More Proof of how amazing Out-Of-Touch Republicans are.
I received a fundraising email today from Senator Orrin Hatch and the Republican Senatorial Committee which provided this quote from the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board:
The nation has had prior almighty Senates, of course, and it hasn't been pretty. Free of the filibuster check, the world's greatest deliberative body tends to go on benders. It was a filibuster-proof Democratic majority (or near to it, in his first years) that allowed FDR to pass his New Deal. It was a filibuster-proof Democratic Senate that allowed Lyndon Johnson to pass his Great Society.
If ever more proof was needed of the amazingly distorted incredibly messed-up values which motivate the Republican Party this is it. Orrin Hatch is quoting me that collection of nutjobs at the Wall Street Journal who are denouncing two of the consensus better policies ever enacted in the United States. In fact the only legitimate criticism I have ever read of the New Deal was that it didn't go far enough and was primarily aimed at propping up the capitalist system, the one which was failing and which the Wall Street Journal board has a clear stake in maintaining. Perhaps if Roosevelt had failed we wouldn't have to worry about these sociopaths from the Wall Street Journal who think profit margin is more important than human life and human dignity. Alas it did and so alas we do. Similar things can be said for the Great Society though those programs are not quite as cut and dry good, though I still support most of those programs imperfect though they may be. Sadly, I expect this type of psychotic anti-social stuff from the Wall Street Journal but for a Senator from Utah home of the LDS Church's extensive religious "welfare state" (not legislative but church-based and extant nonetheless) to quote this article as a means for motivating us to give money, really shows us just what sort of scum these Republicans and their supporters are. This email tells us that Republicans are fully committed to a government which serves the highest and wealthiest classes in this country with no-holds-barred and serves up the rest of the citizenry on the barbecue pit of capitalism. If a bunch of little people get burned, or roasted or otherwise consumed by this class than so be it, they should have been born rich themselves. This email shows me too that "class warfare" is not the provenance of the working and other lower classes but quite fully the design and work of the upper classes who try actively to stomp and take as much as they can from the rest of us to feed their sociopathic greed and selfishness. Let us hope there is a hell so that they can feel the burning of the flame one day.
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