The land of Republican perfection (confess your sins and all is well).

[rodeodance]

love it.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/10/19/keillor/index_np.html

The land of Republican perfection

Where the only mistake you can ever make is to confess your sins.

By Garrison Keillor
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If your alderman introduced a resolution in the city council called the Salute to Our Boys in Uniform Resolution, which proclaimed that we support the troops in their mission to light a beacon of freedom in a dark world, etc., and in small print in Section II, Division A, Paragraph 4, Line 122 was a provision giving the alderman's brother-in-law Walt the contract to haul garbage, the honorable gentleman would be denounced as a crook and a dodo. And yet this same dodge has worked beautifully for Republicans in Washington, who have clubbed their hapless opponents over the head with Old Glory and then set up shop and profited mightily, and more power to them. I am in favor of corruption so long as it makes people truly happy. And so long as somebody writes a good confessional memoir like John Dean's "Blind Ambition."

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Yay Garrison Keillor! Calling it like it is!

[rodeodance]

2. he is great.

[IChing]

3. "prayer is now a promotional device"

"But under this administration, the faith has been revised,
all the stuff about the poor has been tabled
and the confession of sin omitted,
and prayer is now a promotional device
in which you thank God for making you the terrific person you are.
In the Christian view of the world, these folks rank lower than outright atheists," snip>>>>>