two longest-standing political parties in the world (the only one older being the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom). ..."
"The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. The party traces its beginnings to Thomas Jefferson in the early 1790s, and is one of the two longest-standing political parties in the world (the only one older being the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom). ..."
Articles
Election 2006: A War Referendum: It's all about Iraq, by Justin Raimondo, 16 Oct 2006
"The great advantage of the Jeffersonian Democrat project, however, more than outweighs the negatives. The Democratic Party is out of ideas: ideologically, their leaders and 'theoreticians' are remarkably barren. ... These people need to be educated, and, what's more, many of them are educating themselves: Moulitsas' essay proves that. ... All hail the Jeffersonian Democrats — and let the Democratic reformation begin!"
"The great advantage of the Jeffersonian Democrat project, however, more than outweighs the negatives. The Democratic Party is out of ideas: ideologically, their leaders and 'theoreticians' are remarkably barren. ... These people need to be educated, and, what's more, many of them are educating themselves: Moulitsas' essay proves that. ... All hail the Jeffersonian Democrats — and let the Democratic reformation begin!"
Rebuilding the Democratic Party brand - Back to the future with a return to liberalism's Jeffersonian roots [PDF], by Terry Michael, The Washington Examiner, 9 Feb 2005
"Born in the agrarian era of its founder, Thomas Jefferson, the Democratic Party's original story was of a small central government serving self-sufficient 'little people' ..., prizing and preserving individual liberty -- juxtaposed against the elitist federalists, and their monarchical, big central government ambition."
"Born in the agrarian era of its founder, Thomas Jefferson, the Democratic Party's original story was of a small central government serving self-sufficient 'little people' ..., prizing and preserving individual liberty -- juxtaposed against the elitist federalists, and their monarchical, big central government ambition."
The Democrats Are Doomed, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., 9 Feb 2007
Related Topics: Government, Socialism
"For now, suffice it to say that party elites among the Democrats regard regular Americans as the problem and not the solution, so it is no surprise that they continue to have problems finding candidates for whom people are willing to vote. ... Uproot the underlying anti-liberal assumptions of the Democrats, make them Jeffersonian once again, and you would have a viable party."
Related Topics: Government, Socialism
"For now, suffice it to say that party elites among the Democrats regard regular Americans as the problem and not the solution, so it is no surprise that they continue to have problems finding candidates for whom people are willing to vote. ... Uproot the underlying anti-liberal assumptions of the Democrats, make them Jeffersonian once again, and you would have a viable party."
The Mugging of Murtha: Congressional Democrats betray the antiwar movement, by Justin Raimondo, 17 Nov 2006
Related Topic: Politicians
"... nothing would be better if we could hand the job over to the newly installed Democratic Congress and relax as they extricate us from the Iraqi quagmire. Yet that clearly is not happening: instead, the Democrats, content with purely symbolic measures, are abstaining when it comes to Iraq ..."
Related Topic: Politicians
"... nothing would be better if we could hand the job over to the newly installed Democratic Congress and relax as they extricate us from the Iraqi quagmire. Yet that clearly is not happening: instead, the Democrats, content with purely symbolic measures, are abstaining when it comes to Iraq ..."
Will the Democrats Become Part of the Problem?, by Paul Craig Roberts, 10 Nov 2006
Related Topics: September 11, 2001, Israel, War
"Republican rule in the 21st century has devastated American civil liberties and American prestige and leadership capability. Can Democrats restore American liberties and leadership, or will a lust for power corrupt them, too, and cause Democrats to retain the police state powers Bush has created? If the Bush regime's police state legislation is still law in 2008, the Democrats will have failed."
Related Topics: September 11, 2001, Israel, War
"Republican rule in the 21st century has devastated American civil liberties and American prestige and leadership capability. Can Democrats restore American liberties and leadership, or will a lust for power corrupt them, too, and cause Democrats to retain the police state powers Bush has created? If the Bush regime's police state legislation is still law in 2008, the Democrats will have failed."
