Cross-posted from And The Horse You Rode In On
Prior to the Bush administration, politics was often complex and confusing. Today, it’s become an exact science, like physics, where opposites attract, every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and every particle has an anti-particle.
All you have to know is that any principle a Bush administration politician claims to hold sacred is exactly the one that he or she is most egregiously violating.
There.
Just listen to what they say, assume the opposite, and you’ll know every dirty secret they’ve been hiding.
Take Fox News, which is spectacularly unfair and unbalanced. We didn’t have to search for their worst sins; they came right out and told us. Likewise, the official in charge of the Bush AIDS program that insists on abstinence was the first one outed as a client of the DC Madam.
That’s the pattern. Just as surely as gay-bashers are gay, pro-lifers loathe women and
have no use for children once they’re born. They’re pro-zygote and anti-human being. Those who run on "family values" also hate children. They are the same politicians who cut back on desperately needed food stamps and refuse adequate funding for Head Start or healthcare for the 8 million kids who don’t have it.
The "Healthy Forest Initiative" is an anti-forest giveaway of irreplaceable public treasures to timber barons (referred to by some as "No tree left behind").
The Bush "Clear Skies" program is a flagrant step backward to dirty skies and acid rain, letting utility companies belch out pollutants that they had already agreed to eliminate.
And the "Clean Streams" act removed restrictions on dumping several carcinogens into our waterways.
As Nancy Goldstone reminds us in her book, Four Queens, the Holy Roman Emperors were neither holy nor Roman.
In 2007, Republican conservatives are neither republican nor conservative, and the religious right is neither religious nor right.