Sorry.
The stick-up-the-ass look sort of keeps one guessing...
No, the fact of the matter is that, once again, you were so consumed by your "republicans are the devil" obsession that you looked at a twenty-plus year old news clip, decided "I don't like that guy" and just assumed, based on your own biases, that someone had to be a republican because you didn't like them.
As you admitted, you aren't old enough to remember the PMRC hearings and the opposition to them by people like Frank Zappa, Dee Snider and (of all people) John Denver.
I am.
And, whether this fits into your skewed world view or not, the truth of the matter is that the people leading the charge against the musicians in congress were, as often as not,
Democrats, including (as noted above) your beloved Al Gore, who, like his wife, actually spoke in favor of music censorship.