Did you see Peggy Noonan's recent column (Dec. 9) predicting this very thing for Clinton? Amazing that she's so predictable. Of course, Noonan also said that after all her research she found Clinton had no respect for US citizens ... this pretty much proves it.
Note that Senator Righteous Babe is coy about her own religious aspirations. She says "I've always been a praying person" in such a way as to leave hanging heavy in the air the unsaid completion of the thought: ". . . but that hasn't stopped me from doing everything in my power to destroy the family unit, empower women to have the persons living in their wombs murdered, and, in general, advance a vision of society based the individual-as-victim, and all relationships among individuals as potential victimizations [which tells you something about the state of my own psyche]."
Given that subtext, we can trash the idea of Sen Babe as contemplating the cloistered life, and get to the nub of it all, which for Sen. Babe is money. She's betting that "faith-based" institutions are rife with avarice: the way to neutralize them is to throw money at them like hamburger at Pavlov's dogs, then threaten to withhold it. Get these praying morons used to the monetary leash, Sen. Babe b
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Get these praying morons used to the monetary leash, Sen Babe believes, and all that political activity born of religious conviction will melt away. It is a completely cynical vision, and it's brilliant, because it uses George W Bush's own flawed, and at bottom exploitative policy to destroy his base.
No one can accuse Sen Babe of being stupid.
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