By GottaLaff
Kick more people out of the Party of WTF in the name of Ronald Reagan! What a plan! Except, oops:
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Here is my original post on the resolution that denies funding to any member of the party that bucks the hallowed Purity rules.
But, d'oh! Those wacky impure Rushpublics! All 40 of 'em. If they're not careful they'll become an endangered species:
ThinkProgress has conducted an analysis that finds at least 40 current Republican members of Congress have violated at least one principle of the purity test.I'll give you an excerpt of one of my faves, but go here for the whole endangered list:
Purity Pledge #5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants
– The McCain-Kennedy 2006 immigration bill would have “legalized millions of undocumented immigrants already in the U.S. if they paid fines, paid back taxes and learned English.” Republican Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Dick Lugar (R-IN), George Voinovich (R-OH), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Bob Bennett (R-UT), Sam Brownback (R-KS), Susan Collins (R-ME), Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) voted for the bill.
