Why Pete Stark is staying put

Oakland Tribune ^ | 3/4/10 | Josh Richman

[Da Coyote]

There is no depth below which dim-bulb-crats will not go.

[Da Coyote]

I keep thinking about my double negative above, but it makes my brain hurt so much, I’m thinking about voting for the Obamaloon.

[acoulterfan]

I just went over to Wikipedia and they have listed all of his “controversies”. He is also an avowed athiest. He definately has many “ethical” challenges against him also.

[Joe Boucher]

“Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., 79”?
What do ya have to do to get these too old fools out of there?
This guy sits in diapers and drools and craps himself and is in charge of taxes?

[rod1]

Apparently, Pelosi was robbing the cradle by replacing the 79 year old Rangel with the 78 year old Stark.

Good grief arn’t these guys supposed to have a great retirment plan and why don’t they start using it??

[McGavin999]

Have you noticed how ancient these guys are? No wonder they don’t care what happens to this country, they will never live to see the consequences. Why can’t we have a rule that they must retire at 70?

[HighlyOpinionated]

I just went over to Wikipedia and they have listed all of his “controversies”. He is also an avowed athiest. He definately has many “ethical” challenges against him also.

The Founding Fathers made it quite clear that they expected Christians or at least those who believe in Divine Providence to be elected to positions of power. How far this Republic has fallen.

John Adams and John Hancock:
We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! [April 18, 1775]

John Adams:
“ The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
“[July 4th] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.” –John Adams in a letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --October 11, 1798

Samuel Adams:
“ Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity… and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.” [October 4, 1790]

Elias Boudinot:
“ Be religiously careful in our choice of all public officers . . . and judge of the tree by its fruits."

Charles Carroll: signer of the Declaration of Independence
" Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure...are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments." [Source: To James McHenry on November 4, 1800.]

Patrick Henry
“It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” [May 1765 Speech to the House of Burgesses]

Thomas Jefferson:
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.” (excerpts are inscribed on the walls of the Jefferson Memorial in the nations capital) [Source: Merrill . D. Peterson, ed., Jefferson Writings, (New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1984), Vol. IV, p. 289. From Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, 1781.]

James Madison:
“ We’ve staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all of our heart.”
“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We’ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity…to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” [1778 to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia]
A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest, while we are building ideal monuments of renown and bliss here, we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven. [Letter by Madison to William Bradford [urging him to make sure of his own salvation] November 9, 1772]

Jedediah Morse:
"To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. . . . Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from them, must fall with them."

Benjamin Rush
“I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them…we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this Divine Book, above all others, constitutes the soul of republicanism.”
“By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.” [Letter written (1790’s) in Defense of the Bible in all schools in America]
“Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.”
“If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into our world would have been unnecessary.”

Justice Joseph Story:
“ I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law. . . There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying its foundations.” [Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States p. 593]
“ Infidels and pagans were banished from the halls of justice as unworthy of credit.” [Life and letters of Joseph Story, Vol. II 1851, pp. 8-9.]
“ At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment], the general, if not the universal sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the state, so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience, and the freedom of religious worship.” [Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States p. 593]
"Let the children who are sent to those schools be taught to read and write and above all, let both sexes be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education” Letters of Benjamin Rush, "To the citizens of Philadelphia: A Plan for Free Schools", March 28, 1787

[Oldpuppymax]

Yeah...I’m SURE he WILLINGLY turned down the opportunity to be the most powerful guy in the house, just to stay where he was!!! Uh huh. And Husseincare will LOWER the deficit.

[DGHoodini]

I don’t see any greater degree of competence, or lesser degree of two evils.

[hgro]

Stark is just another dim bulb Dimocrat.

[Cuttnhorse]

Not surprised...I told my wifey last night that the best thing that could happen would be for the lunatic Stark to be elevated to the leader of this committee. He would have his foot in his big mouth on a routine basis.

[GenXFreedomFighter]

I loved the voicemail in which Stark challenged an Iraq War vet to tell him why he thought he was such a "great G-damn hero." That just endeared him to me so much.

It's too bad Stark didn't take this high-profile opportunity. He would have really polished the Dumbocrat image.

[SeeSharp]

Pelosi is learning. It is widely believed that her replacement of John Dingle with the my-way-or-the-highway Marxist, Henry Waxman, is what sparked the abortion funding fued and ultimately killed any chance of passing a bill that the Senate could pass. Now they’re stuck with trying to pass the Senate bill.

[sinanju]

The senescent following the decrepit.

It’s, it’s like the last days of the old Politburo.

[McGavin999]

Boy that’s the truth. Anybody hear from Byrd lately? Is he still alive?

[sinanju]

I’m so darned disappointed. I was reviewing Pete Stark’s Greatest Hits on YouTube yesterday evening and I was rubbing my hands in anticipatory glee, thinking of how the fur would fly with him on the big stage.

[Impy]

“Today, Stark said in an exclusive interview that he prefers to remain chairman of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee “

Suuuuure.....

[Impy]

Ping

[Joe Boucher]

Gads,
Do ya remember those too old fools in the Politburo?
Standing is the cold of Red Square for those interminable military parades?