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January 25, 2005

Compasionate Convervatives

Rich Little said some not very nice things at the Constitution Ball last week. He was making fun of poor people and then everyone laughed.

Though there was no official poem for the occasion, impressionist Rich
Little, emceeing the Constitution Ball at the Hilton Washington, did
provide a bit of inaugural doggerel.

The gist of it was: "Let's get together, let bitterness pass, I'll hug your elephant, you kiss my ass!" And the crowd went crazy.

Little said he missed and adored the late President Ronald Reagan and
"I wish he was here tonight, but as a matter of fact he is," and he
proceeded to impersonate Reagan, saying, "You know, somebody asked
me, 'Do you think the war on poverty is over?' I said, 'Yes, the poor
lost.' " The crowd went wild.


I don't think it's very nice to make fun of poor people.

Also David Corn talks about how mean Newt Gingrich is for leaving wife #1
when she had cancer and wife #2 when she was diagnosed with a
neurological disorder that could lead to multiple sclerosis. He was having
an affair with a congressional aide before breakup #2 too.

All this from a man who writes this kind of stuff in his new book:
...he takes the reader on a walking tour of God in Washington,
DC--noting all the public spaces in the capital where the Almighty
is acknowledged. For instance, there are images of the Ten
Commandments in the National Archives, the Supreme Court and the
Library of Congress. Gingrich would like to see more of this, and he
believes that God in public life will be an issue in the next
presidential election.


He has really done some really mean hurtful things to people, and I don't think anyone would want to vote for him for president, especially those people that vote for who they think Jesus would vote for, because I'm pretty sure that Jesus wouldn't vote for Newt.