Martin Van Buren: The American Gladstone, by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Reassessing the Presidency, 2001
Related Topics: Martin Van Buren
"Although the Democracy would stray in significant and reprehensible ways from the principled course he had charted, his imprint still left an enduring legacy. The Democratic Party remained the political alliance with the strongest affinity for laissez-faire, personal liberty, and free trade until almost the turn of the century."
Related Topics: Martin Van Buren
"Although the Democracy would stray in significant and reprehensible ways from the principled course he had charted, his imprint still left an enduring legacy. The Democratic Party remained the political alliance with the strongest affinity for laissez-faire, personal liberty, and free trade until almost the turn of the century."
The Real 'Existential Threat': War with Iran augurs a global conflict, by Justin Raimondo, 30 Mar 2007
Related Topics: War, Iran
"... the pork-laden emergency supplemental for Iraq, which is so full of loopholes it resembles a big slice of Swiss cheese, sucks up all the oxygen. Isn't that just like the Democrats: they come out against the Iraq war only when it's too late – and even as they signal the adminstration to go ahead with the next war."
Related Topics: War, Iran
"... the pork-laden emergency supplemental for Iraq, which is so full of loopholes it resembles a big slice of Swiss cheese, sucks up all the oxygen. Isn't that just like the Democrats: they come out against the Iraq war only when it's too late – and even as they signal the adminstration to go ahead with the next war."
The Repudiation of Bush, by Sheldon Richman, 10 Nov 2006
Related Topics: George W. Bush
"In the voters' view, they had only one group to turn to: the Democrats. But even if this was largely a negative vote, it doesn't mean people won't warm to Democrats' activist agenda. Americans, sad to say, are not opposed in principle to activist government. ... Why shouldn't they applaud the Democrats when the new majority begins promising expanded middle-class entitlements?"
Related Topics: George W. Bush
"In the voters' view, they had only one group to turn to: the Democrats. But even if this was largely a negative vote, it doesn't mean people won't warm to Democrats' activist agenda. Americans, sad to say, are not opposed in principle to activist government. ... Why shouldn't they applaud the Democrats when the new majority begins promising expanded middle-class entitlements?"
They Deserved to Lose, by Jacob G. Hornberger, 8 Nov 2006
Related Topics: Republican Party
".. this is not to say that the Democrats are any better. Their political cowardice and fear of being called 'terrorist-loving cowards who hate America' has dissuaded them from opposing consolidation of federal power by the Republicans. But while Republicans and Democrats share the same big-spending, big-government philosophy ... Democrats make no bones about being advocates of big spending and big government ..."
Related Topics: Republican Party
".. this is not to say that the Democrats are any better. Their political cowardice and fear of being called 'terrorist-loving cowards who hate America' has dissuaded them from opposing consolidation of federal power by the Republicans. But while Republicans and Democrats share the same big-spending, big-government philosophy ... Democrats make no bones about being advocates of big spending and big government ..."
Why I Am Not a 'Conservative', by Vin Suprynowicz, 13 Jun 2006
Related Topics: Republican Party
"A conservative is someone who wants to keep things pretty much as they are, dubbing any major shift in direction a 'risky scheme.' By that definition, who in Washington today are more conservative than the so-called liberal Democrats, yapping like protective bitches, should anyone approach their overgrown brood of social welfare programs?"
Related Topics: Republican Party
"A conservative is someone who wants to keep things pretty much as they are, dubbing any major shift in direction a 'risky scheme.' By that definition, who in Washington today are more conservative than the so-called liberal Democrats, yapping like protective bitches, should anyone approach their overgrown brood of social welfare programs?"
Cartoons
Democratic Priorities, by Ted Rall, 27 Nov 2006
IN THE FUTURE the Republican Party is dead ..., by Ted Rall, 30 Nov 2006
Related Topic: Iraq War (2003)
Related Topic: Iraq War (2003)
The Democrats' Plan to Win the War, by Gary Varvel, Indianapolis Star, 24 Mar 2007