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GOP Is Getting Even More Extreme  By The Reverend Published:
April 24, 2009    ....among Texas Republicans, it's 51% approval
to 44% disapproval.  Call me crazy...but that seems a bit
extreme to me. Just because Texas GOP'ers lost the last
election, now they want to take their statehood ball and go
home?  Perry's crazy call for Texas to secede, however, is like
the cartoon before the feature film.  The Republican Party has
now become, from all observable data, the party of torture. It's
the damnest thing. For the longest time, because Bush/Cheney and
Co. kept a pretty tight totalitarian house, the Republican
response to accusations of torture by the Bush administration
was simply, and repeatedly, "America doesn't torture."  Simple
denial. No one could prove otherwise without the threat of a one
way trip to Guantanomo, so the "America doesn't torture" mantra
was all we ever heard when the topic arose.  Now that it is
clear that, yes, America did t