Found on a surf for Republican rhetoric about family values for my Chimes piece: Tom DeLay's website shows pictures of babies and bubbles that "the strength of America, the true greatness of America, is in the moral fiber of her people, in the integrity of her leaders, and is revealed by how we treat those who are least capable of helping themselves." Which casts a dubious light on Republican Congressional policy on the rich and the poor...
http://www.majoritywhip.gov/featuredissues.asp?FormMode=Call&LinkType=Combo&ID=13&Section=1

Quip from P.J. O'Rourke (and I really try to be an equal-opportunity grouch, it's just the Pachyderms have raised my ire today):
"The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."