GOP Fail 2011

You know what really pisses me off about the GOP? It's really nothing more to me than a simple matter of life and death. It's the hypocrisy of the party's stance on life. Most GOPers and the party line is to be "pro-life" (e.g. responsible for telling women in America what to do with their bodies and when to do it even though most of them trying to make such laws are older, caucasian males). I'm referring to their stance on abortion of course - they are pro-life, as in all life has value. Yet at the same time, this is the party that would rather laugh than help out a neighbor and their family who are dying. Remember the GOP debate? Remember the laughs and applaud from the crowd? These people do not value life. I might not be sure what they value, but it certainly is not life.

First and foremost of our inalienable American rights is "life", as in "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". This is not a "gift" from either party, but as our forefathers saw, from our basic human and humaneness - an essential right of all American citizens. So how can or did this basic concept of Americanism fall to laughter at a GOP/TeaParty debate? How is it possible that we've fallen so far from ourselves and our essential American"ness", our American moral character, that our forefathers would never recognize what we've become? I'm sure they'd applaud the increase in rights for all Americans, regardless of our origins, religious beliefs or financial status. But at the same time they'd be disgusted with us for putting the value of a dollar over the life of a neighbor.

The gross hypocrisy of the GOP/TP stance on being pro-life as long as it doesn't cost anything is a gross injustice to Americans everywhere. It doesn't matter where you personally fall on the matter. In very simple terms, if you side with today's GOP/TeaParty, you are supporting and endorsing this position and value money more than life. The GOP tactic of fiscal accountability at the cost of the most vulnerable of Americans, the poor, the old and the handicapped is not what we are about. We are people, we are humans and as Americans we all share the same right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and those that would deem to take any of that away from us are our mortal enemies and enemies of the people. There can't be anything more anti-American than that and I call on all citizens everywhere to protect the rights of every single American by doing the right thing and telling the GOP that we won't sit idly by while our most needy citizens are ignored and swept under the rug. Vox populi, vox dei. (Latin for the voice of the people is the voice of God).