{"id":10435,"date":"2013-06-15T00:53:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T07:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10435"},"modified":"2013-06-15T00:53:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T07:53:45","slug":"neither-faith-nor-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/15\/neither-faith-nor-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Neither Faith Nor Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican hopefuls are flocking to another faith and freedom conference.  They are claiming to redefine the Republican party to achieve a majority in future elections.  The problem, as always is that the Republican party at present represents  neither faith nor freedom.  Furthermore, it\u2019s getting worse.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"15Ryan\"Paul Ryan on Friday morning, addressing<\/a> the conservative Faith & Freedom\u2122 "Road to the Majority" conference\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026Yes, that’s right, Paul Ryan and the hard-right social conservatives he was talking with represent the mainstream of American politics. Sure, there’s that little detail about how we just had a big national election and Paul Ryan’s side lost by a pretty healthy margin, but that doesn’t count. As Paul has explained to us<\/a> before, the only reason he and Mitt Romney lost the election was because "urban" voters turned out en masse for President Obama. And everybody knows they aren’t real Americans<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Lyin\u2019 Ryan may keep repeating the lie that we urban Americans, the ones who pay the bills, so that Red States can keep taking more federal money than they contribute in taxes, are not real, but we\u2019rw real enough for him to want to raise OUR taxes to provide more welfare for the 1%.<\/font><\/p>\n

As for Republican extremism, Rachel Maddow had some important update’s.<\/font><\/p>\n

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As Rachel said, this really is what the Republican party is like right now. It’s worse than it has ever been. To correct Rachel on one point, there is one potential Republican hopeful that is not making a holy pilgrimage to kiss the bank account of Supply-side Jesus (not the real one). That is Chris Christie. If anything, that he has the presence of mind to avoid this is a little frightening, because although he avoids the social extremes we are seeing from Republican Pharisees and Sadducees, he is still a 1% Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican hopefuls are flocking to another faith and freedom conference.  They are claiming to redefine the Republican party to achieve a majority in future elections.  The problem, as always is that the Republican party at present represents  neither faith nor freedom.  Furthermore, it\u2019s getting worse. Paul Ryan on Friday morning, addressing the conservative Faith & […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}