Ralph Hall from Texas (where else?) is slated to become chair of the House Science and Technology Committee. Of course, he is in the pocket of the oil and gas industry. That is a given. But it’s far worse. Remember Jack Abramoff and his toadies Tom DeLay and Ralph Reed? If you recall, Abramoff got his friends to support the right of his clients in the Northern Mariana islands to be able to retain “made in the USA” labels on the clothes they made, without having to respect labor laws. And I mean any labor laws. Abramoff’s clients forced women into sex slavery, including forced prostitution, as well as forced abortion. The so-called pro-life party had no problems with any of this. After all, Saipan was a haven of deregulation and free market capitalism. And one of the worst toadies was Ralph Hall, who publicly slandered a fifteen-year old girl sold into sex slavery, claiming that “she wanted to do nude dancing”. Welcome back, Republicans! Welcome back, pro-life and pro-family party! We missed you!
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