Republicans Are Not Compassionate Conservatives But Rather Conservative With Their Compassion

[SunsetDreams]

This is rather a righteous rant I found on the web, and I thought I would share it.

This is directed at the Tennessee GOP, however I really think it applies to the entire GOP nationally.

TNGOP’s Hunger Games

Ah, the party of moral values! Gotta love these good, Christian folk. Proving once again that Tennessee Republicans are not compassionate conservatives but rather conservative with their compassion, I bring you the aptly-named Kevin Kookogey, chair of the Williamson County Republican Party, coming out against the school breakfast program:

“This is not a complicated issue,” he said. “It is not the role of government to feed people. Government exists to protect and defend our God-given rights. Government fails when it usurps these bounds. One only need look at the hundreds of billions of dollars wasted by the Department of Education since its formation in 1980 with no improvement in student achievement. … Our founders understood this, which is why they expressly determined that education should be the province of states, local government, and families.”

Got that? It’s your God-given right to starve! And have your kids starve! No soup for you! That gnawing in your stomach is freedom!

This is positively Dickensian. Some 3,840 children qualify for the program. Guess they just need to show some more personal responsibility, right?

Oh, but it gets better: (follow the link)

http://southernbeale.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/tngops-hunger-games/

The entire GOP is Rather Conservative With Their Compassion, if they have any at all

[Fawke Em]

1. All of us Tennesseeans aren't this morally bankrupt, really.

Just wanted to add that.

[Thirtieschild]

2. Personal encounter with a "Compassionate Conservative"

My cousin, who needed two crutches to walk, fell on a filthy bathroom floor in a service station in Northern California. As he lay there, unable to get up, a man wearing boots and jeans (all my cousin could see) walked in, said "Someone needs to help this guy," and walked out. That, said my cousin, was a comapassionate conservative.

[peace frog]

3. Conservatives' compassion is all for the 1%

because by being successful they deserve it. Everyone else can whistle Dixie; you're on your own, suckers.