Just saying that I appreciated USA Today’s headline …
If any of you don’t mind, please call your local and even some non-local Senators to ask them to not abandon 35,000 CF kids, teens, and adults, who most will end up dying without comprehensive coverage. I’d say Sickle Cell Anemia too, but odds are, they care more about white kids than others. Of course not to mention every child with Leukemia, and which GOP representative is going to look that sick child in the face and say, “sorry your family deserves to be bankrupt because morally - that’s what we are”. ER treatment does not help a family with their cancer drugs.
Also, Maine please call Susan Collins of Maine. Much hinges on whether she changes her mind or not. Tell her she’s doing the right thing by opposing the plan that will absolutely kill thousands of innocent people, in fact kill more than all the terrorist attacks we’ve had over years… Repub health plan will kill more in one year alone.
Oh, man. Some of these are priceless.
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Hi, I voted in all 50 states. Just wanted you to know.
Love,
Beau in Oklahoma[/quote]
rowe33
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Why on earth would anyone send their home address, phone #, or list their email address when contacting THIS White House?!
Jennifer Rubin, a conservative opinion writer who gets it.
Let’s dispense with the “Democrats are just as bad” defense. First, I don’t much care; we collectively face a party in charge of virtually the entire federal government and the vast majority of statehouses and governorships. It’s that party’s inner moral rot that must concern us for now. Second, it’s simply not true, and saying so reveals the origin of the problem — a “woe is me” sense of victimhood that grossly exaggerates the opposition’s ills and in turn justifies its own egregious political judgments and rhetoric. If the GOP had not become unhinged about the Clintons, would it have rationalized Trump as the lesser of two evils? Only in the crazed bubble of right-wing hysteria does an ethically challenged, moderate Democrat become a threat to Western civilization and Trump the salvation of America.
Indeed, for decades now, demonization — of gays, immigrants, Democrats, the media, feminists, etc. — has been the animating spirit behind much of the right. It has distorted its assessment of reality, giving us anti-immigrant hysteria, promulgating disrespect for the law (how many “respectable” conservatives suggested disregarding the Supreme Court’s decision on gay marriage?), elevating Fox News hosts’ blatantly false propaganda as the counterweight to liberal media bias and preventing serious policy debate. For seven years, the party vilified Obamacare without an accurate assessment of its faults and feasible alternative plans. “Obama bad” or “Clinton bad” became the only credo — leaving the party, as Brooks said of the Trump clan, with “no attachment to any external moral truth or ethical code” — and no coherent policies for governing.
We have always had in our political culture narcissists, ideologues and flimflammers, but it took the 21st-century GOP to put one in the White House. It took elected leaders such as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) and the Republican National Committee (not to mention its donors and activists) to wave off Trump’s racists attacks on a federal judge, blatant lies about everything from 9/11 to his own involvement in birtherism, replete evidence of disloyalty to America (i.e. Trump’s “Russia first” policies), misogyny, Islamophobia, ongoing potential violations of the Constitution’s emoluments clause (along with a mass of conflicts of interests), firing of an FBI director, and now, evidence that the campaign was willing to enlist a foreign power to defeat Clinton in the presidential election.
Out of its collective sense of victimhood came the GOP’s disdain for not just intellectuals but also intellectualism, science, Economics 101, history and constitutional fidelity. If the Trump children became slaves to money and to their father’s unbridled ego, then the GOP became slaves to its own demons and false narratives. A party that has to deny climate change and insist illegal immigrants are creating a crime wave — because that is what “conservatives” must believe, since liberals do not — is a party that will deny Trump’s complicity in gross misconduct. It’s a party as unfit to govern as Trump is unfit to occupy the White House. It’s not by accident that Trump chose to inhabit the party that has defined itself in opposition to reality and to any “external moral truth or ethical code.”
Daagar
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WH now owes them free credit tracking for life, right?
almost: WH now gives them free tracking for life
Remember all the right wingers who wanted guns to defend against a tyrannical government? Where the supposed defenders of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, the supposed last vestigial entity to protect our Democracy?
Well here we are. Where are they? Oh that’s right, they’re celebrating with Trump and the Russians. THEY were the tyrants we were warned about…
Baptist News Global: Donald Trump stole my old church
Two weeks ago, I went to my parents’ Southern Baptist church. I had not been to a service there in 35 years. The peace I had made with my childhood church began to fall apart.
The pickups in the parking lot had Trump/Pence bumper stickers. American flags were in the front yard, the front of the sanctuary, and on the front of the order of worship. The congregation sang God Bless America, My Country, ’Tis of Thee and Onward Christian Soldiers. I heard, “We could use more fire and brimstone,” “We finally have a president who is doing what needs to be done” and “We have to get rid of Obamacare right now.”
Eighty-seven percent of my parents’ church-infested county in Mississippi voted for Trump. Donald Trump has made it obvious that my old church is not filled with followers of Christ. You cannot follow Jesus and support a tax cut for the rich that would end health care to millions of the oldest, poorest and sickest people. You cannot follow Jesus and hate minorities. You cannot follow Jesus and treat women as inferior.
When faced with the choice of following Christ by caring for the hungry or supporting a politician who promises to make the rich richer, my old church ignores the faith they profess. When given the opportunity to extend hospitality to refugees, my old church chooses bigotry. When responding to a dishonest president, my old church defends the lies.
I have come to the painful realization that God is not the point of my old church. My old church is shaped more by Fox News than Jesus’ Good News. My old church is a chaplain to nationalism, patriarchy and nostalgia. My old church is the enemy of the environment, science and equality.
We need a lot more of that. Ostracising those who consider themselves Christians about just how far they have fallen. Calling out those church leaders who are radicalizing Christianity to pursue selfish goals would also be a big step.
