Republicans aren't interested in helping people

[CTLawGuy]

the core of conservative ideology is that government shouldn't help people.

Republicans say they are for "small government". But they aren't. War isn't "small government". Increased use of the criminal justice system isn't "small government". Criminalization of abortion isn't "small government". corporate welfare isn't "small government". Prayer in school isn't "small government".

"Small government" is code for a philosophy that just doesn't sound as good - that government shouldn't help people.

I think this might explain the behavior of the House Republicans.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I think they do want to help people...

People like themselves, anyway...

And I do agree with your OP.

[supernova]

2. Quite so, CP

In fact, I would go so far as to call them "tribal."

Pubs don't want anything to help anyone if they aren't in their "tribe." The opposite is also true. They overlook wrongdoing and immorality if one of theirs is guilty, but quickly point it out in nontribers.

[volstork]

7. Quite an accurate

assessment, I believe!

[Skittles]

3. they never have been

[WinkyDink]

4. Precisely. Anti- the workers, who might, God forbid, earn one dollar that might instead have gone

to a rich investor.

Republicans value wealth gained from capital; Democrats value wealth gained from labor. Only the latter concept values people and the dignity of work.

Thus, this Republican cruel, selfish "philosophy" carries over to their "governing" practices.

[Still Sensible]

5. The fact is republicans

above all else want to protect what they perceive is their way of life. Of course, they do not all define "their way of life" exactly the same, but it is a lot more homogenized a definition--with far less deviation--than any rational thinkers would apply.

They pay lip service to "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses..." but what their actions say is that they have no use for a multicultural society.

They have been trying to return to the fifties since, well, the fifties!

They have fought everything that changed that status quo every step of the way.

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. They don't want to go back to the fifties.

They want to go back to the late 1800s and the days of the Robber Barons, and they will do everything in their power to destroy this country in order to get there.

[Hellataz]

8. I couldn't agree with you more!

I have always maintained that republicans are such huge hypocrites screaming for small government all while they inject as much government interferrence into every social issue they disagree with.

And of course they say government shouldn't help people, because the rich don't need help and that's the only base they care about because just like their new leader Steele said "I'm in the business of winning elections!" They aren't in the business of helping americans, unless those americans can help them win elections and those americans are the rich.

[Joe the Liberal]

9. Could'nt have said it better myself......

they are the party of the rich, plain and simple, they are not an inclusive party. Just because they picked a black man to lead them doesn't mean they are inclusive, Steele is a puppet whose soul purpose is to give the illusion that they are inclusive. They are nothing more than a party of hypocritical, rich, white old men who only care about themselves and the wealthy.

[RagAss]

10. Their time has come and gone.......n/m