The GOP Remains the Tool of the Christianists

With the economy still in the toilet, millions out of work, foreclosures still at historic highs, and the stock market still significantly down (and people's retirement funds accordingly diminished), one would think that the Republican Party might focus its attention on addressing these huge problems. But such is not the case. Instead, the GOP remains fixated on the twin obsessions of the Christofascists: gays and abortion. Rather than pass any kind of job promoting legislation, the GOP controlled House of Representatives passed a bill to limit abortion funding. As noted many times, I'm not a proponent of abortion and believe it should be something used only as a last resort. But WTF is wrong with the GOP? The concerns of most rational people mean nothing. Instead, it's all about pleasing and kissing the asses of the protectors of child rapists in the Catholic Church and semi-closeted white supremacists at FRC, AFA and Focus on the Family. The Washington Post looks at the upside down priorities of today's GOP. Here are some highlights:

The House on Thursday approved a bill that would prohibit federal funds from going toward any health care plan that covers abortion services, marking the chamber’s passage of its first major abortion-rights measure since May. . . . In addition to blocking federal funding of health care plans that cover abortion services, the bill, authored by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) and known as the “Protect Life Act,” would prevent funds from being withheld from health care institutions that are opposed to providing abortions.

On Thursday, Democrats criticized both the substance of the legislation as well as the decision by House Republican leaders to move the bill to the floor as a “waste of time” that otherwise could have been spent on jobs measures.

“It’s appalling,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said at a Thursday morning news conference, arguing that “women can die on the floor and health care providers do not have to intervene if this bill is passed.”

“America’s families deserve better than this and again, today is another example of a wasted opportunity instead of taking up even an aspect of the president’s jobs bill that could create jobs,” she continued. “I can’t even describe to you the logic of what they are doing.”

Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) called the measure “a deeply flawed and deeply divisive bill that will not pass the Senate and will be vetoed if it reaches the president’s desk.”

Of course, the GOP members of the House and their Christianist allies don't give a rat's ass about children after they are born - they oppose virtually every program that would aid poor children and provide decent medical care access. No, it's all about worshiping the unborn and then casting the living on the dung heap. They are total hypocrites. WWJD?