Who are their wives?

Every time I see these greedy, unctuous Republicans on the news, further weakening the lives of the poor and middle class while seeking new ways to enrich the already already obscenely wealthy, I always wonder: Who are their wives? Are the women they're married to every bit as cold and indifferent to the suffering of millions as they are ? Do their wives, the mothers of their children, not care about starving American children,inadequate schools, unemployed parents, foreclosures, the nightmare of living in a shelter? Are they happily content to have their own lavish homes, comfortable lives, and busy social whirls without every thinking about those who don't? Are they all cold hearted creatures like the lumpy Virginia Lamp Thomas, Clarence's Tea-Party sliima donna, who is as much a stranger to kindness as she is to truth? Are most of the wives of Congressmen educated Stepford career women, realtors and lawyers who grew up among privilege and have no idea what poverty is like? Or have some graduated from poverty and feel they have no obligation to help others? Who are these wives? Do some of them feel the GOP-forbidden emotions of guilt and compassion? Do some have social consciences? Are some even secret Democrats? Do they see their husbands come blithely through the front door and feel disdain for the damage they know was done that day? Do they keep their liberal opinions to themselves, afraid to say what they truly feel? Who is Paul Ryan's wife, Janna? Did it bother her that her husband was ready to rip the safety net away from millions of elderly or is she just as heartless? Who is John Boehner's wife, Debbie? Is she hurt by all the slurs about her husband's drinking and the jokes about his tan? Or does she see him as a drunken and vain loser? Who is Mark Cantor's wife, Diane? Does she ever see him as the weasel the rest of us do or is she just thrilled because her company has profited from her marriage to this cretin? Who are these women? They can't all be in lockstep with their nay-saying, president-bashing husbands. Some of them must want to teach their children to feel empathy, learn compassion, become altruistic and appreciate their privileged lifestyle. Or does it take a certain kind of woman to be married to these narrow and uptight lackeys to billionaires? Does it require blinders and snobbery and indifference to suffering and not really caring how your children turn out as long as they go to the right schools and marry someone acceptable.

Note: I am not such a chauvinist that I don't appreciate that there are women Republicans in Congress, too. Generally they are humorous, frigid. vain soigne bigots who range in appearance from very attractive to downright homely. I don't wonder as much about their spouses because I assume that any man married to any of these heartless woman is a pussy-whipped masochist.