Posted on 06/27/2002 11:25:25 AM PDT by Mr_Magoo
The following was sent to the Chicago Sun-Times today. I did not sent it to the Chicago Tribune because of the FR lawsuit.
On June 26, 2002, a United States Federal Appeals Court in California declared the Pledge of Allegiance to be unconstitutional. The same day the U.S. Senate voted 99 - 0 to pass a resolution expressing its disagreement with the ruling.How could something like this happen? The blame rests on the shoulders of none other than Senator Richard J. Durbin(D). Senator Durbin(D) is on the Judiciary Committee. You see, the Judge who wrote this ruling is Alfred T. Goodwin, a Judge pulled out of retirement to fill a vacant seat. A seat that Senator Durbin(D) refuses to fill by his petty political games. President Bush has nominated qualified Judges to fill these positions. Nominations that have been held hostage by Senator Durbin(D) for over 400 days.
Senator Durbin(D), the time has come to quit putting petty partisan politics ahead of Country. A vote on a resolution is not enough. The time is overdue to approve all the Judicial nominations.
As a Illinois voter and a Veteran, as your re-election nears, I vow I will not let the voters in Illinois forget your part in this travesty.
[signed]
Current results:
Do you believe "under God" should be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance?
44.7% - Yes
55.2% - No
I'm going to forward this to my entire Illinois Newspaper editorial board list. Funny how whenever I email an editorial board, it gets published. Can you freepmail me with your name & contact info (addres & phone#) so they can verify YOU as the author? Otherwise, I'm gonna have to plagerize and claim some semblance of it as my own. I'd prefer to give credit where credit is due however. BAG!! (Big Ass Grin!)
I applaud your effort, MaGoo. We alse need to contact/encourage the Republican Party to join/lead this charge.
I will definitely be sending a letter to the Editor to my hometown downstate daily newspaper as well as others (Champaign Gazette, Blm. Pantagraph). I will compose it a bit later after the kids go to bed :-) (translation: when I won't be interrupted!).
Since the obstruction of the Daschle Democrats is the fault of ALL of the Daschle Democrats, I think perhaps you ought to give everyone here permission to copy your letter promiscuously, substituting other Senator's names for Durbin's...and of course changing the personal items you included.
What do you say? :-)
:-)
That is the goal. Make this stick to every Dummocrap on that Committee like superglue!
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
It seems like liiberls started to take over America, OUR America when the Nam war started and have never been held back at all.
If I was ruler of our red white and blue , liberals would be shipped to a third world country and left there for good.
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