{"id":8880,"date":"2023-11-16T22:18:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T05:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8880"},"modified":"2023-11-17T18:59:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T01:59:34","slug":"rewind-gop-the-party-of-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8880","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: GOP – The Party Of Moral Values?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of those archived articles, headlines, photo-toons, BilgeBucket Lists and other content over the past twelve years. In honor of our 20th, and because we\u2019re sick of the current state of affairs in the world, we\u2019ll be reposting more items from 2003 through 2009 throughout this year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The whole purpose of our 20th anniversary retrospective is to show that the Republicans haven’t just shifted to the right with TFG. They’ve been trying to make America a christian theocracy ruled by corporate America since the Bush administration. The leaders of the GOP want people to be mindless sheeple who blindly obey their leaders, work without complaint no matter what the hours, and consume corporate America’s products like automatons until they drop dead, broke and drowning in debt. So bible thumper creationist Mike Johnson<\/a> coming to the fore should not be a surprise. It’s business as usual for the Republican syndicate. But it’s business as usual for Democrats as well as they’re doing now what they did in 2006; standing by and watching the Republicans self-destruct and hoping that the electorate will notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article is from our July 7, 2006<\/strong> edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

House GOP Ready To Shove Values Agenda Down America\u2019s Throat <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Republican members of the House of Representatives recently released a series of bills it is calling \u2018The American Values Agenda\u2019 in hopes of energizing it\u2019s conservative base for the fall 2006 elections. Already the first item, protecting the word \u2018under God\u2019 in the pledge of allegiance, has already gone down to defeat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert commented on the initiative. \u201cWe feel that this is a necessity as a signal to our conservative base that we\u2019re ready to ram the ideology of a minority of wealthy, religious individuals down the throats of the rest of America. And since this minority has a lot of bucks, we\u2019re going to basically push these items through and character assassinate anyone who stands in our way.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the gritty, pressing issues tackled by House Republicans; a vital flag-burning amendment, a crucial anti-gay marriage amendment, and an urgent cracking down on Internet gambling. Other serious topics to be considered include: protecting insurance companies from frivolous claims from greedy hurricane victims; protecting frozen embryos from evil stem cell researchers; abolishing the completely unfair estate tax which affects a whopping one percent of the population; making sure that every citizen can own and properly use an AK-47; making sure the Arctic Wildlife Refuge is drilled for that precious nine month supply of oil; and making sure that the United States of America becomes a full fledged Christian theocracy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democratic congresswoman from California Nancy Pelosi said that this is nothing but pandering by House Republicans. \u201cThey are taking radical right wing values and touting them as America\u2019s values. This is nothing more than their age old tactic of distract, distort and divide. Meanwhile, the Democrats have a clear message to the American people and that is . . .we\u2019re just going to stand by and watch Republicans self destruct.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vice President Dick Cheney said, \u201cAll have to say is that if you don\u2019t support these issues, then you\u2019re not much of an American. I mean if you voted to take the words \u2018under God\u2019 out of the pledge of allegiance, you probably watch Al-Jezeera and root for Al-Qaeda. You probably even cried when Al-Zarqawi died.\u201d When it was pointed out that the words \u2018under God\u2019 were added to the pledge in 1954, Cheney shook his head vigorously and responded, \u201cSee! This is just another example of the biased liberal media spreading misinformation to the good sheeple . . . I mean, people of America. Where\u2019s my shotgun?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

People expressed mixed views about the series of bills. Joe Nelson of Brighton, Massachusetts, said, \u201cI don\u2019t think these bills really help anyone. We\u2019ve got huge problems in Iraq, our deficit is skyrocketing, affordable healthcare is a joke and people in New Orleans still need assistance. I think we need to solve these problems first, although I agree that we should stop Internet gambling. You should only be able to blow your money at a regular casino like normal people.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gladys Clary of Dennison, Iowa said, \u201cWe need to reduce our dependency on foreign oil and the only way to do that is to drill the hell out of all the available land and coastlines that we have. I don\u2019t care about the Earth\u2019s future. I\u2019m old and my hummer needs gas now!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Miles of Fetid Gulch, Texas, said, \u201cIf we don\u2019t pass these bills now, illegal immigrants will pour over our borders, burn our flags, marry farm animals and use stem cells to cure Alzheimers.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of … Continue reading “Rewind: GOP – The Party Of Moral Values?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,61,49,68,3],"tags":[377,1745,404,2107,2110,1356,2103,1575,50,112,252,22,107,914,915,9,371,596,188,982,19,1096,2030],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8880"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8887,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880\/revisions\/8887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}