Posted on 04/29/2005 11:03:26 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Anti-Christian hate
"Harper's Magazine's May cover stories about 'The Christian Right's War On America' frightened me, although not the way Harper's meant them to," Stanley Kurtz writes at National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com). "I fear these stories could mark the beginning of a systematic campaign of hatred directed at traditional Christians. Whether this is what Harper's intends, I cannot say. But regardless of the intention, the effect seems clear," Mr. Kurtz said. Continues...
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Frist goes to Church, Dems go bananas. Again.
Okay, that does it. You know the GOP's in trouble when you read about it even in that right-wing rag -- the Washington Post! I'm not making this up. A negative piece on Republicans in the Washington Post. How could it happen? Makes you wanna curl up in a little ball on the floor. But you're too much in shock to even move.
The GOP runs the White House, the House, the Senate, the SCOTUS, most state governments while Democrats struggle just running the bathhouses, but the GOP's in real trouble, says the Washington Post. The paper says the reason for this is because Democrats stand so united. Why, Democrats were supposed to enter the new Congress meek and cowed, demoralized by November's election losses, ready to cut deals with Republicans, but House and Senate Democrats turned that conventional wisdom on its head by staying united and blocking Bush nominees. Oops, I'm sorry -- that was two years ago. Unless your name is Barbara Boxer, you're aware we just had an election and Democrats lost.
Ah, but things are really different now! Staff writer Charles Babington explains: "Democrats were supposed to enter the (new) Congress meek and cowed, demoralized by November's election losses and ready to cut deals with Republicans," but "House and Senate Democrats have turned that conventional wisdom on its head" by staying united and blocking Bush nominees. So, after winning three straight elections, Republicans are still in trouble, while Democrats -- even after losing seats in the House, Senate and getting evicted from Neverland Ranch -- are in great shape. The paper says the reason for this is because Democrats stand so united -- united against DarthBolton, DarthDeLay, and those menacing Christians trying to set up a Theocracy. Music, television and movies are filled with sex and violence, psychopaths freed by judges are running around raping and killing 9-year-olds, but liberals fear too much influence in our culture from Billy Graham and James Dobson. In fairness, you see it all the time. Perfectly safe neighborhoods adorned with druggies, prostitutes, gangs, beggars, crumbling pavement and graffiti. Then Pat Robertson moves in, and the neighborhood goes to pot.
Which is why Democrats went bananas when Bill Frist went to Church on Sunday. Not in person -- but by telecast. Despite this concession, Democrats still went bananas. Liberals worry a lot about this rapidly spreading epidemic called Christianity. Mainstream voters are very disturbed by Frist going to church, and wanna stop the upsurge of state-run churches in America! Sunday's conspiracy gathering at a Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., called Justice Sunday, was roundly denounced by Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton as mixing religion and politics. The Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee fired off a petition signed by 20,000 losers urging Frist to reconsider his decision to mingle with those Jesus freaks.
The way liberals see it, religion is fine, but just keep it to yourself, ok? No talking to politicians. No petitioning politicians. Seen, but not heard. You may support God, just don't let me catch you in public. Do it in your home or Church or I'll call 911. History is replete with examples of how deadly mixing politics and religion can be -- check out that religious icon, Joe Stalin.
The Democrats' nuclear option, Howard Dean, who was the subject of an Amber Alert until recently, has been doing polling to help the party find some core values and to learn why the party of partial birth abortion, gay marriage, Madonna, free sex, free condoms, pedophiles, the ACLU, Larry Flynt and Hollywood is having trouble getting the votes of 'values voters'. Democrats want to know why Democrats haven't won anything this Century (other than killing Terri Schiavo). The pollster, Cornell Belcher, surveyed voters in eight key states -- Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, New Mexico, Virginia, Ohio, Nevada, Iowa. Belcher found that almost half of these voters vote based as much or more on their religious faith as on ordinary political issues, and 66 percent of them voted to keep Bush in the White House. Dean called the poll "the best" he'd seen "in 10 years," and the GOP called Dean the best DNC chair the GOP has ever had. Dean says that Democrats must stop "talking down to voters." Frankly, I don't see how they ever did since Dems are always slithering around on their scaly bellies. Other polls confirm that people who go to church went heavily for Bush. Democrats do fine only if the voter doesn't go to church. (One interesting tidbit: Kerry won overwhelmingly among voters who commute by broom.)
