Ronald Reagan Myth, Facts and the Rewriting of History

Ronald Reagan was 100 years old in February. His birthday was celebrated by conservatives and the Tea Party. I hate to break this to them but the so called "King of the Conservatives" died when he was 93.

If I say this out loud, I risk getting hit in the head by a shovel wielding neocon, but Reagan would never be accepted by the GOP/TP today because of his liberalism! I will break it down into an easy to follow format, the fairy tale, followed by the truth.

As always, I you are welcomed to refute anything printed in this blog. Also please note the absence of any real arguments as it is difficult to prove a fact wrong.

Reagan never raised Taxes:

 As governor of California, Reagan signed into law the largest tax increase in the history of any state up till then.while he nearly doubled state spending.

As president, Reagan raised taxes in seven of his eight years in office.

including four times in just two years! Reagan raised taxes a total of eleven times during his term as President. Reagan, the anti-tax zealot, is mythology

Reagan cut the federal budget deficit:

During the Reagan years, the debt increased to nearly $3 trillion. Reagan enacted a major tax cut his first year in office and government revenue dropped off precipitously.

Despite the conservative myth that tax cuts somehow increase revenue, the government went deeper into debt and Reagan had to raise taxes just a year after he enacted his tax cut. Despite ten more tax hikes on everything from gasoline to corporate income, Reagan was never able to get the deficit under control.

 Reagan’s tax cuts lowered Unemployment rates:

Nationwide, unemployment rose to 10.8 percent after Reagan enacted his much-touted tax cut in 1981! It took years for the rate to get back down to its previous level. Meanwhile, income inequality exploded. Despite the myth that Reagan presided over an era of unmatched economic boom for all Americans, Reagan disproportionately taxed the poor and middle class and the economic growth of the 1980′s did little to help them. 

 Reagan cut federal government spending:

Reagan promised to move boldly, decisively, and quickly to control the runaway growth of federal spending but federal spending nearly tripled under Reagan. He bailed out Social Security in 1983 after attempting to privatize it and set up a progressive taxation system to keep it funded into the future. He promised to cut government agencies like the Department of Energy and Education but ended up adding one of the largest — the Department of Veterans' Affairs which now has a budget of nearly $90 billion and close to 300,000 employees. He also raised defense spending by over $100 billion a year.

 Reagan was anti-abortion:

As governor of California in 1967, Reagan signed a bill to liberalize the state’s abortion laws that resulted in more than a million abortions. When Reagan ran for president, he advocated a constitutional amendment that would have prohibited all abortions except when necessary to save the life of the mother, but once in office, he never signed any anti abortion laws.

 Reagan's dream… a world free of nuclear weapons:

Stemming from the president’s belief that the biblical account of Armageddon prophesied nuclear war — and that apocalypse could be averted if everyone, especially the Soviets, eliminated nuclear weapons. Reagan’s military buildup was meant to crush the Soviet Union and to put the United States in a stronger position from which to establish effective arms control for the the entire world — a vision acted out by Regean’s vice president, George H.W. Bush, when he became president. And don't forget Nancey's psychics.

Reagan was tough on illegal immigrants:

Reagan signed into law a bill that made any immigrant who had entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty. The bill was sold as a crackdown, but its tough sanctions on employers who hired undocumented immigrants were removed before final passage. The bill helped 3 million people and millions of family members gain American residency. It has since become a source of  major embarrassment for conservatives.

 Reagan believed in open government:

Reagan and other senior U.S. officials secretly sold arms to officials in Iran which was subject to an arms embargo at the time, in exchange for American hostages.

Some funds from the illegal arms sales also went to fund anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua — something Congress had already prohibited the administration from doing. When the deals went public, the Iran-Contra Affair, as it came to be know, was an enormous political scandal that forced several senior administration officials to resign.

Reagan vetoed a comprehensive anti-Apartheid act:

This act placed sanctions on South Africa and cut off all American trade with the country. Reagan’s veto was overridden by the Republican-controlled Senate.

