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Related: About this forumUh, no. The fire and brimstone people aren’t going to start feeding and clothing the poor.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/uh-no-the-fire-and-brimstone-people-arent-going-to-start-feeding-and-clothing-the-poor/Uh, no. The fire and brimstone people arent going to start feeding and clothing the poor.
Amanda Marcotte
01 Jul 2015 at 10:04 ET
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Typical quote: And if the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing or them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it.
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Typical quote: I dont think you should apologize for speaking out against the problem that is illegal immigration. I recognize that the PC world of the mainstream media, they dont want to admit it, but the American people are fed up, he said in defense of Donald Trump, who said that Mexico is using the U.S. as a dumping ground for rapists and criminals.
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Typical quote, during a campaign stop in Iowa: Santorum doesnt want to make black peoples lives better by giving them somebody elses money.
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Typical action: To wit, he has authorized elimination of the states hospice program for Medicaid recipients. According to a local New Orleans news station, Louisiana residents over the age of 21 will stop receiving hospice benefits at the end of the month. As of February, low-income Louisianans with terminal illnesses and disabilities will lose access to long-term home and medical care.
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Uh, no. The fire and brimstone people aren’t going to start feeding and clothing the poor. (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Jul 2015
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That last one takes the cake! Where are all of those "Good Christians" when you need them?
Dustlawyer
Jul 2015
#1
Republicans have been reduced to appeals to racists, bigots, gun lovers and extremist religious
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#2
Dustlawyer
(10,518 posts)1. That last one takes the cake! Where are all of those "Good Christians" when you need them?
No hospice care when dying? Bernie should use this example of what the RW is doing!
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)2. Republicans have been reduced to appeals to racists, bigots, gun lovers and extremist religious
zealots, hoping against hope that purchasing the traditional media with CU unleashed greenbacks will overcome their narrowing "base".
This is your party on Fox.
Dixie Swastika.
Fox.
GOP.
They will all fall in that order, because the cultural war they reignited in 2008 with the help of Fox is over and they have lost, they just do not all know it yet.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)3. k&r