Truespeak

It's like déjà vu all over again. From the Christian Science Monitor (via Daily Kos):

GOP leaders are gearing up to bring a number of issues on the Christian conservative agenda to the floor of the House and Senate in the next few weeks, including gay marriage, broadcast decency, the 10 Commandments Act, a cloning ban, and laws protecting "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Every election cycle, the GOP drags out their faith in an attempt to draw in the Evangelical voter. Despite their rampant unethical behavior, they preach values and decency and they drive their wedge issues all in hopes of garnering the Christian vote. They promise the moon, but as we've seen so many times, they don't deliver. You'd think the Evangelicals would get tired of being used and lied to, but like a battered spouse they come back time after time in support of their abuser.

So as a reminder to those Evangelicals, I would like to offer this partial list of what the Republican party has given us over the last five-plus years.

Voter suppression
Secret energy meetings
Claude Allen's fraud problem
Tax cuts
Long vacations
Rampant spending
Enormous Deficits
Underfunding their signature education policy
Clear Skies
"Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."
Saudis allowed to leave the country after 9/11
Against the 9/11 commission before they were for it
Against the Department of Homeland Security before they were for it
The Patriot Act
Osama Bin Laden still at large
Yellowcake from Niger
Curveball
Ahmad Chalabi
Downing Street Memo
Inadequate body armor
PLAMEGATE: Intrigue followed by intrigue
No-Bid Halliburton Contracts
Billions of dollars unaccounted for in Iraq
Al Qaqaa
Abu Ghraib
Alberto Gonzales and the Torture Memo
Torture
Extraordinary rendition
Bunnatine Greenhouse
Mission Accomplished
Pat Tillman
Jessica Lynch
Trying to goad Saddam into war
Paying of Journalists and Planting of Stories in the U.S.
Paying of Jouranlists and Planting of Stories in Iraq
Jeff Gannon/Guckert
Swift Boat Vets
The New Hampshire phone jamming scandal
Diebold's hackable voting systems
Voter Suppression (again)
Ken Blackwell
Terri Schiavo
Under reporting the cost of the Medicare Bill
Response to Hurricane Katrina
Freezing wages in the Katrina reconstruction
"No One Could have Predicted the Levees Would Fail"
Cronies
Bill Frist & and the FEC
Bob Ney
Duke Cunningham
Prostitutes at the Watergate
Tom Delay
Jack Abramoff
Dubai ports deal
Signing Statements
Record oil prices, Record oil profits
NSA Wiretaps

And how many of these things are benefiting the Evangelicals? How many of these things are in agreement with the teachings of Jesus? Not a single one. It's time the Evangelicals opened their eyes to see that the Republican party is using them the same way they've been using prostitutes at the Watergate hotel. They get what they want and then they move on. Meanwhile, the Evangelicals, much like the prostitutes, wake up sticky, battered and confused. It must be an awful feeling to know that you're not respected the morning after.

I hope the Evangelicals are starting to see through the lies and deceit because I hate to see anyone get used like that. It's so demeaning.