Senator Dianne Feinstein was quoted as saying, in regard to the "gay marriage ban" vote in the Senate:
"Why is it when Republicans are all for reducing the federal government's impact on people's lives until it comes to these stinging litmus test issues, whether gay marriage or end of life, they suddenly want the federal government to intervene?"
One must give credit where credit is due; Sen. Feinstein is absolutely right here. But if she is accusing the
Republicans of a sort of hypocrisy in their action on this sort of issues, let's look at her own
Democratic Party. The Democrats are all for helping the poor, so they say, but if making things more affordable, so that the poor can afford them, means hurting their organized-labor constituency, then suddenly the Democrats can't bring themselves to do what would help poor people immensely. Each party has its own acts of hypocrisy. The Republicans sometimes kowtow to religious bigots, and the Democrats kowtow to labor barons who can control the economy to a greater extent than any corporate baron ever did.
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