SCARY ASS THREAD!

[mburbank]

This Thread is for the collection of scary ass pronouncements in the wake of the Bush victory.

Please refrain from commentary in this thread! This thread is only for quotes and small news items.

1.) "Make no mistake - conservative Christians and 'values voters' won this election for George W. Bush and Republicans in Congress. It's crucial that the Republican leadership not forget this - as much as some will try,"
-Richard Vigurie, Spiritual father of Political Direct Mail

[Stabby]

2.) "I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it,"
-President Bush Nov 4, 2004

[Baalzamon]

"When you win, there's a feeling that the people have spoken, and embraced your point of view, and that's what I intend to tell the Congress."

-President Bush Nov 4, 2004

[mburbank]

4.) "Now is the time to begin our long, national cultural renewal ("The Great Relearning," as novelist Tom Wolfe calls it) — no less in legislation than in federal court appointments. It is, after all, the main reason George W. Bush was reelected."
-William "gambling away millions is not immoral" Bennet

[mburbank]

5,) "God has begun an evangelism movement in the workplace that has the potential to transform our society as we know it,"
-Frankin "Billy's Son" Graham, who delivered the invocation at W's first innaugural.

[Emu]

There's a book called "Prayer in Public Schools" or something like that (I can't remember the exact title or the author at this point, but I'm going to the library later anyway so I'll find it again) that talks about how the Christian right is working to put their people in public school board official positions in order to "convert" the school to a more Christian place, and then move upward to town official positions, then county, etc. At first I thought it was just a load of paranoid overestimations until I saw that people like Pat Robertson were proudly admitting they were doing this. That quote reminded me of it. :(

[Spectre X]

I'm feeling queasy.

[mburbank]

6.) Rev. Jerry Falwell announced Tuesday he has formed a new coalition to guide an "evangelical revolution."

Falwell, a religious broadcaster based in Lynchburg, Va., said the Faith and Values Coalition will be a "21st century resurrection of the Moral Majority," the organization he founded in 1979.
-AP Wire

[glowbelly]

Congratulatory letter to President George W. Bush from Dr. Bob Jones III
November 3, 2004

President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President:

The media tells us that you have received the largest number of popular votes of any president in America's history. Congratulations!

In your re-election, God has graciously granted America—though she doesn't deserve it—a reprieve from the agenda of paganism. You have been given a mandate. We the people expect your voice to be like the clear and certain sound of a trumpet. Because you seek the Lord daily, we who know the Lord will follow that kind of voice eagerly.

Don't equivocate. Put your agenda on the front burner and let it boil. You owe the liberals nothing. They despise you because they despise your Christ. Honor the Lord, and He will honor you.

Had your opponent won, I would have still given thanks, because the Bible says I must (I Thessalonians 5:18). It would have been hard, but because the Lord lifts up whom He will and pulls down whom He will, I would have done it. It is easy to rejoice today, because Christ has allowed you to be His servant in this nation for another presidential term. Undoubtedly, you will have opportunity to appoint many conservative judges and exercise forceful leadership with the Congress in passing legislation that is defined by biblical norm regarding the family, sexuality, sanctity of life, religious freedom, freedom of speech, and limited government. You have four years—a brief time only—to leave an imprint for righteousness upon this nation that brings with it the blessings of Almighty God.

Christ said, “If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my father honour” (John 12:26).

The student body, faculty, and staff at Bob Jones University commit ourselves to pray for you—that you would do right and honor the Savior. Pull out all the stops and make a difference. If you have weaklings around you who do not share your biblical values, shed yourself of them. Conservative Americans would love to see one president who doesn't care whether he is liked, but cares infinitely that he does right.

Best wishes.

Sincerely your friend,

Bob Jones III
President

BJIII:lw

PS: A few moments ago I read this letter to the students in Chapel. They applauded loudly their approval.

When I told them that Tom Daschle was no longer the minority leader of the Senate, they cheered again.

On occasion, Christians have not agreed with things you said during your first term. Nonetheless, we could not be more thankful that God has given you four more years to serve Him in the White House, never taking off your Christian faith and laying it aside as a man takes off a jacket, but living, speaking, and making decisions as one who knows the Bible to be eternally true.

[mburbank]

Wow. Yowtch. I didn't knoqw liberals hated Christ, or that Christ belonged to George W Bush.

Good one, Glow. I think you're winning.

[Stabby]

8.) "The danger I see here is that intrusive judicial oversight and second-guessing of presidential determinations in these critical areas can put at risk the very security of our nation in a time of war,''
- Attorney General John Ashcroft condemning judges who question President Bush.

[Jeanette X]

"The state, as the power of the sword, has the right to incarcerate or execute gays and lesbians to protect the children of Alabama."
-Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore

[Ant10708]

Execute hah

[mburbank]

Porter J. Goss, the new intelligence chief, has told Central Intelligence Agency employees that their job is to "support the administration and its policies in our work,'' a copy of an internal memorandum shows. "As agency employees we do not identify with, support or champion opposition to the administration or its policies," Mr. Goss said in the memorandum, which was circulated late on Monday. He said in the document that he was seeking "to clarify beyond doubt the rules of the road."