 Reagan helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden:

Reagan fought a proxy war with the Soviet Union by training, arming, equipping, and funding Islamist mujahedin fighters in Afghanistan. Reagan funneled billions of dollars, along with top-secret intelligence and sophisticated weaponry to these fighters through the Pakistani intelligence service. The Taliban and Osama Bin Laden, a prominent mujahedin commander, emerged from these groups.  Reagan’s decision to continue the proxy war after the Soviets were willing to retreat played a direct role in Bin Laden' ascendancy which led to 9-11.

Conservatives have the tendency to draw their conclusions first then work backwards looking for validation. If facts get in the way of the conclusions, the facts are then ignored. If you are of the ilk and would like to prove me wrong, please do. The best you could ever do is the same old GOP "dance around the subject"!

 Face it, Ronnie Ray-Gun sucked as has everything tainted by Republicans since his presidency.

Steve

Religion is a Fascist Pipeline

Over the last few years, the media has been filled with speculation about the assassination of Dr. Tiller and the Tucson shootings.  There is a lot of discussion about the divisive discourse in this country that could have led to such violence.  There is speculation that, on the face of it, these killers are mentally unbalanced.  However, to dismiss these events as simply the act of deranged men would be a mistake.  

The polarization in this country has led to a deep schism between Americans that, at times, seems too wide to cross.  We had a congressman yelling to the president that he is a liar during his State of the Union speech last year, an unprecedented act.  A Supreme Court Justice who lost his guise of political neutrality by mouthing, "that's not true," at that same event.  We have Sarah Palin who used such emotionally charged rhetoric against our president that at one political rally, a man was heard screaming, "Kill him!" This was before she had the effrontery to put a list of Democratic representatives on her website and mark them with the  crosshairs of a gun.  One of those representatives was Gabrielle Giffords.  During this last election, a candidate for a Senate seat from Nevada suggested that Americans could use "Second Amendment remedies" to deal with political differences.  People have charged that our president was not born in this country and, consequently, is not a citizen.  Others claim he is a socialist, a Muslim, even a communist. The political rhetoric has become toxic, so much so that rational discussion seems impossible.  The politics of hate seem to dominate our political landscape, and it makes ordinary people wonder, "How did we get to this place?"

The politics of hate didn't begin with Obama.  It didn't begin with Clinton, or even Kennedy.  It began much earlier than that.  In the 1930's, there was a fear-monger named Father Coughlin.  Charles Edward Coughlin was a controversial Roman Catholic priest who was one of the first to use the radio to reach a mass audience of more than thirty million.  

He called for monetary reforms, the nationalization of major industries and railroads, and protection of the rights of labor.  Although this appeared to be a populist agenda, he began to attack Jewish bankers.  He used his radio program to spread anti-Semitic hate speech, and later to rationalize some of the policies of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. He was stirring up violence against Jews, and finally his political tirades were silenced by his superiors.  Glenn Beck is the modern-day equivalent of Coughlin in that he is constantly talking about conspiracy theories and blaming various elements of our society in an attempt to work his supporters into a political frenzy against those people or organizations Beck considers "evil."

Fast forward 40 years, and in 1979, Rev. Jerry Falwell steps up with his concept of the "Moral Majority," which became one of the largest political lobby groups for evangelical Christians in the United States during the 1980s. The Moral Majority was founded as being "pro-family", "pro-life," "pro-defense" and pro-Israel.  The group is credited with delivering two-thirds of the white, evangelical Christian vote to Ronald Reagan during the 1980 presidential election.   As head of the Moral Majority, Falwell consistently pushed for Republican candidates and for conservative politics leading to criticism from other clergy of his sermons about political issues that lacked a moral element.

Falwell's political success led religious commentator Pat Robertson to believe that he might have a shot at being president during the 1988 election.  Even though his campaign was well funded, it failed.  He ran in some of the Republican primaries, but it became obvious he didn't stand a chance.  (If memory serves me correctly, I believe he did win the Republican primary in Oklahoma.)  So a disgruntled Robertson hit on the idea of organizing evangelicals in a more formal and powerful way than Falwell had.  He used the remains of his campaign machinery to jump-start the creation of a voter mobilization effort dubbed the Christian Coalition whose mailing list contained several million conservative Christians interested in politics.

Meetings of the Christian Coalition would be the leader outlining their plan to use the churches to educate parishioners about how to become effective political advocates for the right-wing issues of the Coalition and to train people on how to effectively run for office.

