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	Free Democratic Party (Germany) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following German reunification in 1990, the FDP merged with the Association of Free Democrats, a grouping of liberals from East Germany.
		The FDP was considered as a partner with the Social Democrats and Greens but most Free Democrats felt that the Social Democrats were not bold enough on economic reform.
		Election placard of the Free Democratic Party (Germany) for the German federal election, 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Free_Democratic_Party_(Germany) (767 words)

	The Organisation of Free Democrats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A Free Democrat leader is someone who brings to a focus the key issues of any debate (for and against) in an environment where the electorate may decide the outcome for themselves, and the views of the leader become almost irrelevant.
		Once this concept has been truly grasped, it follows that Free Democrats do not go in for the tissues of half truths and false promises familiarly known as policy manifestos for the simple reason that they are irrelevant.
		Free Democrats will replace policies with proposals - ideas and plans for the electorate to consider and then vote upon according to their own views and feelings.
	www.freedemocrats.co.uk /pages/whatwestandfor.asp (756 words)

	Democrats and Free Trade \| TPMCafe
		Democrats need to advocate legal reforms and educational reforms here and abroad to help the benefits of free trade in the aggregate benefit more people.
		Free trade can be a force for lifting people up and raising them out of poverty, if we can only gain some control over how the gains from trade are apportioned.
		Democrats should be for making the lives of all people better as one of its first principles.
	www.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/6/6/132427/4375 (590 words)

	Greg Mankiw's Blog: Which party favors free trade?
		Some Republicans and Democrats still have it, but not the current Republican leadership, which should be voted out for corruption, abuse of power, dragging the constitution through the mud, and so many other things as or more important than US trade pacts.
		You should also note that many of the Democrats voted for NAFTA because they wanted to give the Democratic President Bill Clinton, a victory much the same way a number of Congresional Republicans voted for the medicare prescription drug benefit which they were ideologically opposed to but felt compelled to support.
		The Democratic think tanks and magazines are much more divided on the issue with liberal-affiliated magazines and think tanks being adamantly opposed to free trade and some more neo-liberal magazines like The New Republic being more supportive of these agreements.
	gregmankiw.blogspot.com /2006/11/which-party-favors-free-trade.html (2580 words)

	www.taxpayerslavery.com - DEMOCRATS: THE ANTI FREEDOM SLAVERY PARTY
		Somehow Democrats have succeeded at convincing people that they are for "the working man" when they are actually for the non-working man since their biggest political agenda is to come up with endless ways of giving away the labor of people who work.
		Democrats show their typical lack of fairness when they try to increase the freedom of the poor, to get votes, with welfare because in order to do so, they must first sacrifice the right of the taxpayer not to be a slave.
		Democrats don't have to worry about the rights of the child because the child is not a voter, if they can get a few more votes by stepping on the babies rights, then the party of lies and immorality will do it.
	antislavery.freeservers.com (12035 words)

	Hollister Free Lance
		With the mid-term elections 11 months away, Democrats have done little to dampen hopes of significant electoral gains, despite a gerrymandered electoral map that, at a glance, holds little prospect for success.
		Brian Schweitzer became the first Democratic governor of Montana in 20 years, and Montana was not even the tip of the Democratic spear.
		The West is proof that the values Democrats hold most dear - fairness, equity in education and health care, respect for the environment - have allies in unlikely places.
	www.freelancenews.com /opinion/contentview.asp?c=173841 (744 words)

	Secrets of the "Reagan Democrats” [Free Republic]
		Democrats have gotten virtually identical turnouts in each of the last five presidential elections.
		Their chief goal is to further the advancment of world socialism and global government, and they'll do it by selling themselves as ordinary people representing the causes of the working and lower-classes of America, as well as (distort and propagandize) the causes of minorities.
		The number of votes for the Democratic candidate in the last five presidential elections is as matter of record.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38df7b1a23ef.htm (2449 words)

