Voters seem not to mind gay-bashing insinuations

Shortly before Saturday’s runoff Senate race in Louisiana, the raspy voice of a Bill Clinton impersonator was heard in a radio commercial that was produced by the campaign of Suzanne Haik Terrell, the Republican candidate.

“Mary Landrieu is so liberal, she might be closer to Hillary than I am,” the voice said.

I love the MSNBC headline: ‘Smoking gun’ in church crisis?

The file on Burns contained not only lurid revelations about the priest’s behavior but also said Law told the Vatican that his archdiocese had assigned Burns to two parishes even though it knew of his “proclivity” toward molesting boys.

In his 1999 order defrocking Burns, the pope said the former priest “ought to live away from the places where his previous condition is known.”

But the popeÂ’s order also offered the manÂ’s religious superior an alternative to forcing Burns to abandon the areas where his condition was known.

The religious superior “is able to dispense from this clause of the decree if it is foreseen that the presence of the suppliant will cause no scandal,” the document said.

At the rate things are going, I’m going to need a “Religion” category.

Clinton was nearly impeached for lying about sex, but Bush appoints Elliott Abrams, who lied to Congress in the Iran-Contra affair.

The judge that says we can’t see Cheney’s energy task force records fought to release Clinton White House records when he was a deputy of Kenneth Starr.

Trent Lott says we would have been better off if the segregationist Dixiecrats had won the presidency with Strom Thurmond, but it takes days for the ‘liberal’ media to notice.

The U.S. intercepts the Iraq arms dossier intended for the U.N. to “make copies” and says it will only share it with certain members of the Security Council — not, so far, the weapons inspection team. Cynics might argue this is because it lists suppliers, including the U.S. and other Security Council members.

What pill can I take to stop noticing things? We’re not even pretending to be a real republic anymore. One party state anyone?

He appeared on Charlie Rose, ostensibly to promote the new Lord of the Rings movie, while wearing a No More Blood For Oil t-shirt.

From the People For The American Way auction:

Madonna — Ray of Light platinum award, signed personally to buyer

From ABCNEWS.com:

Here is what Senator Trent Lott, Republican of Mississippi, said yesterday at Senator Strom Thurmond’s birthday party, according to ABCNEWS’ O’Keefe. "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had of followed our lead we wouldn’t of had all these problems over all these years, either."

Thurmom was running as a Dixiecrat, a pro-segregration party whose platform stated that for a black person, “his racial constitution has been fashioned to exclude any idea of voluntary cooperation on his part. “

Read Eschaton for more.

Trent Lott is one of the most powerful men in our country. We don’t have much room to criticize other countries for their right-wing politicians.

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