Why Do Conservatives Hate Babies... Even More Than Other Living Things?

A friend of mine called from Arizona today and told me the economy is suffering badly, not because of a boycott but because the GOP ethnic cleansing is working. There's a lot less business is grocery stores, Laundromats, hardware stores, clothing stores... you get the picture. He said normal people-- not the loud unruly racists-- are getting really angry and they're directing that anger towards that bigoted governor. But that isn't going to stop partisan powermad GOP leaders from embracing the xenophobia as the election season heats up. Yesterday we looked at the part of John Boehner's Meet The Press appearance when he got all tangled up and tongue-tied about raising the retirement age for the elderly in order to reward the wealthy with even more tax breaks. (If it doesn't make sense to you when he babbles about people who "create jobs," he's talking about Paris Hilton and Lloyd Blankfein-- presumably cocaine sells and derivatives traders.) Above you can watch another part of that interview, the pandering to the racist part. David Gregory was pretty hard on Boehner, asking him the real questions most journalists hive him a pass on. Throughout, Boehner assigns motivation to "illegal immigrants," claiming they come here so their children can be U.S. citizens. This fits right in with what the xenophobes, Know Nothings and teabaggers want to hear but has no relation to reality.

GREGORY: Do you support efforts to have the 14th amendment amended at this point?

BOEHNER: Well David, I’m not the expert on this issue. I have read these comments here over the past week. There is a problem. To provide an incentive for illegal immigrants to come here so that their children can be U.S. citizens does, in fact, draw more people to our country. I do think that it’s time for us to secure our borders and enforce the law and allow this conversation about the 14th amendment to continue.

GREGORY: Do you have a position on it?

BOEHNER: Listen, I think it’s worth considering. It’s a serious problem that affects our country, and in certain parts of our country, clearly our schools, our hospitals are being overrun by illegal immigrants-- a lot of whom came here just so their children could become U.S. citizens. They should do it the legal way.

I've lost track of all the pieces of the Constitution the Republican Party now claims it wants to abolish or change. They claim they stand for the Constitution but, only in the narrowest and most selective possible ways. Conservatives even back when it was being drafted opposed things like the Bill of Rights and any and all proposals that advanced progressive ideas, like universal suffrage. Basically conservatives still oppose all that stuff, other than their vision of the Second Amendment and all the compromises that were agreed to with conservatives to keep the South from going its own way. Lately the GOP is championing some kooky teabagger notions calling for the end of birthright citizenship and the end of the direct election of senators.

Oddly the RNC touts-- or touted (they seem to have removed it now)-- the 14th Amendment as one of the GOP’s grandest “accomplishments.” many high-profile Republicans are now trying to appeal to their far-right base by calling for repealing parts of it. Aside from Boehner and all the usual lunatic fringe suspects in the House, those advocating repealing it include Lindsey Graham (SC), Jon Kyl (AZ), John McCain (AZ), Miss McConnell (KY), Chuck Grassley (IA) and, obviously the Klan's senator, Jeff Sessions (AL).

Where does this mentality come from, this hatred, craven lust for power and chilling bigotry? Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was a federal assistance program in effect from 1935 to 1996. Clinton made a deal with the Republicans to end it. But that doesn't stop Republicans from campaigning against it even now. This is a letter, traceable back to a Randian neanderthal website, circulating among conservative mouth-breathers and knuckle-draggers right now:

Subject: Pumping out babies for cash

Dear Mr. Jones
 
I was speaking to an emergency room physician this morning. He told me that a woman in her 20’s came to the ER with her 8th pregnancy. She stated “my momma told me that I am the breadwinner for the family.” He asked her to explain. She said that she can make babies and babies get money for the family. The scam goes like this: The grandma calls the Department of Child and Family Services and states that the unemployed daughter is not capable of caring for these children. DCFS agrees and states that the child or children will need to go to foster care. The grandma then volunteers to be the foster parent, and thus receives a check for $1500 per child per month in Illinois. Total yearly income: $144,000 tax-free, not to mention free healthcare (Medicaid) plus a monthly “Linx” card entitling her to free groceries, etc, and a voucher for 250 free cell phone minutes per month. This does not even include Wick and other welfare programs. Indeed, grandma was correct in that her fertile daughter is the “breadwinner” in the family. 
 
I hope you share this story with your listeners so that they know how the ruling class spends their tax dollars. 
 
Also, many thanks for the fine service you provide in educating people about the merits of conservative thinking. 
 
Cheers, 
 
Sebastian J. Ciancio, M.D. Urologist, Danville Polyclinic, LTD.

All false-- but that doesn't make it any less effective with the target demo (morons)-- nor any less likely that Boehner or Pence or Miss McConnell will be reciting it on Fox next week.


UPDATE: How The World Has Turned!

This is a screen shot of the NRC website "Accomplishments page", which they took down and put up a couple times since the rift over the 14th Amendment broke up. They claim "Republicans freed the slaves" and "Republicans passed the 14th Amendment" and both assertions are true. But that was a very different-- in fact a completely unrelated-- Republican Party. Conservatives, of course, opposed freeing the slaves, particularly the ones in the South, and took up arms against the U.S. to prevent it. And conservatives fought agaisnt the passage of the 14th Amendment too. Now the GOP has been captured by conservatives-- particularly of the Southern varietal-- and they would very much like to re-impose slavery and certainly trying to undo the 14th Amendment the Republicans were only last year bragging about having once-- albeit long, long ago-- favored.