Is it Treason yet?

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Here is my entire archive of 'Is it Treason yet'?

So ask yourself, is it Treason yet?

1-15-05

1. Introduction
2. According to the RW, people who oppose Alberto Gonzales are un-American
3. The RW and Opposition to Tolerance

1. Introduction
We Liberals need to make the world realize that it is the people who are in the Right Wing, not us, who are against freedom and democracy. This publication will help the world realize that.

2. According to the RW, people who oppose Alberto Gonzales are un-American
According to the RW, it is not OK to oppose Gonzales on any grounds, and so what the RW doing is the complete opposite of Democracy. I personally don't want a treaty with terrorists, but what people like Gonzales does is encourage them, because it sure doesn't drive them away.

"The National Review’s Andrew McCarthy argues that those who oppose Alberto Gonzales for U.S. Attorney General are essentially suggesting that we should make a treaty with al Qaeda. Gonzales, McCarthy writes, is “one of those sticks-in-the-mud who thinks we shouldn't treat al Qaeda terrorists as if we had a treaty with them, and that we shouldn't accord the privileges and immunities of honorable warfare to barbarians. For such positions has he been castigated by a hastily assembled group of retired military brass with a recent history of anti-Bush activism, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the usual cabal of ‘human- rights activists’ who, though they've never met a terrorist they wouldn't coddle, don't seem to get particularly whipped up over humans whose work day is interrupted by hijacked jumbo jets crashing through office windows.”"
http://www.nationalreview.com/mccarthy/mccarthy200501050715.asp

I don't know anybody on the Left who wants a treaty with terrorists. But, I have a statement for McCarthy, are we no better than the terrorists? Every day we keep these laws, we prove we are better than Al Qaeda and other terrorists. And keeping true to these laws will be much more impressive to the Muslims in the Middle East than killing them.

The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto takes a similar tack: The “Democrats' obsession with treating terrorists nicely bespeaks a dangerous moral vanity. They seem to think it is worth increasing the risk of another 9/11--or worse--in order for America to avoid the taint of being accused by the likes of the Red Cross of acts ‘tantamount to torture,’ whatever that means.”
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110006111

Keeping Bush as President also increases the risk of another 9/11, it after all did happen while he was President.

Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, writes that Alberto Gonzales "deserves better than he's likely to get at the hands of Senate Democrats this week." Chavez dismisses questions about his commitment to human rights, saying "it's quite a stretch to blame Gonzales for the rogue sex and torture ring run by a handful of perverted American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison."
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/lindachavez/lc20050105.shtml

3. The RW and Opposition to Tolerance
The American Family Association claims that children’s television characters are being used as a “bait and switch” to “indoctrinate children to accept homosexuality" in the new DVD from the We Are Family Foundation. SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney the Dinosaur, Dora the Explorer and Bob the Builder are among those popular characters featured in a remake of the song "We Are Family" being distributed to public and private elementary schools to promote diversity and tolerance in the classroom.
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/afa/42005c.asp

It is 'evil' and there must be some kind of 'dark conspiracy' if somebody is different from you. Democracy is formed from Tolerance, Diversity, and a multitude of cultures, lifestyles, religions, and promoting uniformity in all of this is exactly what a person or a group of people who hated democracy would do.

1-31-05

1. Unlike the RW'ers, the People want the Filibuster to stay
2. Bush Administration linked to Pundits
3. Social Security - Is it a crisis that deserves Fear Mongering or not?

1. Unlike the RW'ers, the People want the Filibuster to stay

According to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, a plurality of Americans favor retaining the Senate’s filibuster option for court nominations. The poll question read: “As you may know, in the last term of Congress some senators used a procedure called a filibuster when it came to some of President Bush's judicial nominees. When this happens, it takes the votes of sixty senators instead of fifty-one to end debate and hold a confirmation vote for a nominee. In your opinion, should the Senate maintain the filibuster rule or eliminate the filibuster for judicial nominations?” Forty-eight percent of those polled favored maintaining the filibuster, with 39 percent calling for its elimination and 13 percent unsure.
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/media/poll20050119.pdf

