It is so important to “small government conservatives” to punish and humiliate the poor…

…that they continue to insist on doing it even when it is a total and huge waste of time and money. Facts do not matter to these people. Proven waste and stupidity is unimportant.  What matters is the satisfaction of the itch to inflict pointless cruelty on the weak.  No wonder they love torture so much and cheer for it even when it doesn’t work.  It’s the same impulse, dialed up to 11.

Mindless cruelty: What the “prolife” Trumpkin stands for.