From all the data, Religious conservatives turned out in record numbers to defeat Kerry and re-elect Bush. So, in a stroke of brilliance, Democrats respond by attacking religious conservatives. And by blocking any judge who has moral values. Illustrating the point, the Democrats' point man on racial healing, Robert Byrd, will lead a filibuster against Janice Rogers Brown because she's black. But, in fairness, it's not always Democrats. Occasionally you'll find one or two squishy Republicans. For example, Sen. George Voinovich failed to attend Bolton's confirmation hearings and last week announced that he couldn't vote because he failed to attend Bolton's confirmation hearings. He also said he was troubled to learn that Melody Townsel, founder of the Dallas chapter of 'Mothers Opposing Bush', is opposing Bush on Bolton. Still, Republicans imply she has an ax to grind! Or that she can't be believed just because she's just been outed as a lying fraud and plagiarist.
On the filibuster, Sen. Frist, in his brief videotaped statement on Sunday, said that "we cannot allow the filibuster to bring Congress to a grinding halt. So today I start a drive to do away with a dinosaur -- the filibuster rule." Oh wait -- that was Joe Lieberman back in '95, not Frist. Sorry again. Very confusing.
Democrats insist all they're trying to do is preserve our precious system of checks and balances. By this they mean Harry Reid shall nominate federal judges by and with the advice and consent of Planned Parenthood. And MoveOn.orgy. But don't worry. The White House still gets to play a role. It'll be consulted once Reid picks the nominee. The process safeguards against judges deemed too far out of the mainstream of the values and beliefs of Ted Kennedy. We saw how this process put David Souter where he is.
But by busting up the filibuster, Republicans threaten to shift the Constitutional balance of power away from the New York Times -- toward the elected majority! Democrats note they've used the filibuster very judiciously -- only when Bush picks a nominee. Besides, Democrats are in the minority today but, who knows, they could be the majority by the year 2525. Currently, it takes a supermajority of 60 votes to override a Harry Reid veto. Under the Constitution, the 60 votes must then be certified by Seattle's King County Board of Elections.
Our court system today is clogged up with killers, muggers, looters, thieves, rapists, arsonists -- but enough on how judges treat the Constitution. Whether it's using the 14th Amendment to invent a right to kill the unborn, or seeking guidance from foreign law to save murderers from lethal injection, judges have been making law from the bench. Given the judiciary's unbridled arrogance fueled by decades of unchecked power, it must be hard to find judges who actually obey the law -- but Bush has done it many times. (Thank goodness the CIA wasn't involved, or they'd never be found. Especially if they were moved to Syria.) Bush's judges don't think they're lawmakers, oddly enough. Rather than out to re-write it, these Judges actually obey the Constitution. And with an end to judicial filibusters in sight, these judges will be coming to a courtroom near you.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
Have a great weekend, y'all. Stay safe.
I hear that Pelosi and Reid are planning gas chambers.
The Grmans were unified, of one mind, at Stalingrad..Stand firm, defend at all costs to the last man, er, Senator..
But it's okay for RATS to campaign in AME churches. Just ask Grey Davis, and Bubba of course.
Good reference to the USSR where they said that you could be religious, but keep it within your church, and not out in public. That is what teh Dems also promulgate.
I got news for Stanley Kurtz - this is NOT the "beginning" of a war on Christians, merely its coming into full view.
The anti-religion-in-politics-at-a-church rally was held at Central Presbyterian Church.
Oh, the irony!
Great piece. Thanks for posting it.
LOL, you're so right, John.
It's sick how liberals stereotype religous people as violent. It's bigorty on the same scale and severity as the KKK.
I asked a liberal to cite a case where religion killed and she used Matthew Sheppard and Richard Byrd. If recall correctly, Sheppard met his murderers in a bar, not church. I don't recall that his murderers were church going people or were religous. I don't remember Byrd's killers being religous either and I suspect that God has dealt with them severely (IMHO).
Yet the liberals have this criteria; if you can say anything, just anything in reply in a debate, it's all equally good. However, someday that all comes to an end and there is an accounting.
Dems go bananas. Again.
Of course they do, it's one of the ways you can tell a democrat. Just once I'd like to see a headline that goes "Frist goes to Church, Dems say oh, that's nice".
Never used.
Actually, I think Hillary hit a driver with it because he wasn't going fast enough for her.
At this time I'd like to say something nice about Hillary.
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Excellent essay, JohnHuang2! Thank you!
Great column!
Inimitable, you are, John. Clymer Babington at the ComPost should get this one in his e-mail to see how foolish his article really is--and that the 'simple' non-elites are on to their game. You have a wonderful and blessed weekend as well...
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