At the beginning of the meeting, they saluted the flag and said the pledge of allegiance -- but it wasn't the American flag. It was the Christian flag, and the pledge of allegiance was to Jesus. "I pledge allegiance to the Christian Flag and to the Savior for whose Kingdom it stands. One Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again with life and liberty to all who believe." Only after they had established their priorities, did they salute the American flag.

In 1990, the national Christian Coalition began producing "non-partisan" voter guides which it distributed to conservative Christian churches, with 40 million being distributed in the 1992 and 1996 presidential election years. Complaints that the voter guides were actually partisan led to the denial of the Christian Coalition, Inc.'s tax-exempt status in 1999. But that didn't stop Robertson.  He turned all his efforts to politics.

After a long battle, in 2005 the IRS recognized the Christian Coalition as a 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organization, the first time in the Agency's history that it has granted a letter of exemption to a group that stated in its application that it would distribute voter guides directly in churches.

And so the seeds of our current divisive political dialogue were sown.

Because the prospects of a third party are not good for winning a presidential race in the United States, the Coalition laser focused on taking over the one party that agreed most with their political positions - the Republicans.  They set up voter training workshops in evangelical churches all over America.  They taught their followers how to be effective advocates - how to lobby, how to work in elections, how to run for office.  They encouraged people to start small -- take over precinct meetings, school boards, then run for city councils, for state-wide office, and eventually for national office. It is amazingly easy to do this.  Some local elections, particularly school boards, may be won with perhaps 50 votes.  They organized, informed, and activated their followers and depended on the voter apathy of people who would oppose them.  Ralph Reed became the executive director of the Christian Coalition.  He used subterfuge to project a "softer" public face for Christian conservatism.  Reed apparently described himself as a "guerrilla fighter" who "painted his face and traveled at night" and put "enemies" in "body bags"  before they even realized he had struck.  Those "enemies" were anyone who disagreed with the Christian Coalition's dogma.

Christian extremists not only are trying to eliminate or take over public education, but are infiltrating all branches of the military all the way to the Pentagon.  They are working with our police forces to identify people they can manipulate, to set up bases of power within those agencies to support them, if and when they decide to take over our government using the bullet and not the ballot.

During the 90s, the Christian Coalition continually gained more political power, and finally took over control of the Republican party, pushing out moderates and fiscal conservatives who did not accept their religio-political agenda.  They also began taking over other institutions where they could build influence, like the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.  They fired a woman professor because she was a "feminist."  The Coalition found a willing partner on social issues like abortion, women's rights, and gay rights in the Catholic Church, another powerful ally.  The power of the Coalition came to a peak with the election of George W. Bush.  He pandered to their issues and they returned the favor by electing him president of the United States.

During Bush's tenure, billions of dollars were given to "Faith Based Programs," actually a ploy for funneling public funds to fundamentalist churches, which in turn, were used to proselytize people using the social services offered by the churches.  
Progressive Christian churches, as well as Islamic Mosques and Jewish Temples or Synagogues, mysteriously did not receive invitations to make application for these funds. Those invitations were sent only to conservative and evangelic churches. Billions more are still being funneled into the "Abstinence-Only Programs," most of which were operated by these same conservative Protestant and Catholic churches.  Every scientific study done on the "Abstinence-Only Programs" has shown them to be miserable failures, and they actually may endanger our young people more than they help them.  These churches also use government funds to support their so-called "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" that purportedly are established to help pregnant women once they give birth.  In reality, these Centers are anti-abortion propaganda mills.

The Christian Coalition was joined by other conservative religious groups, the most prominent of which are Focus on the Family, established by Jim Dobson, and the American Family Association, founded by Donald Wildmon.  These groups have fought to outlaw abortion, defund family planning programs (such as Planned Parenthood), and in general, push an anti-woman agenda.  Beginning in 1990, the Promise Keepers came to the forefront with male-only meetings to tell men to take back "their rightful place as head of the household."  It is not a coincidence that the Christian-based Promise Keepers was founded in by Bill McCartney, then the head football coach at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  Naturally, their meetings were held in football stadiums. (A more macho venue could not be found.)  The "Promise Reapers" was the female-counterpart where women were urged to follow their husbands and never question his authority. 

