“You can add to the list of formerly-deluded-but-now-just-disaffected one David Kuo, who joined Bush, Inc. thinking he was helping to bring religion into government and government into religion. Leave aside for the moment that these are two of the most spectacularly stupid ideas ever (can you say, "Ayatollah Khomeini"?), so lame that they were denounced over two-hundred years ago by a group of people even Kuo may have heard of - they're called "The Founders". Regardless, Kuo went to work on this project only to discover that Bush was never even remotely serious about any of that clap-trap. Rove and the gang mocked religious dupes over beers and laughed their butts off at how easily these hopeless saps could be mobilized into Republican shock troops. How Kuo ever fell for it in the first place is beyond me, but eventually he figured out that the sap club had one more member than he had originally realized.”
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/10185
Monday, February 4, 2008
Buyer’s Remorse, by David Michael Green
Gary Demar: Franklin Graham Speaks Out, and He's Only Half Right
“When a warning is raised that a thief is about to come in and steal from you, or that a murderer is on the loose, you better drop everything and get busy protecting yourself and your family. Civil government is stealing from us in the way it taxes our income. Civil government has made killing preborn babies a legal right. Civil government has created a near educational monopoly that is making children subjects and wards of the State. Civil government has created a perpetual underclass, a form of institutional slavery, through confiscatory taxation and wealth redistribution.”
http://www.americanvision.org/articlearchive/11-30-04.asp
I agree about taxation and wealth redistribution, but not the way Demar does. There is wealth distribution going on - from the middle class to the rich. See: this post.
Christian Coalition of America's Agenda for the 110th Congress, Second Session (2008)
- Confirming as many conservative judges as possible, especially U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges
- Passing "Net Neutrality" to ensure fairness for all on the Internet
- Protecting television religious programming
- Keeping votes for human embryonic stem cell destruction research bill to a minimum/increasing funding for successful adult stem cell research
- Ensuring all of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts enacted into law and due to expire in just 2 years (2010) are protected including child tax credits, income tax cuts, small business tax cuts, death tax cuts, etc.
- Attempting to get a vote on a Federal Marriage Amendment
- Supporting legislation stopping religious discrimination against evangelical Christians in the military
http://www.cc.org/issues.cfm