This is what makes it so hard to accept the idea that conservatives were ever, at least in my lifetime, people of honest good character. McConnell has been in office since 1985, and was once pro-choice and pro-union. He abandoned those positions and took an increasingly hard-right stance for no apparent reason other than to stay in power, as the voters in his party and state moved to the right. There aren’t any principles there at all.
Speaking of which, here’s the current longest serving Senator (since 1976) and a (supposedly) devout Mormon. An exemplar of the Republican Party, Orrin Hatch!
It’s just a little light treason.
KevinC
5759
He also ran on a campaign about term limits and throwing bums out of office because they get corrupted by so much time in Washington.
Honestly, the hypocrisy makes him the perfect representative for Utah Mormons.
House GOP was set to hold hearings on the evils of minimum wage. Here’s one of their witnesses that was set to testify:
Wow.
House Republicans were set to hold a hearing today to trash the minimum wage.
Now Politico is reporting the hearing was postponed because homophobic blog posts by one of the GOP witnesses came to light – calling to “tax and regulate homosexual acts.”
The witness is economist Joseph Sabia. Here’s the blog post: web.archive.org/web/2003090521…
He also wrote a blog post arguing that feminism “taught young women that equality is achieved by acting like promiscuous sluts.”
That post is titled “College Girls: Unpaid Whores.”
You can find it here: web.archive.org/web/2003120500…
More from Sabia:
"But first we have to mount the assault on Big Gay (no, I am not talking about Rosie O’Donnell)…
"We can tax gay nightclubs, websites, personal ads, sexual paraphernalia, and so forth… We can cripple gay-related industries & get them right where we want them…
“All gay clubs will have to feature huge, flashing warning signs like ‘CAUTION: Entering this nightclub may increase your chance of contracting STDs and dying.’”
^ This was the witness House Republicans were bringing in to make the case against raising the minimum wage.
Nesrie
5762
He sounds a little more like a politician than an economist.
Wow. How is that guy not a Republican House Representative by now?
antlers
5764
I just looked him up. He’s a real economics professor at American University. Those posts are from a blog he wrote while a PhD student at Cornell. I suspect things are going to get rough for him at AU.
magnet
5765
He left American University in 2010. Now he’s a professor at San Diego State University. Things might get rough for him there too.
To be fair, his more recent work sounds more like an economist than a politician. But still an asshole.
Our findings show that gay males are: (i) less likely to be continuously employed than their heterosexual counterparts, and (ii) face an annual earnings penalty of 16–21%. There are also important differences in earnings dynamics for men who transition into (or out of) same‐sex versus opposite‐sex live‐in relationships. Individual fixed effects estimates show that opposite‐sex partnerships are associated with increased earnings for men, while same‐sex partnerships are associated with small declines in earnings that are statistically indistinguishable from zero.
Timex
5767
People orchestrating boycotts against things they don’t like is totally bad.
Also, having the government actually oppress things we don’t like, is good.
Also, big government is bad.
Nesrie
5768
Okay assuming those are just facts… what was the reason he decided to look at these specific points, what drove him to investigate?
Folks look not all republicans are unhinged lunatics. There are plenty of moderate Conservative sites out there espousing perfectly reasonable views.
Oh wait.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/11/stigma-conservative-politics-worse-stigma-gay/
ShivaX
5770
The Federalist isn’t remotely moderate. Conservatives openly mock it on a daily basis.
Timex
5771
They, they are kind of the lunatic Fringe.
Less aliens than Infowars though.
I will take your word for it. They could up the mocking volume a few notches then.
Timex
5773
As an indicator, i follow a Twitter account called “Federalist Pitch Bot”
magnet
5774
Probably because he’s obsessed by The Gay. He’s written several papers on the topic, and they are all equally dry. But I don’t mean to cherry pick, it’s not the only thing he writes about.
The Effect of Breastfeeding on Educational Attainment: Evidence from Siblings
The Effect of Adolescent Virginity Status on Psychological Wellbeing
Insomnia and Human Capital Acquisition,
Combat Exposure and Domestic Violence
Do Minimum Wages Affect Teen Fertility
Postpartum Maternal Smoking and Childhood Asthma
Do Anti-Bullying Laws Work? New evidence on school safety and youth violence
Nesrie
5775
These topics are not making me think he is more an economist than a politician.
magnet
5776
Economists are interested in many of the same sorts of things as politicians. They simply approach these things with a different (aka dismal) perspective.
I have never heard a politician use “declines that are statistically indistinguishable from zero” correctly in a sentence.
