DeLay/Abramoff partner Michael Scanlon,
By on Nov 3rd, 2005 at 4:07 pm
DeLay/Abramoff partner Michael Scanlon,
in a private memo: “The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees. Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.”
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Good thing no christian conservatives read this blog…they’d be pissed…
November 3rd, 2005 at 5:11 pmBEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 3rd, 2005 at 5:18 pmThese are Delay and Bush buddies!!!!!!!!!
November 3rd, 2005 at 5:21 pm#2 If by beautiful you mean disgusting, then yes.
November 3rd, 2005 at 5:24 pmThe collapse is sudden, swift and complete, isn’t it?
November 3rd, 2005 at 5:24 pmThe Xtian conservatives are now using some other K Street lobbyist that is off our radar. We’ll know about the new guy in town soon enough.
But I’d be pissed if he said that about me after paying them buucoo bucks.
November 3rd, 2005 at 5:24 pmThat is Tom DeLay talking folks. That is exactly how he feels about the wackos that keep voting him into office.
November 3rd, 2005 at 5:34 pmWikipedia:
Central to understanding psychopaths is that they do not appear to experience true human emotions, or at least, they do not appear to experience a full range of human emotions. This can explain the lack of empathy for the suffering of others, since they cannot experience emotion associated with either empathy or suffering. Risk-seeking behavior and substance abuse may be attempts to fill the emotional void.
November 3rd, 2005 at 5:35 pmThis is great, now I have something to show to my mom and dad to wake them up to the fact that their religion and political party have been highjacked by NeoCons.
November 3rd, 2005 at 5:37 pmVia SourceWatch:
“In emails now made public by the FBI, which is investigating him, Abramoff repeatedly refers to Native Americans as ‘monkeys,’ ‘troglodytes’ and ‘idiots.’”
These are the sort of emails that can really screw-up a decent client relationship.
November 3rd, 2005 at 5:39 pmAndrew,
You just described MightyWindbag and MizzWrong to the tee. Psychopath is definitely the accurate description.
NED appears to be a BPD sufferer. She’s messed up in a much more pathetic way.
November 3rd, 2005 at 5:51 pmI was thinking of Cheney, Abramoff and one or two ex- coworkers myself.
I thought that NeD was just histrionic, but you probably know more about that than I do.
November 3rd, 2005 at 5:55 pmwackos vote together, their roots connect them…
New on EWM: Kevin Bacon to play Libby in upcoming “Six Degrees of Scooterâ€
It’s ‘Dumb and Dumber’ meets ‘All the President’s Men.’
November 3rd, 2005 at 6:07 pm16. I would have called it “Six degrees of Incarceration,” but that’s just me. And Lovitz could play the whole damned Bush administration.
November 3rd, 2005 at 6:18 pmAnybody pushing this to the “wacko voters”?
November 3rd, 2005 at 6:30 pmFascists. All of them. Maybe they’ve finally started feeding on eachother?
November 3rd, 2005 at 6:48 pm#17
I would imagine some churches in Sugarland Texas would be interested in this information. I’ll bet church information for Sugarland Texas is also pretty easy to find.
November 3rd, 2005 at 6:52 pmThat piece of news should be circulated among all the pastors to be used by them in Sunday’s sermon. If the Christian Right don’t feel like abused victims, they are in denial.
November 3rd, 2005 at 7:29 pmSo very telling!
November 3rd, 2005 at 7:58 pmAnd I still say NeD, Mighty and I-Wrong are all the same person. I have thrown that at them in many threads and they have never acknowledged or denied it. Maybe multiple personality syndrome? In which each personality is unaware of the existence of the others? Whatever. We know that THEY are the wackos.
Tell you what-
Easy, Marie- Google Sugarland Churchs, send the link. I’ve sent 5 so far. I’ll do 20 or so. It will circulate itself after that. You willing to help?
November 3rd, 2005 at 8:07 pmAtvV – I did two already.
November 3rd, 2005 at 8:22 pmSKdeA,
From what I can tell they’re all farmed out of the freerepublic. Most likely it’s a couple of the moderators from that site that can’t stand anyone who undermines their delusion. It seems like the freerepublic has a deep and unholy tie with the NeoCons and their ‘pentagon iraq group’, so most likely they’re all coordinate GOP propagandists.
Especially when you consider that much of their content literally lifts word for word from the freeper site itself. Many times I’ve searched based on the language they used, and it matches IDENTICALLY with the free republic, and many times no where else.
