Radio host Shawn Hannity today complained about how Democrats abuse the power of government to try to control what people do. His complaint centered on the thought that if we had government managed health care that the government might start telling people that they shouldn't eat junk food and excercising more. He used this as an example of how the Democrats are always trying to use government to tell people how they should live.

And then moments later without irony, Hannity discussed how the government should keep a private home owner in Texas from being able to host a "Swinger's Club" in his house. A group of consenting adults like to engage in behavior that Hannity finds objectionable that is done in private on private property and Hannity supports the government stopping that behavior.

Republicans wonder why so many intellectuals and people in the media don't take them seriously? It's because the GOP is so full of hypocrites like Hannity. What's more, they're so thick that they don't see their hypocrisy. They are all for government intrusion on our lives if they think we aren't living a correct Christian life but are quick to trot out paranoid scenarios of possible government intrusion.  Here's a clue Republicans, Swinger's Club incident is a bonafide real life example of the government invading our lives. Your paranoid fantasy of the government telling us what we can and can't eat is not. 

It is because Republicans are so quick to turn to the government to enforce morality, while being blind at the same time that they are doing this, that the rest of us fear what a prolonged tenure of Republican power might do to the country.