Fetuses, soldiers, and Jews, oh my!

(9:30:47 PM)
Fetuses, soldiers, and Jews: three things Republicans give lip service to. And nothing else.

1) Fetuses: name me a Republican policy ('tax cuts for the rich' and 'deregulation' don't count,) in the last twenty years that did anything to improve a kid's life. Pre-natal care? Headstart expansion? Post-natal healthcare? Improved pre-school access? Quality of air, water, food? Safety of Chinese toys? Prevention of melamine in Chinese baby formula, or lead in Mexican candy?
These fuckers aren't pro-life, they're Pro-Birth. Shout them down: "You're NOT Pro-Life, You're just Pro-Birth!"
Because, kid, according to them, while you're in there, the light of the world shines out your mom's va-jay-jay. (A term that graces this month's Cosmo cover!) Once you're out, though, you're on your own.

2) With few propects, financially, educationally, and now (thanks to 30 years of exporting our industrial base) job-wise, it's almost as if the GOP planned it all to force kids into military service. Voluntary conscription into soldier-hood. And boy, do Republicans sing their praises. Make up reasons to start wars, just to show them off. Hide tax breaks, ear-marks and pay-offs behind the need to service those soldiers. Well, at least until they come home. A blowed-up vet isn't much of a photo op. Reminds folks that it ain't all parades and polished boots. And if they're not much use to the GOP, well, they don't get shit. Walter Reed, the whole damned VA system got left to rot by thirty years of executive mismanagement followed by congressional neglect. Lousy pay, no jobs to come back to. And the evangelical Christians that make up 80% of the officer corps work hard to make sure most disability releases are short, cheap, and barely cover the costs of the rest of a soldier's life. What's being able to see worth to you? To walk? To sleep at night? Apparently, not much to the GOP.

3) And then there's the Jews. The last time you heard the phrase 'New York elite' come out of a politician's mouth or a pundit's radio show, was it a left-winger that used those code words for 'Jews'? Yea, didn't think so. I don't see many Southern Crosses flying over at Temple Beth Israel. Yet a significant percentage of American Jews are starting to vote Republican. Do they really think Democrats won't protect Israel? Do they actually think a party that is joined at the hip to both the racists of the Tea Party and the rabid Evangelicals of the 700 Club and Focus on the Family really has any use for them for a single second? Think reconciliation with the Palestinians is hard? Try squeezing the hatred and suspicion towards Jews out of the GOP and its fellow travelers.
"Well, once you're all home in Israel, (and the hell out of good white Christian America,) then the Jesus'll come back, and burn y'all up as part of the Rapture. Says so right there in Revelations. Oh, that's right. Y'all only read the Old Testament, don'tcha?"

I think John Belushi said it best in his signature on his head shots: "Wise Up!" 
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