The conservative movement
By on Oct 12th, 2005 at 4:50 pm
The conservative movement
“is falling apart at the seams,” according to NBC’s chief political correspondent, Howard Fineman.
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October 12th, 2005 at 4:59 pmThe conservative movement is the party of greed, corruption, ignorance, ineptitude, selfishness, hatred, bigotry, misogyny, oppression, religious zealousness and generally immoral valuelessness…
Eventually when all you stand for is destructions of all things good, it always collapses…
October 12th, 2005 at 4:59 pmGO AWAY SPAMFUSH.
October 12th, 2005 at 5:03 pmWell said and right on Ryan. I’m hoping for implosion of the entire right wing….Thank You!…Blessings
October 12th, 2005 at 5:06 pmI’ve posted this here before, but it seems appropriate to post again:
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it – always.
-Mahatma Gandhi
October 12th, 2005 at 5:08 pmCooper’s attorney seems to think indictments are going pretty high…(Hardball).
October 12th, 2005 at 5:15 pmNeocon philosophy is unsustainable. It’s a paradox at it’s core. It’s moral/immoral, peaceful/waring, nice/mean, frugal/expensive, diligent/lazy, inclusive/exclusive, small/big, science-based/faith-based, ethical/evil, selfless/selfish, responsible/careless.
October 12th, 2005 at 5:22 pmAfter thinking about it, common sense suggests a stronger relationship between Christians(pro life), and Democrats or independents. I think it gives the pro-life movement more credibility. Just a thought.
October 12th, 2005 at 5:27 pmTurns out the Bush loyalists didn’t care one bit that Bush was screwing up the country, nor that he was woefully inadequate for the job. All they were ever concerned with was turning the clock back in this country and jamming their minority ideological crap down the rest of our throats.
October 12th, 2005 at 5:37 pmNow that they fear they won’t get their way, they have all turned on Bush.
eveyone please call these people about slimeing Ronnie Earle ,call email lets try and stop the Ads attacking Ronnie Earl…..We must take America away from the likes of Tom Delay,GWbush, Robertson,Dobson and others….
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October 12,2005
October 12, 2005
For Immediate Release
Contact: Todd Schorle (202) 887-1011 / (202) 421-9693 cell
Free Enterprise Fund Airs New Television Ad
In Its Continuing Campaign To
Expose Partisan Prosecutor’s Anti-Free Market Agenda
Washington (FEF) – The Free Enterprise Fund is launching a saturation buy on broadcast television Thursday featuring a new television spot attacking Travis County, Texas District Attorney Ronnie Earle for allowing partisan considerations to interfere with his professional conduct.
October 12th, 2005 at 5:38 pmThe ad, which opens with an announcer saying, “A prosecutor with a political agenda can be vicious†over footage of a snarling, barking dog, is slated to first air on television stations in Austin, Texas.
“Ronnie Earle is abusing his power and his office,” said Mallory Factor, chairman of the Free Enterprise Fund. “We want to make sure his friends and neighbors know what he’s up to — and are buying time on everything from West Wing to NASCAR to make sure they have a chance to see the real Ronnie Earle.”
“Ronnie Earle is using his office as the leading wedge for liberals trying to regain control of the Texas Legislature and the U.S. Congress. By pushing grand juries to issue politically-motivated indictments of prominent Republicans, Ronnie Earle is trying to make it a crime to be conservative, to support an agenda of lower taxes and less government. That’s un-American,†Factor said.
The case for Earle as a partisan and ideological operative continues to build. Over the course of his politically-driven investigation into the activities of the majority leader, Earle:
• gave a speech attacking Tom DeLay to liberal activists raising funds to help Democrats win back control of the Texas Legislature;
• worked to get a third grand jury to issue additional indictments of Tom DeLay after a second refused to go along with his browbeating tactics – a failure he tried to keep secret;
• let several corporations he previously indicted off the hook after they agreed to make five- and six-figure contributions to what one magazine called his “pet causesâ€; including a $50,000 contribution to support a program at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas.
The ad, the third the group has produced and put on the air, is part of the FEF’s continuing campaign to educate the American people about the effort to undermine the pro-free market agenda in Washington through the use of personal, partisan potshots at free enterprise movement leaders and their allies in public office. All three spots can be seen on the Web at http://www.FreeEnterpriseFund.org. For a BETA broadcast copy, call Todd Schorle at 202/887-1011.
The Free Enterprise Fund, a Section 501(c)(4) organization based in Washington, DC, is America’s leading advocate for pro-growth economic policy, tax relief and tax reform, fiscal restraint and limited government. The ad was produced by Nelson Warfield of Warfield&Co.