-NYT

[mburbank]

"There is no future for moderate and progressive Republicans in the Republican Party," said Jim Scarantino, president of the centrist GOP group Mainstream 2004. "The far right wing and the fanatics have seized control."
-Dallas Morning News

[ranxer]

10) "See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."
George W. Bush, Milwaukee, WI, Oct 3rd, 2003

mad cowboy disease explained: www.alternativesmagazine.com/31/levy.html
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[mburbank]

11.) " WASHINGTON -- The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President George W. Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources."
-Newsday

[Cosmo Electrolux]

"The state, as the power of the sword, has the right to incarcerate or execute gays and lesbians to protect the children of Alabama."
-Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore

I'm so proud to be an Alabamian......*sniff*

[Jeanette X]

11.) " WASHINGTON -- The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President George W. Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources."
-Newsday

I do believe I have just soiled myself. Disloyal?! WHAT THE HELL CONSTITUTES DISLOYALTY?!

Most likely anything they choose it to be.

[davinxtk]

Wow.




This is the second time I've looked at this thread (the first was the day it was made) and you know what?







We're so screwed.

[KevinTheOmnivore]

To be fair, the CIA has been allowed over the last few years to have a certain kind of public autonomy that has led to this rivalry between the CIA and the Administration. We want our intelligence outlets to be independent and free to develope their own policy, but we don't need them to take a political stance against the administration, IMO. If you're unhappy with the ideological slant of the current White House, then resign. Of course we don't want an administration full of yes-men, but we also don't necessarily need a CIA with political motives. This President won a majority of the popular vote in this country, the public (as wrong as they may be) have given him a green light on his foreign policy. The CIA should do their job, not serve as "the opposition" to the policy coming from the White House.

[KevinTheOmnivore]

In keeping with the theme of this thread....

" I remember a day when ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN and the major print media controlled all the news flow to the American people and we found ourselves getting warped and distorted news. I thank God now in the 21st century for talk radio, that three hours a day people like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and hundreds of others are telling the truth of what really is going on. I thank God for FOX News Channel [applause]. I thank God for the Internet bloggers and the news producers like NewsMax.com, WorldNetDaily.com, even The Drudge Report."

-- Jerry Falwell, 11/21/04

[Emu]

Well, that one's not as scary because you would expect him to say something like that.

[Stabby]

"I couldn't care less. It's true."
-Dr. James Kennedy, leading broadcast evangelist, when asked about the millions of Americans who are not Christian, or have a different interpretation of Christianity and who are concerned about the impact of Christian conservatives on the administration.

[mburbank]

"If 1994 was the year we stopped thinking like a permanent minority,2004 is the year we start thinking like a permanent majority: unified, aggressive, rightfully confident of victory."
-Tom DeLay

[mburbank]

"For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do."
Tommy "Better late than never" Thompson, outgoing secretary of Health and Human services

[mburbank]

"It's like when the hijackers took over those four planes on Sept 11 and took people to a place where they didn't want to go. I think a lot of people feel that liberals have taken our country somewhere we don't want to go."
-State Rep. Connie Davis (R-MO)

Do you think when Connie says "a place they didn't want to go" she means The World Trade Center, The Pentagon or field in Pennsylvania?

I guess Hijacker is a good metaphor for us Liberals, because if you want to take a plane somewhere it doesn't want to go, and the House, Senate, and Presidency of that plane are all republicans, the only way to do it is with Boxcutters and a fanatical devotion to Allah.

[Stabby]

It's not a quote but it's equally as scary:

http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,3600,404306,00.jpg

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11739761%255E13780,00.html

[mburbank]

Other people Time has appointed "Person of the year"

Hitler
Ayatollah Khomeni

[Stabby]

"“If we do our job right over the next four years, weakening the institutions of the left, reducing the cost of government, reforming the government so that it becomes less intrusive in such a way that we deserve and win the presidency in 2008, that would give us another eight years,"
-Grover Norquist in the Australian Financial Review

[WhiteRat]

Reading this thread makes me feel embarassed for being a Repub.

[KevinTheOmnivore]

Grover Norquist has said far scarier things than that in the past, like comparing government to a baby he'd like to drown in the bath tub.......

[Miss Modular]

"“If we do our job right over the next four years, weakening the institutions of the left, reducing the cost of government, reforming the government so that it becomes less intrusive in such a way that we deserve and win the presidency in 2008, that would give us another eight years,"
-Grover Norquist in the Australian Financial Review

:lol

[mburbank]

Solomon,( NYT): "Did you or the president ever discuss canceling the nine balls and using the $40 million inaugural budget to purchase better equipment for the troops?"

Phillips (Chairwoman of W's innaugural festivities): "I think we felt like we would have a traditional set of events and we would focus on honoring the people who are serving our country right now-- not just the people in the armed forces, but also the community volunteers, the firemen, the policemen, the teachers, the people who serve at, you know, the--well, it's called the StewPot in Dallas, people who work with the homeless."

Solomon: "How do any of them benefit from the inaugural balls?"

Phillips: "I'm not sure that they do benefit from them."

Solomon: "Then how, exactly, are you honoring them?"

Phillips: "Honoring service is what our theme is about."

[KevinTheOmnivore]

"[The U.S.] should not give any money to help the tsunami victims. Why? Because the money is not the government's to give. Every cent the government spends comes from taxation. Every dollar the government hands out as foreign aid has to be extorted from an American taxpayer first."
-- David Holcberg, the Ayn Rand Institute

"You could argue, maybe this is God's hand, because some of their brethren struck Christian America. Maybe God speaks the truth but waits. Seeks the truth and waits. I don't know. You could argue: God struck them. Now, I don't argue that because I'm not a theologian."
-- Michael Savage