Utah state Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, has been removed from a judicial committee that he chaired after comparing gay activists to radical Muslims and saying that gay activists are “probably the greatest threat to America going down.”
Buttars who appears a perfect nut case in the interview added: “It’s the beginning of the end. Oh, it’s worse than that. Sure. Sodom and Gomorrah was localized. This is worldwide.” I need to repeat: he was the chair of the Senate judicial committee.
His colleagues, however, want to emphasize that this is not punishment for the hateful comments. Utah Senate President Michael Waddoups said he will remain on the Senate Rules Committee and that it is merely an effort to remove a distraction.
Others like Stephen Graham of the Standard of Liberty came forward to associated himself with the hateful comments.
What is perfectly ironic is that in his campaign promises Buttars called for “Stop Legislation that Allows Government to increase Control of Our Personal Lives.” Of course, he was speaking of legislation dealing with home schooling. When it comes to people with private lives that he does not agree with, he is ready to use Big Brother to stop ” the greatest threat to America going down.” His literature promises
Despite the recent venom directed at him for defending traditional values, Senator Buttars will never abandon the framework of spiritual and moral values upon which our government was founded. Senator Buttars will continue to stand against the very aggressive special interest groups whose mission is to eliminate all traditional and moral values from government.
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Spam is indeed made from pork butt.
“Smart Power”
February 19, 2009
That’s the Obama administration’s rather obnoxious description of its own foreign policy–as though its predecessors were all dumb.
The Pakistani government has cut a “deal” with violent Islamists to install Sharia law in the contested Swat valley–which sounds, of course, more like a capitulation, perhaps a willing one, than a “deal.”
US envoy Richard Holbrooke told CNN in an interview on Thursday afternoon that he had spoken with Zardari by phone just hours earlier and expressed his “concern.” …
Well, that’s reassuring. Fortunately, our government intends to talk about what is happening in the Swat valley:
“And I can assure you, and President Zardari knows this, that this will be the top initial subject of conversation,” he said.
When you’re really smart, a little conversation goes a long way.
If the administration would emphasize the continuity of American interests and American policies rather than denouncing its predecessors at every turn and telling the world how “smart” it is, it may do much good in critical places like Pakistan, just for starters.
The Obama Cabinet is a CEO black hole
By EAMON JAVERS | 2/20/09 4:12 AM EST
In President Barack Obama’s Cabinet, there is a Nobel Prize winner, a former mayor, a veteran CIA agent. Surrounding him in the White House West Wing are a handful of this generation’s most talented political operatives.
This constellation of talent, however, has something of a black hole. There is virtually no one on Obama’s team with outsized achievements or a high-profile reputation earned in the world of business.
There are no former CEOs in the Obama Cabinet. And among the people who make up his daily inner circle, there is only a dollop or two of top-level private sector experience.
This is a notable absence, particularly for an administration whose domestic reputation will hinge on whether it can reverse one of the steepest economic downturns in decades.
Most recent administrations—Democratic as well as Republican—have included people who were bold-faced names in the corporate world before assuming influential jobs in Washington.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19066.html
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Freshman Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., is just the latest embarrassment.
The political mess for the Democratic Party, however, isn’t Burris’ conduct alone; it’s the pattern that has developed so quickly over the past few months.
_The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., is the subject of a House ethics investigation. It’s partly focused on his fundraising practices for a college center in his name, his ownership financing of a resort property in the Dominican Republic and his financial disclosure reports.
_Federal agents raided two Pennsylvania defense contractors that were provided millions of dollars in federal funding by Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee.
_Blagojevich was arrested Dec. 9 on federal charges, including allegations he schemed to sell the Senate seat to the highest bidder.
_Tom Daschle, the former Senate majority leader from South Dakota, abandoned his bid to become health and human services secretary and the administration’s point man on reforming health care; and Nancy Killefer stepped down from a newly created position charged with eliminating inefficient government programs.
Both Daschle and Killefer had tax problems, and Daschle also faced potential conflicts of interest related to working with health care interests.
_Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was confirmed after revealing he had tax troubles.
_Obama’s initial choice for commerce secretary, Bill Richardson, stepped aside due to a grand jury investigation into a state contract awarded to his political donors.
_While the Senate voted overwhelmingly to confirm William Lynn as deputy defense secretary, Obama had to waive his ethics regulations to place the former defense lobbyist in charge of day-to-day operations at the Pentagon.
