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THE NEW REPUBLICAN HERD
They don’t vote with their hearts and they don’t vote with their
heads...they vote with their party.
GATHERING THE HERD
A new breed of lawmakers has lumbered onto Capitol Hill. They represent
no one. They ignore their constituencies. They are blind to the issues
that confront the nation. They cast their votes with no regard for the
will of the people.
Their voting pattern is a window into their mindset and philosophy:
They don’t vote with their hearts and they don’t vote with their heads.
They vote only in lockstep and only as directed. One for all, and all
for one, they dutifully vote with their party.
They are the new, mindless and obedient herd of George W. Bush Republicans.
Totally submissive, the GWB Republican herd methodically falls in line.
Not unlike the suicidal terrorists they are taught to loathe, they
follow their leader even if it means their own demise. They protect the
corporations that poison the very air they have to breathe. They vote
to eliminate the civil rights that are rightfully theirs. They vote
billions of their own tax dollars to the Halliburtons of the world, even
as they watch the quality of life around them crumble.
With each bill they pass, they and their nation suffer. With each law
they support, they and the American people lose out. They seem to accept
their own self-deprivation with stoic stupidity. How reminiscent of the
pledge in Animal House who, after each paddle to his bottom, cried out:
Thank you, sir. May I have another? And sure enough, they soon have
another chance to perform to whip of their trainer....
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FOLLOWING THE HERD, PRAYING WITH THE HERD, and DISPERSING THE HERD: