Ashamed to be Texan

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Wednesday April 20, 2005 · 6:20 PM PDT

2005/04/20 · 18:20

This is certainly not the first time I have been ashamed to consider myself a Texan. There was the redistricting flap, and of course we are responsible for such jackasses as Tom DeLay and John Cornyn. And now, this piece of legislation marks yet another day when I yearn to live a state where the capitol is not dominated by a load of bigots.

Texas could become the only state to bar gays from becoming foster parents under legislation passed Wednesday by the House.
The ban is part of a bill to revamp the state's Child Protective Services agency. It passed 135-6 with two abstentions and now heads to the Senate.

Now that's some lone star hate.
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Shay Bashes DeLay

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Monday April 11, 2005 · 2:19 PM PDT

2005/04/11 · 14:19

After Rick Santorum's statements concerning DeLay's ethics controversy, one can only wonder if DeLay is becoming some sort of mole for the Republican Party. It's unsightly and they want to remove it. Today, for example, Rep. Christopher Shay (R-Connecticut) told the AP...

"Tom's conduct is hurting the Republican Party, is hurting this Republican majority and it is hurting any Republican who is up for re-election,"

Burn!

"My party is going to have to decide whether we are going to continue to make excuses for Tom to the detriment of Republicans seeking election,"

So what's next for DeLay? Will his Republican counter-parts push him to face prosecution? Could he be blacklisted? Could the exterminator be exterminated? Sounds like that's not out of the question for some in his own party.
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Middle Class Squeeze

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Sunday April 10, 2005 · 9:46 AM PDT

2005/04/10 · 09:46

George has tried everything to boost his approval rating, and if you remember, he once announced a tax cut. It's a nice phrase, but nothing more as it only benefited a small percentage of Americans. Now taxes could rise, but of course, they will put a strong squeeze on the middle class. NYTimes writes...

Baffling in its complexity and often bizarre in its impact, the alternative minimum tax is a giant undeclared tax increase that will ensnare tens of millions of moderate-income families in the next several years.

Sneaky. And it will wring in billions for the federal government while affecting eighteen million households. That's not a lot, but look where it is coming from! Dubya, the friend of middle America, what a joke.
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Thank You Jon Stewart!

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Friday April 08, 2005 · 2:24 PM PDT

2005/04/08 · 14:24

Once again, I bow down before Jon Stewart. It was last night that he shows us just how low the Republicans will go to score a few points. In this case, they have exploited the death of a pope to point out the hand full of views which are shared by Pope John Paul II and George W. Bush. As many GOPigs have pointed out, the pope stood for a culture of life, however, what wasn't stated was the Vatican's slamming of the war in Iraq and the death penalty. But hey, facts don't seem to matter much to the Republican Party.
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Rush Limbaughtomy

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Thursday April 07, 2005 · 2:11 PM PDT

2005/04/07 · 14:11

On April 1, a federal court ruled that ballast water containing "invasive species" such as mollusks could not be dumped in U.S. waterways. Well, Rush Limbaugh doesn't care, instead, he wants to talk about immigration...

LIMBAUGH: So invasive species like mollusks and spermatozoa are not good, and we've got a federal judge say, "You can't bring it in here," but invasive species in the form of illegal immigration is fine and dandy -- bring 'em on, as many as possible, legalize them wherever we can, wherever they go, no matter what they clog up.

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Oh, the Hypocrisy!

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Monday April 04, 2005 · 2:34 PM PDT

2005/04/04 · 14:34

Even now, months after the election, I hear about how John Kerry is a "flip flopper". It's then that I have to reactions. One is that Karl Rove is a damn good strategist if he can make a buzz word like that and have it floating around long after a campaign is over. The other is laughter because if they would step back and take a look at Dubya's record, they would see he's had his fair share of waffles. Our Commander-in-Chief has changed courses on the existence of OPEC, Ahmed Chalabi, WMD's in Iraq, free trade, Osama bin Laden, the 9/11 commission, and even abortion. Abortion! Oh, the hypocrisy!!!
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Sinclair Stupidity

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Sunday April 03, 2005 · 11:21 AM PDT

2005/04/03 · 11:21

Media Matters tells us that on the thirty-first of Mpril, Sinclair Broadcast Group's "The Point" featuring Mark Hyman displayed their company's stupidity. In it, Hyman claims...

