Michael is so lucky!
Posted on 11/13/2004 6:13:59 PM PST by UB355
November 14, 2004 OP-ED COLUMNIST Slapping the Other Cheek By MAUREEN DOWD
You'd think the one good thing about merging church and state would be that politics would be suffused with glistening Christian sentiments like "love thy neighbor," "turn the other cheek," "good will toward men," "blessed be the peacemakers" and "judge not lest you be judged."
Yet somehow I'm not getting a peace, charity, tolerance and forgiveness vibe from the conservatives and evangelicals who claim to have put their prodigal son back in office.
I'm getting more the feel of a vengeful mob - revved up by rectitude - running around with torches and hatchets after heathens and pagans and infidels.
One fiery Southern senator actually accused a nice Catholic columnist of having horns coming up out of her head!
Bob Jones III, president of the fundamentalist college of the same name, has written a letter to the president telling him that "Christ has allowed you to be his servant" so he could "leave an imprint for righteousness," by appointing conservative judges and approving legislation "defined by biblical norm."
"In your re-election, God has graciously granted America - though she doesn't deserve it - a reprieve from the agenda of paganism," Mr. Jones wrote. "Put your agenda on the front burner and let it boil. You owe the liberals nothing. They despise you because they despise your Christ." Way harsh.
The Christian avengers and inquisitors, hearts hard as marble, are chasing poor 74-year-old Arlen Specter through the Capitol's marble halls, determined to flagellate him and deny him his cherished goal of taking over the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Not only are they irate at his fairly innocuous comment after the election that anti-Roe v. Wade judges would have a hard time getting through the Senate. They are also full of bloodthirsty feelings of revenge against the senator for championing stem cell research and for voting against Robert Bork - who denounces Mr. Specter as "a bit shifty" - 17 years ago.
"He is a problem, and he must be derailed," Dr. James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, told George Stephanopoulos.
Sounding more like the head of a mob family than a ministry, Dr. Dobson told Mr. Stephanopoulos about a warning he issued a White House staffer after the election that the president and Republicans had better deliver on issues like abortion, gay marriage and conservative judges or "I believe they'll pay a price in the next election."
Certainly Mr. Specter has done his part for the conservative cause. He accused Anita Hill of "flat-out perjury" for a minor inconsistency in her testimony against Clarence Thomas, that good Christian jurist who once had a taste for porn films.
Some in the White House thought of giving Mr. Specter the post and then keeping him on a short leash. But the power puritans have no mercy. They say he's a mealy-mouthed impediment to the crusade of evangelicals and conservative Catholic bishops - who delivered their vote with ruthless efficacy - to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Mr. Stephanopoulos asked Dr. Dobson about his comment to The Daily Oklahoman that "Patrick Leahy is a 'God's people-hater.' I don't know if he hates God, but he hates God's people," noting that it was not a particularly Christian thing to say about the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. (Especially after that vulgar un-Christian thing Dick Cheney spat at Mr. Leahy last summer.)
"George," Dr. Dobson haughtily snapped back, "do you think you ought to lecture me on what a Christian is all about?" Why not? The TV host is the son of a Greek Orthodox priest.
Acting as though Mr. Bush's decisions should be taken on faith, John Ashcroft lashed into judges for not giving Mr. Bush unbridled power in his war against terror.
Speaking Friday before an adulatory Federalist Society, a group of conservative lawyers, Mr. Ashcroft echoed remarks he made to the Senate soon after 9/11 arguing that objecting to the president's antiterror proposals could give "ammunition to America's enemies."
He asserted that judges who interfere in or second guess the president's constitutional authority to make decisions during war can jeopardize the "very security of our nation in a time of war."
And since the president has no end in sight to his war on terror, that makes him infallible ad infini- tum?
Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company
i would just ignore her completely across all conservative venues.... period .... not matter what she says... just ignore her ..... she would explode....
The only thing that would satisfy this lunatic from the left is for President Bush and VP Cheney to resign and return to their homes. Well, dowd, keep dreaming, that's the only place you'll find that happening.
I'm speechless. The rabid froth dripping from the corners of her mouth is surprising. Usually her columns are merely smarmy.
well,.. YOU GUYS STARTED IT neener neener!!!!!!!
(thats my $0.02)
Yep....her God-hating self is really coming through....
There are rules here! Picture of "Z-J" must follow a Moron
Dowdie post!
One fiery Southern senator actually accused a nice Catholic columnist of having horns coming up out of her head!
Actually Mo, I think he said you were a horny biotch.
Ah, it all make one long for the tolerance and agreeableness
of liberals. NOT.
Way harsh - but, Spot on!
Michael is so lucky!
I hope she likes warm weather.
Thanks! I needed that! ;-)
This woman is hysteria personified. I hope at some point she begins to take her medication again.
And since the president has no end in sight to his war on terror, that makes him infallible ad infini- tum?
Oh and Mo, you're no Mark Steyn so don't even try.
Two thoughts:
1)Excuse me, did I miss the part where the Left admitted their "wrongs" and ASKED for forgiveness for something?
2) To follow through with the inapposite analogy, I could point out that there is also such a thing as righteous indignation, and maybe America has had enough of the "sins" of the Left.
But more to the point, Ms. Dowd, it just bugs me when liberals attack conservatives by misreading and misapplying scripture to "catch them in hyposcrisy." If you're going to play that game, you'd better actually know the scripture, or you come off looking worse than those you're attacking.
And Mo, I hear Michael is really happy now.
Oh my.
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