The Republican Convention: Hyprocrisy and God’s Wrath.
The Republican Convention is next week in Tampa, Florida. On Saturday and Sunday before the start of the convention, Tropical Storm (and perhaps by then, Hurricane) Isaac will be bearing down on the GOP’s convention hall. I want to discern the symbolism of this, somehow implying that God’s wrath is being evidenced by the coincendental events. Where is Pat Robertson when you really need him? I guess I will have to settle for Dana Milbank:
By their own logic, Republicans and their conservative allies should be concerned that [Tropical Storm] Isaac is a form of divine retribution. Last year, Rep. Michele Bachmann, then a Republican presidential candidate, said that the East Coast earthquake and Hurricane Irene — another “I” storm, but not an Old Testament one — were attempts by God “to get the attention of the politicians.” In remarks later termed a “joke,” she said: “It’s time for an act of God and we’re getting it.”
The influential conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck said last year that the Japanese earthquake and tsunami were God’s “message being sent” to that country. A year earlier, Christian broadcaster and former GOP presidential candidate Pat Robertson tied the Haitian earthquake to that country’s “pact to the devil.”
Previously, Robertson had argued that Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for abortion, while the Rev. John Hagee said the storm was God’s way of punishing homosexuality. The late Jerry Falwell thought that God allowed the Sept. 11 attacks as retribution for feminists and the ACLU.
Meanwhile, the GOP plans to have a “You Built This” Night next week, in reference to the President’s out of context remark. Delaware’s very own Sher (or is it Cheryl) Valenzeula (or is it Bargine) speaking in early primetime, for she is a business owner who of course built her own business with no help whatsoever from any level of government at any time. Except that she has secured millions of dollars from the SBA over the years. Yeah, Sher is a perfect example of the GOP’s bullshit theme.
Indeed, the arena where the GOP convention is being held? Guess who built that?
[T]he stadium where the GOP will be announcing “We Built This!” was financed primarily by the government. The Tampa Bay Times Forum arena, which houses the Tampa Bay Lightning, was built in 1996 as the “Ice Palace” with 62% government funds. The total budget for the project was $139 million, of which public money accounted for $86 million and team money accounted for $53 million.
How… hypocritical.
Finally, Vice President Joe Biden “will lead the Democratic counterweight to the Republican National Convention by campaigning in the Tampa, Fla., area next week,” according to the National Journal. Over the last few election cycles, there has always been some kind of counter programming by the other side. Gone are the days where the one party was silent during the other party’s convention week.
I was just in Florida during a tropical storm and it looked much worse on TV than it did out the window.
Hysterical, over the top weather reporting is the new missing blonde girl.
The GOP has natural secretions that protect them from ‘true’ hurricanes.
That’s funny Jason. I was in FL a few years ago during a TS. We were out driving around and observed a TWC crew filming in front of a storm water collection pond because the roads were not flooded.
Wasn’t the first day of their last convention, in St. Paul Minnesota of all places, also canceled because of a Hurricane.
Are we seriously being told as a nation, to abandon the Republican Party or else? Those were exactly the symbols God sent in the Old Testament….. and when not adhered to, the “or-else” came…wreaking havoc.
If this actually happens a second time, every Christian must give weight to this argument republican policy is bringing down the wrath of God upon this nation. For it to occur one time, ha,ha, we can make a joke out of… but twice? As a sign, it could not be clearer….
Then when you dare compare Mitt Romney to the teachings of Jesus Christ, the truth should hit you like a lightening bolt in the head.
I hope America listens.
Andy Borowitz reports that:
Does using the time machine qualify as moving the convention retroactively?
And guess where the government got the 86 million to pay for the ice palace.
Lets guess, guess number one, outerspace, No, guess number two, osmosis, No, guess number three, the same place 100 % of government monies come from, THE PRIVATE SECTOR. From people who built their own private business, and people who worked for private business. There is no way you guys can be so dumb that you do not understand this. If you are right and I am wrong, explain to me where else the money comes from besides the private sector.
Hey Rusty. Haven’t you heard?? The government can create money from nothing. They can just print it.
Congratulations Rusty, you finally get the concept of taxation. Keep studying government services and infrastructure; you’ll get it sooner or later.
Too optimistic.