John Fonte over at The American Spectator site has uncovered “The Parable of the Pharisee Conservative“:
I thank thee Lord that I am not like those other conservatives.
Those xenophobes, nativists, obsessives about border security, drinkers of tea, and other bitter enders.
For I support comprehensive immigration reform.
I sup with the lords of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the chiefs of the AFL-CIO, and the titans of Silicon Valley.
I am welcomed at the editorial houses of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.
I receiveith gold from George Soros, Bill Marriott and Mark Zuckerberg, and praise from the mainstream media, the Gang of Eight, and the princes of tourism.
Although my labors would enrich the treasuries of Corporate Mammon at the expense of the “least among us” of my fellow Americans of all races and ethnicities by lowering their wages and increasing their unemployment—I trust in my own righteousness.
For I am the Pharisee conservative.
Here endeth the lesson.