I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Howard Dean, God love him!
Peepsocracy.
They keep forgetting that religious freedom thing that brought so many people to the New World.
I will kill myself before I worship at the altar of GW Bush.
Scary stuff on the rise.
Theocons?
Frist/Santorum 2008
It just FITS!
Frist/Santorum 2008
It just fists!
I can't get on aar site. I am panicking. To much tea?
LOL! So dean is now trying to appeal to the religious out of one side of his mouth while crying about "theocracy" out of the other. He will never be able to influence the religious vote while they sense the hostility he actually has for them. What a moron, no wonder he blew up in the primaries.
I can't wait until they tell us which religion is the right one.
Idiots.
Y'know, I've often wondered if this wasn't the way things were headed with all that anti-UN "national sovereignty" stuff.
The problem I see is that the Republican party has evolved from the party of conservatives (meaning conservatives) of the 70s & 80s to the party of conservatives (meaning Evangelical Christians) of the current day.
That is: The Republican party has become a religion. You either believe and support all things Republican or you are against all things Republican - no in-betweens, no compromise!
And the scope of this "believe and support" is the entire planet - including all Americans that don't sign on!
I've always believed that the separation of church and state was a wise decision.
Frist/Santorum 2008
It just fists!
spinoza | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 3:26 pm |
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Now HUSH! You're gonna give it away..
Dammit Howard. Ya make a cynical old girl wanna believe!
So Dean speaks....sure would be nice if he did it more often and actually had a presence.
I wanted him, but I've not been impressed.
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Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Friday that his party would wield the Terri Schiavo case against Republicans in the 2006 and 2008 elections, but for now needed to stay focused battling President Bush on Social Security.
"We're going to use Terri Schiavo later on," Dean said of the brain-damaged Floridian who died last month after her feeding tube was removed amid a swarm of political controversy.
I fear we have learned absolutely nothing.
2006 will be too late. If the proper framing is not kept in front of the public on an almost daily basis, the issue will be forgotten by then.
I've developed a nice method for dealing with these idiots.
Everytime I see one on TV speaking, I mentally play the Looney Tunes theme song.
Works pretty well actually.
I wrote about the separation of church and state on the American Street today.
If they really want to have divine rule, why not just have me and Ba'al and Athenae run the government? Cut out the middlemen.
"We're going to use Terri Schiavo later on," Dean said of the brain-damaged Floridian who died last month after her feeding tube was removed amid a swarm of political controversy."
I love Howie, but this is a very poor choice of words.
Embracing theocracy is laziness or an inability to think for oneself.
I prefer to make my own decisions, thank you, and not have them made for me by a pack of stupid theofascists.
At long as we have a nation "under God" it is not "one nation, indivisible." It is a nation that separates non-believers (atheists, agnostics, panthests, pagans, etc.) from believers. It is, in a word, a
Brautigan, there are so many bad things these folks have done that need to be "kept on the table." I not sure it's possible to address every issue everyday.
I will kill myself before I worship at the altar of GW Bush.
TJ |
I would like it better if someone killed GWB.
Is it really any less un-ethical to use Terri Schiavo's death to attack Republicans than it was for Republicans' using it to pander to the rapture right?
'When you obsess on the enemy, you become the enemy'
The high road has a LOT less trash on it and the air is easier to breath too...
I've developed a nice method for dealing with these idiots.
Everytime I see one on TV speaking, I mentally play the Looney Tunes theme song.
Works pretty well actually.
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Twilight Zone, too!
theocrasy
Is it really any less un-ethical to use Terri Schiavo's death to attack Republicans than it was for Republicans' using it to pander to the rapture right?
Not at all. Salient question is whether it will be effective and useful.
"I love Howie, but this is a very poor choice of words."
--jdw
Same here. Sounded like the republican "political capital" memo.
LOL! So dean is now trying to appeal to the religious out of one side of his mouth while crying about "theocracy" out of the other. He will never be able to influence the religious vote while they sense the hostility he actually has for them. What a moron, no wonder he blew up in the primaries.
Pope Genghis
Who let the white trash out?
theocrasy
No, no, it's spelled "theocrazy".
Who was it who said? "It would be so much easier if I was a dictator."
Frist/Santorum 2008
It just fists!
spinoza
Which one's the top?
Must be nice weather over at the trailer park, Terry. They had a sale on 22's & 40's down at the qwikee-mart.
The high road has a LOT less trash on it and the air is easier to breath too...
Ray
Yeah, but it leads to election losses.
Time to fight these GOP bastards at their own level.
Time to get down and get dirty!
Frist/Santorum 2008
It just fists!
spinoza
Which one's the top?
Terry C.
I think Frist is.
When you look at everything immoral and illegal that Bush did the first 4 years, and these morons still re-elected him. You just can't get through to them. Don't even try. We need to concentrate on the people who didn't go to the polls, not the ones who did.
Must be nice weather over at the trailer park, Terry. They had a sale on 22's & 40's down at the qwikee-mart.
Ba®ndog |
Yeah - really!
These trolls say the dumbest shit.
...therefore they are the instruments of God.
God's own tools.
Dean had a poor choice of words. What he meant is that we should use the Repigs reaction to the Schiavo case against them. They are no more religious than anyone else, they're just really fucking stupid about it. And "one nation, under god" is another right-wing bullshit move, in 1954, I believe, as they were trying to do the same thing with the wonderful drunken traitor joe mccarthy leading the way. Let's face, the republican party should have been outlawed many years ago, and its leadership exiled to Iran, where their ideas would get a good reception from the mullahs and ayatollahs, since they speak the same language. I do hope Bushco gets to stand up in the Hague for its war crimes and crimes against humanity. An excellent place for an exception to my anti-death penalty stance.
ronjazz,
IMHO, I want Bush to live. But stripped of his wealth and privilege, an object of public scorn and disgust, having - for once in his life - to actually work for a living - at minimum wage.
SD
But stripped of his wealth and privilege, an object of public scorn and disgust, having - for once in his life - to actually work for a living - at minimum wage.
Surliest. 7-11. Clerk. Ever.
"If they really want to have divine rule, why not just have me and Ba'al and Athenae run the government? Cut out the middlemen."
The problem with that, Echidne, is that you and Ba'al and Athenae want law based in reason and fact. Traitors, you are!
BTW, great post at the American Street--if you haven't gone over to read it, you're missing one of the better parts of Saturday.
Surliest. 7-11. Clerk. Ever.
Eli
Perfect.
SD
"If the proper framing is not kept in front of the public on an almost daily basis, the issue will be forgotten by then."
Brautigan 04.16.05 - 3:36 pm
Correct. Eternal Vigilance is the price of Liberty.
"Surliest. 7-11. Clerk. Ever."
I don't think the 7-11s in my neighborhod would have him. The one that manages the one closest to my house is a Sikh with a degree in computer science, and a gracious man to boot.
I'm thinking more like making him a DMV clerk.
Yeah, but it leads to election losses.
Time to fight these GOP bastards at their own level.
Time to get down and get dirty!
Terry C | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 3:50 pm
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Actually, I think its been Democrats' trying to prove they can throw sh!t just like the Republicans that has led to election losses...
TW, great post at the American Street--if you haven't gone over to read it, you're missing one of the better parts of Saturday.
Sallyh |
Sallyh, sorry to be so techno-challenged, but do you have a link?
many thanks/SD
Gut. Clean. Debone. Filet.
Make these words for our times when we think of the Republicans.
I'm thinking more like making him a DMV clerk.
Sallyh
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He could keep his SS!
Gut. Clean. Debone. Filet.
Make these words for our times when we think of the Republicans.
I'm having trouble keeping "Clean" and "Republican" in my head at the same time.
I'm thinking more like making him a DMV clerk.
Sallyh
But it MUST be a minimum wage job.
Sarah, head over to Echidne's blog Echidne of the Snakes and link up from there. Echidne's blog is a real treat.
They use religion to shield themselves from proper scrutiny. We need some legitimate religous leaders to call them on it. Any ideas?
Bush could work in a chicken processing plant. He could be a chicken plucker.
Eli--yeah, let's get rid of the 'clean;' despite the fact that they so desperately need it, it just doesn't work.
Gut. Debone. Filet. I'm thinking of starting a blog of my own (damn you, TJ), and I might have to put that under 'Liberte. Egalite. Pate.'
Lumpen--Jim Wallis is trying, as are many other religious leaders, but it seems they never are heard in the media.
Bush could work in a chicken processing plant. He could be a chicken plucker.
Well, he'd be working with his betters, but I think it *has* to be a job where he's exposed to the public and is forced to take crap from *everyone*.
'Liberte. Egalite. Pate.'
Sallyh
Sarah D--i like the chicken plucker idea, but don't you think there's a danger someone would mistake him for one of the fowl?
Sarah--I'd like to take credit for that, but I think it was Syntallic that provided it 
Sarah D--i like the chicken plucker idea, but don't you think there's a danger someone would mistake him for one of the fowl?
Chickens have too much dignity and presence.
That's exactly right.
They think they are god's chosen and that they know better than the rest of us.
googlefight:
theocracy 637,000
democracy 63,500,000
Well, he'd be working with his betters, but I think it *has* to be a job where he's exposed to the public and is forced to take crap from *everyone*.
Eli |
Good point. I concur.
don't you think there's a danger someone would mistake him for one of the fowl?
Sallyh
I already know him to be one of the foul....and, as Eli sez, chickens have more presence and dignity.
Lumpen--Jim Wallis is trying, as are many other religious leaders, but it seems they never are heard in the media.
Sallyh
I'm not surprised. The media blackout is a huge problem for us.
Toast break.
Thanks for the bloghelp, Sallyh.
Sarah Deere, this is the link to my post on the wall between church and state:
DeLay or Jefferson?
69th comment. First ever.
69th is divineth.
I read an article on the American vs. French revolutions (link from http://www.politicaltheory.info/ -> best philo-related site on the net) that said one of the reasons for the triumph of the American revolution and the shiznit that followed the French Revolution was that the American political philosophy was based on personal freedom - no single person or entity, including the state/government shall trample even a single individual's freedom, even if someone thinks it is 'good for everyone else'.
Definitely interesting article. My point being that we should concentrate on 'freedom' - freedom to do what the f*ck we want. It's nice to talk about freedom in Iraq and here in the U.S., but it's better to actually have it.
Dean's comments come close, but they rely too heavily on the religion aspect of things. I would rather the Dems take the position of saying that freedom is the highest, best moral stand we can take as Americans - and not just to lead the world by example, but for ourselves.
The Rethugs are in our bedrooms, they're in our lives, they're controlling what we watch, what we hear, and they're trying to control what we believe. What's next? Prohibition? Will we all need a permission slip from President Frist to go see a R-rated movie?
Of course, it needs to be said more persuasively/elegantly.
"They think they are god's chosen and that they know better than the rest of us."
--fourlegsgood
I really don't care what they think. I want them not to care what I think either.
Say it again folks--separation of church and state.
"The issue is: Are we going to live in a theocracy where the highest powers tell us what to do? Or are we going to be allowed to consult our own high powers when we make very difficult decisions?"
Dean-speak for if you are a moderate Republican who is religious (but not a foaming at the mouth fundie), and if you're getting damned worried about the extreme positions of your party, you might find commonality with us (Dems)on this issue.
His timing is excellent given that the Frist filibuster jihad is coming
to town.
"We're going to use Terri Schiavo later on," Dean said...
I love Howie, but this is a very poor choice of words.
jdw
So, be sure to pile-on, before the right does!
Jeezus farging frist, we're at war here, people. Navel-gazing is O-U-T! We really don't need "Democrats" and "Leftists" to be tongue-clucking at each other over how much more honorable individuals we should be. You want to critique anybody, I've got a whole fucking party and its followers for ya, with plenty of fucking material to keep you busy for a long, long time.
And why is this important? Because if we start critiquing ourselves publicly, the other side ("Them") will do exactly one of two things: if they were not aware of this character flaw, previously, they will make read-all-about-it headlines out of it now. And if they were, they will use the old, "See? Even librul DEMOCRATS find this offensive!" tack. Either way, we just get another work boot in the nuts.
Why do you think the DeLay situation is suddenly controverisial? For one, brief, tasty, orgasmic moment, we're seeing cracks in the solid, stainless steel wall of Republicanism (there's just so far you can go, before you go fuck, I just can't keep defending this shit). And when that happened, IT MADE NEWS. Take the hint.
Thanks to the internet mainly, there is now enough reality-based information available (if not mass-marketed like the corporatist propaganda of any given day) so that half the fucking country (and that's a lotta white people!) really are beginning to understand what an alarming pigfuck our formerly "great" country is in. Mostly, the referees of whether any particular topic is valid/invalid is whether the MSM decides that: [a] it's a legitimate topic for discussion, in the first place; [b] they're going to tell the truth about it, if it is.
We're just beginning to see a faint glimmer of what we already know and have been beating our heads against the walls about, for years, seeping-into a formerly 100% unfriendly MSM. Let's not blow it. We must show nothing less than the sociopathic unity of the Rethuglicans when we discuss the missteps and character flaws of the few Moseses who can actually lead us out of this mess, and just don't do it!
There will be plenty of Democratic character destruction to go around, from The Enemy.
send all conservative repug theocrats and neocons traitors to texas, make them slave 24/7 to pay for the deficit, have mexicans shoot them if they try to leave, sterilize all of them to prevent more demented monotheists, harvest their organs for the ill, give them bibles for medicine and pillows and food, make coulter the only prostitute--fuck, she'll work for a shot of scotch per redneck trick--and once the oil's gone, nuke 'em all. period. no other way to save the republic. get your guns now--we outnumber them now, but freepers fuck like roaches and have kids because they don't know how a condom works.
Barry is correct. Stay on target. And fight--mentally and physically. Use whatever means are necessary to protect the Constitution and our once-great nation.
The rumor flying around out there, is that Bush will attack Iran in June. I know I will personally go ballistic if that happens. I hope and pray the rest of the oountry will likewise. This nation can't continue to be apathetic to our war mongering Leader.
Actually, I think its been Democrats' trying to prove they can throw sh!t just like the Republicans that has led to election losses...
Ray
Now here's a classic jabone who embodies exactly what I'm talking about.
Intelligence test, Ray: which lost Democratic election was closer: Dukakis vs. Bush, where The Marquis of Queensbury rules were firmly and obediently adhered-to...
... or Kerry vs. Bush II, where we saw the first actually "vocal opposition" fo fascist Republicanism since Reagan some 24 years earlier, spring from the egg a mere 180 days before the election?
Asshole.
Barry: The DeLay dust up will be over in a few weeks because the Dems are as duplicitous as heis. The Right got the media to focus on Dems sleaze too. Therefore, Tom is safe.
"I'm thinking more like making him a DMV clerk.
Sallyh
But it MUST be a minimum wage job."
I've always thought that without the chimpco name, he's have ended up as the night manager at Blimpy's.
"jdw
So, be sure to pile-on, before the right does!"
I ain't piling on. Love the guy. He was my man in the primaries. Sent him way too more $ then I could really afford. But even then, he had a very bad habit of not taking time and forming words in his head before he spoke. This is vitally important. I know what he meant, and you know what he meant, but the way the press is these days and the RW echo chamber?
Contrast this with the very well-worded statement from Reid yesterday.
Barry - We're just beginning to see a faint glimmer of what we already know and have been beating our heads against the walls about, for years, seeping-into a formerly 100% unfriendly MSM. Let's not blow it. We must show nothing less than the sociopathic unity of the Rethuglicans when we discuss the missteps and character flaws of the few Moseses who can actually lead us out of this mess, and just don't do it!
I agree. I mean come on people, even the angels are armed. We have to fight as hard as we can because this is no small shit. l don't care what it takes - whatever it is we have to do it. This is a war and right now we have a glimmer of momentum going our way with Schiavo, Delay and Frist. We have got keep pushing as hard as we can.
"Use whatever means are necessary to protect...our once-great nation."
X
I think this nation has gone through some ups and downs--I haven't been alive for 200+ years, so I don't know exactly where we have been great, but I have thought that that was what we as a people strived to be.
I definitely think this has been a "down" period in Bush's reign.
No nation is perfect. But it is worth fighting for, and hoo-buddy, do we need to fight.
Everyday I wake up more disheartened than the day before. This is not how I want to live my life.
mer, don't let yourself go too down on the road to despair. Eyes on the prize!
They claim that God's law trumps man's law, that they know what God's law is, and that therefore they are the instruments of God.
I'm confused. These are the same people who constantly complain about "elitist libruls" who "think they know how to run your life better than you do."
mer, Don't know how old you are but I was around for Vietnam and Watergate. My parents witnessed the depression, WW II and the McCarthy era. Our country has a habit of engaging in death defying swings before common sense asserts itself and we pull ourselves back from the brink of the aybss.
While I feel pretty vulnerable right now due to the current batch of lunatics in charge, history makes me feel confident. Americans ultimately get it right; it just takes a while.
Hang on tight, we just might be in the process of righting the ship of state.
I'm confused. These are the same people who constantly complain about "elitist libruls" who "think they know how to run your life better than you do."
Yeah, but *without* the benefit of God's wisdom, which makes them evil busybodies rather than divine agents.
Jesus Fhrist.
Goddammit, I don't wanna fight the Reformation and the American Revolution all over again because of this authoritarianism bizness.
These "do-over" elections and wars won't do. Is the Constitution that weak?
Hang on tight, we just might be in the process of righting the ship of state.
There is no rule that we will not go over the brink this time.
See http://monocle.blogspot.com/2005...001-i-
have.html for a further exegesis on this issue.
Justice Scalia believes in the divine right of kings- so no activism there.
But even then, he had a very bad habit of not taking time and forming words in his head before he spoke
WRONG!
This was the mythology, carefully crafted by the right: "Dean is a loose cannon! He talks before he thinks! He's a disaster for the Dems!"
Remember Karl Rove, yelling at a bunch of Deaniacs, from the sidelines of a parade in DC: "Yeah! That's the one we want! Dean! Dean!" Shorter Rove: "Don' throw me into the briar patch!"
By spreading the meme that Dean was "unelectable" and "nuts" and couldn't control his message, his message was controlled to some extent... and the Dems flocked to the "electable" Kerry. Who was felled to the mat with one sock of a Swift Boat Liar.
As I always say, my babies: BE HEP TO THE JIVE.
I've developed a nice method for dealing with these idiots.
Everytime I see one on TV speaking, I mentally play the Looney Tunes theme song.
Works pretty well actually.
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My personal favorite (from the Muppet Show):
MANAMANAH! Do dooo do doodoo... MANAMANAH! Do doodoo doo...
Some in the local Kentucky media are reporting that the origination point for Frist's "Justice Sunday" telesermon is the Highview Baptist mega church in Louisville.
'Course Highview Baptist advertises itself as "One Church Two locations" with huge facilities on the east and west sides of Louisville.
The Lexington Herald-Leader is specifically identifying the east side Shelbyville Road location as the Family Research site for Fristy's April 24th speexifiction. The modest little chapel can seat 2000.
UK's Financial Times
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/ e3d544d...000e2511c8.html
is reporting that Frist, currently pictured on his webpage in Wonder Woman's old cross-armed pose, has hired creepy, chinless Ed Gillespie to sell the end of tradition and an impartial judiciary and oversee multiple daily mass emails to the MSM.
