White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said Thursday that cutting funding to several anti-poverty programs is \u201cone of the most compassionate things we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n
These are the days where definitions get re-evaluated, where meaning is relative, where up is sometimes down. Wiretap is not the same as \u2018wiretap\u2019, enclosed quotes. One means wiretap, the other means, well, not wiretap. It all depends on what your definition of IS is. Compassionate, adjective: feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others.
\nSynonyms:\tsympathetic, empathetic, understanding, caring, solicitous, sensitive, warm, loving<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s use it in a sentence, Class: Compassionate conservatives care about the poor and the unemployed. Or another: Republicans are compassionate conservatives because they want to ensure a working mother in Detroit with three kids won\u2019t see her hard earned dollars being spent on Meals on Wheels or Headstart. As Mr. Mulvaney stated in justification for cutting funds to low income programs, the poor would rather see their hard earned money going to beef up the national defense. <\/p>\n
I mean, who wouldn\u2019t!?? It boggles the senses to think conservatives even try to sell this logic. Cutting taxes for the poor or giving tax breaks to the wealthy? Which do I think their priority might be? Cutting Medicaid programs so we can upgrade nuclear stockpiles that I thought we were hoping to downsize? In my Alice in Wonderland Universe \u2018compassionate conservative\u2019 is an oxymoron. Quotes or no quotes. A person who tells falsehoods, what I call lies, is a liar. If he claims, when confronted with the lie, that he read it in an article that was in, say, Brietbart news which is mostly nothing but unsubstantiated fake news stories, it\u2019s STILL A LIE! Oh, my buddy the liar told me that so it may very well be true. Seriously? Are we in first grade???<\/p>\n
Day after goofy day our Comic-in-Chief tweets out a new sketch for Saturday Night Live. OBAMA ASKS BRITAIN INTELLIGENCE TO WIRETAP TRUMP TOWER! CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE CAN\u2019T BE BELIEVED! VOTER FRAUD IN MILLIONS, COST ME GREATEST POPULAR VOTE IN HISTORY! INAUGURATION TURNOUT BEYOND BELIEF, BIGGER THAN BARACK OBAMA\u2019S!! WILL RELEASE TAXES WHEN IRS AUDIT IS COMPLETED!!! I GAVE MILLIONS TO CHARITY!!! NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST HOSTING WORLD LEADERS AT MY HOTELS!! I NEVER MET VLADIMIR PUTIN, DON\u2019T EVEN KNOW WHERE RUSSIA IS ON A MAP!!!!!!!<\/p>\n
Someone, maybe even the Republicans in Congress, needs to yank this boy out of class, walk him to the prinicipal\u2019s office and reprimand him for constant lying. I know we can\u2019t rap a ruler on his knuckles anymore and we can\u2019t turn his fat little backside over a knee and give him an old fashioned spanking, but how much of this are we going to endure before some adults have had enough? Mr. Ryan, Mr. McConnell, when are you going to be sufficiently embarrassed? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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