   

The Christian Coalition is still in existence.  Its minions have not only taken over the Republican party, they are now infiltrating the Democratic party.  At one state Democratic meeting, when the pro-choice resolution was presented to be voted on, some delegates actually booed.  Today it is difficult to distinguish a Republican from a Democrat in many Southern and Western states.  Democrats are scared to death of the vote of the conservative Christian.  At one state Democratic meeting, the chair actually said the purpose of the party was, "to elect Democrats to office."  I have always thought the purpose of the party was to stand up for traditional democratic values of equality, fairness, and justice.  Apparently, getting elected supersedes those values now.

When the conservative Christians took over the Republican party, they brought with them, not only their values, but their mindset. They see the world in a binary manner - black or white, right or wrong, good or evil.  And they brought this thinking into our political arena.  Hence, you could no longer simply disagree with them on an issue in a civil and mature manner.  Anyone who disagrees with them is defined as "evil."  How many times have we heard that phrase used by Republican politicians to smear the opposition?  When an issue or person is framed as being "evil," that shuts the door to rational discourse.  It doesn't take long for a very tall and thick wall to build up between opposing viewpoints.  The "carriers of light" become entrenched in their positions because they are literally, "on God's side."  Consequently, there can be no rational discussion.  Either the opposition capitulates in order to get something done, or they reach a stalemate, in which case, nothing can be accomplished.  Sound familiar?  That's where we are in this current political climate.  A stalemate in the congress leading to the Republican party being referred to as, "the Party of No!."  Disrespect and disharmony have resulted in a paralyzed government.  At political rallies, people hold signs and make speeches advocating revolution.  They bring their guns to the rallies in an attempt to intimidate.  They take Sharron Angle seriously when she said there could be "Second Amendment solutions." They take Sarah Palin seriously when she says, "Don't Retreat. Reload." The rancor, hatred and vile acts seem to be escalating.  No president in history has received as many death threats as President Obama.  Members of Congress, Republicans and Democrats, receive threats and attempts at intimidation on a daily basis.

The assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., and the attempted assassination of Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and now Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shows how deep divisions can lead to violence and destruction. 

And this is the situation we find ourselves in now. The moderate Republicans have got to take back their party.  The Democrats have got to fight to stand up for their traditional values, instead of kowtowing to the Religious Right simply to get elected.  We can't continue down this path, or we will have blood in the streets.

Can we really shoot our fellow Americans because we disagree with them politically?  There are no civil or constitutional rights in a civil conflict. There is only death and destruction.  Is this what we want?  Everyone has to answer that question for themselves.

A re-edit of an article written by Barbara Santee, Ph.D

Steve

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A Warning for Women and Those who Love Them!

­"Republicans want smaller government with less control over our personal lives."

Conservatives want  nothing short of ideologica­l control of lives - control over women in particular­.

Republicans want to criminalize abortion but at the same time they want to eliminate funding for all the programs that help poor mothers and children. They deny women the ability to control how many children they have then also deny them the help they need to raise the children they have. It all comes down to their desire to control women and keep them dependent. stem from a set of basic and consistent religious principles that have long been at the heart of conservative, Republican politics.

Women need to have more children and they need to be prevented from having any sort of control over when they get pregnant or how often they get pregnant. At the same time, they must be denied any assistance (public assistance, as opposed to faith-based assistance from churches where aid can be tied to accepting traditional Christian ideas about women's social roles) in raising those kids, educating those kids, or keeping those kids healthy. This is their idea of to force women to abandon their rebellion against God and men. 

Once they abandon their feminist rebellion, they will recognize their true place at the feet of the men in their lives. Once they take the learn their place in society, men will also learn their place and then all of society will be healthy again. The economy will be right again, politics will be right again, and all will be good with the world. In this way, practically everything that's wrong with the world is attributed one way or another to women failing to adhere to the traditional social roles that Christianity demands. In effect, women and feminism are to blame for everything and thus putting them in their place is the solution to everything.

Republicans are anti personal freedom. They only support freedom of corporations to control the world. They want people censored so people will be good sheep. They want to take our rights away...

1. Who to marry
2. What religion to worship
3. Who to have sex with
4. Where to build your place of worship
5. Where to go for entertainment
6. What ideology to follow
7. What language to speak
8. Who gets to be a U.S. Citizen
9. Who is Christian
10. Who you give birth to.