Democrats, who’ve been in control of both Congress and the White House less than two months now, are lucky on one point. The next congressional election is nearly two years away.
Analysis: Democrats self-destructing over ethics
By LARRY MARGASAK, AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration and the new Congress are quickly handing over to Republicans a “culture of corruption” platform for 2010.
Freshman Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., is just the latest embarrassment.
The political mess for the Democratic Party, however, isn’t Burris’ conduct alone; it’s the pattern that has developed so quickly over the past few months.
_The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., is the subject of a House ethics investigation. It’s partly focused on his fundraising practices for a college center in his name, his ownership financing of a resort property in the Dominican Republic and his financial disclosure reports.
_Federal agents raided two Pennsylvania defense contractors that were provided millions of dollars in federal funding by Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee.
_Blagojevich was arrested Dec. 9 on federal charges, including allegations he schemed to sell the Senate seat to the highest bidder.
_Tom Daschle, the former Senate majority leader from South Dakota, abandoned his bid to become health and human services secretary and the administration’s point man on reforming health care; and Nancy Killefer stepped down from a newly created position charged with eliminating inefficient government programs.
Both Daschle and Killefer had tax problems, and Daschle also faced potential conflicts of interest related to working with health care interests.
_Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was confirmed after revealing he had tax troubles.
_Obama’s initial choice for commerce secretary, Bill Richardson, stepped aside due to a grand jury investigation into a state contract awarded to his political donors.
_While the Senate voted overwhelmingly to confirm William Lynn as deputy defense secretary, Obama had to waive his ethics regulations to place the former defense lobbyist in charge of day-to-day operations at the Pentagon.
Democrats, who’ve been in control of both Congress and the White House less than two months now, are lucky on one point. The next congressional election is nearly two years away.
Mike S.
There isn’t a good thread to discuss Israel right now, but I just wanted say I’m sorry about Benjamin Netanyahu. And a thread about a right wing nut job seemed like the next best place to express that. Israel deserves much better than the misery he’ll bring. I may be wrong, but I thought you’d find him a huge disappointment.
true. ; )
You can be vastly silly people. I dig that about you.
rcampbell,
Yes “he” for now, until the operation is finished! (LOL, good one!!)
Jill
He?
I’ve changed my mind. God is not gay, he’s just not:
“University Uses God to Promote Condoms
by Marcia Segelstein
As part of its “Sexual Responsibility Week,” the University of Georgia recently placed posters in dormitories depicting a scene from the famous Michaelangelo painting on the Sistene Chapel ceiling, but with an added twist. The poster shows a close-up of the hand of God reaching out to Adam’s hand – with a packaged condom in between – as though God is handing it to Adam. The accompanying message urges students to open condom packages carefully.”
(Onenewsnow)
CCD,
Welcome back. I was refering to the Scientology experts on psychiatry! They were really pulling it out of their butts, much like this guy. It was a great post a few days back. Of course I’m biased, I love Scientology posts!!!
“The greatest threat to America going down”, Indeed. You really are a card Prof. Turley.
Loved you on countdown, JT. You should make all your video available on this site. Or better yet, start your own show already, but do keep up the great work.
CCD,
And doorways, I thought the joke was clever.
Gyges,
We are in agreement. Homophobia, racism, sexism are rooted in fear. And behaviors most likely learned from an early age, at home. Supporting “the intellectually lazy,” whose development gets truncated.
‘Janus’ being the Greek god of beginnings (had to look that up) I was having a go at word-play?
“Fundamentalists on all sides,” I do feel fortunate in some way. The fundies repel me like a magnate to the opposite path they are on.
Jill,
His reality is grounded in fear.
This guy is so full of shit. Doesn’t he understand that it’s psychiatrists at work? I’ll meet him half-way and say it’s probably just the gay psychiatrists but isn’t this man paying attention to reality?
CCD,
I have a suspicion that as long as there are power hungry people who have access to the intellectually lazy, there will be fundamentalists on all sides.
Janus,
Does this mark the beginning of the end to ultra-right?
Surprises are no longer possible at these outbursts coming from the ultra-right winger lunatics who are so very plentiful across the Country. Rational, moderate Republicans are all but extinct, thanks to the appearance of the grossly overrated Reagan and his buffoons, which began the descent of the United States into the pit we quickly landed in thanks to the egregious Bush Disaster.