The GOP: So Delightful. So Charming. So Bat-Shit Crazy.
Have you seen this?
This is an ad prepared by the "Family Research Council" in support of the GOP drive to abolish the Senate filibuster, or "the nuclear option". Their justification is that the Democrats in the Senate have held up 10 judicial appointments. 10. Because the people selected are dangerous, reactionary loons. It is a fraction of the number of Clinton appointees that the GOP held up. This ad is an opening salvo on a full-on assault on freedom of, and from, a state religion. Faith is Christ has nothing to do with public service. Does is affect one's values? Often, when the faith is honest and heartfelt and not a political facade. But whether one believes in any religion must not preclude them from serving the public, from interpreting the Constitution, from anything, really, in this country. This ad is an abomination, an abortion of real faith.
True faith does not need an army. It does not need a bureaucracy or even a judiciary system. Honest faith is private, but fun to share. It's an act of communion, not assimilation. This ad is not about faith, it is about power. It is about a minority finding itself in the majority and grasping for control and permanence. It is the beginnings of a coup.
I'm fighting back. I may only be read by four people, but I'm going to keep talking about religion and government and the war that is brewing. I am atheist raised with the values of Christ. Not the Bible, not Leviticus, but the ideas of charity and kindness and peace.
I'm still going to write about Britney and Discount Justin. (Did you hear that Bit-Bit is pregnant with Brit's brother's dog's puppies? Brit thinks it's incest, but they're not actually brother and sister, they just belong to siblings. God, she's beautiful. I'm so afraid she's going to name that child after a Mariah Carey Album. Rainbow? Butterfly? Charmbraclet Spears-Federline? Oh, who am I kidding, the kid's going to be named Funyon. There must be an order to the universe if it can create the divine chaos that is Britney Spears.) I'm still going to let Janice tell you about American Idol (though she has been instructed never to refer to her lady parts again). But I'm also going to keep writing about the attack on the Constitution underway. And one of these days I'm going to write about the Electoral College. Just so you know now.
This is an ad prepared by the "Family Research Council" in support of the GOP drive to abolish the Senate filibuster, or "the nuclear option". Their justification is that the Democrats in the Senate have held up 10 judicial appointments. 10. Because the people selected are dangerous, reactionary loons. It is a fraction of the number of Clinton appointees that the GOP held up. This ad is an opening salvo on a full-on assault on freedom of, and from, a state religion. Faith is Christ has nothing to do with public service. Does is affect one's values? Often, when the faith is honest and heartfelt and not a political facade. But whether one believes in any religion must not preclude them from serving the public, from interpreting the Constitution, from anything, really, in this country. This ad is an abomination, an abortion of real faith.
True faith does not need an army. It does not need a bureaucracy or even a judiciary system. Honest faith is private, but fun to share. It's an act of communion, not assimilation. This ad is not about faith, it is about power. It is about a minority finding itself in the majority and grasping for control and permanence. It is the beginnings of a coup.
I'm fighting back. I may only be read by four people, but I'm going to keep talking about religion and government and the war that is brewing. I am atheist raised with the values of Christ. Not the Bible, not Leviticus, but the ideas of charity and kindness and peace.
I'm still going to write about Britney and Discount Justin. (Did you hear that Bit-Bit is pregnant with Brit's brother's dog's puppies? Brit thinks it's incest, but they're not actually brother and sister, they just belong to siblings. God, she's beautiful. I'm so afraid she's going to name that child after a Mariah Carey Album. Rainbow? Butterfly? Charmbraclet Spears-Federline? Oh, who am I kidding, the kid's going to be named Funyon. There must be an order to the universe if it can create the divine chaos that is Britney Spears.) I'm still going to let Janice tell you about American Idol (though she has been instructed never to refer to her lady parts again). But I'm also going to keep writing about the attack on the Constitution underway. And one of these days I'm going to write about the Electoral College. Just so you know now.
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