If it isn’t a single person, it’s certainly a small and disturbed group from the same source. It’s part of the ‘400 faithful’ that waddled their ugly fat butts out in DC earlier this summer. All clad in giant fat khaki pants or those nerd government employee uniforms. They were such a site of self important and stupid looking nerds. They are so wierd, delusional and frankly just insane…
November 3rd, 2005 at 8:52 pmYou mean the criminal hucksters who run the Republican Syndicate hold their naive constituents in contempt? Big surprise. Is it coincidence that the televangelists who are using Jesus to pick the pockets of their congregations are also Big Time Republicans? Nah….they are pandering to the same people. If you can believe Pat Robertson is a man of God, beliving this Republican Party is concerned about voters is a given.
To be a middle-class Republican today means you really don’t get it.
November 3rd, 2005 at 9:25 pmThis evidence supports the thesis in the 100% enjoyable and insightful What’s The Matter With Kansas?, T, Frank’s book last year. A great read and funny when you’re not weeping for the soul of your nation.
The real sorry fact is, these Machiavellian manipulators have actually convinced working class Republicans (what a comical, obsurd combination of words) that the idea of a Supply Side Jesus is real, and that an anti-labor labor force will set the worker free.
These emails are a smoking gun of sorts, albeit one of low caliber. Will the dupes of the con finally wake up?
Also, how can you have faith in Social Darwinism, and not Darwin? Space-based defense but not the scientific method?
The Right’s pastiche of ideas and “values” doesn’t pass the sniff test unless you’re already holding your nose.
November 3rd, 2005 at 9:31 pmWow. We do have reason to be suspicious. Ryan, I gotta give you credit, I never thought to search their talking points! In one way it’s nice to know they are all centrally located wackos (oh please, just a little meteor!), on the other hand it’s very disturbing to think that derailing our discourse means so much to them. Ew! We aren’t paranoid, it’s just that they are out to get us…
November 3rd, 2005 at 10:44 pmSo why discuss with them at all? Is there any hope of conversion?
Ryan, I’m not totally clear on how you feel about the ‘400 faithful’.
GT Liberal: “Also, how can you have faith in Social Darwinism, and not Darwin?” Great point. Never thought of that before.
Some really funny posts today, esp. #10.
November 3rd, 2005 at 11:39 pmSKdeA,
There is no hope of a conversation. We post to refute their points, and educate those who legitimately read the blogs interested in followups. These guys are whackos, and they are not interested any opinion they don’t already have, and they aren’t interested in any facts that contradict those opinions.
November 3rd, 2005 at 11:42 pmTsk, tsk. Our religious right friends were patsies so Bush could get re-elected.
Congratulations for being so blind to faith, and to the Republicans.
By the way, I have this great money making scheme you conservatives might be interested in….
November 4th, 2005 at 1:42 amWe acknowledge the victimization (by the Republicans) of the right wing christians. Too bad for them they cannot see what the rest of see.
Their loss. Their stupidity.
November 4th, 2005 at 2:23 amI downloaded the orginal documents from the Senate and made a few images containing the relavent quote. Have a look and grab a copy.
November 4th, 2005 at 11:02 amGOP Money considers Christian Right “Wackos”
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Wow, it even comes with a bill for $150,000 to convince the nutty wackos to support their view.
November 4th, 2005 at 11:15 amGun-Toting Liberal: How right you are. The GOP has done a great job with their Machiavellian messages. You see it not only in their campaignes but also when they name their policy initiatives. Remember No Child Left Behind? Of course Dubya got elected by saying he was a Compassionate Convervitive! We should have seen it coming.
November 4th, 2005 at 12:00 pmSomebody has got to get an Email to Alan Colmes and have him drop this on Fox News for the next 10-15 days, ala Sean Hannity repeat-mode. Every time the GOP brings up their spin job that the left is trying to “kill Christmas” or some other fake “Culture War”, reference we have to use this quote to show that the GOP uses people of God. Please all Democratic operatives on TV put this sort of quote front and center. This is the kind of thing people listen for, they get dizzy listening to policy but they LOVE hypocrisy. WE NEED THIS QUOTE ON FOX NEWS, THE CHRISTIANS WATCH FOX and as has been said already, they are not going to see this quote on this website. We have to take it to twhere they get their news, just like the memo says.
November 4th, 2005 at 12:07 pmWHACKOS! Even the Republicans think these religious zealots are crazy. And a direct quote, in writing that no one can deny, has been read into the record, no less. There’s no squirming out of this one.
November 4th, 2005 at 7:28 pmMaybe they could claim that WACKO is an acronym for Wonderful American Christian Konservative Oilmen.
November 4th, 2005 at 7:49 pm