Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Are You A Republican?
I plagiarized some of this from a commentary that I read at TPM last year. This blurb bears repeating. It's about the Americans who still approve of the president's performance. Who are these people? Inquiring minds would like to know.
You might be a misguided Republican if you:
You might be a misguided Republican if you:
- defend a war based on incompetence, lies, greed, and corruption
- defend torturing enemies and spying on Americans
- defend moral values by investigating President Clinton's private sexual life and by protecting this administration's closed door policy
- believe that the Republican president has absolute power and can invoke Marshall Law whenever he deems it necessary
- believe that the defenders of Habeas Corpus help terrorists
- believe that Republican leaders should keep secrets about what they will do and how much it will cost
- believe that the Republican administration can borrow money whenever they deem it necessary no matter how large the federal deficit is
- believe that Terry Schiavo was murdered, abortion and stem cell research is infanticide, but in vitro fertilization is Christian
- approve the appointment of incompetent cronies to important positions because they are loyal Bushies
- support constitutional amendments that do not reflect the beliefs of the majority of Americans
- support the outsourcing of American jobs
- support a Republican platform that reforms public education by cutting funds
- see nothing wrong with the rising price of gasoline while gas companies are enjoying record breaking profits
- see nothing wrong with the rising cost of medical care and prescription drugs while health care and drug companies are growing in size and profits
- call conservationalists tree huggers
- hate labor unions for supporting American workers and love Walmart for offering cheap goods made in China
- hide sexually deviant behaviors and habits while advocating family values
- vote for officials who call dark skinned people macaca and niggers
- slander public officials, past and present, if they are not Republicans
- ignore warnings about global warming and the need to find alternative sources of energy
- politicize science and engineering
- advocate Republican reforms and initiatives while diverting the funds to other projects
- use religion and patriotism as social and political weapons
- use national security as an excuse
- don't care if government contracts worth billions of dollars are awarded without a transparent bidding procedure
- don't care if fellow Republicans steal campaign funds and "swift boat" their opponents because it's only politics
- don't care if the vice president will be cashing in a bonus from a war profiteer in a couple of years
- don't care if corporations pocket the pension plans of their employees
- don't care if the government outs an undercover CIA agent for political reasons
- don't care if minorities can't vote or voting machines don't work
- don't care if the administration uses the Department of Justice to target political adversaries
- don't care if the administration' handling of terrorist prisoners is arbitrary, capricious, political, savage, and unjust
- believe the ends justify the means for this administration even if they have to lie, disregard the Geneva Convention, break the law, suspend Habeas Corpus, destroy the environment, kill hundreds of thousands of civilians, and spit in the face of public and world opinion
- put loyalty above the law
- put politics first, period.