	Schröder party hints at Free Democrat alliance - Europe - International Herald Tribune
		BERLIN Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's coalition of his Social Democrats and the Greens held out the carrot of power Wednesday to the pro-business Free Democrats in a calculated move to further weaken Angela Merkel's chances to become chancellor.
		The Free Democrats won 9.8 percent of Sunday's vote and have 61 seats in the Bundestag, or Parliament.
		Nevertheless, she is making every effort to hold onto the Free Democrats and find another ally in order to build a stable government, avoid entering into coalition talks with the Social Democrats, and realizing her goal at becoming chancellor.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/09/21/news/germany.php (928 words)

	Democrats Against Free Trade Because of AFL-CIO • QuickRob - Not So Quick Lately (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Big labor is pushing the Democrats to punish these countries under the guise of labor laws in order to protect their cumbersome, costly, inefficient, and problematic system.
		So, these union reps and their Democrat protectors are willing to hold back our economy and the ideals of free trade to protect a union establishment which is bad for our country and painfully out of touch with the world we live in.
		By promoting free trade and prosperity (and by forging bonds between our economies and therefore our governments) we are solidifying the transformative powers of democracy and capitalism in the very places where those forces are most needed.
	www.quickrob.com /weblog/?p=887 (1259 words)

	t r u t h o u t - CAFTA Reflects Democrats' Shift from Trade Bills
		A long, slow erosion of Democratic support for trade legislation in the House is turning into a rout, as Democrats who have never voted against trade deals vow to turn their backs on CAFTA.
		Cardin and other free-trade Democrats concede that many of the Democratic opponents are motivated by partisan politics: They want to see Bush lose a major legislative initiative or, at the very least, make Republicans from districts hit hard by international trade take a dangerous vote in favor of a deal their constituents oppose.
		"Free and open trade is an important component to widening the winner's circle for all Americans, but it's not a Johnny One Note part of the puzzle," said Rep. Ellen Tauscher (Calif.), a co-chairman of the centrist New Democrat Coalition, who voted for the most contentious trade bills of the past half-dozen years.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/070605G.shtml (1522 words)

	Tacking Right? Smart War and Free Trade
		The DLC, a grouping of Democratic officials at the national, state, and local levels founded in 1985, contends that to win elections Democrats must tack right and embrace center-right positions on national security (higher military budgets, support for wars); trade (free not fair); and the role of government (limited).
		Free trade Democrats are, however, increasingly finding it politically smarter to move their economic platforms to the left.
		Although new Democratic support for the campaign to improve Wal-Mart's labor practices doesn't necessarily mean that politicians like Bayh will vote down free trade agreements, there is an upsurge of criticism within both parties of free trade agreements that primarily benefit transnational corporations.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0906-28.htm (1289 words)

	CNN.com - Chairman says Democrats free of debt - August 12, 2002
		The financial news comes as a great relief to Democrats, who would have been hard pressed to erase that debt after November, when new campaign finance restrictions, including a ban on unregulated "soft" money by national political parties, go into effect.
		Democrats are not clearly favored in any of those races.
		During the three-day meeting, Democrats have aggressively appealed to key constituency groups, including minorities and organized labor, and pointedly attacked President Bush and congressional Republicans on issues ranging from corporate responsibility to immigration reform.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/08/10/dnc.chair/index.html (347 words)

	Clift: New Democrats Rethink Free Trade - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com
		And while John Kerry isn’t the free trader he was a year ago, he hasn’t yet fleshed out a message than can reach the rising number of Americans who are uneasy about their place in the work force.
		A sixth-generation Oklahoman, Carson is the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination.
		Democrats tout Carson’s candidacy as an example of the party’s diversity, packaging him in a “Dream Team” of Senate candidates with Illinois state senator Barack Obama, who is African-American, and Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar, who is Hispanic.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4873161 (1007 words)

