Considering how many homeless mother-child families are homeless because the man insisted on being the sole breadwinner while the mother raised the kids (without much help from the father), and the father then split, leaving the mother with no job skills, no resume, no savings, no experience, no degree and at least one mouth to feed… and with the father doing everything he can to avoid even paying child support.

I’m certainly glad the Republican Party — the Party of such great and loyal husbands as McCain, Reagan, Giuliani, Gingrich, Vitter and Sanford — is putting the blame for homeless mothers where it certainly belongs… not to mention doing everything they can to eliminate programs that would help such mothers!

Republicans are assholes.

Now that the national Republican party is solely the province of meathead politicians and radio maniacs, there are “sensible” conservatives who are alarmed by what they see. It should be agreed upon in our politics that these people drift into the wilderness for a while and muse upon where their movement has led them. But the first thing they all should do is apologize to the nation for choosing to take a course 45 years ago in opposition to the transcendant moral issue of America. They prospered through bigotry, and then through a deft ability to package it, and they made the ensuing four decades immeasurably crueler as a result. There’s not enough sackcloth in the world for these clowns.