Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog! Go!: Small Government Republicans My Ass

Conservatives LOVE to talk about getting the government out of the economy and “letting the market decide”.

That is, until something goes wrong. As much as the GOP bitches about bailouts, it was a Republican president who pushed for them, and a lot of GOP backers used federal dough to prop up their mortgage houses and banks.

Right now, there is a move to increase a liability ceiling for companies that create environmental disasters. Oh great! The government will hold business accountable for their actions. No protections for the free market, right?

Is the GOP leading the charge on this? No. They are fighting tooth-and-nail against it.

Apparently, they DO want government protection for business. And literally, when dumb business moves land on our shores, they want the American taxpayer to pay for it.

Party of No: How Republicans and the Right Have Tried to Thwart All Social Progress

You name it, the right has opposed it: civil rights, school desegregation, women’s rights, labor organizing, the minimum wage, social security, LGBT rights, welfare, immigrant rights, public education, reproductive rights, Medicare, Medicaid. And through the years the right invoked hysterical rhetoric in opposition, predicting that implementing any such policies would result in the end-of-family-free-enterprise-God-America on the one hand, and the imposition of atheism-socialism-Nazism on the other.

This is about as close to truth as you’re going to get about the GOP.

Uncompassionate Educators

I was going to go in another vein with one of these stories but they keep cropping up.

So, here goes.

Conservatives bitch and moan about how the “liberals are brainwashing our children” and how education teaches kids to think and care for others and the environment. You know, stuff like where things are, not everyone brown needs bombed, science and condoms exist: use them, and so on. I’ve spent some time highlighting the lies passing as history in a Texas history book coming to a school near you.

But there are other problems with having conservatives involved in education.

In San Antonio, teachers apparently feel comfortable in bashing Mexicans to the faces of their Latino students. Said teacher was told to take a week off and is already back in class.

In Alabama, a teacher used to concept of assassinating President Obama as a means to teaching parallel lines and angles. You know, just in case some hillbilly teen might want to take a shot at our nation’s leader. Once again, the teacher wasn’t fired, and the Secret Service decided not to make an example of them. Again. Can we at least put ONE of these assassination lovers behind bars?

And, just for kicks, in Florida, two teachers are accused of dousing their atheist co-worker in holy water in the hopes of converting them.

Apparently that’s the compassionate thing to so in the Sunshine State.

Jerks.

Historians decry social studies revisions

It’s nice to know that historians – particularly those in Texas – are lining up against the Texas state “reforms” that teach stuff like slavery wasn’t so bad and Joe McCarthy was a nice guy or whatever lies they are selling.

Plus, another view supporting California’s move to reject any textbook that is printed that includes the Texas lies.

Seriously, people in general are pretty stupid. Willingfully lying to children because you are bigoted and hate others is just cruel. Our children are supposed to be *better* than us, not force fed bullshit that doesn’t reflect reality.