Posted on August 23, 2009 by allusionist
…my government representatives openly acknowledge taking their cues from Christian ministers:
U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis said “after we stop Obama Care” at least 30 times during a health care town hall Thursday night that lasted more than two hours at R.D. Anderson Applied Technology Center.
The Republican who represents South Carolina’s Fourth Congressional District told constituents [...]
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Posted on August 6, 2009 by allusionist
According to former French President Jacques Chirac, the George W. Bush considered himself to be an agent of the divine in eliminating His enemies:
Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their “common faith” (Christianity) and told him: “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical [...]
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Posted on August 4, 2009 by allusionist
Mark Ambinder has a post over at the Atlantic asking if the “Democrats are in for an August slaughter.” Basically, his argument proposes that because August is such a slow news month, more media time will be allocated to the various “fringe” groups who seem to viscerally oppose Health Care reform. He acknowledges that, “On [...]
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Posted on July 23, 2009 by allusionist
From a recent AP article:
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint’s lawyer is contacting television stations about a Democratic ad criticizing him on health care.
The Democratic National Committee has targeted the senator in a new ad released in South Carolina and Washington D.C., saying DeMint and other Republicans are trying to kill health care reform.
DeMint last week [...]
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Posted on July 19, 2009 by allusionist
Gov. Sanford: “It’s in the spirit of making good from bad that I am committing to you and the larger family of South Carolinians to use this experience to both trust God in his larger work of changing me, and from my end, to work to becoming a better and more effective leader,”
Wow, this statement [...]
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Posted on July 17, 2009 by allusionist
Two gems from Sen. Jim DeMint that really demonstrate his disposition. First, establishing his reputation as a painmaker:
I am not going to be able to persuade my colleagues to do the right things, so I am just going to have to create pain.
Next, on his willingness to try to work with the administration on [...]
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Posted on July 12, 2009 by allusionist
Dare I say it? Amen. Money quote:
The problem with such use of Biblical imagination is that it simply has no controlling story. Nothing tells us which story to use other than our own imagination (which is generally a deluded part of our mind). A governor gets to play King David, and, surprise, he should be [...]
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Posted on June 24, 2009 by allusionist
The State newspaper has published excerpts of e-mails between Gov. Sanford and the woman with whom he had an affair. This little detail is at the beginning of the excerpts:
Below are excerpts of e-mails, obtained by The State newspaper in December, between Gov. Mark Sanford’s personal e-mail account and Maria, a woman in Buenos Aires, [...]
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Posted on June 24, 2009 by allusionist
“The bottom line is this: I’ve been unfaithful to my wife.”–Mark Sanford
Stay tuned for more details.
Update: Mark Sanford today explained his mystery absence. After conflicting details involving a trip to the Appalachian trail and a trip to Argentina, Mark Sanford today admitted that he traveled to Argentina to visit the woman with whom he has [...]
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Posted on June 15, 2009 by allusionist
So, we were right. Jim DeMint made it into our last show as an example of a hard-right conservative who would be the death knell of the Republican party. We compared him to our own Bob Inglis, a common-sense conservative if there is one, and Florida governor and now senate candidate, Charlie Crist, who we [...]
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