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

[applegrove]

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

http://www.juancole.com/2013/09/i-lived-to-see-the-day-when-the-pope-and-the-president-of-iran-are-more-doctrinally-flexible-than-the-gop.html

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The United States has all along been a society dominated by the wealthy, 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 plantation 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.




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[Jefferson23]

1. K&R, ahem:

President Obama ran twice on health care reform and if the country had wanted to get rid of the AHCA, it could have voted for Mitt Romney but it didn’t.

Republicans hate that reality.

[applegrove]

3. The GOP hate any reality that doesn't serve their masters directly.

[applegrove]

2. The GOP hate any reality that doesn't directly serve them.

[Turborama]

4. K&R Spot On.

Thanks for posting, applegrove.

[applegrove]

5. You're welcome.

[Half-Century Man]

6. If not a single republican is elected in the mid terms, would it even change the debate?

Or are they so committed to their path, that they will soldier on?

We need to have long memories, 30+ years long.

[Scootaloo]

12. They will insist it's because they're not conservative enough n/t

[Dawson Leery]

7. kick

[madrchsod]

8. spot on....

cole is one of the best sources when it comes to the middle east

[applegrove]

9. Don't know his middle east stuff.

[Chaco Dundee]

10. that seems to be a problem.

If the people of this country are aware of it or just are to scared of authorities to speak up,I don't know.hell,they don't even know the law.its changed every day,like underwear.they both can be tacky.but they are flexible.the republican party is as hard as a glass prick.a cat could not scratch it.talk about flexibillity.

[Cleita]

11. No kidding!

I was thinking the same thing today as Juan Cole. Now if Pat Robertson does an about flip, I'll believe we have entered the Age of Aquarius.

[Uncle Joe]

13. Kicked and recommended although I imagine Atila the Hun was more progressive than the GOP.

Thanks for the thread, applegrove.

[applegrove]

14. You‘re welcome!