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August 20th, 2012

The Rhetoric Does Not Serve The Purpose You Think It Does

Andrew Sullivan

It should be possible to be a total fiscal tightwad and still adopt a live-and-let-live philosophy in government – and yet that is emphatically not the GOP we have today…

He’s talking about rape apologist Republican (surprise, surprise) Todd Akin from Missouri.   People keep reading his statement about “legitimate” rape as, if a woman is really raped she’s not likely to get pregnant, and therefore rape victims don’t really need access to abortion.   But that’s not what he meant.   What he meant was, if a woman gets pregnant she wasn’t really raped.   She was having sex because she wanted it and that makes it her fault she got pregnant and now she’ just wants an abortion to escape the consequences of her slutty behavior.

That’s the mindset in the neanderthal/Taliban wing of the republican party…and let’s be real here…does it even make sense to keep referring to the kook pews as a wing of the party.   They’re in control now.

They’re not fiscal tightwads either…

The last republican to actually practice what he preached when it came to balanced budgets was Dwight D. Eisenhower.   Bill Clinton ended his term with a budget surplus and the republicans screamed that such things were dangerous because government would surely find ways to spend it.   You didn’t hear them talking much about paying down the deficit with it either.   No.   Please.   They don’t give a rat’s ass about the budget.   What they care about is the size of government.   More to the point, the ability of government to interfere in their splendid little culture war.

A government big enough to keep corporate power in check is a government that is too big.   A government that is big enough to maintain a rule of law against the the power of big money to flout the law whenever it damn well feels like it is a government that is too big.   A government that is big enough to protect the environment from being raped for the next quarterly profit report and to hell with the one after that is a government that is too big.   A government big enough to guarantee the rights of women and minorities is a government that is too big.   A government that is big enough to guarantee the right of all Americans to equal justice under law, to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, is a government that is too big.

This is why the kook pews appear as though they are budget tightwads from time to time.   The idea isn’t that government should live within its means, it’s that government should live within the palm of their hand, the better to wield it against the poor, the outcast, and all those slutty women who claim they were raped when all along they really wanted it.

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