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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 08:34 AM
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Grover Norquist viciously attacks 3 GOP Senators (McCain = nutjob)
OMG, they are eating their own.

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/politics/11980220.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

Speaking before a group of college-aged Republicans, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay decried recent attacks by prominent Democrats as "jaw-dropping and unprecedented in my lifetime."

Speaking to the same group a few hours later, party strategist Grover Norquist lambasted three Republicans who broke party ranks over the issue of judicial filibusters. He referred to them as "the two girls from Maine and the nut-job from Arizona" - Sens. Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and John McCain.

The Democratic National Committee responded Friday by accusing older Republicans of "passing the torch of corruption" to their college recruits. "It is a bad sign that these young political activists are looking up to these disgraced leaders," Grant Woodward, president of College Democrats, said in a written statement.
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Truth__Seeker Donating Member (37 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 08:36 AM
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1. How best to keep the meal going?
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 08:37 AM
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2. Yep
We should actually be somewhat happy about McCains elevated status - the party establishment will never let him be the nominee, but he might bloody whoever eventually gets it.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 08:55 AM
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6. I don't know if they can keep McCain out in 2008
If Bush's popularity continues to decline, there might be a lot of rank and file republicans in some key states ready to get the Bush influence out of the party.

They might not like to admit it, but McCain is probably more conservative than a lot of the hypocritical facists claiming that label currently are. He thinks for himself, and he can probably beat any candidate we put out there, because he will get the white, male, independent vote.

I don't want this to happen, but it's something dems need to keep in mind. I like and respect McCain, and would rather he be president than Bush, but I'd rather see a dem in office.
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 09:19 AM
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9. Why on earth do you respect McCain?? He is fully in with Bush
until the point he sees a political opportunity. He is disgusting!
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Larkspur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 12:38 PM
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21. The only way McCain would get the Repuke nomination is if he completely
sells his soul to the Bush junta. He's sold a lot of it since 2000.

The economic royalists, the Dixiecrats, and Xtian fascists zombie bridages control the Repuke party now. Many moderate Republicans left the party and turned Independent and some came into the Dem Party, like Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean.
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getmeouttahere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 08:37 AM
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3. And the kids don't think they are disgraced at all....
to me it's not unlike passing racism from one generation to another
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rateyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 08:43 AM
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4. And, the brainwashing continues...
Hey, getmeouttahere, how is Randy doing out there on the natural grass of Oakland?
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Democrat 4 Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 09:03 AM
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8. Read "God and Country" in The New Yorker by Hanna Rosin.
June 27, 2005 issue. These whack jobs have created their own college as a feeder system to keep the neocons coming.

I read the article and could not believe these people. All of the students of the Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, VA are homeschooled neocons who are being prepped to take government jobs to continue the Christian Taliban agenda in the future. This article should scare the begeebers out of every American.

The Daily Show did a segment with the author last night. It was a good interview but didn't begin to convey the evilness of this bunch of Kool Aid drinkers. I swear this is a cult with lots of money and they are willing to overthrow an entire government to have a secular country.

Read the article here:

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050627fa_fact

GOD AND COUNTRY
by HANNA ROSIN
A college that trains young Christians to be politicians.
Issue of 2005-06-27
Posted 2005-06-20

In the last days before the 2004 Presidential election, Patrick Henry College, in Purcellville, Virginia, excused all its students from classes, because so many of them were working on campaigns or wanted to go to the swing states to get out the vote for George W. Bush. Elisa Muench, a junior, was interning in the White House’s Office of Strategic Initiatives, which is overseen by Karl Rove. On Election Day, she stood on the South Lawn with the rest of the White House staff to greet the President and Mrs. Bush as they returned from casting their votes in Texas. Muench cheered along with everyone else, but she was worried. Her office was “keeping up contact with Karl,” and she knew that the early exit polls were worse than expected. Through the night, she watched the results, as Bush’s electoral-vote total began to rise. The next morning, after Kerry conceded, she stood in the crowd at the Bush campaign’s victory party, in clothes she’d been wearing all night, and “cried and screamed and laughed, it was so overwhelming.”

I found Muench in the Patrick Henry cafeteria at lunchtime one day a few months later. She is twenty-one years old and has clear, bright hazel eyes and sandy-brown hair that she straightens and then curls with an iron. Patrick Henry is a Christian college, though it is not affiliated with any denomination, and it gives students guidelines on “glorifying God with their appearance.” During class hours, the college enforces a “business casual” dress code designed to prepare the students for office life—especially for offices in Washington, D.C., fifty miles to the east, where almost all the students have internships, with Republican politicians or in conservative think tanks. When I met Muench, she was wearing a cardigan and a navy skirt. The boys in the cafeteria all had neatly trimmed hair, and wore suits or khakis and button-down shirts; girls wore slacks or skirts just below the knee, and sweaters or blouses. Most said grace before eating, though they did it silently and discreetly, with a quick bow of the head.

