I lived to See the Day when the Pope and the President of Iran are more doctrinally Flexible than th

[unhappycamper]

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I lived to See the Day when the Pope and the President of Iran are more doctrinally Flexible than the GOP
Posted on 09/21/2013 by Juan Cole

The United States has all along been a society dominated by the wealth, and more especially by the business classes. But businesspeople are not all cut from the same cloth. You had high-minded responsible businessmen like Benjamin Franklin and you had mean-spirited businessmen, including the slave-owners.

In recent months we have been bombarded by news items emanating from the really, really do-absolutely-nothing GOP-dominated House of Representatives, which when it does do something usually does something downright mean. Also rigid and unthinking and narrow-minded and wrong-headed. There, I’ve repeated myself. It might have been enough to say “GOP.” And some of the Republicans in the Senate haven’t been much better.

At a time when Pope Francis I has called for the Church to be less rigid in its attitudes toward e.g. gays as persons, and when President Hassan Rowhani of Iran has sought a more reasonable tone toward the US and Israel, our hard line Republicans have become more and more blinkered.

The House of Representatives has just passed a budget that would keep the government operating until later this fall, as the fiscal year ends, but only if the Senate and President Obama agree to defund the Affordable Health Care Act, which is the law of the land and cannot be defunded.

[xchrom]

1. du rec.

[newfie11]

2. K&R

[MannyGoldstein]

3. That's pretty funny.

Actually it's not, I tale that back.

[cui bono]

7. As long as you don't tail it back it's all good. n/t

[Enthusiast]

4. Kicked and recommended.

It is a truly incredible phenomenon.

The GOP only gets away with this extremism because of the one-sided media.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. The Pope is no better than the Republicans, he attacks gay people constantly and his dogma

is as rigid as it is hateful. Claiming otherwise is reckless behavior.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. I Thought The New Guy. . .

. . .was the one that said god loves gay people just like he loves everyone else. He's also the one who said atheists can go to heaven.

I'm not a believer, and i couldn't care less about any of anybody's dogma, but are you sure you're not using too wide a brush.

Or maybe you're still thinking of Ratzinberger.

[dembotoz]

6. k and r