Republicans: Liars to the Very Core
11th of March, 2010
DISCLAIMER:
As always, and with any rule (except this one), there are exceptions. Thank you.
♥ Creig
My 59-year-old dad only uses the F-word to describe two things: mosquitos and Republicans.
I could end this essay right there.
My dad was telling me how back in Clinton’s era, the Republicans said the Democrats were using the filibuster as, in their words, “the nuclear option.” Now, in Obama’s era, the Republicans have used the filibuster more times than anyone used it in the entire decade of the 1960s. And it seems they’re calling reconciliation the nuclear option. All of this lead me to the conclusion that the Republicans think they can do anything they want, and they’re The Good Guys, but if anybody else uses a tactic they use, they’re The Bad Guys. They lack graciousness.
But it got me thinking. Bill Clinton was elected President 1993, nearly seventeen years ago, and served until 2001, about nine years ago. Using Bill Clinton’s presidency (the last time a Democrat was in office) as a kind of place to start, I ask the following question: what have the republicans done in the last nine years, since Clinton left office, that was good? What actual good have they done in the last seventeen years, for that matter?
My Internet research has come up with nothing. I honestly think the best thing the Republicans have done in the last decade is make Palin be McCain’s running mate in 2008, thus taking away what credibility McCain had, and eliminating the possibility of another Republican presidency.
The two things I hear most from Republicans are: (1) America is the greatest nation on earth, and (2) family values, God bless America, etc. The trouble with both of these is that they’re a lie. At least, they are when coming from the typical Republican.
America may well be the greatest nation on earth, but we have to consider what it is that makes us the greatest nation on earth. I think it’s twofold. First, it’s the American Dream. The possibility that anybody can make it big with a good idea and hard work. Second, it’s our programs: public schools, inexpensive education, even welfare. 1
A major problem I see is that the Republicans say how great the U.S. is, yet they want to dismantle all the programs that make us good. Free, unregulated capitalism (something Republicans love) led us to the financial crisis we’re all suffering. Now that we’re here and the budget is hosed, it’s arguably public education that gets hit the hardest. 2 My daughter’s school, a school in the greatest nation on earth, is begging parents for donations of paper as a direct result of free, unregulated capitalism.
Oh, and then there’s health care. Free, or drastically cheaper health care for everybody? No way, say Republicans. I still haven’t figured out what’s wrong with that idea. I challenge anybody to explain why every American shouldn’t have access to free, high-quality health care.
Next, family values, and God.
Jesus, in today’s Christianity, has the title Prince of Peace. Yet according to CNN, “the more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists.”
Not to mention the Christian Republican pursuit of outlawing abortion (has an atheist ever murdered an abortion doctor, by the way?), not caring how many coathangers will be murdered along the way. Or how about The War On Drugs? Gay marriage?
You know, for all their wanting to be left alone to pursue unregulated capitalism, Republicans sure seem to need to control others, and usually by saying no.
So Republicans consistently say one thing and do another, they consistently try to tear down the things that make America great, they consistently limit freedoms, and have demonstraited a preference for war over health.
Somebody please explain why you keep voting for them.
- Welfare the idea isn’t a bad one; the current execution of it, however, isn’t working the way it should. ↩
- By the way: since, statistically speaking, everybody’s driving a huge truck or SUV, why not cut funding to road maintenance rather than education? Your huge Republican truck can deal with potholes just fine. ↩
Please just for fun, watch this youtube video with Bill Maher and Anne Coulter. You are right on it, my friend. He does a 10 countdown of what republicans really are and it’s just blunt and true.