Conservatives Lack Compassion

Recent political debates in America have seen conservatives cheer execution and letting someone without health insurance die.  Since the conservative Christian agenda seems to drive so much of conservative American polics, we'll look today at the role of Compassion in any health spirituality.  Many Christian pastors across the spectrum from liberal to conservative talk about how important it is to gather in THEIR community (translation: their church building), but what kind of perversion of community results in people cheering the misfortune - and even moreso the death - of another human being?