"By spreading the meme that Dean was "unelectable" and "nuts" and couldn't control his message..."
Sadly, this message was initiated and perpetuated by a group of powerful dems who didn't want Dean to get the nomination. They continue to be an albatross around our necks.
"LOL! So dean is now trying to appeal to the religious out of one side of his mouth while crying about "theocracy" out of the other. He will never be able to influence the religious vote while they sense the hostility he actually has for them. What a moron, no wonder he blew up in the primaries."
Am I missing something here? How is an appeal to the religious incompatible with a condemnation of theocracy?
Do you think all religious people would be happy to see an American theocracy? Hardly. Which religion, which sect, will be the foundation for our glorious new laws? Which leaders will determine the legality of our beliefs?
Theocracy is always dangerous. Yes, always.
(Always.)
To your last paragraph, which sums things up neatly, I would add:
"and also, therefore, that everyone who disagrees with them on any issue is against God and is the instrument of Satan."
This seems to be Frist & Co's position on the Senate's advice and consent of judicial appointments.
It gets much, much worse than that.
Nowadays, people from the religious right think that it's OK and dandy to label all religions but their own politically correct ones "false religions.
It's not too far from that to religous-cleansing.
Ugly, ugly stuff for those who've read about the history of the Crusades or the Thirty Years' War.
Yeah, but it leads to election losses.
Time to fight these GOP bastards at their own level.
Time to get down and get dirty!
Terry C | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 3:50 pm
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Actually, I think its been Democrats' trying to prove they can throw sh!t just like the Republicans that has led to election losses...
Ray
No, NOT "trying to prove we can".
DOING it.
I am sick of playing nice with these evil bastards.
Barry: The DeLay dust up will be over in a few weeks because the Dems are as duplicitous as heis. The Right got the media to focus on Dems sleaze too. Therefore, Tom is safe.
Troll
Dream on, dickhead.
I'll bet you drink your own bath water.
Re:
FristChrist
Maybe if we start pronouncing "Frist" with a long "i" sound -- like "Christ" -- it will begin to sound less like an obscene sexual act and more like a misguided act of political martyrdom, at once irreligiously unChristian and blithely unAmerican, that is no less obscene.
If only by virtue of failing to live up to the moral principles embodied by the religious and American heritage "Freist" feigns to champion.
I know that reason will probably win out and rational minds will prevail, but we simply have to argue that faith is not fact and cannot be construed as such to justify action. We need to challenge the belief structure of those trying to impose their values on us.
1. Prove *your* god exists.
2. Prove *your* god is *the* god as listed in the bible.
3. Prove that *your* god or *the* god is even worthy of our worship. Who is to say *your* god didn't show up afterwards and take all the credit from other gods?
Either way we need to challenge them.
And yes. F*ck you Jeffers and your invisible cloud being. But not until he's made impotent by me and my iron chariot(Judges 1:19).
MYOB'
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"I know that reason will probably win out and rational minds will prevail"
-MYOB
You are a much bigger optimist than I am. If anything human history seems to show that most decisions people make are made irrationally.
We can't suceed by challenging the Religeous Right's beliefs becuase they will simply ignore any facts that don't fit their world view, no matter how clearly or often you present those facts. The sad truth is that you can't reason with unreasonable people.
If the reality based community is going to recapture the political initiative from the Religeous Right we can only do it by convincing the silent majority of moderates that they need to be afraid of the threat that the RR poses to their rights and well being. To do that we will need to appeal to emotion rather than reason.
Who ever said the right has a monopoly on christianity. Aren't there any good Theocratic leaders for the Christian Left?
Atrios, what would you say about the Christian abolitionists of the early 19th century? They too believed that God's law trumps man's law--that God wants all people free no matter what the legal codes say.
Aren't there any good Theocratic leaders for the Christian Left?
Theocratic leaders? So are you saying that all Christians are theocrats?
