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Just the Beginning (Eleanor Clift and Newsweak Whine Some More)
Newsweak ^
| May 21, 2005
| Eleanor Clift
Posted on 05/21/2005 12:56:29 PM PDT by RWR8189
May 20 - A Jewish friend after making her first trip to Israel said, This would be a great place if they could figure out how to separate government and religion. I was reminded of her sentiments this week as the U.S. Senate began debate on two of President Bushs judicial nominees, Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown, hostages in the ongoing culture war between born-again religionists and the more-or-less secular society the Founding Fathers envisioned.
When Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist accuses Democrats who oppose Owen and Brown of wanting to kill, to defeat, to assassinate these nominees, he transforms political rhetoric into an apocalyptic vision that is better suited to Bible class than the floor of the Senate. Whats behind his passion is naked ambition. He wants to be president and hes courting the religious right. The scary part is that this over-the-top wooing of God-obsessed Christians is embraced by a growing number of Republican senators, all apparently sincere in their religiosity and some, like Frist, with presidential aspirations.
Stripping Senate Democrats of their right to filibuster judicial nominees is a prelude to a broader assault on the judiciary known as court stripping. Alabama Republican Richard Shelby last year introduced The Constitution Restoration Act of 2004 to acknowledge God as the sovereign source of law and threaten judges with impeachment should they uphold separation of church and state. Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore appeared with Shelby at the press conference announcing the legislation. Moore is now touring the country with the granite block depicting the Ten Commandments that he was ordered to remove from the state court house.
Shelby reintroduced the bill in March of this year when the Terri Schiavo case was in the headlines. His press secretary says the two events were unrelated, yet
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barfalert; clift; eleanorclift; filibuster; newsweak
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To: RWR8189
Her left wing dribble editorial appears in the Honolulu Advertiser this morning. Which is equally a document of"left wing" dribble and covered by the biblical phase "and the truth is not in them.""
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posted on
05/21/2005 1:27:13 PM PDT
by
Joee
To: RWR8189
To: Mrs. Don-o
I am sure Clift is a Robert Byrd fan, and he hardly ever gives a speech on the Senate floor without quoting scripture, or even weaving a story from the Old Testament into the problems of today, to enforce some of his points of view....
This Wallis guy is a nut-ball!
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posted on
05/21/2005 1:30:12 PM PDT
by
Txsleuth
( Mark Levin for Supreme Court Justice)
To: T Lady
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posted on
05/21/2005 1:32:42 PM PDT
by
Joee
To: T Lady
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posted on
05/21/2005 1:33:44 PM PDT
by
Joee
To: person; WOSG; Betaille; xJones
Right, but if this bill passes, wouldn't it be religious rules enforced by the state? After all, if we are going to enforce religous law above civil law, isn't that a state sponsored religion? That is exactly what the 1st amendment is supposed to guard against. The wording. We need the actual wording. Any'a you freepfriends got the actual portions of the text in question?
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posted on
05/21/2005 1:38:19 PM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Every human being, born and unborn, bears the image and likeness of God.)
To: RWR8189
Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown, hostages in the ongoing culture war between born-again religionists and the more-or-less secular society the Founding Fathers envisioned. I stopped reading here..
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posted on
05/21/2005 1:40:11 PM PDT
by
cardinal4
(No Compromise on Filibusters!)
To: RWR8189
Stripping Senate Democrats of their right to filibuster ... It's not a right. It's a Senate rule that can be changed by a simple majority. Big difference.
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posted on
05/21/2005 1:41:08 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
To: RWR8189
Eleanor Clift, the most idiotic woman in America! Probably, EVER!
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posted on
05/21/2005 1:41:48 PM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(No good deed goes unpunished.)
To: RWR8189
God-obsessed Christians
As compared to what? What should Christians be obsessed with? Contemplating their navels like this "secularist"?
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posted on
05/21/2005 1:50:35 PM PDT
by
schaketo
(Not all who wander are lost)
To: Viking2002
ROTFLOL!!! I love it .. "bird brain".
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posted on
05/21/2005 1:52:30 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
(President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
To: RWR8189
Remember....there is an auto suspension for posting Eleanor pictures
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posted on
05/21/2005 1:53:46 PM PDT
by
bert
(Rename Times Square......... Rudy Square.)
To: RWR8189
court stripping.
Are these people nuts? I call it restoring the proper rule that have been in place for over 200 years until the nutty Democrats replaced the rule. Never was a super majority but a majority only as described in the Constitution. Whoops, forgot, CRATS haven't even read the Constitution. When will the CRATS stop lying. All they can do.
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posted on
05/21/2005 1:59:13 PM PDT
by
Logical me
(Oh, well!!!)
To: RWR8189
The Deadwood epithets that come to mind when thinking of Elinor Clift... The mind reels.
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posted on
05/21/2005 2:08:11 PM PDT
by
thegreatbeast
(Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
To: RWR8189
You's picking on us!
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posted on
05/21/2005 2:15:48 PM PDT
by
AZHua87
(Insurgent BloggerVet!)
To: La Enchiladita
Dear Eleanor: would you like some cheese with your whine?
To: La Enchiladita
There is another twit, named Rita Grimsley Johnson, who wrote a column, lamenting that poor Eleanor can't get a word in edgewise, for all of the mean awful men interrupting her.
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posted on
05/21/2005 3:05:06 PM PDT
by
Paul Atreides
(FACT: More atrocities have been perpetrated with a hot glue gun, than with a hand gun)
To: elcid1970
Judging by how she always looks, I would say that she needs a laxative, and/or, one night with a real man.
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posted on
05/21/2005 3:06:06 PM PDT
by
Paul Atreides
(FACT: More atrocities have been perpetrated with a hot glue gun, than with a hand gun)
To: Paul Atreides
Who would get to wear the bag?
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posted on
05/21/2005 3:35:55 PM PDT
by
GenXFreedomFighter
(We smirked our way back for a second term!)
To: GenXFreedomFighter
Why would anyone want to wear Eleanor?
;-)
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posted on
05/21/2005 3:39:04 PM PDT
by
Paul Atreides
(FACT: More atrocities have been perpetrated with a hot glue gun, than with a hand gun)
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