How Socialists Built the U.S.

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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/16-3

"...Newt Gingrich said the Obama administration was 'prepared to fundamentally violate the Constitution' and was playing to the “30 percent of the country [that] really is [in favor of] a left-wing secular socialist system.'...”

Violate the Constitution? We're not interested in your wet dreams, Newtie.

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"...The Republican Party is currently firmer in its accusation that the Democrats are steering the nation “towards socialism” than it was during Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare of the 1950s, when the senator from Wisconsin was accusing Harry Truman of harboring Communist Party cells in the government. Truman had stirred conservative outrage by arguing that the government had the authority to impose anti-lynching laws on the states and by proposing a national healthcare plan..."


“Out of the great progress of this country, out of our great advances in achieving a better life for all, out of our rise to world leadership, the Republican leaders have learned nothing. Confronted by the great record of this country, and the tremendous promise of its future, all they do is croak, ‘socialism.’” [Harry S. Truman]