This being an election year, values voters and the groups that represent them plan to push Congress to do more on their issues, according to Associated Press. The constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, sponsored by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., could get a House vote in July. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., has promised that the Senate will take up the marriage amendment and the constitutional amendment to ban flag burning, as well as a House-passed bill to prevent some minors from crossing state lines to get abortions. The Family Research Council also plans a “Values Voter Summit” in September to “raise the bar of achievement for this Congress.”
No word yet on whether Congress will consider a constitutional amendment to ban unneeded constitutional amendments.
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How about enforcing the laws on illegals… how about sealing the borders and cutting off federal funding to states that embrace illegals.
Maybe if you start there… you’ll still be the majority-party in ‘07.
A law banning minors from crossing state lines to receive abortions?
In the wake of the immigration debacle, where GOP racists grabbed the wheel and drove the party away from a carefully-courted Hispanic vote, it’ll be great to see the nutjobs continue to shoot themselves in the foot.
Look for Republicans to drag out all of their pink elephants. They’re in deep do do.
Even some of the VERY faithful (outside of kansas of course) are starting to get it:
The NYT says that inflammatory social issues may not do it for the Republicans in the 2006 elections. Lindsey Graham utters this rather wonderful sentence: “Gay marriage is not the magic bullet to get us out of our situation.”
I guess it didnt work out very well making immigrants the new gays, so they are back to gay bashing. But Graham, one of the best according to Time, sees the end of the road for the politics of hate.
Too bad kansas didnt get Graham’s message. It still works with 70% of the voters here.
Kansas… as bigoted as you think.
“Values voters”? One wonders at their values. More appropriatly they should be called “voters with nose trouble” minding other peoples business.Gay marriage? ICKKKK! They don’t like it! Ban it! And ban flag burning too! Everyone knows the American flag is SACRED!! Flags are for flying over car lots and waving to show that you are right (Right) and covering coffins! The idea of the flag is nothing. Protect the symbol!Freedom isn’t free! You have to pay for it. And if I have enough money it gives me the right to tell other people how to live!But I applaud these folks their audacity if not their motive. It is just about time they got out front and show us just who and what they really are.
KFG
Good post. What will the wedge issue be?
Steve has it right.
“Look for Republicans to drag out all of their pink elephants. They’re in deep do do.”
The r’s need something to divide the US in order to win.
Hey nwk18!! Good to see you.
Well, they had the immigrant wedge backfire, some people in some states are seeing through the gay marriage wedge, and “you are either with us or against us” isnt working too well either.
Divide and conquer… or actually come up with a strategy for effective governing?
Which do you think they will choose?
Unfortunately I think “we don’t want to listen to no steenkin’ East Coast intellectual liberals” will always play well in the South and the southern plains states. They’re willing to shoot themselves and the country in the foot because they see education, culture, indecisiveness (and I use the word in a + sense here…unlike – “Bush” decisiveness) as things they don’t have that prove a person is a pussy.
Yep . . .a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and flag burning. The whole world will then be righteous. No more evil, no more terrorism, no more hungry children, no more dumbing down of our children, no more drunk drivers, no more wife beaters, no more child molesters, no more gravity challenged people with high cholesterol, no more crooked CEO’s, no more crooked politicians, no more drive by shootings, no more “Katrina’s”, no more stupid politicians suggesting stupid laws, no more stupid presidents going to war, no more outrageous national debts. . . yep, an intelligent decision, again, by our elected representatives in Washington.
devide/conquer … immigration can be a sticky issue, the Catholic “left” is VERY liberal on this, makes me look conservative. Also on some social justice issues. The Bishops’ letter even quotes the Pope calling for state ownership in some cases.
If Dem’s are ‘they party with no ideas”, then Republicans are “the party with bad ideas. Seems like none of their ideas have worked out all that great!
JM:Great post. It is much easier to get exercised about something flashy than it is about the ever-present, on-going ills of society. Gives the wingnut voters, many of whom indulge in the behaviors you list, a way to feel self-righteous and not have to think.
