Religions > Atheism > "NUTS and GOOFY": That's What Bushies Are Calling EVANGELICALS! (Rightly So?)
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"John Fartlington Poopnagel" |
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14 Oct 2006 07:42:37 AM |
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"NUTS and GOOFY": That's What Bushies Are Calling EVANGELICALS! (Rightly So?) |
All that ***** from your White House war criminal and pathological
liar about so-called "faith-based" initiatives? It doesn't hold a pint
o' *****! BUT, NO OCTOBER SURPRISE HERE!
And now all the funny-mentalists who fell for Bush's hog-turds are
up-in-arms, and they're, maybe, "not gonna take it anymore!"
Seems the Karl Roves of the administration have been bad-mouthing their
benighted religionist dupes for being so ... "nuts," and "so goofy" in
their foolish thoughts about "helping" people! Ha! The ONLY people
hypocritical Christians seek to help are those who out of ignorance and
fear adhere to the church's nitwit doctrine - or those they think they
can cajole into believing their horse-poop!
Well, now they're seeing just how faith-based the Bushies' base
feelings are toward "people of faith" now that they're wallowing in
their deserved dupe-dom.
But you FOOLS elected this craven crew, SO NOW LIVE WITH IT - AND THEM!
And keep votin' Republican!
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"Conservatives Rally Against Bush Aide-Turned-Critic"
"Expos=E9 of White House Scorn for Evangelicals Is Disputed"
By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 14, 2006; A03
Conservative religious leaders described themselves as shocked
yesterday by a new book's charge that Bush administration staffers
privately dismissed evangelical Christian political activists as "nuts"
and "goofy."
But their dismay was aimed at the book's author, former White House
official David Kuo, rather than at President Bush or his senior
advisers.
James Dobson, Charles W. Colson and other stalwarts of the conservative
Christian movement defended the Bush administration and questioned the
timing of the book's publication, a month before the midterm elections.
Some suggested that Kuo had betrayed the White House.
"I feel sorry for him, because once you do something like this, you get
your 15 minutes in the spotlight, but then after that nobody will touch
you," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a
Christian advocacy group in Washington. "These kiss-and-tell books do
more damage to the author than to the people they attack."
Kuo, who was deputy director of the White House Office of Faith-Based
and Community Initiatives in Bush's first term, alleges in the book,
"Tempting Faith," that the Bush administration used its funding of
religious charities to court evangelical voters in Machiavellian
fashion.
The book is being published at a pivotal moment not just for
Republicans who are battling to maintain control of the House and
Senate but also for conservative Christian voters, whose support for
the GOP has dipped in recent polls.
At 7 p.m. Sunday, evangelical leaders including Perkins and Dobson plan
to broadcast a 90-minute television special from a Boston church to
hundreds of other churches across the country in an attempt to keep
religious conservatives from sitting out the election.
Called "Liberty Sunday," it will "highlight specific cases and stories
where people's religious liberties have been threatened because of
homosexual activism and gay marriage in Massachusetts," said Family
Research Council spokeswoman Bethanie Swendsen.
At the same hour, CBS's "60 Minutes" will broadcast the first interview
with Kuo about his book, which is scheduled to go on sale Monday. CBS
and the book's publisher, Simon & Schuster, tried to keep a lid on the
book's contents until the "60 Minutes" exclusive. But MSNBC host Keith
Olbermann obtained a copy and began broadcasting excerpts Wednesday.
Conservative Christian leaders as well as present and former White
House officials responded yesterday to the MSNBC report, noting that
they had not yet seen the book itself.
White House press secretary Tony Snow told reporters that the book's
"assumption or insinuation seems to be that the administration takes
lightly faith-based groups." That is "false," he said.
Asked whether the president's "faith-based initiative" was used for
political purposes, Snow said flatly: "No." Snow also read from a
letter Kuo wrote to Bush when he left the administration in December
2003, saying he was "proud of all the initiative has accomplished."
In the book, Kuo asserts that the faith-based office was hurriedly set
up after Bush took office in 2001 by a transition volunteer who was
given less than a week to roll out the initiative.
Kuo asserts that evangelical leaders were called "the nuts" by people
in White House political strategist Karl Rove's office. "National
Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person, and then were
dismissed behind their backs and described as 'ridiculous,' 'out of
control' and just plain 'goofy,' " the book says, according to MSNBC.
Kuo previously has criticized the Bush administration for not carrying
out the president's 2000 campaign promise to boost charitable giving at
least $7 billion a year by extending charitable tax breaks to people
who do not itemize income tax deductions.
In the book, he says the White House opted instead for cuts in the
estate tax that eliminated the incentive for many wealthy people to
make charitable donations. The "ultimate impact was to brutalize the
very charities Mr. Bush once identified as his top priorities," Kuo
says.
Beginning in 2002, the White House held ostensibly "nonpartisan"
conferences about the availability of federal grants for religious
charities. But Kuo alleges that the events were, in fact, designed to
help vulnerable Republican incumbents.
Ken Mehlman, then the White House director of political affairs and now
chairman of the Republican National Committee, "loved the idea and gave
us our marching orders" to hold meetings in 20 congressional districts,
the book says.
H=2E James Towey, who directed the faith-based office during Kuo's time
there, said yesterday that "it sounds like he worked at a different
White House than the one I worked for."
Towey added that he, not Mehlman, decided where to hold conferences.
"If a congressman in a tight race invited me, I went," he said. "But
that was true of Democrats as well as Republicans."
Dobson, the psychologist and radio host who heads the influential group
Focus on the Family, issued a statement calling the book "a mix of sour
grapes and political timing."
Colson, who founded Prison Fellowship Ministries, said he was "shocked
and disappointed by what appears to be political timing to sell a book,
and a very unfair characterization of the parties involved."
Jan LaRue, chief counsel of Concerned Women for America, a Christian
women's group in Washington, said she sees "no reason to question the
sincerity of this president" based on the accusations aired so far.
"So, in Rove's office people of faith are mocked? Well, who in Rove's
office did the mocking? It's easy to make allegations like that if you
don't give the name, date, time," she said.
Perkins of the Family Research Council said he would not be surprised
if derisive comments were made behind Christian leaders' backs.
"I have no misconceptions about how people in the Republican Party and
the establishment view social conservatives. They are dismissive. I see
how they prefer to work with fiscal conservatives," he said. "Having
said that, I see it really as a marriage of convenience. We are not
without significant gains by working with this administration."
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| Title: Re: "NUTS and GOOFY": That's What Bushies Are Calling EVANGELICALS! (Rightly So?) |
14 Oct 2006 09:42:45 AM |
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"John Fartlington Poopnagel" <jismquiff@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1160829757.900718.326020@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
All that ***** from your White House war criminal and pathological
liar about so-called "faith-based" initiatives? It doesn't hold a pint
o' *****! BUT, NO OCTOBER SURPRISE HERE!
And now all the funny-mentalists who fell for Bush's hog-turds are
up-in-arms, and they're, maybe, "not gonna take it anymore!"
Seems the Karl Roves of the administration have been bad-mouthing their
benighted religionist dupes for being so ... "nuts," and "so goofy" in
their foolish thoughts about "helping" people! Ha! The ONLY people
hypocritical Christians seek to help are those who out of ignorance and
fear adhere to the church's nitwit doctrine - or those they think they
can cajole into believing their horse-poop!
Well they at least got ONE thing right!
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