Does The GOP Stand For Anything? #174 By Hank Silverberg If you listen at all to the rhetoric coming from Capitol Hill these days, you might be a bit confused. It seems that one of the political parties up there doesn't have any idea what they stand for. The Republicans seem to have only one mission: oppose anything, no matter what the Democrats or the President propose. With a few exceptions in the Senate, they talk and vote that way. To put this into perspective, let's go back to 1980, when Ronald Reagan, a Republican icon, held the White House. Reagan would tell the country that Republicans stood for "limited government," "free enterprise" and "law and order." That same year, Democrats would say they believed in "a government safety net," "equal rights and opportunity" and "social justice." Today's Democrats would still list those three items as part of their political focus. But the Republican