In addition to needing a lobotomy and/or the IQ of a cretin, in order to be a Republican nowadays one needs to be at best morally bankrupt and/or one who holds the Gospel message of Christ - a figure the GOP base claims to revere - in utter contempt. How else to explain the GOP House's passage of massive corporate handouts to corporate farming while eliminating any funding for food stamps. Isn't feeding hungry children core to the Gospel message? Michael Kinsley describes today's GOP well in a piece in The New Republic. Here is the money quote:
[T]he Republican-controlled House has chopped off and discarded food stamps. (The program is now called “SNAP”—an acronym for something or other.) It’s like amputating a gangrenous limb, then keeping the limb and discarding the rest of the body.
Forget about kids going to bed hungry. (Melodramatic, but accurate.) Can this possibly be good politics? Are there actually people out there waiting for a candidate who will kill the food stamp program? It takes your breath away. The Republicans have now cornered the heartless vote. But are there enough heartless people in this country to counterbalance the sane people fleeing the other way?
The net effect of the farm bill, as it stands now in the House, is to take money away from a successful program for making sure that no one starves, and giving it to a variety of programs whose goal is to raise the price of food, for the poor and everyone else. Even if you only care about how things look, this does not look good, it seems to me.
As I have said many times, the GOP has become something truly ugly. And the transformation began when the Christofascists hijacked the party grass roots. The sickness continues to fester.
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