If there is any doubt that the GOP has become a sectarian party - even in the wake of a religious based bigotry induced suicide of 15 year old Billy Lucas mentioned in the last post - Dick Armey is spouting the Christianist party line when he says that social issues will be back on Congress' agenda if the GOP recaptures the House of Representatives. Armey - who has embraced the Tea Party lunacy - obviously cares nothing for the long term prospects for the GOP and would rather prostitute himself for short term wins even if it means losing the younger generations and the future. The country's infrastructure can be falling apart, the economy can be in a free fall, millions are losing their homes, and all the GOP cares about is abortion and denigrating gays lives. Indeed, this branch of the GOP wants nothing less than a Christianist theocracy. Here are highlights from the Christian Science Monitor:*
"Tea party" advocate Dick Armey, chairman of Freedom Works, says that if Republicans take control of Congress in November’s elections, changing policies on social issues like abortion will be on their agenda.
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Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, said in June that the next president “would have to call a truce on the so-called social issues” so that the nation’s debt and deficit problems could be solved.
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When asked Monday at a Monitor-sponsored breakfast for reporters about the possibility of a truce on social issues going into the presidential campaign, Mr. Armey said, “A truce? No. These are issues of the heart. People are not going to turn their hearts and minds away from things that they have so heartfelt.”
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As a former Republican, I shake my head in disbelief at what has become of the GOP. The extremism of the GOP seems to be only intensifying.
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