2. Bush Administration linked to Pundits

Salon reports: “In light of the second revelation this month that the Bush administration had hired a Republican-friendly pundit to help promote policy initiatives -- payments that were kept hidden from readers and viewers -- conservative commentators are calling on the White House to come clean and detail any other controversial agreements. The opinion makers say they don't want a black cloud of suspicion hanging over their own columns and broadcasts.”
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/27/pundits/index.html

The Department of Health and Human Services acknowledged Thursday that it paid a syndicated columnist at least $4,000 for work on behalf of Bush administration efforts to promote marriage.
The disclosure came a day after President Bush called for an end to paying commentators to promote his policies. Wade Horn, assistant secretary for Children and Families at the department, responded Thursday by issuing new rules banning the practice.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-01-27-hhs_x.htm

Where are you, Liberal Media?

3. Social Security - Is it a crisis that deserves Fear Mongering or not?

Columnist David Limbaugh plays up the notion that Social Security is in “crisis” and argues that the Democrats are being dishonest regarding the future of the program: “Just like their about-face on assessing Saddam Hussein as a threat that had to be removed, they are now shamelessly, brazenly denying there is a serious problem with Social Security that needs serious attention. Like little kids they are arguing over the semantics of whether we are currently facing a ‘crisis’ in Social Security or just a major ‘problem.’”
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=6391

However, the National Review’s Rich Lowry suggests that the Bush Administration is wrong in describing the current Social Security situation as a crisis: “Any crisis 40 years away will strike most voters as attenuated, a fact Democrats have exploited effectively in the initial Social Security debate. Democrats go too far when they say, in effect, that ‘Bush lied about Iraq, and he is lying about Social Security.’ But the administration has been vulnerable to the charge of ‘false imminence’ in both debates.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200501250744.asp

2-15-05

1. So Much for 'Coming Together'
2. Is the Party of Jesse Helms, Trent Lott, Strom Thurmond, and other people are planning to try to reach out to African Americans?
3. RW'ers concerned that the middle and lower class will pay less taxes
4. Focus on the Family - From Spongebob to Social Security

1. So Much for 'Coming Together'
OpinionJournal’s Brendan Miniter urges President Bush to reject bipartisan compromise on Social Security: “…President Bush is left with the reality that the only way to save Social Security is to pursue a partisan bill, while continuing to take his message to the people. By stirring up the voters, the president may get as many as two dozen Democrats to come along in the House and the half dozen he needs in the Senate. But he'll get that only if the doesn't cede ground on the fundamental reform--large personal accounts, funded and controlled by individuals. Partisanship gets a bad wrap, but sometimes it's essential.”
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/bminiter/?id=110006237

2. Is the Party of Jesse Helms, Trent Lott, Strom Thurmond, and other people are planning to try to reach out to African Americans?
A new coalition of African-American churches – the High Impact Leadership Coalition – is promoting the “Black Contract with America." Focus on the Family describes it as “a biblical and conservative stance on issues including the protection of marriage and family, home and business ownership, education reform, prison reform, health care and African relief.”
http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0035398.cfm

3. RW'ers concerned that the middle and lower class will pay less taxes
Many right-wing tax-cut enthusiasts, such as Grover Norquist and Stephen Moore, don’t like the idea that lower income Americans might shoulder less tax burden and favor a flat tax instead. Moore, who heads the Free Enterprise Fund, went so far as to say of the progressive tax code: “When it comes to democracy, that's a dangerous thing.”
http://washtimes.com/national/20050210-114755-6788r.htm

4. Focus on the Family - From Spongebob to Social Security
Focus on the Family has prepared a fact sheet, complete with links to the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute, for activists who have questions about the President’s Social Security reform plan.
http://family.org/cforum/pdfs/fosi/government/BeyondOurGeneration.pdf

2-28-05

1. The War on Poverty has become the War on the Poor
2. The Christian Coalition wants to be above the Law
3. Sinclair Broadcasting, another group in the 'liberal' media

