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- One more log on the culture-war fire
  Posted by Billbar from Carpet Bag Report
  Looks like the Republicans want to toss legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia back into play. More red meat for their base. The issue had been resolved when the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, upheld Oregon's one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law back in January.
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- San Franciscophobia
  Posted by Billbar from Salon
  Running against Nancy Pelosi, a woman who comes from a district where there are known gay persons, is a nice trick, but it does draw attention to the large shambling galoot who is speaker now, Tom DeLay's enabler for years, a man who, judging by his public mutterances, is about as smart as most high school wrestling coaches. For the past year, Dennis Hastert has been two heartbeats from the presidency. He is a man who seems content just to have a car and driver and three square meals a day. He has no apparent vision beyond the urge to hang onto power. He has succeeded in turning Congress into a branch of the executive branch. If Mr. Hastert becomes the poster boy for the Republican Party, this does not speak well for them as the Party of Ideas.
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- Much Ado About Nothing?
  Posted by Billbar from Alternet
  I believe what we have here is a difference over moral values. The Republicans are worried about the flag, gay marriage and the terrible burden of the estate tax on the rich. The rest of us are obviously unnecessarily worried about war, peace, the economy, the environment and civilization. Another reason to vote Republican -- they have a shorter list.
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- Sunrise, Sunset
  Posted by Billbar from Slate
  Conservatives fall roughly into two camps, depending on which of those truths they hold to be more self-evident. Economic conservatives see America's glass as half-full – and if they're supply-siders, believe the glass is always just one more tax cut for the wealthy from overflowing. By contrast, cultural conservatives see through a half-empty glass darkly.
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- Lead figure in phone jam to advise GOP contenders
  Posted by Billbar from concordmonitor.com
  Charles McGee, the former executive director of the state Republican Party, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and served seven months for his part in the scheme to have a telemarketer tie up Democratic and union phone lines in 2002. He's back at his old job with a Republican political marketing firm, Spectrum Monthly & Printing Inc., and will be helping out at the firm's "GOP campaign school" for candidates.
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- Immigration Deal at Risk as House GOP Looks to Voters
  Posted by Billbar from Washington Post
  Republican House members facing the toughest races this fall are overwhelmingly opposed to any deal that provides illegal immigrants a path to citizenship -- an election-year dynamic that significantly dims the prospects that President Bush will win the immigration compromise he is seeking, according to Republican lawmakers and leadership aides.
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- GOP leaders should be worried about FBI raids on Capitol Hill
  Posted by Billbar from America Blog
  The Republican leaders in the House are very upset about the FBI raid on Congressman Jefferson's office over the weekend. Let's be real here. Republican leaders have abdicated so much power to Bush, there's got to be something else going on. The real issue is how many GOP members are in hot water.
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srebrenicagenocideinfo comments on:
McCain camp hyped attack tale before truth emerged

Look at this fool. She is a nutcase. What a load of worthless garbage. Shame on her!

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2:12 am 10/25/08
brendajo313 comments on:
Democrats May Kick Out Joe Lieberman If He Addresses The Republican National Convention

Addressing the Republican convention would be in the true spirit of "reaching across the aisle"... republicans have been doing it for years and it would be a welcome change.

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5:57 am 7/14/08
Jon comments on:
Democrats May Kick Out Joe Lieberman If He Addresses The Republican National Convention

About time. After the ‘08 elections, we won’t need Joe anymore. If the Republicans can stand him, they can have him.

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11:49 pm 7/13/08
Damianmann comments on:
Think Progress » GOP convention button asks, ‘If Obama is president…will we still call it the W

Americans ARE ready for Obama. He WILL be the next president. His policies will be no great breakthrough. But…his presence in the whitehouse will be.
If you want to fear this guy…fear his politics…NOT his race… OR his church.

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2:57 pm 6/22/08
theangryindian comments on:
Think Progress » GOP convention button asks, ‘If Obama is president…will we still call it the W

And why would an African church in the U.S. not recognise America’s racism? Excluding historical American racial history for a moment, are you forgetting that Africans were not allowed by law to even learn about Christianity until long after reconstruction? Africans were not allowed to read, including the Bible. Even after reconstruction, Africans were barred from attenting White churches until well into the 1970’s. I remember, I was there and have had the experience of being told I was not welcome at an all-White church in NYC. I had to find a "Black" church were I was accepted.
To ignore this history is revisionist and dismissive of the history of traditional Europocentric racism. There is nothing anti-American or anti-White in what this church teaches. The U.S. has a long and sorry history of violent anti-Indigenous and anti-African bias, so it would be foolish to think that the theology of a people subject to such repression would not reflect this history and experience. If White American racism and genocide did not exist in the first place, such ideologies let alone churches would never have developed because their would have been no need. And to suggest that such attitudes and practises have ceased is to callously deny the obvious.

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12:43 pm 6/22/08
arepulicangirl comments on:
Think Progress » GOP convention button asks, ‘If Obama is president…will we still call it the W

Americans are ready for a black president, but not this one,. He himself is all about skin color. He sat in church for 20 years that was all about race.

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6:52 am 6/22/08
arepulicangirl comments on:
Think Progress » GOP convention button asks, ‘If Obama is president…will we still call it the W

Americans are ready for a black president, but not this one,. He himself is all about skin color. He sat in church for 20 years that was all about race.
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/jon/080523

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6:51 am 6/22/08