Burnt Orange Report

They're like Nazis. There is this agenda. Etched in stone. And those who don't support it face annihilation. Tom De Lay in fact threatened one representative in Congress with annihilation if he voted against certain legislation. So why should Austin be any different from Washington? Why should any capital be any different?

If you listen to them carefully, everyone has an agenda. And yet never really talk about their own. Not that they need to. It is quite obvious what it is. They no longer listen to "Hail to the Chief." The listen to "Heil to the Chief."

There is a movement in the Democratic Party to take a more moderate tone. To reflect more "traditional" values. Why? Those values have taken us to Afghanistan and Iraq and given us the Patriot Act and now a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and possibly quite a bit more along with it. And more to come.

Holocaust Museum Houston issued a statement opposing Proposition 2. Did the major papers in Texas run that? I didn't see it. They have also been told to reflect more "traditional" values. Why? Those values have brought us censorship.

Only hope for this country, and this state, is to start electing Democrats and Independents who know what real traditional values are in this country. The values put forth in the Constitution. The one written by the founding fathers. Not the one being written by George W Bush and Tom De Lay and Trent Lott and Pat Robertson. And the Pink Haired Circus Freak.

When someone says they are against what is happening in this state as well as this country, ask them why they keep voting these people back into office. Ask them why they don't find someone else to run. We need people with principles. Principles that reflect the values put forth in the Constitution. Not what some "majority" says the are according to the Bible. And not what some campaign consultant tells them their principles should be.

Let the RPT eliminate the moderates. Let them set up the RPT as the party if rednecks, kooks, and Right wing fanatics. One can one hope that the RPT continual idelogical purging will make them less attractive to the non-insane of the state's electorate. Of course, expecting anything reasonable to come of of the Texas electorate is setting oneself up for some serious disappointment. My pessimism aside, the Dems must take this opportunity to establish themselves as the party of the mainstream (and resist the urge to "energize" a base by moving to the left).

And yes, one can argue that the hating mongering, bigotry, and scapegoating is a bunch of Nazi bullshit, as well as the fanatical committment to the "message","agenda", etc. at the expense of acknowledging facts and/or reality. Disgusting that the GOP does it, but equally disgusting that voters buy into it.

correction: hate mongering, not hating mongering

man, I need some sleep

...and the Dems are still trying to repackage their message: more taxes, terrorist appeasement, abortion on demand, gay marriage, socialized medicine..oh, yeah..and removal of the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance..

You forgot the most important thing. We want to outlaw religious bigots, "conservatives," a catch-all phrase if ever there was one, and deranged evangelists, or is that evangelistas, with pink hair. But we have our nice side. We will offer one-way tickets to Tehran to all you theocrats so you can enjoy true theocracy.

As for appeasing terrorists, don't you find it a little odd that Halliburton has been doing business with Iran all these years? Despite the law saying they can't do business with Iran? Oh, I forgot. The law doesn't apply to Republicans. And Iran is an axis of evil except for business. Then apparently it becomes an axis of opportunity.

Actually, Trey, the most important thing you forgot was quite simple: education. There's a clear line between the direction Democrats and Moderate Republicans want to go in public education, and what the RPT wants.

Also, let's not forget, it was Craddick and House Republicans that proposed a tax bill that would have raised taxes on 90% of Texas families. Really, really, really, REALLY need to get new talking points, Trey.