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There will never be any credibility for the pro-life movement until they accept the constitution and the bill of rights of this nation. If one of their members has an unwanted pregnancy then they are free and clear to have an unwanted baby. But for them to tell all women who do not espouse those beliefs that they cannot have control over their reproductive rights is an affront to their individual rights guaranteed by the law of this land. They are only concerned with control based on their brand of fascism twisted by an archaic brand of fundamentalist evangelical christianity and I for one don’t want anything to do with these people.
October 12th, 2005 at 5:40 pmMr. Evil,
That sounds good, but you’re forgetting Scalia logic:
October 12th, 2005 at 5:54 pm(Paraphrase): “Nowhere in the constitution does it say abortion is legal”
thot’s,
I don’t think you need to worry. Earle is truly only concerned about awareness of “pay to play” politics. Delay is helping this cause every time he opens his yapper.
October 12th, 2005 at 5:57 pmThese false prophets prey upon people’s fears and weaknesses, all the while, lining their pockets, engaging in illegal and unethical business deals. Their pride, greed and hypocrisy are beginning to slip out from behind their pious facades. May they all go down in humiliating disgrace — we’ll all be better off.
October 12th, 2005 at 5:57 pmRyan, you’re right. The conservative movement is synonymous with the religious right. Sanctimonious, smug, self-righteous vermin. The greedy bastards deserve whatever misery they get.
October 12th, 2005 at 6:00 pmThat’s the marketplace of ideas. We’ve had a few years of their “conservative” ideology at work, and now everyone can see the results.
These ideas were developed over decades in ivory tower think tanks, it is little surprise that the ideas a) have a broad appeal in theory, and b) don’t work so well in the real world.
October 12th, 2005 at 6:25 pm“That sounds good, but you’re forgetting Scalia logic:
(Paraphrase): “Nowhere in the constitution does it say abortion is legal—
And yet the constitution’s premises protect our civil liberties, thereby forming the basis of the legal decision around roe v. wade.
The fact that Scalia can’t apply existing law to new situations is more of an indictment of his ineptitude, than an accuracy of his statement.
October 12th, 2005 at 6:31 pmYou don’t have to get THAT intellectual about it, Ryan.
October 12th, 2005 at 6:39 pmNowhere in the constitution does it say I can take a crap in my own home, but you better believe it’s pretty unpopular when I do.
Scalia’s logic is based soley on his moral convictions, which makes him a judicial activist.
#13 Brian: Scalia may be right about that, but the Supreme Court used the 9th and 14th, sec. 1, amendments to “legalize” a woman’s right to control her reproductivity. At the time Texas and Georgia laws conflicted with those amendments which, by guarantee of the constitution, supersedes those laws.
On the other hand, Antonin Scalia is one of the lowlife, scumbags that helped give us Bush.
October 12th, 2005 at 6:41 pmGreat link! Thanks.
Though it’s hard to believe that the MSM came up with the content and had the guts to openly publish it. Their noses have been firmly installed in the NeoCon’s a** for the past, what?, 20 years or so.
October 12th, 2005 at 6:49 pmOpinion on Karl Rove:
He’s nothing but a low down, double dealing, back stabbing, larcenous, perverted worm!
Hanging’s too good for him! Burnings too good for him! He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!
With the exception of the opening line, who can tell me what movie this totally befitting statement came from? We should be able to have a little fun here from time to time.
October 12th, 2005 at 6:53 pmGot me, Mr. Evil.
Sounds very familiar. Mel Brooks?
October 12th, 2005 at 6:59 pmNope, Heavy Metal. I must have seen that cartoon a million times in my teenage years.
Karl Rove would never do anything illegal… except for all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun!
October 12th, 2005 at 7:12 pmI forgot about Heavy Metal. Ends with Steely Dan’s True Companion.
October 12th, 2005 at 7:17 pmAlso Harriet Miers? Who’s that?
October 12th, 2005 at 7:19 pmKarl would never do anything illegal.
October 12th, 2005 at 7:35 pmFor your reading pleasure (or liberal schadenfreude):
- “The Conservative Crack Up Thesis” (4/26/05)
- “Achilles Heeels” (3/23/05)
October 12th, 2005 at 9:14 pmAfricans die while republicans require corporate cronyism in order to give aid. What heartless and immoral bastards the republican movement fosters!
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/101205F.shtml
October 12th, 2005 at 9:20 pmAMEN
October 12th, 2005 at 10:15 pmHeavy Metal it is! Another quote from the classic, “And what about the preschooler’s prostitute ring?” That might be something up Jeff Gannon’s alley. Just who the hell is he diddling in the White House?
Cynical Ex-Hippie wins a case of beer! When I’m elected president in about 11 years I’ll hire you to be my press secretary and pay up then.
October 13th, 2005 at 4:58 pm