Posted on 03/30/2005 12:10:29 AM PST by neverdem
Do get me started on Waco and GWB, he should have ran an independent investigation after all he had the evidence the FBII's didn't want in his evidence areas.
Maybe that's why he didn't want to bust the chops of the local adulterates in FLA, afraid the hospice would have gone up in flames when the use of animal sounds would work to bring out the religious zealots.
Count on these rich establishmentarians to air their trivial complaints in the rich Establishment outlets.
Count on them to always criticize their own party, never the Democrats. Count on them always to line up against the religious right, even if they themselves are highly religious. And count on them to have nothing -- nothing -- interesting to say.
I couldn't care less what ex-Senator Danforth thinks. Dense? Demented? Who cares. He's no longer in public office, and Bush has made up for the mistake of appointing him to the UN by naming a smart, principled conservative, John Bolton, instead.
History is not made, in any way, shape, or form, by the John Danforths of this world. It is made by the John Boltons.
OK WHICH IS IT? DID BUSH DO TO MUCH OR TO LITTLE IN THE TERRI CASE? HE'S GETTING MACLICHIE CRUNCHED.
The blue-bloods always worry about the money first.
Danforth's are almost as old-money as the Bush family, I bet.
And the alternative is to do what, sit like stoodges in cushy government positions and watch the country go to hell in a handbasket with moral decay, state ordered culling of the useless destroying the foundations of what the country was founded on and what made it successful in the first place.
Common sense tells us that stem cell research can continue along just fine with the stock we already have,and we don't need to throw billions more of taxpayers money at stem cell research which doesn't have any checks and balances to prevent mass theft of funds like California has done.
This author is no Republican, just another liberal who used teh party which was better able to provide him with a fat government pension.
I agree with Danforth that these should be the primary concerns of the GOP. However, if I'm going to have to side with the Christians or the heathens, I know I want to come down on the side of what's Right and what's Godly.
Also, I'm getting about sick of reverends and pastors telling me the Republican Party is too Christian.
No Dan, Republicans aren't suddenly dominated by evangelical Christians.
All that has happened is that the age old formula for getting elected was changed by two great men: President Bush and Karl Rove.
Prior to GWB and KR entering the national political scene, the common political wisdom was that to win the Presidency, you had to win at least one state of the great California/New York political power pair.
And to win either of those states meant that Presidential candidates had to appeal to the hyper-left-wing radicals that dominate the political machines in both states (e.g. gays, leftists, internationalists, unions, etc.).
But GWB and KR changed *all* of that. They said that you could win the Presidency WITHOUT WINNING New York or California.
Well, that changes everything. To win enough electoral votes for the Presidency without carrying California or New York means that you have to listen to what Joe Pickup has to say in Alabama and Kansas and Texas and Florida, et al., not what the same 200 liberal elites are gabbing about at cocktail parties in Manhattan and San Francisco.
And that's why the Republican Party of 2005 is both different as well as successful. Republicans own the House, control the Senate, hold the Presidency, occupy most state governorships, and dominate most state legislatures now.
By the way, we won't hold that much political power for long if we go back to the old days of competing with Democrats for kudos and sham articles spewed forth by the Manhattan cocktail circuit crowd.
...And *that* would be a tragedy, as the only way that we are going to see out-of-control judges reined in is if the Republican Party gains another 5 or so Senate seats while maintaining or gaining in all other categories. We are close to where we need to be; to retreat back to the days of playing nice to the cocktail and bathhouse crowd when we are *so* very, very close to taking back this great land would be a tragedy that might very well cost Freedom another 4 decades or more in purgatory.
Changing God's laws to legitimize sin are not the actions very "religious" person. It's an exaple of a bad actor.
"The blue-bloods always worry about the money first."
This is more true than we'd like to think. It's remarkable how little thought these supposedly well-educated people give to the values and the culture that underly and support all their wealth and everything else they value.
The answer to this riddle, perhaps, is that precisely because these people are "well-educated," they have absorbed more of the Left's propaganda than most of the rest of society has. Also, being in high social position, they have a phobia of saying anything that might be unpopular. If you go year after year, decade after decade, without saying that is truly unpopular with the Establishment (whose opinion matters most to you), you may actually lose the ability to think unorthodox thoughts.
It makes you wonder just what kind of a "reverend" this man is. Cirtainly not one who takes God's law very seriously.
Plus, judges are not supposed to interpret law as they see fit, they are supposed to apply the law as it was written with it's origional intend. Lawmakers make the law, judges apply it. What ever happened to that simple and effective concept?
Danforth is an Episcopal priest -- that is, he's a cleric in the church that has rightly become known as "the last bastion of not very much."
This is not in any way to demean the many sincere Episcopalian worshipers. But the hierarchy and priesthood of the main Episcopal church in the United States is completely saturated with the sorts of views expressed by Mr. Danforth. Indeed, he is a mild case. Most are undoubtedly much worse.
It's a real shame. This once-great church has enormous resources, in every sense of the world. But the critical faculties of its clergy are all but extinct.
I believe it is the et cetera that counts. Both Reagan and Al D'Amato won in 1980. Al D'Amato lost in 1998 by about 11 percent. Consider the effect of the Motor Voter Act and illegal immigration.
Agreed
Under our system of government, people can predicate the laws on mayonnaise if they so desire.
Neither my wife nor I are religious. Neither is Nat Hentoff or Ralph Nader. And both Hentoff and especially Nader are non-conservatives. But we're all aghast at the decision of the courts to kill Terry Schiavo. Danforth ought to ashamed of himself spewing such brazen lies that the people trying to save Terri are all religious fundamentalists.
Welll stated....ECUSA is totally screwed up..but scism is coming..we're on the right track..BTW are you on our ECUSA ping list?
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