WebKittyn Warbles
Friday, November 17, 2006
My Party Needs Help. Let Me Help.
Dear Republicans,
Your rhetoric is not inspiring confidence as I listen to you bloviate about how thrilled your conference was/is about the shift in congressional control - how thrilled you all are for the chance to work your way back.
Hooey.
Stop pretending you're thrilled. You blew it. You've ruined the party for a large chunk of people, myself included. Hearing you now speak of a return to 'conservative values' makes me cringe. It's obvious nothing sunk in, nothing registered.
I looked in the dictionary, conservative is not a synonym for Republican so why is that the first word you come up with when spouting off about minority leadership. When did we become the party of the stupid politicians? Stop this.
It's time to draw the line between us and them. It's time to retire the Christian right, the hardcore dinosaurs, the 'neo-cons,' the hardliners. It's time for a change, it's time to bring the party into the world as it is and not how their unrealistic idealists values dictate. Stop it already.
It's time to find and cultivate a new sort of Republican. A younger style of politician with the common sense to see the world as it is and the balls to tell the hardliners to piss off. We need a Barack Obama.
Get your morality out of my bedroom. There are people in this fat country of ours who can't get a job and have nothing to eat, don't Republicans watch Feed the Children ads? What the Hell are you doing worrying about whether or not 2 gay people want to legalise their relationships. I can handle my own morality, police your own Foleys and stop trying to dictate to me what marriage is. I can think for myself, really. You're the federal government, don't you have anything real to tackle?
Building a 700 mile fence across the border is not going to solve any issues illegal immigration causes. It makes me wonder who greased what palm and what company has been contracted to build this monstrosity. When was the last time a Republican went into an area where illegal immigrants are doing work Americans are not lining up for. Don't tell me I'm daft, I see it upstate. It's primarily a white middle/upper class area up there, mixed now with a whole lot of Mexicans who are the ones coming to work picking the produce everyone eats. This middle class is not beating down the doors to work the farms but they'd sure be the first ones to bitch if they couldn't have their fresh produce. You need to come up with a real solution, something that lets workers work and offers a path to citizenship. Stop this.
Stop thinking you know what's best for sick people. If you've never had cancer or gone through cancer with someone you're personally involved with or dealt with any sort of crippling and/or terminal disease, back off. Stop claiming to empathise and understand and then deny that person either their medical marijuana or the right to say enough is enough and end their life in the company of loved ones. How dare you be so arrogant as to tell the woman with the inoperable brain tumour who is living on borrowed time she can't smoke a joint to ease the pain. Or the chemo patient with no appetite who might actually feel well enough to eat something after smoking. Or the person with the terminal disease who is finally starting to deteriorate and go down the path of no return, to tell this person they have to die in a hospital and be kept alive as long as possible by artificial means. Stop this, stop pretending you have compassion and an enlightened sense of understanding and admit you're wrong.
Get your morals out of my ovaries. Why the Hell can't a woman sell her eggs if she chooses for stem cell research? Alright, I get that you and I have differing opinions on when life starts but it's my eggs and my sale so leave me alone to do it. I would be honoured to know my eggs had something to do with coming up for a cure for Parkinson's or Cerebral Palsy or Alzheimer's or any disease. And yes, put some damn government money into it. I have a great idea, take all the money you were going to use on the stupid Great Wall of America and put it into stem cell research. You good ole boys will never tire of telling us women what we should or shouldn't do with our bodies and our eggs and I'm fed up. Go away, embrace science for a change.
Cap medical lawsuits. Healthcare is a joke in the country and there's no reason for it. No sick American should be denied healthcare and it should be the same healthcare the fat cats get. Offer tax incentives to doctors who do pro-bono work in clinics or out of their office. Get out of your offices and off your asses and go to a free clinic in a low-income area and ask yourself if you would bring your family member there by choice. No? Do something about it.
Please talk amongst yourselves and don't put anymore closet kiddie-diddlers on committees set up to protect children. Stop this.
There's more but for the moment I have some station stuff to attend to so I promise to come back later and continue advising.
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Amen, amen, amen!
Why are men trying to control women’s bodies? This is a bit harsh, but that seems like rape to me, to say whom can go for an abortion and who cannot. Likewise, who gives a crap if a woman donates her eggs to science? People care so much about fetus’ life. Don’t embrace Christianity, embrace its foundation: Judaism. Judaism basically says that now existing life (people) have more priority than unborn life (fetuses). That makes sense. Making a woman die because her baby might be born is hypocritical of being pro-life. What’s a child without their mother or father? Adoption doesn’t seem right in that case.
-- BM
Bobby McGee on 11/17 at 10:15 PM
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