the
trouble with Republicans
|
See how the Ridiculous Right constantly gets fooled and sidetracked into
fighting irrelevant tar babies and proves either that their priorities
are insane or that they're too pathetically immature to stay focused on
what's important
HERE. |
| Just as the Republican suckers-for-tarbabies
got ambushed by the Clinton sex-and-perjury scandal (which totally diverted
their attention away from the FAR more serious Clinton treason and Constitution-crippling
outrages HERE
and HERE),
we also see how they forgot about the out-and-out slanderous anti-Bush
commercial during the 2004 SuperBowl halftime show because they got so
obsessed about the titillating Janet Jackson episode instead (which
Viacom no doubt deliberately and successfully staged to divert attention
from its reneging on its "no advocacy ads" promise). |
| Should the Republican Party be
renamed the "Society of Christian Socialists"? Its vociferous unprincipled
historical illiterates demand reverence for, and adherence to, that society's
most popular pledge: HERE,
HERE,
HERE,
and HERE. |
| See: "In
an instant, Santorum revealed the huge gap in Republican circles between
social liberals and libertarians who fear government power and generally
support a live-and-let-live philosophy -- and the religious right that
believes the government should be able to police morality, even in people's
own homes." HERE |
|
and:
"By
Santorum's thinking, what possible rights could individuals
have, as they are nothing more than cells in a family
unit that must be the focus of government
power?" HERE |
| and: "Santorum's
analogies don't stand up to logical scrutiny." HERE |
| and:
"Religious
fanatics
are the same the world over no matter what
religion they belong to."
AND "The conservative movement in this country
is going NOwhere until it divorces itself from religious fanatics." HERE |
| and:
"A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal
freedom … right up to the point that someone tries to do something that
they don’t personally approve of." HERE |
|
Hint for the terminally clueless: BLIND
FAITH is the OPPOSITE of the "Reason and persuasion" Jefferson wanted
people to use. You will never (read: NEVER)
get
me or 100 million other Americans to accept your worldview simply by swallowing
it. So please do your persuading and converting OUTSIDE
of government from now on. That means forever, thank you. |
| and:
"Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."and
"The
enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed
to deny or disparage others retained by the people." HERE |
ON
AMERICA BEING A "CHRISTIAN NATION"
For
those of you out there who are so fond of insisting that the United States
is, in some official capacity, a "Christian nation," here’s an excerpt
from Thomas Jefferson’s autobiography.
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"The bill for establishing religious freedom, the principles of which had,
to a certain degree, been enacted before, I had drawn in all the latitude
of reason & right. It still met with opposition; but, with some mutilations
in the preamble, it was finally passed; and a singular proposition proved
that it's protection of opinion was meant to be universal. Where the preamble
declares that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author
of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word 'Jesus
Christ,' so that it should read 'a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ,
the holy author of our religion.' The insertion was rejected by a great
majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of
it's protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan,
the Hindoo, and infidel of every denomination." |
Trouble is, most of the people who would benefit from this Jefferson thought
will be unable to understand it. -- Neal
Boortz, HERE |
There would be NO independent U.S.A. without the funding
for the Revolutionary War provided by John Hancock, Robert Morris and Haym
Solomon. If it had been a common asumption that the new country was to
establish Christianity as a state religion, all that funding likely would
NOT have been provided (Besides, the
Constitution would never have been ratified after those fierce debates
about the Bill of Rights, including Amendment I ). |
"Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious
opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry."
-- Thomas Jefferson,
Statute for Religious Freedom, 1779. Papers,
2:545 |
"As the Government of
the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian
religion..."
-- Article 11, treaty
of Tripoli, signed in 1796, ratified by the Senate in 1797. |
"Although it had its share of strenuous Christians...
the gathering at Philadelphia was largely made up of men in whom the old
fires were under control or had even flickered out. Most were nominally
members of one of the traditional churches in their part of the country..
and most were men who could take their religion or leave it alone. Although
no one in this sober gathering would have dreamed of invoking the Goddess
of Reason, neither would anyone have dared to proclaim his opinions had
the support of the God of Abraham and Paul. The Convention of 1787 was
highly rationalist and even secular in spirit.
-- Clinton Rossiter, 1787; The Grand Convention, pp. 147-148 |
On the lighter side
See: "We rather doubt [that fanatical mystic, the self-righteous
doctor-killer Rev. Paul] Hill will end up in heaven, but if he does, it
raises an interesting question: Do non-Muslim terrorists also get 72
virgins?" -- James Taranto,
HERE |
| "I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass."
-- Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ), 1964 Presidential Candidate |
page locations: http://freedomkeys.com/demoblicans.htm
and: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://freedomkeys.com/demoblicans.htm |
the
trouble with Democrats
| "[During the Hurricane
Katrina Catastrophe Louisiana Governor Kathleen] Blanco
-- whose political style relies on appointing commissions, studying problems
and taking a long time to make decisions -- did not exactly inspire confidence
as a leader in a crisis."-- Byron York, HERE
Mayor Nagin slams Blanco for wasting
24 hours before allowing in the Feds HERE. |
| SHAME on the media for burying this
story about [the Democrat-led] Louisiana authorities preventing the
Red Cross and Salvation Army from delivering food, water, medicine, and
care to the people trapped in the Superdome, Convention Center and all
throughout New Orleans. |
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It's
the decisiveness,
stupid!
