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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you are reading this backwards.  He said some nonsense and immediately got fired for it.

Everyone, even some small town Texans that you look down on, knows he's an idiot.  [/quote]

How is this backwards? This (lack of) governance approach is the GOP brand - their leaders, however, are not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.[/quote]

He obviously didn't say what anyone else was thinking, "the quiet part", because he got fired for saying it.  Fired by his constituents.

It's not on brand for a party or the government.  It's just one loony loon.[/quote]

What? It is 100% on brand for Republicans. [/quote]

1980 Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”

Grover Norquist, “I don’t want to abolish government. I just want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

Glen Beck, "What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights."

Trent Lott, "Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self."

Republicans have:

Repeatedly refused to raise the minimum wage.

Consistently tried to repeal, handicap, or defund the health care law that has brought affordable health insurance to 16 million people.

Supported the budgets that slash funding for food stamps, Medicaid (health care for the poorest of the poor), Meals on Wheels for homebound elderly, and other social service programs.

Refused to extend unemployment benefits to jobless Americans during the Great Recession and fought those extensions during the pandemic.

Blocked the expansion of Medicaid for low-income and disabled people in Republican states

Proposed significant cuts in Head Start, the preschool program for low-income children

Proposed steep cuts to Pell grants to help low-income students go to college.

But, yeah, this guy is "off brand" for the Republican party for the last 40 years.

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Shout it from the rooftops, my man.

I hope that now that Texans have borne the brunt of such a despicable political philosophy, they'll see the error of their ways and vote for sensible politicians. But I won't hold my breath.[/quote]

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