Rachel Maddow had a great piece recently on
how the mainstream media is totally missing the work of real Republicans
passing real laws in the states. She noted that while beltway reporters are
musing that Republicans learned their lesson after the election and are now
tacking to the left, Republicans out in the states, where they control
legislatures and statehouses, are still pursuing the causes they really believe
in – the war on women, the war on gays, banning abortion etc. In other words,
in Washington where their minority views are often irrelevant, Republicans are
playing nice, but out in the E-I-E-I-O states where they have real power, they
are marching forward with extremist agenda.
Meanwhile,
in the House of Representatives, the one key place
in Washington where the GOP
does rule, they have put forward their slate of House committee chairs. Nineteen
white men. Notwithstanding all their blather about the need to reach out to
women and minorities….When their actions actually count, they are still
marching forward as though the election never happened.
Meanwhile,
Daily Kos has a superb article about America’s Christian right celebrating
Uganda’s effort to pass a bill imposing the death penalty on homosexual acts by
parents, authority figures, and “repeat offenders”, as well as lesser
punishments for all the other gays and lesbians. Powerful members of America’s
Christian right are tremendously excited about the law, calling it a worthy
example for America – let’s make it happen here! “It can be done!” As the
Jewish community would be happy to remind you: when powerful rightwing nut jobs
with government connections begin to openly advocate genocide against an
unpopular group….you might want to pay attention. Because they, too, said “it
can’t happen here!”
So
in 2014 and 2016, when the Republicans yet again send people like Nikki Haley
and Piyush “Bobby” Jindal to sell us their Big Tent snake oil, pleading with us
to believe that they really love women and minorities, let’s all remember that
all they love about women and minorities is their voting power. Once the
election is over, it’s ban abortion, ban contraception, kill gays, blah blah
blah.
Because they think we’re all stupid.
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