	Free Press : Democrats Attack New Bill over Net Neutrality
		Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday assailed a new telecommunications bill for allegedly failing to preserve Net neutrality principles.
		Michigan Democrat John Dingell saw the fees in a different light, saying they amounted to “private taxation of the Internet” an idea that he said troubled him.
		Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat, suggested that the bill would benefit from “a provision that says that if a fast lane is necessary, perhaps for video or for gaming, then all applications of a similar kind…should be entitled to fast-lane access without having to pay a charge.”
	www.freepress.net /news/14714 (640 words)

	Democrats & Liberals:: Free Trade - Bush Style
		Every free trade agreement in the last 14 years has been followed by ever higher trade deficits and weakening of wage buying power and benefits for middle class workers.
		Of course, labor has been means to and end for Democrats as well, but, at least Democrats championed workers causes for decades as means to their ends of retaining majority status in government.
		Democrats failed to recognize the sea change which caused organized labor to act against workers interests in the face of globalization.
	www.watchblog.com /democrats/archives/002515.html (2904 words)

	CAFTA Vote Outs "Bush Democrats"
		The Central American Free Trade Agreement, which was such a high priority for the Bush administration that the president personally lobbied Congressional Republicans on the issue Wednesday, passed the House by two votes.
		Of the pro-CAFTA Democrats, six backed the 2002 resolution authorizing Bush to go to war in Iraq: Dicks, Jefferson, Matheson, Moore, Skelton and Tanner, while another four were either not serving in the House or did not vote: Bean, Cooper, Cuellar and Ortiz.
		Why should people vote for Democrats when they can get the same economic policies from the GOP but without all of the uncomfortable social baggage on abortion, prayer, guns, gays etc. It's as if the Democrats have had a death wish, or have been bought off/infiltrated, for the past 35 years.
	www.thenation.com /blogs/thebeat?pid=8874 (1673 words)

	A big pitch from Free Democrats - Europe - International Herald Tribune
		With opinion polls showing support for Merkel ebbing and the Social Democrats making a comeback, Westerwelle was at pains to convince the public that he and his allies could win the election and that together their reform program would protect the needy and less privileged.
		With Merkel's Christian Democrats slipping in the polls to 41 percent, the two parties would not have enough parliamentary seats to form a coalition government.
		Last May, the Christian Democrats and Free Democrats defeated the Social Democrats, who had governed North Rhine-Westphalia for nearly 40 years.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/09/11/news/german.php (512 words)

	Marxist thuggery on the net (Democrats.com) [Free Republic]
		One apparent reason why the thugs at democrats.com have it in for the Free Republic group is the fact that the Freepers have researched the origins of the Web site and broadcast information the backers of democrats.com would just as soon not see the light of day.
		Democrats and professional victim groups that support them (you know "minority groups") are just as venemous, and filled with just as much bigoted, racist bile as the worst white person they accuse of such hate.
		Democrats and leftists are the most vicious haters on the planet.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b83b8446927.htm (6678 words)

	Association of Free Democrats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Association of Free Democrats (German: Bund Freier Demokraten) was a liberal coalition formed in East Germany on 12 February 1990.
		In the Volkskammer election of the 18 March 1990 the Association of Free Democrats polled 5.28% of the votes and gained 21 seats.
		In 27 March 1990 the Association of Free Democrats absorbed the National Democratic Party of Germany.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Association_of_Free_Democrats (178 words)

	MyDD :: Free Range Democrats
		Democrats with eyes on the future have been looking west for some time now.
		With the national GOP in shambles, it's fairly clear that if the Democrats come even close to pulling together attractive candidates with interesting ideas, there will be huge gains for the party in 2006 and 2008.
		Second Liberal Democrats in the Democratic party are a vocal minority.
	www.mydd.com /story/2005/11/27/22353/543 (1898 words)

	Democrats Must Unite Behind Dean to Beat Bush
		Democratic statesman Mario Cuomo hopes this will change soon, and told CNN's Wolf Blitzer he see the Democratic contenders coming together as a chorus telling the truth about Bush's failures.
		Rove is intent on manipulating fear of terrorism to smear Democrats as weak on defense.
		The Democrats were road kill, refusing to contest Bush's election crimes, apparently afraid of Republican and media attacks.
	www.mikehersh.com /Democrats_Must_Unite_Behind_Dean.shtml (3038 words)

