Her brain shrunk because of pre-mature change of life...
Posted on 03/25/2005 6:57:46 AM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Oh my God, we really are in a theocracy.
Are the Republicans so obsessed with maintaining control over all branches of government, and are the Democrats so emasculated about not having any power, that they are willing to turn the nation into a wholly owned subsidiary of the church?
The more dogma-driven activists, self-perpetuating pols and ratings-crazed broadcast media prattle about "faith," the less we honor the credo that a person's relationship with God should remain a private matter.
As the Bush White House desperately maneuvers in Iraq to prevent the new government from being run according to the dictates of religious fundamentalists, it desperately maneuvers here to pander to religious fundamentalists who want to dictate how the government should be run.
Maybe President Bush should spend less time preaching about spreading democracy around the world and more time worrying about our deteriorating democracy.
Even some Republicans seemed appalled at this latest illustration of Nietzsche's observation that "morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."
As Christopher Shays, one of five House Republicans who voted against the bill to allow the Terri Schiavo case to be snatched from Florida state jurisdiction and moved to federal court, put it: "This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy. There are going to be repercussions from this vote."
A CBS News poll Wednesday found that 82 percent of the public was opposed to Congress and the president intervening in this case; 74 percent thought it was all about politics.
The president, who couldn't be dragged outdoors to talk about the more than a hundred thousand people who died in the horrific tsunami, was willing to be dragged out of bed to sign a bill about one woman his base had fixated on. But with the new polls, the White House seemed to shrink back a bit.
The scene on Capitol Hill this past week has been almost as absurdly macabre as the movie "Weekend at Bernie's," with Tom DeLay and Bill Frist propping up between them this poor woman in a vegetative state to indulge their own political agendas. DeLay, the poster child for ethical abuse, wanted to show that he is still a favorite of conservatives. Frist thinks he can ace out Jeb Bush to be 44, even though he has become a laughingstock by trying to rediagnose Schiavo's condition by video.
As one disgusted Times reader suggested in an e-mail: "Americans ought to send Bill Frist their requests: 'Dear Dr. Frist: Please watch the enclosed video and tell us if that mole on my mother's cheek is cancer. Does she need surgery?"'
Jeb, keeping up with the '08 competition, vainly tried to get Florida to declare Schiavo a ward of the state.
Republicans easily abandon their cherished principles of individual privacy and states rights when their personal ambitions come into play. The first time they snatched a case out of a Florida state court to give to a federal court, it was Bush v. Gore. This time, it's Bush v. Constitution.
While Senate Democrats like Hillary Clinton, who are trying to curry favor with red staters, meekly allowed the shameful legislation to be enacted, at least some Floridian House members decided to put up a fight, though they knew they couldn't win.
The president and his ideological partners don't believe in separation of powers. They just believe in their own power. First they tried to circumvent the Florida courts; now they're trying to pack the federal bench with conservatives and even blow up the filibuster rule. But they may yet learn a lesson about checks and balances, as the federal courts rebuffed them in the Schiavo case.
DeLay moved Wednesday to file a friend of the court brief with the Supreme Court asking that Schiavo's feeding tube be restored while the federal court is deciding what to do. But as he exploits this one sad case, DeLay has voted to slash Medicaid by $15 billion, denying money to care for poor people in nursing homes, some on feeding tubes.
DeLay made his personal stake clear at a conference last Friday organized by the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group. He said that God had brought Terri Schiavo's struggle to the forefront "to help elevate the visibility of what's going on in America." He defined that as "attacks against the conservative movement, against me and against many others."
So it's not about her crisis at all. It's about his crisis.
This poor piece of dog excrement is typical of the New York
Times stable of left wing zanies who wouldn't survice in the current free Russia, let alone in Egypt, Saudia Arabia, Iran or China.
It's a democrat tactic- hyperbole. What they don't realize is that after you've used all the dramatic words over and over, they lose their meaning. She is a drama queen.
Her brain shrunk because of pre-mature change of life...
Her brain shrunk because of pre-mature change of life...
What a bitter, pathetic hag.
Boy I wish I had a time machine right now. Send Dowd back about 230 years ago and let her hear the calls for independence and liberty sounding from the pulpits of America. And then send to about 150 years when clergy and lay Christians mobilized against slavery. Heck, send her back 45 years ago to the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Then I'd bring her back to the present and ask her how easily the word "theocracy" tripped off her tongue after witnessing those events. (Of course, I could also spare her all that trouble and just give her a history book.)
When people of faith fail to act -- that will be the day America will be dead and ready for the dust bin.
Censured? Burned at the stake is more likely.
"a wholly owned subsidiary of the church?"
And which "church" would that be, precisely? I defy anyone to name one instance in which a specific church, a specific religion, has been given preferential treatment by the government of the United States, to the exclusion of other religions. Dowdy and people of her ilk do not only fear and detest any one religion; they fear and detest the very existence of religious people. Their ignorance is stunning.
Except those fundamentalist who can quote the gospel according to Marx.
The more dogma-driven activists, self-perpetuating pols and ratings-crazed broadcast media prattle about "homosexuality," the less we honor the credo that a person's sexuality should remain a private matter.
Nothing like starting off your essay with a total fabrication. How exactly is this a "credo"? And pray tell, in which of this nation's founding documents is this written - cause I know I can't find it anywhere.
Another perfect example of the left's wish to turn "freedom of religion" into "freedom from religion". Pathetic.
Actually, you are right, but I will take it a step forward.
Liberals are not merely secularists. Their materialistic views are not merely rooted in a disbelief in God. They are socialists. As socialists, they make their "god" the State, whether they recognize it or not.
Christ said to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, and to God that which is God's. Part of that which is to be rendered unto God is worship, but what is worship? Is not a large part of worship the dependence upon God for all of our needs? When we extend an increasingly large amount of our dependence upon the State, are we not, in a sense, rendering to Caesar that which is God's?
The liberal would have the State be God, in a sense. That is their religion, and they are theocrats. They would have us all depend upon the State, whether we want to or not. In order to implement this view, they must oppose religion - a man cannot serve both God and mammon.
If Tomd Delay is a theocrat, let's have more theocrats.
We need an absolute law in this country that no poll results can be published without publishing the questions asked and the options for answering those questions. And we need an absolute law that every citizen must have studied statistics before being allowed to vote.
Four out of five doctors surveyed believe that heart transplants are over-rated. I asked: Dr Laura, Dr Phil, Dr J, Dr Scholl, and Dr DeBakey.
Anything can be shown to be popular if you choose your sample, slant your questions, and stop the poll while you are ahead. ABCBSNBCNNMSNBC all use "push" polls. They state a premise, usually false, then slant the questions to get the answer they want. Of course they won't publish the questions, nor will they publish the choices of answers, nor will they publish the weight of the answers.
What about Dr. Detriot?
She'd like to do the same to CZJ, I'm sure.
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