Atrios,
Ummm, when you are busy praying and waiting for the express elevator up and away from here, you aren't paying attention to the disaster unfolding around you in our country.
You are too busy saying "It's god's will" when God had damn little to do with it.
Now here's a classic jabone who embodies exactly what I'm talking about.
Intelligence test, Ray: which lost Democratic election was closer: Dukakis vs. Bush, where The Marquis of Queensbury rules were firmly and obediently adhered-to...
... or Kerry vs. Bush II, where we saw the first actually "vocal opposition" fo fascist Republicanism since Reagan some 24 years earlier, spring from the egg a mere 180 days before the election?
Asshole.
Barry Champlain | Email | Homepage | 04.16.05 - 4:45 pm |
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Become a Republican to beat them?
No thanks!
The enemy held TV networks would KILL any Democrat who stooped to using Republican tactics to score points.
Example:
Texas Re-districting. Democrats leave the state to protest and attempt to block the ramming through of the legislation by denying a quorum. While radical, nothing about it was Illegal. Delay on the other hand pulls in Federal resources, taps the Homeland Securtiy to find them and Federal Marshalls to bring them back. Massive Abuse of power and mis-appropriation of funds. And he isn't even a member of the Texas legislature....
How was it covered? WOW those Democrats are Crazy! Look at the stupid things they are doing! They should just knock it off and go back.
Had it been reversed, the ENEMY Corporate TV news would have spent WEEKS on how many laws had been violated by bringing Federal Marshalls to arrest poor poor Republicans just trying stand up to those godless Democrats.
The Sandy Berger situation is another example. Removing 3 or 4 COPIES of HIS OWN notes results in a weeks worth of Banner coverage, meanwhile a CIA agent's carreer is destroyed by two administration zealots and ho hum...
Condit's intern.
Dean's Howling.
Kerry's 'flip-flopping.
The Republican party has a giant fan right now that they get to hurl their shit through, any Shit the Democrats might want to hurl will get blown right back into their faces.
Its that simple.
Prick.
After years of exhaustive study, I have reached one inescapable conclusion: God is NOT a Tyrant!!!
Right here, right now, God does NOT force anyone to do anything, or not do something. And just as God doesn't do it now, God has never done it.
This is why I am certain that all the religious books in history have always been and will always be the product of some human being who believes they know the "best" way to run a society...or the world. Then they, and/or their followers, proclaim that what was written down was "revealed" and the dictates contained in the religious book are what "God" wants everyone to do...or else. However, I'm not fooled anymore.
BTW, I believe there's a God. I'm no atheist. I've had "Spirit" experiences. But, my feeling is that whatever "Spirit" is, I am certain that this "Spirit" does not care how many religions are set up in this physically-obsessed world, claiming to do "Spirit's" will.
If anything, "free will" is the will of this "Spirit." Which, BTW, if you think about, is one explanation for why there are so many religions around. And why there are the non-religious. "Free will" indicates that the "Spirit" is not a dictator, no a tyrant. This indicates, moreover, that anyone, religious or otherwise, who dictates and demands that others obey their dictates is not actually doing the will of the "Spirit" that gave us "free will" to choose our own life path. In fact, the dictators of whatever stripe are actually defying the "free will" gift from the "Spirit." Of course, if you practice your "free will" and defy the dictators who are defying "Spirit's" will for everyone to have "free will," we all know what happens.
Yep, the filibuster must go. Religious tyranny must rule. The defiers, and defilers, of God must dictate. They claim that anyone who opposes them is against God. I respectfully disagree. Since God is not a tyrant nor does God force anyone, then what these misguided people are proposing to force on everyone actually indicates that it is they who are anti-God. Of course, they would never accept this. They can't. So they will continue to try to rape Lady Liberty in the name of their ?god?, whatever that is.
Three cheers to Howard Dean!!
And Echidne of the snakes, you can run my government any day!
Mad as Hell, I've heard the rumour that GWB will attack Iran in June many times. Be afraid!
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