	Free Will: Democrats’ Last Gasp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His background as a mostly laissez-faire, free-market, business-minded Democrat never fit neatly with the hierarchy of his Party.
		On one hand, he is exploiting the budget process to energize his leftist Democrat base by supporting gay partner benefits at the UW and advocating embryonic stem cell harvesting.
		The Democrat Party convention this past weekend was left searching for the flavor of Democrat their governor intends to campaign as – Feingold Fizzy or Kohl Flat.
	www.wisopinion.com /blogs/2005/06/democrats-last-gasp.html (399 words)

	Freedom of Speech?: Reports from the "Free Speech Zone"
		Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
		The free speech zone is a special area designated by the government in which protests are to occur.
		First created by the Bush administration and now agreed to by the democrats, the "free speech zones" are typically away from the general area of the event and designed to keep freedom of speech in a controllable and convenient area.
	www.brumax.com /freedom.htm (381 words)

	FT.com / World / Europe - Free Democrats seek crucial role in German poll
		Free Democrats seek crucial role in German poll
		Germany's liberal Free Democrats on Monday pledged to cut taxes, government red tape and labour regulations in an election programme aimed at returning the party to its kingmaker role in German politics.
		Guido Westerwelle, FDP chairman, told journalists in Berlin that if the party entered government after the September election on the coat-tails of the larger centre-right Christian Democratic Union, it would push for €17bn-€19bn ($23bn, £13bn) in tax cuts paid for by abolishing a large part of Germany's financial subsidies and tax loopholes.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/bf33be94-fd31-11d9-b224-00000e2511c8.html (774 words)

	OpinionJournal - Extra
		Harry Reid, the new Senate Democratic leader, is moderate to pro-life on abortion.
		The Democrats, on the other hand, must defend such unpopular practices as partial-birth abortion, taxpayer-subsidized abortion, and abortions for 13-year-olds without their parents' knowledge.
		But this would free Democrats as well as Republicans to tailor their positions to match their constituents'.
	www.opinionjournal.com /extra/?id=110005991 (458 words)

	OpinionJournal - Outside the Box
		Ninety-four Democrats voted against it, 90 of them for it; and that is before some 16 newly elected House Democrats opposed to free trade are even sworn in.
		The Central American Free Trade Agreement, allowing freer trade with the Dominican Republic and five Central American nations, was approved in 2005; and a dozen other bilateral or regional free trade agreements with foreign nations have been put in place.
		Free trade is essential to economic growth and opportunity.
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/pdupont/?id=110009282 (857 words)

	Hispanic Business Forums - Democrats and Free Trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Also opposing it at home are congressional Democrats, appealing to the worst protectionist instincts among their constituencies, especially labor.
		Eliminating barriers to free trade may create initial imbalances, which have to be corrected, but it ultimately benefits workers on both sides of borders by stimulating commerce and creating jobs.
		Centrist Democrats who once supported free trade are doing themselves and the nation a disservice in opposing CAFTA out of irritation with Republican President George W. Bush.
	www.hispanicbusiness.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2050 (468 words)

	Democrats vs. Free Speech? - Reclaim Democracy.org
		Now the Democrats are demonstrating an equal disregard for free speech.
		BOSTON--Protesters at this summer's Democratic National Convention in Boston may be confined to a cozy triangle of land off Haymarket Square, blocked off from the FleetCenter and convention delegates by a maze of Central Artery service roads, MBTA train tracks, and a temporary parking lot holding scores of buses and media trucks.
		Relegated to a parking lot blocks from the convention arena, protesters sued, and less than a month before that convention began, a federal judge ruled that the designated area was unconstitutional.
	www.reclaimdemocracy.org /articles_2004/democrats_vs_free_speech.html (1066 words)

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