Muench told me that she loved working for Rove—answering the phone and having a senator on the line, meeting Andrew Card, the chief of staff (“He’s a nice guy”), and Vice-President Dick Cheney (“He’s really funny”). She took a bus from Patrick Henry at six every morning to arrive at the White House by seven-thirty. Her work with Rove, she told me, affirmed her belief that he was a political genius.

In her sophomore year, Muench had become the first—and, so far, the only—woman at Patrick Henry to run for a student-government executive office, when she entered the race for vice-president. Campaigns are unusually intense at Patrick Henry; candidates hire pollsters and form slates. One of Muench’s friends, Matthew du Mée, was on an opposing slate, and the race caused a strain. (Both lost.) Muench’s internship with Rove has given her a reputation, much envied on campus, as someone worth knowing. The day we spoke, a sophomore leaned across the table and asked, “How much do you make, starting salary, working on the Hill?” (snip)

go to the link for the rest of the article
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rateyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 09:22 AM
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10. Yeah, I used to live in VA, and heard about this place..
when they first started it. I wonder if SACS has accredited the place. I hope not. It doesn't sound like there's a lot of academic freedom there, one of the principles needed for accreditation.

I think it interesting, to say the least, that the school is named after Patrick Henry---the true patriot, who said, "Give me liberty, or give me death."

I'll be willing to wager that not a damnned one of the students or graduates of this "college" has ever strapped on the uniform.
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Democrat 4 Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 10:11 AM
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16. The article talks about a basic science class that only teaches
creation beliefs. Overlooks that whole silly evolution thingy the godless scientists try to fill their heads with in other institutions. One thing really stuck out - they do not advocate critical thinking in the least. I always thought education taught that above all else. These kids do not appear to have the ability to think for themselves, question authority. They will make lovely drones. And the women are expected to get educated but when the time comes, go home, have babies and home school the next generation. We are living among a real life social experiment of Stepford families.
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getmeouttahere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 10:47 AM
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18. IMO, just as dangerous as....
the School of the Americas, except they learn to kill people economically
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getmeouttahere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 09:47 AM
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14. Sorry Rateyes, haven't heard much yet....
what will be interesting is how he handles the WET natural grass. Through the years, the Raiders and A's have been notorious for watering the grass at the Coliseum, not to mention the fact that the playing field is 28 feet BELOW sea level, so if you're ever watching a game in Oakland and see people slipping when it HASN'T rained, now you know why. Obviously guys like Cliff Branch, Biletnikoff, etc. got used to it and even used it to their advantage. But we'll see if Moss does the same.
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 08:50 AM
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5. DeLay...and Norquist...
DeLay - his ethics problems don't have to be repeated.
Norquist - who is a partner with Middle Easterners who are being investigated for funding terrorism.

And Norquist has a problem with two girls and a nut-job.

Save for your child's education and then have them learn from DeLay and Norquist?
'
It's time to separate from all the DeLays and Norquists. Let them continue their imperialism, if they can, and let them continue to praise the Lord and praise the Bushes and the Reagans as the lords. Let them put their Ten Commandments in every room and on every roof and on every street in their country,

We need a bloodless separation.

We get to keep our Constitution and Bill of Rights - improve on it and educate people about it's meaning. We get to work towards being the democracy that we were promised. One that we can believe in; one that is not a joke.
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 08:58 AM
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7. did they encourage the young cowards to join the military>>>>?
probably not.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/liberaltshirts.htm
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Toots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 09:26 AM
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11. The two girls from Maine
What a condescending asshole and a sexist to boot. Those "two girls" are Uninted States Senators and should be addressed as such. He has virtually no respect for anything but he is not alone in that regard. The whole Republican Party is displaying their complete lack of respect on a daily basis.
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 09:35 AM
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12. Those words were what struck me as well
Grover has his cult following and is fertilizing the seeds of hate already planted. What he does is no different than the Islamic fundamentalist extremists they point to as grooming the next generation of terrorists. The only difference is their side is a big white elephant with a cross tattooed on its ass.
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 09:46 AM
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13. it's extremely condescending
Grover Norquist is such an ass! :grr:
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WePurrsevere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 10:44 AM
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17. "Girls"? WTH...
and this is from the Republican Party Strategist? I read that and my jaw actually dropped (something that seems to be happening with increasing frequency lately).

For this twit to refer to 2 female US Senators as "girls" is not only terriby rude it was obviously meant to belittle them and detract from their stance as ADULT US Senators.

As for the "nut case" Senator John McCain, from what I've seen he has more class in his little finger then most, if not all, of the Repulican "leaders' currently in office.

Good grief... can you imagine the blow up if a Democrat used those terms especially regarding a Republican?
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:54 AM
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20. Well, he didn't call them FemiNazis like we've been called by the
Republican Party for the last 20 years. Hey, when do I get my apology?
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 09:50 AM
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15. "The 2 girls from Maine, and the nutjob from Arizona"??? IMAGINE if...
a prominent Dem had said this!
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:04 AM
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19. The Repukes would probably hold hearings over it
Freakin' hypocrites! :grr:
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 03:08 PM
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22. kick
:kick:
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