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"This obsession
(with
the pixilated versions of big pictures, with trees instead of forests and
with the consideration of every barbaric viewpoint of every primitive culture
on every continent on every issue) is what the self-congratulatory
intellectuals consider to be the primary sign of the 'intelligence'
or 'advanced thinking' they demand of candidates and office holders, nomatter
how indecisive, ineffectual and ridiculous such
'paralysis
from never-ending analysis' makes
them. Obviously, any candidates who do meet such criteria must
have a penchant for cultural and moral relativism -- which means they can
have no firm set of priorities and no means of being certain of the rightness
of any decisions they do make. Their lack of fundamental convictions
makes them no more steadfast than amorphous masses of quivering jelly,
pushovers for bullies, uninspired as well as uninspiring, and totally
unfit for, as well as incapable of, leadership." -- Rick Gaber |
| "Carter
and Clinton
saw so many sides of every issue that what appeared to their eyes was not
a unified image but a view at the sub-atomic level--a pixilated version
of the big picture that registers trees instead of forest. ... Carter,
meanwhile, continues to write essays indicating he has no idea that North
Korea [WHICH THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION BUILT NUCLEAR PLANTS FOR after
Carter got them to pledge no bomb-making] began breaking its pledge to
him the moment his plane took off." -- Joel Engel,
HERE |
| "Decision making is an excruciating process for Clinton.
He almost invariably seems determined to delay a final decision for as
long as possible. He likes to ponder publicly all his options, consult
people, make a decision, consult anew, change his mind, then change it
again. He's a veritable symphony of equivocation." -- David
Shaw, L.A. Times, 9-17-93 |
| "Some aides and close associates say Mr. Kerry's
fluidity is the mark of an intellectual who grasps the subtleties of issues,
inhabits their nuances and revels in the deliberative process. They call
him a free-thinker who defies stereotypes. Others close to him say his
often-public agonizing ... can be exasperating." -- David M. Halbfinger's
March 6, '04 column in The New York Times, HERE,
re-quoted HERE. |
Do
brain braggarts bring peace and prosperity?
"I had one fundamental question about economics: Why are some
places prosperous and thriving while others just suck? It's
not
a matter of brains. No part of the earth (with the possible
exception of Brentwood) is dumber than Beverly Hills, and the residents
are wading in gravy. Meanwhile in Russia, where chess is a spectator sport,
they're boiling stones for soup." -- P.J. O'Rourke in Eat
the Rich
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| "There is not in all America a more dangerous
trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense
of moral responsibility." -- Theodore Roosevelt, Abilene, KS, May 2,
1903 |
|
"America's national security
is the lowest priority on the Democratic Party agenda." -- David Horowitz,
HERE
|
|
"The
problem for the Democrats is that a significant number of their voters
are far more passionate about their party's enemies than their country's."
-- Vic Irish
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|
"Most of the Democratic presidential candidates insist that we
should have waited for French permission before liberating Iraq." -- James
Taranto "It is insanity to entrust our national security
to a Democrat
[unless it's Lieberman]." -- Neal
Boortz
|
| "The
Democrats seem congenitally incapable of understanding that force has not
just the effect of disarming the immediate enemy, but has a deterrent effect
on others similarly situated." -- Charles Krauthammer, HERE |
| "Democrats are incensed and ready to go to war over
any foreign government's attempts to assassinate any American president
or ex-president. Unless, of course, he's a Republican." -- Bert Rand |
| "The media is on the side of the enemy. Their
desire to see the U.S. fail in Iraq is palpable. And the Democrats aren't
far behind..." -- Cox and Forkum, HERE |
|
Democrats
Abandon America
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| "The
time is long overdue to get rid of the outdated notion that liberal Democrats
represent ordinary people. They represent such special interests as trial
lawyers who keep our courts clogged with frivolous lawsuits, busybody environmentalists
who think the government should force other people to live the way the
greens want them to live, and of course the teachers' unions who think
schools exist to provide their members with jobs." -- Thomas
Sowell |
|
On November 24, 2001 former DEMOCRATIC congressional
aide Chris Matthews told former DEMOCRATIC congressional aide Tim Russert
(AND his nationwide TV audience) on MSNBC that former DEMOCRATIC pollster
Pat Caddell had said, "The Clintons -- they're 'white trash,' and I
can say that because I'm from Florida." -- from http:FreedomKeys.com/slimeball.htm
|
See how New Orleans has been a perfect
example, petri dish, or microcosm, of concentrated Democratic Party
policies HERE.
|Wuddya
mean, California electricity "DEregulation"???
|
|
| "Democrats will play the old Washington
game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program
a 'cut'." -- Bruce Bartlett |
|
Okay, now what have I been saying about WHICH
is the party of the rich? Check THIS
out. Then revisit this:Beware
the
Liberal-Corporate Complex!
|
"'Look, the agreement
with the Libyans is good news and an important step forward in the effort
to combat weapons of mass destruction," conceded Dean spokesman Jay Carson.
'But the agreement is the result of years of diplomacy
and sanctions, conducted in concert with the international community, which
Governor Dean believes is the most effective means of pursuing that goal,'
he added.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi made it clear that
his
decision to disarm was prompted by Operation Iraqi Freedom. "I will
do whatever the Americans want because I saw what happened in Iraq, and
I was afraid," Gaddafi told Italian Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi here,
here
& HERE |
WHY
Liberals Trust Dictators
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| "This action [the invasion of Afghanistan]
of the Soviets made a more dramatic change in my own opinion of what the
Soviets' ultimate goals are than anything they've done in the previous
time I've been in office." -- Pres. Jimmy Carter to ABC News, Dec. 1979 |
|
"I
don't see that they (North Korea) are an outlaw
nation." [ !!!huh?!]
-- Jimmy
Carter
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"When I look at my children, sometimes I wish
I remained a virgin." -- Lillian Carter, Jimmy's Mom
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On the lighter side
Democrats'
Q&A |
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