Ex-foley-ating
Nationwide polls conducted by the Times and CBS News this past week show that the scandal surrounding Republican Congressman Marc Foley is hurting Congress's image. Really? Was Congress's image anything but poor before this scandal? Furthermore, I wonder how many millions of dollars the Times and CBS News wasted on something that to most Americans is obvious?
Cut these polls up any way you would like, but the only Party to blame for that poor image is the GOP, being that they have held power in Congress for the last 12 years and have basically been a rubber stamp for the attrocious policies of Bush's failed administration.
Furthermore, scandal after scandal has plagued this Republican Party, and it doesn't look like it is going to stop anytime soon. Just recently it was shown that disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who the Bush administration maintains had limited contact with the White House, was actually a regular there. CNN reported on September 29 that "The draft report of the House Government Reform Committee said the documents -- largely Abramoff's billing records and e-mails -- listed 485 lobbying contacts with White House officials over three years, including 10 with top Bush aide Karl Rove." And he had limited contact? Yeah right!
For years now, Republicans have celebrated their successes because of one key constituent, Envangelicals who believe the Party is as close to God as it comes. This group of voters comes out in groves to vote and support Republican pols, because in their minds, it is the more moral Party and more representative of their Christian values. However, after revelations that many of these same Evangelicals are going to vote Party line this November, even with all of the scandals, it's clear they're not too concerned with who is representing God these days. Some of these same voters are admittedly voting for Mark Foley, even though they know he is a sexual predator.
Evangelicals voting habits defy logic. Here is a group that votes based on morality, yet even when it knows about a sexual predator in its beloved Party, it votes for him anyway. If anything, the Democrats are more of the embodiment of morality and more representative of our pluralistic nation than the Republicans. For example, the Democrats didn't lie to get America into a war, as President Bush did when he said in his State of the Union speech leading up to the Iraq war that Iraq was actively seeking enriched uranium for the manufacturing of nuclear weapons. Democrats didn't take Jack Abramoff's money or allow him into the White House 485 times and then lie about it. Democrats didn't sexually pursue underage Pages and then try to cover it up. Democrats didn't misuse the Senate to try and pass legislation during the Terry Schiavo case to advance their religious ideologies.
In essence, by voting for these disgraced Republican politicians, Evangelicals are condoning lying, murder (in terms of soldiers dying in an illegal and unjust war), financial crimes, sexual predators etc.
Congress's image is in shambles because of one reason: the Party in power has let power go to its head, and it has done every sick misdeed one can think of to maintain that power, including covering up for a sexual predator. No poll needed to figure that one out, just common sense.
Cut these polls up any way you would like, but the only Party to blame for that poor image is the GOP, being that they have held power in Congress for the last 12 years and have basically been a rubber stamp for the attrocious policies of Bush's failed administration.
Furthermore, scandal after scandal has plagued this Republican Party, and it doesn't look like it is going to stop anytime soon. Just recently it was shown that disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who the Bush administration maintains had limited contact with the White House, was actually a regular there. CNN reported on September 29 that "The draft report of the House Government Reform Committee said the documents -- largely Abramoff's billing records and e-mails -- listed 485 lobbying contacts with White House officials over three years, including 10 with top Bush aide Karl Rove." And he had limited contact? Yeah right!
For years now, Republicans have celebrated their successes because of one key constituent, Envangelicals who believe the Party is as close to God as it comes. This group of voters comes out in groves to vote and support Republican pols, because in their minds, it is the more moral Party and more representative of their Christian values. However, after revelations that many of these same Evangelicals are going to vote Party line this November, even with all of the scandals, it's clear they're not too concerned with who is representing God these days. Some of these same voters are admittedly voting for Mark Foley, even though they know he is a sexual predator.
Evangelicals voting habits defy logic. Here is a group that votes based on morality, yet even when it knows about a sexual predator in its beloved Party, it votes for him anyway. If anything, the Democrats are more of the embodiment of morality and more representative of our pluralistic nation than the Republicans. For example, the Democrats didn't lie to get America into a war, as President Bush did when he said in his State of the Union speech leading up to the Iraq war that Iraq was actively seeking enriched uranium for the manufacturing of nuclear weapons. Democrats didn't take Jack Abramoff's money or allow him into the White House 485 times and then lie about it. Democrats didn't sexually pursue underage Pages and then try to cover it up. Democrats didn't misuse the Senate to try and pass legislation during the Terry Schiavo case to advance their religious ideologies.
In essence, by voting for these disgraced Republican politicians, Evangelicals are condoning lying, murder (in terms of soldiers dying in an illegal and unjust war), financial crimes, sexual predators etc.
Congress's image is in shambles because of one reason: the Party in power has let power go to its head, and it has done every sick misdeed one can think of to maintain that power, including covering up for a sexual predator. No poll needed to figure that one out, just common sense.
posted by Caleab at 11:19 AM
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Hello Caleab,
Here's some more red hot ink for your pen. Now help me vanquish the sword!
This Foley fiasco has given people the chance to change the make-up of this government, which will ultimately lead to the end of the Bush-Cheney reign. It may not be pretty, but it is a gift, nonetheless. Don't waste this advantage. Use it wisely to end the more pressing problems that face us all.
Want to better understand some of the desperation among top Christian politicos? Want to know what else they are pretending not to know about? Follow the links and read about who I am and what I have to say. Notice that my last name is Page? Think this "page" scandal is a mere coincidence? The timing and ramifications are much worse than most realize yet.
If Christian political leaders are going to go around attacking others for not living up to their professed values, it's a damn good idea to be truthful and actually walk the walk. Logs and motes in the eye, camels through the eye of a needle, glass houses, kettles and pots, and what goes around comes around, et al. Karma's a bitch when She finally decides enough is enough! This wouldn't have been so bad on Republicans if they hadn't been such arrogant hypocrites in order to corner the so-called values voters! Now the "Two Candlesticks" and "Two Witnesses" (Truth and Justice) are "breathing fire" and "raining hailstones!"
Christian Political Leadership, Hypocrisy, Duplicity, and Purposeful Evil
The current scandal involving Congressman Foley is merely the latest in an amazingly long list of blatant deception and duplicity by Republicans and the Christian Right in recent years. While bedeviling us all with their holier-than-thou pretenses, they consistently support and/or perform blatant greed and abominable evil. Never forget the extent of their arrogance over the last two decades and especially the last 6 years. It is beyond amazing that Christians continue to blindly support such obviously blatant scoundrels, even as they are repeatedly exposed going against the most basic of human values. The level of hypocrisy and duplicity boggles the mind. There is no longer any doubt, whatsoever, that Christianity is little more than a purposeful deception used by political and religious leaders to dupe, manipulate, and coerce entire populations into giving them wealth and power, which they always use for greed, injustice, and abominable evils.
The actions of Foley and those who covered up for him directly parallel the actions of scores of priests that have raped innocent children, preyed upon others for centuries, and had their actions hidden and abetted by the Vatican. Now, in eerie repetition of Vatican history, we have a power hungry Christian Emperor (GW) working closely with the Vatican and Judeo-Christian aristocrats to lead crusades in the so-called Holy Land. Furthermore, to leave little doubt about the reality of this assessment, the USA, as the new Holy Roman Empire, is about to legalize the torture it has perpetrated in recent years while steadily reversing many of the democratic and civil freedoms that people gained when the Vatican and royalty lost control of their European empire at the turn of the nineteenth century. Now we see them following the same old path of evil as they strive to cement the status of the USA as the latest proxy Vatican empire. Make no mistake about it, the new dark ages are looming on the horizon unless we do something proactive to prevent it.
Remember that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it!
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