And while the extra-chromosome Christians (Republican’s term, not mine) worry about Adam and Steve, Pat Roberts manages to drag Phase 2 of the intelligence review from days to months to years–
. . .with all the buzz about nukes in Iran, it would be safe to assume that the committee is deep into an inquiry, right? Well, not quite. Kansas Republican Sen. Pat Roberts, the committee chair, warns that “we have not made the progress on our oversight of Iran intelligence, which is critical.” The panel has done only piecemeal scrutiny of the spy agencies’ work on Iran. “There is no organized committee staff effort to look at Iran right now,” says majority staff director Bill Duhnke. “It’s all sort of on hold.” Roberts blames it on Democrats who are “more focused on intelligence failures of the past.” Committee staffers who would conduct the Iran inquiry are instead tied up with the long-awaited second phase of the panel’s review of prewar intelligence on Iraq (which covers how the Bush administration used the intelligence). Democrats say Roberts is stalling on Phase 2. “If the committee has not conducted a review of Iran intelligence, it’s not because of a lack of resources,” says Wendy Morigi, spokeswoman for Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the committee’s ranking Democrat. Roberts says he is pushing hard to complete the Iraq inquiry, which could take several more months. Then, the committee can focus more on Iran. Perhaps Tehran will be kind enough to wait for them.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/articles/060424/24whisplead.htm
Remember term limits, Pat? Looks like you may get to spend more time with the family when your term expires.
Here’s what Bush said in his concluding remarks in the first debate with Gore back in 2000–
“I also want to go to Washington to get some positive things done. It is going to require a new spirit. A spirit of cooperation. It will require the ability of a Republican president to reach out across the partisan divide and to say to Democrats, let’s come together to do what is right for America.”
Bush and his crew have reached across the aisle, but only to give the Democrats the finger.
The most divisive, arrogant, pig-headed, go-it-alone, damn-the-world President we’ve ever had, and Roberts is right behind him, kissing his ass.
How much longer must our great nation tolerate these puny wretches as our “leaders”?
Bush, TWIT Happens
“Values” voters? Where did this term come from, have I been living in a cave? “Values”?
Since when is self-righteousness a value? Since when is bigotry a value? Since when is judging others a value? Since when is ethical imperialism a value? Some of these “values” voters must be reading a different Bible than the one I have. I believe in cooperation, understanding, and forgiveness, but apparently those aren’t values anymore.
Looks like the religious right is toning down its message for mainstream consumption. It seems the unvarnished truth of the evangelical agenda is just too much for the average voter to swallow, so a PR campaign is in order.
http://www.therevealer.org/archives/timeless_002514.php
Let’s hear it for common sense.. Kline lost one today. A judge struck down Klein’s directive that health care workers report the names of sexually active teenagers.
There is one small victory for common sense, and a defeat for the extremist who’s “values” seem to harken back to the Puritans..
I nominate intruding into families end of life decisions as the next wedge issue for the Republicans. It worked so well in the Schiavo case, remember?
Before the culmination of the Sciavo family tragedy, Republicans saw the situation as a way to toss a bone to their base AND embarass the Democrats.That one did not work out so well, huh?
It is so good that the Repubs do things in the interest of people and never for political advantage.
DD, what is really too bad is that it works, time and time again.
Things are the way they are because the majority of voters want them that way.
I would amend what KFG says
Things are the way they are because the majority of voters *are brainwashed* that way.
heheh Julie. Same result!
Can voters choose not to be brainwashed without resorting to wearing our tinfoil hats? :)
Since values doesn’t play anymore, the Repubs will return to the fear card.
OBL will get a cell call from the White House soon, asking him to queue up the tape machine for another missive.
Accomplishes two things: Gets all the 50 IQs back to their front windows, noses pressed against looking for that machine gun-wielding Arab and it ought to be good for three or four more days of articially inflated oil prices.