'Christian' activist fumes at Bush over Supreme Court

[Bluebear]

Contact: Flip Benham, 980-722-4920 cell; Kristene O'Dell, 214-476-7464 cell, both of Operation Save America

CONCORD, NC, July 8 /Christian Wire Service/ -- The following is a statement from Reverend Flip Benham, Director of Operation Save America, on the apparently imminent resignation of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist:

"Note well that to the surprise of all, Sandra Day O'Connor was the first to retire from the Supreme Court. In truth her retirement was a well-choreographed maneuver. It tested the waters to find out how the conservative base would react to the nomination of Alberto R. Gonzales. The reaction was not good. But, with the retirement of William Rehnquist, the way is now paved for Alberto Gonzales to be nominated by President Bush to fill one of the vacancies on the Supreme Court.

"Pretty Slick! President Bush is now able to appease both sides of the aisle. This is what he did so well as governor of Texas. He appeases his conservative base by giving it a strong conservative voice (strict constructionist) to replace Rehnquist, while placating the Democrats by giving them Alberto R. Gonzales.

"Bottom Line: The Supreme Court of the United States of America will be left in exactly the same ideological shape as it was before the vacancies of O'Connor and Rehnquist.

"Sure the Democrats will howl 'foul' over any nomination the President places before them. That's what they do best. But all that howling will be tongue in cheek. For they know they will have preserved the Supreme Court of the United States of America to continue promoting abortion, homosexuality, and removing every vestige of Christianity from the public arena.

"Reminiscent isn't it, of what Senator Minority Leader Reid did when he snatched victory out of the jaws of defeat by backing down the Republican majority over the filibuster fiasco? He howled before the cameras at how much the Democrats had given up to maintain the collegiality and integrity of the Senate and then laughed all the way to his home in the pit of hell.

"When will we Christians learn that we cannot depend upon Republicans to fight our Lord's battles!"

http://www.earnedmedia.org/osa0708.htm

[LittleClarkie]

1. Ahahahahahaha!

Yessss.

Of course, I've known for a while that Republicans couldn't be counted on to do the Lord's work.

[donco6]

2. Yay!

Anything that promotes rifts between the fundie RW and the Republican party is good news in my book.

[blondeatlast]

21. It's damn good news for the nation as a whole, friend! nt

[GiovanniC]

3. Yeah, Right... I Will Be SOO Placated By the Nomination of Tortureboy

[Ian David]

16. If anyone opposes Gonzales for the Supreme Court, they're a racist

That's what the Republicans have been saying when he was nominated for Attorney General.

We can just read their words back to them from the record.

[Rex]

4. You know you've entered Looney Land when

RWxtianfeaknics are pissed because a pro-torture AG will be on the SCOTUS and he is not bloodthirsty enough for their tastes!

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

5. Unleash the Fundies....

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Burma Jones]

6. Well DUH

You Jerkoffs would be better served by running off somewhere and preparing for the Rapture. Leave living to those of us that know the difference between Myth and Reality (and what's important about both).....

[spindoctor]

7. Oo-la-la, is that a call for a schism?

"When will we Christians learn that we cannot depend upon Republicans to fight our Lord's battles!"

And the beauty of it is, the Republicans CANNOT win an election without the fundies, simply because their base is much smaller than ours.

Go for it, Rev. America needs a fundamentalist party.

:rofl:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

8. apparently imminent resignation?

Hey duncehats! She resigned 3 days ago!!

Have I mentioned yet today how much I hate these people?? :argh:

[karlrschneider]

9. Um, he was referring to Rehnquist

...

[SalmonChantedEvening]

14. I'll be over here in the corner if anyone needs me.

That's the last time I sign up for reading comprehension courses off a match book.

[Bluebear]

17. LOL

f u cn rd ths u cn b a scy nd ern gd py!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

19. Look, I drew the Pirate!!

Eye r une arteest, nest pah??

Howdy Bluebear :D

[Bluebear]

20. Oh don't speak 'French'

You know how the right hates it!

:hi:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

23. Moi? Parle le francais? Jamias!!

:rofl:

[thinkingwoman]

10. with a name like Flip

nobody should take him seriously.

[Tux]

11. I agree

Republicans can't do Deity's work. They are too focused on the War for Oil to care about anything else. I recommend that these guys leave Republicans for the Green Party or maybe form their own party and show Republicans exactly what real concerned Americans would do. Placing money over people is America's biggest problem I think, not gays and non-Christians.

[delete_bush]

12. Promoting abortion and homosexuality?

I keep watching for these promos and always seem to miss them. I do drive by a lot of signboards on the lawns of churches promoting xtian values, along with radio/TV shows ad naseum every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

[mcscajun]

13. "... we cannot depend upon Republicans to fight our Lord's battles!"

Gee, that's funny. Here I thought we elected representatives of either party to do the peoples' work, not "(y)our Lord's" (who is not MY Lord).

Let the bastard howl.

[Swede]

15. What an awful world these people want.

These nuts are a scary bunch.

[louis-t]

18. These nutball activist preachers all have a certain "look"

don't they?

[BushFungus]

22. You know...

for a long time now, I have been trying ad nauseum to convince conservative Christians that Bush ia a total faker. I doubt whether the man is truly a Christian. I think he just said that to get the Christian vote.

I KNEW Bush would turn on his conservative Christian base once he won the 2004 election. Nobody would listen. I SURE WISH KERRY WAS VOTED IN!

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

24. Welcome to DU

:hi: