Republicans are the most heartless bastards anyone could ever imagine.

[Bandit]

The oli industry is the most profitable industry on the face of the Earth...EVER and yet Republicans feel they need government tax payer subsidies while people with almost nothing who can't afford to buy heating oil from these highly profitable companies deserve absolutely nothing. No help, just scorn for being poor..They must be lazy or on dope...America used to be a better country. I am ashamed to be an American in this day and age...I do not like it that we have become so heartless that even torture is accepted so readily..

[opihimoimoi]

1. I am with you.....this is incredible

[tridim]

2. I'm not digging the "Republican" = "America" = "We" broad-brush leaps you've made

But I get what you're trying to say.

[calimary]

3. I wrote a blog about that once - called "The Meaning of America."

The key root-word of that was "MEAN." As in - what we've become. This has turned into such a mean country full of mean people.

[RandomKoolzip]

4. America is like a subsistence heroin addict who wishes to save money

by canceling his electricty, living under a bridge, and abjuring food, instead of doing the one thing that will bring him out of debt: kicking heroin.

[Jokinomx]

5. Disgusting..... I am so pissed I can't see straight.

I told my wife that yesterday... fucking cutting aid to the poorest people and yet we still subsidize oil companies....

It is time to vote out all the bastards and start over. But you know that won't happen.

:banghead:

[Zebedeo]

6. Uh . . .

The cuts to LIHEAP are proposed by Barack Obama, not the Republicans.

[Bandit]

8. Yep and you can bet every Republican will vote against them ..Right?

:shrug: Change we can believe in....

[quinnox]

7. The republican base made up mostly of

white hicks and rural folk don't know any better, so they stick with what they know, the republican party.

[santamargarita]

9. They give evil a bad name

:evilgrin: :puke:

[gratuitous]

10. I can imagine some pretty heartless behavior

But the Republicans get close, no doubt about it. What I find probably most distressing is their loud braying about what a “Christian” bunch they are when they’re siding with the most oppressive elements while punishing the most vulnerable. Not just Jesus, but quite a few other folks in both the Hebrew and Christian Testaments had some pretty hard words to say against people just like that.

[arbusto_baboso]

12. Yes, the Bible even has a word for people like them.

Pharisee.

Every time I debate a religious right wackazoid, I make sure to use that word. You should see how angry it makes them! Makes 'em even angrier when I know their religion better than they do, which is almost always.

[gratuitous]

13. I'll bet it does

The passing of time can be a weird thing. Oddly enough, my understanding is the Pharisees were sort of liberal as far as Jewish practices during Jesus’ time. Their main adversaries, the Sadducees, were far more restrictive in their interpretation and practices, and it was Jesus’ opposition to even the comparatively lenient Pharisees that startled a lot of people. You hear it from the apostles and other folks who engaged with Jesus. “Who then can be saved?” is a question that comes up quite often.

But over the course of the centuries, the Pharisees have gotten a bum rap as being excessively legalistic, just as Samaritans have become by default “good.” Samaritans were not very well regarded in Jesus’ time, and a modern parallel the the Parable of the Good Samaritan might be the Parable of the Good Illegal Immigrant.

[arbusto_baboso]

14. Ooh, nice suggestion! I'll have to use that one...

[whattheidonot]

11. the agenda

The Republicans will stop at nothing to get their agenda in power. Back to the past. That is why they put so mich energy into social issues. They want to reestablish society as it was. The abortion fight is not just a moral issue with them . It goes much further than that. Stupid like a fox.