Is it clear enough to you yet? You are at war against conservative fascists for your rights and freedoms. 

Are you going to let them take them?

Steve

Toxic, Sadistic Laws that Conservatives, the Tea Party and the Right are Ramming up our Asses

Toxic, Sadistic Laws that the Tea Party,the Right and Conservatives Are Trying to Ram down the peoples throats and up the asses of the middle class. Welcome back my friends to the show that NEVER ends.

1.The Anti-Life Pro-Life Act: After anti-abortion Republicans in Congress tried to narrow the legal definition of rape, Nebraska Republican state Sen. Mark Christensen took the assault on women’s rights one step further with a bill to legitimize the murder of abortion providers by classifying such homicides as “justified.”

2. The Let Them Eat Corporate Tax Cuts Act: As poverty rates and hunger have risen, so, too, have corporate profits. The Georgia Legislature’s response? Intensify the inequity with a bill to create a regressive sales tax on food that would then finance a brand new corporate tax cut.

3. The Demoralize the Workforce Act: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker didn’t just threaten to deploy the National Guard against state workers unless they accept big pay and pension cuts. Apparently, that was too Kent State and not enough Ludlow Massacre for him. So he pressed to statutorily bar those workers from ever again collectively bargaining.

4. The Child Labor Act: Missouri state Sen. Jane Cunningham’s proposal to eliminate child labor laws would allow corporations to employ any kid under 14 and would terminate restrictions on the number of hours that kid can be forced to work. The legislation is proof that when tea party ideologues refer to “the ’50s,” some of them aren’t referring to the 1950s—they are referring to the 1850s.

5. The Obesity and Deficit Encouragement Act: Colorado exemplifies America’s childhood obesity epidemic and its budget crisis. The state’s childhood obesity rate grew at the second-fastest rate in the country, and its $1.2 billion budget gap is threatening the state’s already underfunded schools. Yet, despite the U.S. Department of Agriculture showing that higher soda taxes would drive down obesity, and despite such a levy raising much-needed public revenues, Colorado’s newly Republican House is pushing legislation to create a special budget-busting sales tax exemption exclusively for soda.

6. The Endorsing Your Own Demise Act: Between trying to legalize hunting with hand-thrown spears and pressing to eliminate education requirements for those seeking the office of state superintendent of schools, Montana’s Republican lawmakers are also considering legislation to officially endorse catastrophic global climate change. That’s right, in the face of a Harvard study showing that climate change could destroy Montana’s water supplies, agriculture industries and forests, state Rep. Joe Read’s bill would declare that “global warming is beneficial to the welfare and business climate of Montana.”

7. Florida’s Senate Bill 1854 specifies that “Members of the instructional staff of the public schools… shall teach efficiently and faithfully… the following: a thorough presentation and critical analysis of the scientific theory of evolution.” At first glance this provision does not seem all that questionable. However, the man behind the law is Republican Senator Stephen R. Wise, who has unabashedly claimed he is anti-evolution, wants to have “intelligent design” taught at educational institutions.

The proposed bill is just an extra sneaky method of accomplishing this goal. His claim is that knowledge about creation myths would encourage “critical thinking.” If that’s the case, then I’m advocating that students learn of the Giant Spaghetti Monster and his gloriously gigantic meatballs....mmmmm, meatballs......in your pants.

8. In Utah House Bill 477 was signed into law by Gov. Gary Herbert. This controversial law amends the state’s open records law to give the government more privacy. As an alteration of the Utah Government Records Access and Management Act, the bill requires that “voice mails, instant messages, video chats, and text messages are not records subject to the act, with some exceptions.”

9. In Michigan, Gov. Rick Snyder’s budget is expected to cut aid to cities and towns so drastically that many municipalities are expected to fall into serious financial issues. Gov. Snyder currently advocates a bill that would provide him and his administration the power to declare any town or school district to be in a “financial emergency.” If a town earns such a status, then his administration is allowed to implement an individual to be in charge of that town. Welcome to the state, county, township, city and town of Michigan.

10. Georgia State Rep. Bobby Franklin—who last year introduced a bill mandating that victims of rape, stalking, harassment, and family violence be reclassified as "accusers", has introduced a 10-page bill that would criminalize miscarriages and make abortion in Georgia completely illegal. Both miscarriages and abortions would be potentially punishable by death. The baby died so now you must die, wifey. An eye for an eye!

