Just the Beginning (Eleanor Clift and Newsweak Whine Some More)

Newsweak ^ | May 21, 2005 | Eleanor Clift

[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 Bush’s 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. What’s behind his passion is naked ambition. He wants to be president and he’s 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

[Joee]

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.""

[ozzymandus]

God, is she stupid.

[Txsleuth]

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!

[Joee]

OUTSTANDING REPLY

[Joee]

OUTSTANDING REPLY

[Mrs. Don-o]

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?

[cardinal4]

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..

[Moonman62]

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.

[La Enchiladita]

Eleanor Clift, the most idiotic woman in America! Probably, EVER!

[schaketo]

God-obsessed Christians

As compared to what? What should Christians be obsessed with? Contemplating their navels like this "secularist"?

[CyberAnt]

ROTFLOL!!! I love it .. "bird brain".

[bert]

Remember....there is an auto suspension for posting Eleanor pictures

[Logical me]

“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.

[thegreatbeast]

The Deadwood epithets that come to mind when thinking of Elinor Clift... The mind reels.

[AZHua87]

You's picking on us!

[elcid1970]

Dear Eleanor: would you like some cheese with your whine?

[Paul Atreides]

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.

[Paul Atreides]

Judging by how she always looks, I would say that she needs a laxative, and/or, one night with a real man.

[GenXFreedomFighter]

Who would get to wear the bag?

[Paul Atreides]

Why would anyone want to wear Eleanor?

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