the compassion of a republican

[on Republicans finding compassion on ONE issue]

Hey, since i now have no regular readership, and an odd news story has slipped through the transom, i can unload.   Let us go to the alphabet, the letter for to-day is 'H', and 'H' stands for hypocrisy, the essence of the Republican party.

Now, Ohio's Senator Portman is your typical "non-red state" Republican puke. He can also dress up nice, speak in a pleasant tone. There is little chance that he would shit himself in public, or have Teabag Tourette's. He was gwbjr's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and before that his Trade Representative. Being that close to the worst president since the founding of the Republican party, he was able to have more votes for Senator than the better man, Lee Fisher, in 2010. He ran on Portman's Plan for Jobs, extraordinarily implying that he as senator would eliminate unemployment. Well, that was a very bad year for the Democracy, and often Ohio acts as East Indiana, and western Ohio is very much like Indiana anyway. 

Now, one of the myriad tricks Karl Rove played in 2004 to ensure gwbjr the White House was having Ohio Issue 1 to Ban Same-Sex Marriage. It passed 62% to 38%. That issue brought out voters, more so [it was planned] to have also voted for gwbjr. That, and the voting suppression [the immense help having a Secretary of State as campaign chairman can never be under rated], and computer tampering gave the state and the presidency to gwbjr. This may be why Rove had a 'meltdown' about the Ohio Republican counties that were to come in last election night.

Just now, Portman has announced to the world that his son has an alternative sexual orientation, and therefore, marriage of people of the same gender is fine. Of course, this does not change the only Republican stance that truly is fundamental "Make the rich richer, and screw the poor harder" . When he made this public, on the same day, 15 March 2012, not one Republican in the House voted to raise the minimum wage. That was removed from the bill. Republican 'compassion' is rare, it is like finding a blue lobster, when one is found, it is a story all over the press and television.

Portman now supports 'gay marriage'. Well, it is does not touch the core economic royalist position. All these pelvic issues are just to lure in gullible people who like to believe they have morals. Portman is still a Republican puke. He was chairman for Ohio's Romney campaign. Dick Cheney, perhaps the most evil man in the history of the United States, has a queer daughter. Portman says he spoke to Cheney, as well as his [Portman's] clergyman on the issue. Compassionate conservatism is like the grooming of rainbow unicorns.

 Margaret Carlson wrote in 1997, in Time magazine:
It's that it is a haphazard, self-limiting approach to public policy--and there's a lot of that going around these days. Hard-nosed budget hawk Senator Pete Domenici, whose daughter has suffered from mental illness, expensively amended the Kennedy-Kassebaum health-care bill to cover such afflictions. Conservative Republican Senator Al D'Amato, whose top political strategist is homosexual, supports gays in the military. Antiregulation Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio, whose daughter was tragically killed in an auto accident in 1993, opposed repeal of the federal 55-m.p.h. speed limit last year. And columnist George Will, who derides mushy liberal programs, has written movingly in support of government programs that help his son, who has Down syndrome.

More recently, the Republican Senator from Illinois, Mark Kirk was fortunate enough to have a stroke. Now he sees value for physical therapy for Medicare patients. Typical hypocrisy, you are a filthy prick on every issue possible, until one thing touches you, and then you magically become human on one issue. It is fortunate for the NatRifleAss that children of Republican Congress critters are not victims of gun massacres, otherwise they would lose a few bought votes.