{"id":6032,"date":"2011-10-05T00:22:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T07:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6032"},"modified":"2011-10-05T00:22:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T07:22:48","slug":"house-republicans-want-to-triple-budget-for-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/house-republicans-want-to-triple-budget-for-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans want to triple budget for hate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican party has no qualms about making cuts to increase hunger, deprive the poor of medical care, convert Social Security to a voucher program, replace Medicare coverage with a coupon, allow the elderly to go without heat, decrease the safety of of our food, allow our infrastructure to crumble and more.  But when it comes to propagating hatred, bigotry takes precedence over budget, so they want to triple the spending for that.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"5DOMA\"House Democrats are slamming<\/a><\/font> one of the most outrageous examples of misplaced priorities you could imagine: <\/font><\/p>\n

House Democrats are condemning a Republican-sanctioned $1 million spending increase to defend the Defense of Marriage Act. <\/font><\/p>\n

In a statement Tuesday, Reps. Robert Brady (D-Pa.), Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) criticized their GOP colleagues for increasing the contract with the lawyer hired to defend DOMA from $500,000 to $1.5 million.<\/font><\/p>\n

In May, Bancroft PLLC lawyer Paul Clement was hired to represent Congress in defense of DOMA, which bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages.<\/font><\/p>\n

There’s never any excuse for the kind of bigotry inherent in what House Republicans are doing, but the fact they are increasing spending on such a misguided effort at the same time that they are trying to cut even more spending<\/a><\/font> on critical services adds to the outrage\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/p>\n

Given all the good and necessary programs that Republicans want to slash, to spend more money trying to enforce their hatred of LGBT Americans is the epitome of shameful hypocrisy.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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