{"id":13251,"date":"2014-07-17T01:01:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T08:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13251"},"modified":"2014-07-17T01:01:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T08:01:27","slug":"republicans-on-parade7172014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/17\/republicans-on-parade7172014\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade&ndash;7\/17\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"RepublicansOnParade2\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"RepublicansOnParade2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/RepublicansOnParade2.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the fifty-first article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is GOP State Representative and US House candidate Adam Kwasman. He is so honored for demonstrating his Republican hatred, racism and stupidity.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0717schoolbus\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0717schoolbus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/0717schoolbus.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"240\" \/>&#8230;As you might expect, there\u2019s been a major boneheaded failure already in these nascent attempts at pretending to have \u201ccompassion\u201d for the migrant children and pretending that the desire to send them back is borne out of this \u201ccompassion\u201d. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/brahm-resnik\/2014\/07\/15\/arizona-politician-mistakes-campers-for-migrant-children\/12701279\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Kwasman is one of those frothing-at-the-mouth anti-immigrant state legislators in Arizona<\/a>\u2014naturally, he\u2019s also running for Congress\u2014and he was trying to strike the \u201cI just care so much about these kids!\u201d pose by describing what he said was a bus full of migrant children that he believed were afraid.<\/p>\n<p>In pure politician bullshit mode, Kwasman said, \u201cI was actually able to see some of the children in the buses. The fear on their faces\u2026. This is not compassion.\u201d He went on to imply that the Obama administration is somehow failing at \u201cborder security\u201d and that being stricter about it in some abstract way would prevent the \u201csad\u201d kids, presumably by allowing them to die quietly in the desert instead of make it across the border. Compassion!<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that the bus he saw was not actually a bus full of migrant children. It was a school bus full of kids on their way to a YMCA camp&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/07\/16\/politician-tells-tall-tale-of-a-bus-full-of-migrant-kids-turns-out-it-was-a-school-bus-headed-to-summer-camp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The video in the article could not be embedded, but I was able to find one with similar content.&#160; This fool thought he had succeeded in intimidating a busload of refugee children.&#160; Watch him squirm, as he realizes he has TEAbuggered himself.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Klg-dLZxy8E?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Regardless of whether or not the children were foreign, or whether or not they actually were afraid, Kwasman considered striking fear into the hearts of refugee children something to brag about. It&#8217;s hard to get more Republican than that!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When you consider the determination and courage it took for such refugees to make it here, let me suggest that, given the chance, they would become far more productive citizens than the Republicans who are blocking the roads, waving their guns and venting their hatred.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the fifty-first article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is GOP State Representative and US House candidate Adam Kwasman. 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