Jim Hightower: GOP Is the Party That Thinks Helping the Poor & Hungry Is Like Feeding 'Stray Animals

[marmar]

AlterNet / By Jim Hightower

Hightower: GOP Is the Party That Thinks Helping the Poor and Hungry Is Like Feeding 'Stray Animals'
Where else can raw ignorance rise to such high places -- and then flaunt itself shamelessly for all to see?

February 4, 2010 |


American politics is a hoot! Where else can raw ignorance rise to such high places — and then flaunt itself shamelessly for all to see?

For example, who needs Jay Leno or Conan O'Brien for comic relief, when we've got Andre Bauer? He's the Lieutenant governor of South Carolina (a state, by the way, that really is a comer on the political comedy circuit — especially after Gov. Mark Sanford's madcap schtick last year involving his disappearance, the Appalachian Trail and an Argentine mistress.

But Sanford is leaving office, and Bauer, who is now a Republican contender for governor, is the state's new star joker. He had 'em rolling in the aisles recently when he did a wild, slapstick routine on food stamps at a town hall meeting. Andre proclaimed that much of his political thinking was shaped by his grandmother and that he had learned a valuable lesson from her.

"She told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why?" he asked, pausing for comedic effect. "Because they breed! You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce."

I tell you, Andre Bauer is an absolute scream! ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/news/145538/hightower%3A_gop_is_the_party_that_thinks_helping_the_poor_and_hungry_is_like_feeding_%27stray_animals%27

[handmade34]

1. love Jim Hightower

"America has too many 5-watt bulbs screwed into 150-watt sockets"

[bulloney]

3. Five watt? Hightower is giving them WAY too much credit.

[handmade34]

5. lol

:toast:

[raccoon]

2. Dipshit Andre Bauer received reduced-price lunches in school.

What a sickening hypocrite he is.

I swear, just when I think our SC politicians couldn't possibly embarrass the state any worse than they already have, one of them comes up with something to top the previous dumbass.

[mrcheerful]

4. What I find amusing about the conservatives was before they went to bed with the religious nuts that

was their spoken opinion about the poor. At one time conservatives wanted forced sterilization and forced abortions done on people who were getting welfare. Reagan changed their minds about that when he went to bed with the religious nuts, but as you can plainly see the core belief is still in place.

[mzmolly]

6. They're such a "Christ like" bunch, aren't they?

:crazy:

[Blue Owl]

7. Be sure Michele Bachmann gets her federal subsidy

before she campaigns against federal help for anyone else.

Long live the party of hypocrites and liars!

[JohnWxy]

8. living in the Repubican Dystopia

http://sites.google.com/site/republicandystopia/Republican_Dystopia.htm