Republicans Fight Healthcare with Racism

Yesterday during the House Budget Debate in the Missouri House of Representatives, Representative Robert Schaaf compared providing healthcare to lower income children with slavery. He defined slavery as when you “make someone else pay for something you receive.”

Now, I’m no historian, but I thought that slavery was about owning, mistreating and forcing other human beings to live their lives in servitude with no compensation.

Fortunately, after this misguided rant, Representative Shalonn Curls stood to be recognized to cheers from the Democratic side of the chamber. She pointed out to the racist from Buchanan that his argument was offensive to several members of the House. Representative Schaaf just shrugged and said, “So?”.

But that wasn’t enough for the Republican Caucus, evidently. The next Republican to stand up was Representative Bryan Stevenson, who earlier this session compared the “Freedom of Choice Act” to the “War of Northern Aggression”.

Evidently, now that the Republicans have elected a black man as their national chairman, they’re free to let their racism shine.