"Not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit its narrow political agenda."

If Sinclair's news director where to do some research, as actual journalist's do, he would find that the ACLU once joined Rev. Jerry Falwell to fight a Virginia law prohibiting the incorporation of churches. They also hailed Pres. Clinton's signing of a bill to protect the First Amendment right of freedom of religion from unfair government restrictions. Plus, the organization that Rush has dubbed the Anti-Christian Litigation Unit threatened to take legal action against a park manager who had refused to allow a Baptist church from performing a baptism in a public park. So why not give us some real news, Sinclair? Would it really kill you to present facts?
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So Does This Mean the Rock is Cracking?

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Wednesday March 30, 2005 · 1:16 PM PST

2005/03/30 · 13:16

Is the rock cracking for Dubya? A poll shows that it could very well be the as his ratings dropped lower than NBC's...

Public approval for Bush slipped from 52 percent in a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll over the weekend to 45 percent in that same poll released Thursday. A CBS News poll released earlier in the week found Bush's approval slipping six points to 43 percent.

This drop can be blamed on who where considered his "rock" during the election...

The Gallup poll found Bush losing support among men, self-described conservatives and churchgoers while the CBS poll found a drop among men and Republicans.

Bad news for Bush as it turns out that more and more of Americans have minds.
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The Excuse President

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Monday March 28, 2005 · 11:55 AM PST

2005/03/28 · 11:55

I am convinced that George Bush could get away with anything. He could murder Nancy Pelosi with his bare hands on the steps of the capital on nation television, and he'd get away with it. Hey could be photographed smoking a joint with Osama bin Laden in the Rose Garden and the picture could be printed on the front page of every newspaper from D.C. to Dubai and he'd get away with it. Because, by the end of the day, Brit Hume and Sean Hannity will have saved his ass and Rush Limbaugh will chime in, insisting that it's Bill Clinton's fault.
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The Least He Could Do

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Sunday March 27, 2005 · 6:15 PM PST

2005/03/27 · 18:15

Today at Fort Hood, the Easter Bunny failed to visit. Instead, troops where met with someone of far lesser intelligence. Presdient Bush. Dubya flew fifty-miles from his ranch (hope that wasn't to far out of the way) to attend a service at the largest active-duty base in the forces. Yes, it was a kind gesture but it's really the least he could do and if Rush hits the airwaves tomorrow praising the President on this "act of leadership" I'm going to vomit. While I'm sure many where happy to see him there, but I think our men and women in uniform would much rather have some body armor and bullets before they head into battle.
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Recovering from a Limbaughtomy

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Saturday March 26, 2005 · 10:47 AM PST

2005/03/26 · 10:47

Rush is an idiot, but is always good for a laugh for that very reason. I found on Media Matters, on the twenty-third, he posed this "question" to his listeners...

LIMBAUGH: A question for those of you who are our friends on the left. Just answer it honestly to yourself: How many of you want Terri Schiavo to die simply because some Christian conservatives want her to live? How many of you have rejoiced when a death row inmate has been saved because of later investigation into DNA? Do you want Terri Schiavo to die because some Christian conservatives want her to live? Is that it?
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Could it be -- and I suspect this is the real answer -- could it be that you have been so pent up with rage and frustration over the Christians in this country?
You just hated the success of The Passion of the Christ. You hated the outpouring of support for that movie, you just despise the red-state, hayseed, holy-roller crowd that you think is steamrollering the country.

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EWTN: Schiavo like Christ

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Friday March 25, 2005 · 11:57 AM PST

2005/03/25 · 11:57

In reading the New York Times today, I came across this article concerning how the Republicans have turned Terri Schiavo into a religious issue just like everything else. In the piece, Raymond Arroyo, a news director at Eternal Word Television Network states...

``You have a collusion of events that I think only the spiritually blind would ignore,'' Arroyo said. ``It's not hard to see the similarities between the pope and what Terri Schiavo is going through, to some extent, and the sufferings of Christ that we commemorate Good Friday.''

Yes, we who oppose the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube are so much like the ancient Romans who persecuted and later crucified Christ. One question, Mr Arroyo, how low can you go? Then again, I guess I'm just spiritually blind.
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