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INSANE North Carolina bill allows ‘establishment of religion’ by state government
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have proposed a bill that they say would allow to the state to establish an official religion and defy the Constitution of the United States….
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Update: the bill has been killed. Via sharkchunks. Pretty obvious that this bill was DOA, as it should be.
Anyone who would favor the establishment of a state religion has absolutely zero credibility on the subject of freedom; one reason the Tea Party is ridiculously ironic.
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Slick, Paranoid Tea Party Video Aims for Violent Insurrection
(AlterNet) - Attendees at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) were reportedly thrilled by a short sci-fi video depicting a dictatorial near-future government and the underground “Movement on Fire” that springs up to resist it. The video, a thinly veiled advertisement for violent insurrection from the “Tea Party Patriots” group, boasts professional acting and Hollywood production values. But underneath its bright, professional sheen lurk dark overtones of End Times paranoia that will resonate with millions of American fundamentalists. Its apocalyptic imagery is as ancient as Revelations, its glossy look as modern as a Revlon ad, and its near-subliminal barrage of rapid-cut imagery rings with the terror-fueled sermons of 1,000 preachers.
This was shown at CPAC. CPAC. THE conservative conference.
This isn’t just the fringe element of the right, it IS the right. This kind of thing is becoming more and more mainstream with them and it’s quite frankly horrifying.
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"Mark the calendar, Carl Rove has become the moderate establishment."
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Teabagging for Jesus!
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High ResolutionWhy 2012 Is the Republicans Last Chance — New York Magazine
By Jonathan Chait, nymag.comOf the various expressions of right-wing hysteria that have flowered over the past three yearsgoldbuggery, birtherism, death panels at home and imaginary apology tours by President Obama abroadperhaps the strain that has taken…
I’ve been making this argument for a while now. If the tea-party Republicans don’t win again this year, they will never get a second chance. The reality of the nation not collapsing under the weight of another Obama term will just add fuel to their own self-immolation; dying in the flames of their own bizarre hatreds.
Look at that sea of happy shiny faces!
(Source: lycanpedia, via skepticalavenger)
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The ABC’s Of The Tea Party Vs Progressive Debate
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Mitt Romney: Tea Party Puppet
“In a vacuum, it is distinctly possible that Mitt Romney would prefer to run as a moderate Republican in a campaign focused on honest and substantive disagreements and not nasty attacks and lies. But unfortunately for Mitt Romney and our country, he is running in a Republican Party hijacked and controlled by right-wing extremists. The Tea Party is the real Republican candidate for president of the United States. Mitt Romney is just their puppet.”
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High ResolutionHere’s an article about the accident:
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Md-House-GOP-Troubled-By-Dwyer-Accident-167430245.html
(Source: stfueverything, via darwinsminion)
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And if we get our way, a Constitutional amendment!
The fact is that a wave of socially regressive ideologs have swept into congress under the cover of the economic crisis. These guys shout about the deficit while they are really working on setting women, gay people and non-Christians back 50 years. And making sure they stay back.
(Source: gop-circus, via darwinsminion)
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GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party
This article is an excerpt from the book “The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless and the Middle Class Got Shafted,”
Having observed politics up close and personal for most of my adult lifetime, I have come to the conclusion that the rise of politicized religious fundamentalism may have been the key ingredient in the transformation of the Republican Party. Politicized religion provides a substrate of beliefs that rationalizes—at least in the minds of its followers—all three of the GOP’s main tenets: wealth worship, war worship, and the permanent culture war.
Religious cranks ceased to be a minor public nuisance in this country beginning in the 1970s and grew into a major element of the Republican rank and file. Pat Robertson’s strong showing in the 1988 Iowa presidential caucus signaled the gradual merger of politics and religion in the party. Unfortunately, at the time I mostly underestimated the implications of what I was seeing. It did strike me as oddly humorous that a fundamentalist staff member in my congressional office was going to take time off to convert the heathen in Greece, a country that had been overwhelmingly Christian for almost two thousand years. I recall another point, in the early 1990s, when a different fundamentalist GOP staffer said that dinosaur fossils were a hoax. As a mere legislative mechanic toiling away in what I held to be a civil rather than ecclesiastical calling, I did not yet see that ideological impulses far different from mine were poised to capture the party of Lincoln.
Great article, I liked this line:
“Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah, argues that this is a “lying for Jesus” strategy that fundamentalists often adopt when dealing with the snares of a wicked and Godless world. Since Satan is the father of lies, one can be forgiven for fighting lies with lies.”
(via skepticalavenger)
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