The Party of No
October 3rd, 2009
The Grand Old Party’s opposition knows no bounds. Here’s a compendium of things the Republican Party and/or its members, don’t support, don’t promote, don’t allow, don’t have, don’t want, or have opposed in the past. The Constitution? They only trot out that old thing when it serves their purpose (e.g., gun rights), but ignore it when it doesn’t (e.g., separation of church and state). Please comment on things that could be added, as I’m sure this is still only a partial list.
No economic stimulus
No jobs
No healthcare reform
No climate change action.
No gay marriage
No gays in the military
No gay rights
No gays (except maybe in the closet).
No Roe v Wade
No DC voting rights
No gun control
No welfare (except the corporate kind).
No immigrants
No Muslims
No tolerance
No human rights.
No environmental protection
No campaign finance limits
No financial oversight
No limits on lobbying.
No Department of Education
No Department of Energy
No Department of Commerce
No Department of Labor.
No separation of powers
No separation of church and state
No dissent (except when they’re dissenting)
No freedom of speech (except when they’re speaking).
No deficit spending (except theirs)
No unfunded mandates (except ones they like)
No bipartisanship (unless they’re in the minority)
No name-calling (except when they do it).
No investigations (except when they want to investigate)
No debate (except when they want to delay)
No filibuster (except when they do it)
No accountability (for them).
No “dictators” (except their own)
No “abuse of power” (except when they do it)
No race card (except when they play it)
No reverse racism (but the regular kind is fine).
No money (for anything but Defense)
No moderates (even moderate Republicans)
No morals (they just get in the way)
No majority (thank God).
No UN
No treaties
No negotiation
No peace.
No “indoctrination” (except when they do it)
No sex education
No evolution
No science.
No civil rights
No women’s rights
No Social Security
No Medicare
No taxes
No civility
No compromise
No government.
No honesty
No empathy
No mercy
No shame.
No plan
No ideas
No options
No clue.
No “socialism”
No Obama
No change
No hope.
No regulation
No rules
No reason
No rhyme.
No thanks.
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