Really Mittens?  

Really?

Your idea is to educate our kids by having them regurgitate an effing script on a computer screen, and somehow that’s supposed to prepare them to enter the job market and obtain a college education?  

For me, the knowledge that Republicans cut funding for headstart, pre-k education, and are trying to cut billions for school lunch programs tells me all I need to know about how much they really value education.  (And they blocked bills that would have eliminated tax benefits for Big Oil and NASCAR.)

It seems to me that those votes are even more horrid in light of the fact that they pay lip service to a prophet that physically interceded himself to stop violence against women, according to the stories. (Not that it’s any surprise to see such hypocrisy from Republicans.)

And the same dumb jesus freaks are going to vote for these guys and buy the spin that voting against VAWA was okay because it was a strike back at lesbians.

Why would any woman vote for you after you’ve voted against the Violence Against Women Act and engineered the effort to empower employers to deny them birth control?

You are a horrible person, and I can’t wait to see sputter when you try to rebut the campaign ads on this shit come reelection time.

1. Refusing to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act to spit in the face of lesbians.
2. Subverting cancer charities to ensure that women cannot receive information on how to prevent pregnancies, medicines that help them prevent said pregnancies, and abortions in an effort to punish them when the unprotected sex they have results in a pregnancy.
3. Using our legislative chambers to force the country not to pay its bills so they can blame invariable economic decline on Barack Obama and win the White House, economic decline that resulted from the policies of his predecessor.
4. Working to pass laws that censor discussion of gay people despite the fact that said policies endanger students, encourage bullying, and lead to a rise in teen suicides.
5. Blindly supporting laws that grant legal immunity to people who’d rather shoot someone than resolve an argument peacefully.
6. Doing their damndest to end bans on child labor, despite the fact that history has demonstrated such bans prevent child abuse.
7. Spending their time trying to redefine rape and pass laws encouraging the murder of abortion doctors, because they honestly believe women to be expendable.
8. Have put forth several presidential candidates who openly admit they do not care about the poor and starving in this country and will cut the social programs that help these people survive in favor of spreading American warfare and handing out more charitable tax benefits to their golf buddies.

If you are anything other than a rich person, I can’t for the life of me understand why you would vote Republican. I understand that the Democrats don’t always measure up either, but what justification is there for these laws?

Here’s the offending post. (It has such Republican staples as equating same-sex marriage with legalized perversion, equating taxes with legalized theft, and there’s a particular gem that equates ‘assault and battery’ with ‘attitude adjustment’.) That this person is a legislator in my state makes me particularly angry.

Here’s the letter I just sent Donna Lichtenegger in response to her pose:

Good morning, Ms. Lichtenegger.

I had the misfortune this morning to see the item you posted on your facebook page endorsing hate speech, and I am extremely disappointed to see statements like this receiving an endorsement from an elected official of the state in which I reside.

Would you be able to explain to me how you could possibly equate violence against someone as an ‘attitude adjustment’?  According to the laws of Missouri, using violent means to settle a dispute is illegal in most cases.  As adults, we have words and thoughts, and society largely expects that we should settle disputes using those, and for good reason.  Endorsing vigilante violence, as we’ve seen recently, is an extremely slippery slope.

I’d also like to know how you equate taxes with ‘legalized theft’.  I don’t know about you, but I rather enjoy the benefits that taxation brings.  Better hospitals, roads, police and fire services, military protection, and in your case, a salary.  Are you therefore stealing from me in accepting a taxpayer-funded salary, Ms. Lichtenegger?  Being that your salary is funded by what you call ‘legalized theft’, I trust you will take every cent you receive from the state and return it so it can be distributed among the taxpayers from whom it was ‘stolen’.

And, equating multicultural areas with high-crime areas?  Could you be more blatantly racist, and how is this at all acceptable for a legislator to say?

The cherry on top of this hate speech is your equating same-sex marriage with ‘legalized perversion’.  I fail to see what’s perverted about two adults wanting to receive the same rights and privileges as their heterosexual counterparts when they enter into a lifelong, legal partnership.  Furthermore, as someone who has had to pull a ‘Christian’ off of a gay person that they were assaulting in their hate, I know personally how damaging and harmful it is to say such things, especially in your position as an elected official.  Your endorsement of this speech, to some, is a validation of their hate and prejudice.

Respectfully, you have the constitutional right to think and say what you wish, but I ask that you reconsider your blatant endorsement of hate speech.

I appreciate your time.


Sincerely,

Ryan Stevens

For those of you that actually believe Republicans when they open their mouths, here is yet another reason to stop listening.

It’s not enough that they send thousands of people abroad to fight for oil and then force them to stay for multiple deployments.  It’s not enough that they use their influence to award billions in subsidies (funded by the American taxpayer) to the people reaping the benefits of price gouging on fuel.  It’s apparently not enough that millions have had had their livelihoods destroyed by the negligence energy companies show towards local economies and the environment.

Republicans have to willfully lie about the relationship between oil production and fuel prices, knowing full well that oil production is at its highest level under President Obama.