https://freerepublic.com/tag/laurabashing/ en-us Mon, 20 Oct 2003 03:02:10 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1004142/posts One pops pills. Another gambles. Another lets her mother die alone. Yet these are Bush's virtue-mongers It was America's "virtuous majority" (as they conceive themselves) who made George W Bush president. He keeps these core voters sweet by appointing aggressively virtuous subordinates - men whose sole claim to office, as Bill Maher puts it, is that they "read the Bible and f*ck their wives". (Maher, you'll remember, lost his talk show on the ABC network for saying that the 9/11 bombers, whatever else, were not "cowards"). What, Bush was asked, was the first thing he would do on taking over... The Guardian (U.K.) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1004142/posts#comment Mon, 20 Oct 2003 03:02:10 GMT