Molly Ivins: Republicans seem to have lost their moral compass

Molly Ivins

The Republicans seem to have lost their moral compass
June 19, 2006

AUSTIN, Texas -- Gee, the Republicans seem to have lost their moral compass since Tom DeLay quit. Who knew it could get worse without that pillar of rectitude from Texas? What a snakes' nest of corruption and nastiness.

The latest involves Speaker Denny Hastert and a land deal.

Hastert had sold to a developer a 69-acre portion of a 195-acre farm that had been purchased in his wife's name. The developer also purchased an adjacent plot of roughly equal size owned in trust by Hastert and two of his "longtime supporters." The area of west of Chicago is growing madly, and Hastert -- through an earmark appropriation process -- dedicated $207 million in taxpayer dollars as the first appropriation on the Prairie Parkway, which will run 5.5 miles from the Hastert land. Went through in the fall of 2005. Three months later, Hastert and his partners sold the land for a $3 million total profit, $1.8 million to Hastert.

In a staggering display of brass-faced gall, Hastert is now claiming a freeway running 5.5 miles from his land is not close enough to affect the price of the farm. Then what did the developer pay the extra $3 million for? Hastert is said to be furious with the Sunlight Foundation, which broke the story, and the Chicago newspapers, which pounced on it gleefully. This is what I don't get about Republicans. Apparently they think they are genuinely entitled to get these special deals.

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In other words, they have been predestined to be rich and powerful on earth and go to heaven because they profess belief in Jesus.

Never mind that 100% of what they do is contrary to the teachings of Jesus. Never mind that they are flouting every law of man and god. They're SAVED, doncha know, and nothing they do here on earth will lose them their place by the golden throne past the pearly gates.

They're being completely consistent for Calvinists, preaching hate and intolerance while looting the people they're preaching to. THAT is their religion, not that namby pamby Jesus stuff. That's for suckers.

And 2500 IS just a number. Suckers don't count. They'll end up in hell after a hell on earth, doncha know, and won't be able to fuck up the scenery in heaven.

in a stale box of Cracker Jack... that they probably stole from some poor kid.

This whole "moral" thing is just code for prejudice, hate and right wiong corruption.
Republicans should be embarrassed at what they've become. Pitiful. Truly Pitiful.

They're conservatives. They believe in power and prestige and privilege. They endorse a social system which inevitably and deliberately produces deprivation and exclusion and a terminally divided society. They see the world as black and white, good and bad - and *they* are white and good. The right doesn't have a moral compass - it has a set of bigotries, prejudices and biases against anyone not like itself.

It's more like they threw it out with yesterday's trash.

Thanks for the link! I'm always on the lookout for another good source!

Those Godless, heinous, traitors wouldn't think of doing the shite they do without the corporatewhore press in their beds.