11.Florida Republican lawmakers are reviving a proposed constitutional amendment is aimed at allowing Floridians to opt out of a federal requirement that they buy health insurance or face financial penalties. Lawmakers passed a largely identical proposal during the 2010 session, but the Florida Supreme Court blocked it from going on the November ballot because of misleading wording. State Rep. Tom Goodson (R) filed a bill that would “preempt regulation of wage theft to state, except as otherwise provided by federal law,  supersedes any municipal or county ordinance or other local regulation on such subject.”

In other words, if passed, this bill would do away with a Miami-Dade ordinance passed in 2010 that prevents employers from cheating workers out of wages they are owed. Over 3,500 right to work employers have been nailed just in Miami-Dade county.

12. Arizona: A proposed law would let the state actually nullify federal laws that legislators believe are invalid. They must live in Amerika.

13. South Dakota: Any adult 21 or older would have to buy a firearm "for their ordinary self-defense". But government can't make you buy health insurance, that would be unconstitutional!

14. Montana: House Bill 278 would authorize arming citizens' militias against invaders. "Invade Montana and seize the Dental Floss ranches!" is what I always say.

15. New Hampshire: a volunteer "permanent state defense force" would assist with disaster relief and "defend the state against invasion". "Invade Montana New Hampshire and seize the Dental Floss Hampster ranches!" is what I always say.

16. Texas is special with 25 toxic bills : One bill makes it a crime to be in Texas without documents. Another prohibits the State of Texas from issuing birth certificates for children born in Texas to parents where father and mother are undocumented, a violation of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. Another bill withholds state funds to governmental entities who harbor undocumented persons. This would require every law enforcement officer to stop, detain and identify every person whom the officer suspected of being an undocumented person. Another bill requires schools to document who is legal and who is illegal in each school in Texas. Each child would be required to certify for the school who they are concerning the legal status of each parent. The school would be required to report this information up to the state agency who would handle this reporting system. Another bill would prohibit undocumented persons to file lawsuits in the court. They would also be prohibited from filing counter-claims or cross-claims in court. They could be sued in court, but they could not sue back. Reminds me of South Africa during apartheid. Texas, where stupid really is bigger!

17. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) introduced his 10th Amendment Regulatory Reform Act which would allow state officials to challenge federal regulations before they go into effect.This bill mirrors a bill introduced by Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) It would allow designated state officials to file a legal brief challenging the constitutionality of proposed regulations during the time when they're open for comment. Both bills are in response to health-care reform law.

There are many more bills I have not listed. If you don’t live in one of these states, it’s easy to tell yourself that these bills don’t affect you. But history suggests that what happens in one state is quite often replicated in others—and ultimately, in the nation’s capital. That’s why we should all hope saner minds cut short these bills and laws before they get even more out of control.

Steve

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Republicans Hate Women! Do You Care?

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Are Republicans so uptight about sex that they hate women? Do they believe what the bible says about women? Ya betcha!

Of course, because they hate women, they also hate children, after they leave the womb of course.

1) Republicans not only want to reduce womens access to abortion care, they’re actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven’t yet. Republicans don't believe in the concept of rape since their cock is God's gift to women.

2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to “accuser.” But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain “victims.” Republicans believe women constantly lie and they are for the pleasure of men and their abuse as warranted.

3) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. Republicans will argue that the Constitution gives them the right to shoot doctors.

4) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids. Republicans believe that when "it" is no longer a fetus, fuck it.

5) In Congress, Republicans have a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life. Republicans could care less if you die. Your just another dead bitch to them.

6) Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids’ preschool program. Why? No need, they said. Women should really be home with the kids, not out working. Republicans believe that women take too many jobs away from men.

7) And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool. Republicans say "Keep children stupid for ease of control".

8) Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens. In other words, Republicans will fuck their own grandmother.

9) Congress just voted for a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country. Republicans need more slave labor.

10) And if that wasn’t enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program for humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. Republicans like the idea of big, juicy, throbbing horse cocks.

So I leave you with one question.....What are you going to do about it, punked ass? 

Steve