Congressman Hypocrisy

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

Roger Marshall is the U.S. Representative for Kansas' "Big First" District: basically, the 3/4 of the state west of Topeka.  Last year he upset the incumbent Tea Party Congressman in that district, who was a hard-core obstructionist in Congress, hated even by his party's leadership. Marshall is a doctor: and recently proclaimed he is against any healthcare bill:

 

“Just like Jesus said, ‘The poor will always be with us.' There is a group of people that just don’t want health care and aren’t going to take care of themselves.”
 

Here's Jesus' sentence that Marshall partially quoted: 

"For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me."  (Mark 14:7, my emphasis)

 Here's what Jesus was quoting:

"There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land."  (Deut. 15:11)

Even for the political faction that deceives voters (and possibly itself) with its claims to be "Christian," Representative Roger Marshall stands out for blatant hypocrisy.