Posted on 10/29/2006 9:58:20 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I guess Dick Armey wanted 15 more minutes of fame?
Funny, since I'm a religious conservative and never heard of it AND would have opposed it if I had. But looking up the bill in question, it appears that 115 House Democrats -- including Pelosi, Waxman and Waters -- voted for it (this is the gambling bill alone, not the port security thing which passed 409 to 2). Are we supposed to believe these Democrats are in James Dobson's pockets?
Odd. I'd never heard of it until it was passed. As a long time religious conservative, I find it hard to believe we have a huge issue I've never heard of...
And as noted, the primary beneficiaries will be the casinos. Hmmm....
If a Christian theocracy is being formed in the GOP you can fool me. There is a strip bar on every corner in some neighborhoods.
"I have no idea about whether John Farmer is a typical liberal columnist, a disillusioned GOPer, or a raving moonbat."
John Farmer hasn't wrote 1 positive thing about President Bush in 6 years. If Hitler was a Democrat Farmer would vote for him.
He is worthless as a columnist and even more worthless as a human being. As you probably can tell, I do not like the man.
You are correct.
Actually, I have a "daddy" and don't particularly care for you or the government to be my other "daddy". Sorry.
Gone. Gone. Gone.
So what's your problem?
Nor, I you, nor government.
However, government is a moral influence, whether it passes a law for or against a particular -- or merely condones an violation of the truth and the People by shrugging, slouching passivity.
A moral influence? Only in the sense that the government should enact laws against murder, stealing, etc. Otherwise, the government should maintain our infrastructure and leave the rest to the people.
Every act of basic law is a moral statement. It is the duty of government to protect our rights (which are actually the favor of God and preserved by our goodwill, one to another) and thus the duty of government is inescapably a moral duty.
My problem is that Armey and Danforth think that Dobson is the problem. But these three have done more to harm the party than Dobson ever has.
So if they want to complain about people, let them start with the Republicans who are dragging the party down this election cycle.
Ok, so I suppose the government should ensure that everyone is at church on time? Where do you draw the line? I am a big boy and can figure out how to act without you or mommy government getting involved. Thanks for the offer though.
We draw the line well below looking out for our inalienable rights to Life, Liberty and property.
Figure out whatever you will. You must not murder, etc. (And don't turn right into the left hand lane.)
Please give yourself more credit than childish references to getting to church on time, etc.
I agree with Armey and Danforth, and am glad to see a few Republicans standing up to the thugs.
Being Republican shouldn't mean you have to believe what Alan Keyes has been advocating for years --- or else.
It's ironic that being Republican to people like Keyes and his supporters only applies some of the time, when they can't shout down the dissenters.
It's all a matter of where to draw the line.
Makes you wonder what the De-Foleyators have on Armey. Those are some very sour grapes. And WHAT NEW AND RADICAL views are now being espoused that weren't part of Armey's platform? Name one. Something very wierd here.
Social conservatives opposed gambling 100 years before Armey was born (maybe it takes him a long time to slog through those history books and he only got to the Puritans yesterday).
But the point is correct. The serious lobbying in this case was by Nevada gaming houses who have shown themselves as fair-weather libertarians. But the left blames Dobson for everything from Acne to Zychosis of the Deep, so why not add this too?
More MSM BS that bloviates and distorts ...
the Christian conservatives have been in the coalition since before 1980, when moral majority (remember that ?) came to the fore. Then in 1988 Pat Robertson got his minions to become actie in GOP primaries ... the result was a breed of politicians in the 1990s that were social and economic conservatives. Some of these, like John Hostettler, now in electoral trouble, have been the bulwark of the conservative wing of the GOP Congress.
THE BEST ECONOMIC CONSRVATIVES IN CONGRESS HAVE BEEN SOCIAL CONSRVATIVES. Men like Tom Coburn come to mind.
It is a distortion of history to claim that Bush/Cheney is a new trend - wrong! - this has been the trend since before the evangelical Ronald Reagan became President.
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