1. The War on Poverty has become the War on the Poor

Myron Magnet extols President Bush’s theory of domestic policy in a Wall Street Journal editorial entitled: “The War on the War on Poverty.” He happily observes: “the second Bush term is bringing the War on Poverty--demonstrably a cataclysmic mistake--to an end. A glance at the administration's recent budget shows the ongoing dismantling of antipoverty programs: a sharp reduction in the Community Development Block Grant, the main conduit for funneling federal money to cities; the reduction in HUD money for Section 8 subsidized housing vouchers, which abets the formation of dysfunctional single-parent families and destabilizes respectable working-class neighborhoods; and the shrinkage of ever-expanding Medicaid.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/ac/?id=110006344

2. The Christian Coalition wants to be above the Law

The Alabama Christian Coalition is upset over a campaign disclosure bill passed Tuesday by the state Senate. President John Giles called the legislation “nothing more than an attempt to get the Christian Coalition's contribution list, nothing more than an attempt to intimidate donors.”
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/110915400742240.xml

3. Sinclair Broadcasting, another group in the 'liberal' media

Rolling Stone magazine profiles Sinclair Broadcasting and offers this assessment: “In the firmament of right-wing media outlets, Sinclair stands somewhere to the right of Fox News. Its archconservative politics may not be served up with Fox's raw-meat bite, but what Sinclair lacks in flash, it makes up for in unabashed cheerleading for the Bush administration.”
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6959139?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7

3-15-05

1. A RW'er wants to dismantle the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
2. Speaking of Civil Rights
3. The Racism of Ann Coulter

1. A RW'er wants to dismantle the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

George Will argues that it’s time to "retire" the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He lauds current chair Gerald Reynolds and slams former Commission chair Mary Frances Berry, calling her career "seedy." He gives two reasons for ending the Commission: that "someday Democrats will again control the executive branch and may again stock the commission with extremists" and that "civil rights rhetoric has become a crashing bore and, worse, a cause of confusion."
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/gw20050310.shtml

2. Speaking of Civil Rights

They are being dismantled.

The House of Representatives voted to dismantle long-standing civil rights protections on March 2 when it voted to repeal a 23-year-old employment discrimination policy first signed into law by President Ronald Reagan. The Job Training Investment Act (H.R. 27) passed the House by a 224–200 margin. If enacted, the measure will exempt religious organizations from rules that currently protect workers from religious discrimination in federally funded job training programs.

Hours before final passage, the House rejected on a 239 to 186 vote an amendment offered by Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) to keep current anti-discrimination policies in place.

“Congressman Scott should be commended for his courageous effort to protect civil rights and religious freedom,” said People For the American Way President Ralph Neas. “Regrettably, this bill passed without his amendment. The result is a further erosion of our democratic ideals and legal protections against religious discrimination.”

If the repeal becomes law, however, faith-based groups will literally be able to use government funds to pay the salaries of workers hired on a discriminatory basis.

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=18076

3. The Racism of Ann Coulter

Coulter reportedly disparaged the Arab ancestry of veteran reporter and columnist Helen Thomas, writing: "Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president." After Coulter submitted her column to Universal Press Syndicate, an editor deleted the word "Arab" and rewrote it to read "dyspeptic, old Helen Thomas" but the unedited version was still posted to Coulter’s website.
http://www.freep.com/news/politics/thomas8e_20050308.htm

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/is_it_treason_yet/

[whatever4]

1. Wow, great post! Love Helen Thomas!!!!!

And I just want to add

3. The Racism of Ann Coulter
Coulter reportedly disparaged the Arab ancestry of veteran reporter and columnist Helen Thomas, writing: "Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president." After Coulter submitted her column to Universal Press Syndicate, an editor deleted the word "Arab" and rewrote it to read "dyspeptic, old Helen Thomas" but the unedited version was still posted to Coulter’s website.
http://www.freep.com/news/politics/thomas8e_20050308.ht...


Gee, all that made me think is Ann isn't qualified to wipe Helen's ass.

What a nasty bitch, she never fails to find new lows.

Bet she's a lousy lay too. Please forgive, sorry, couldn't help it. That vamp sexed-up image of hers is SO counter (Coulter) to the neocons Christian pure virginal ideology. Fakes, they're all fakes. I bet she fakes.

[CrispyQ]

2. Kicked & nominated.

I'm bookmarking & later will check out all your links.

Great post!

[babylonsister]

3. By George, I think you've got it!

Great post-bookmarked and rec'd!