In the last few weeks, the GOP has said that they need to show more compassion, to show they care about minorities and women. This was after their autopsy (Don't you have to be dead to have an autopsy?) form the 2012 election was revealed. So how are they doing?
Well, in the last few weeks, two state legislatures, both GOP-dominated, have tried to make abortions harder to get, while other states have tried to get rid of the single womens' clinic in their state. Then, the Kansas Legislature, again dominated by the GOP, approved a budget moving the state away from an income-based tax system to a product-based tax system, making it the most regressive state tax system in the country. Then a GOP Congressman called Mexicans who used to work on this father's farm a derogatory term. Although he apologized, the ease in which he said the word was simply thoroughly disgusting. Then, another GOP Congressman stated on a Sunday show that big donors would have to realize that Congressmen had franchises that they had to attend to. No Congressman, you district isn't a franchise, they are the people who elected you. In other words, they're your boss.
The GOP have said they need to change, to show their compassionate side more. If there's a different GOP than the 2012 model, where is it? They haven't shown anything other than the same contempt for people that they have had recently. And I'm not holding my breath waiting for them to start now.
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