Partisan Gridlock with Geoff Berg

Sally Kern, a Republican legislator from Oklahoma has introduced a resolution recognizing that America’s economic woes are due to gay marriage, abortion, divorce, and generally all things her brand of Christianity doesn’t like (including most Christians). Plus, we walk down memory lane with Ms. KKKern and revisit her speech saying that teh gheys are infiltrating city councils and are a “cancer.” Listen here.

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On this week’s show, we look back at Republican betrayal of family values and enjoy it much more than we should. Listen here.

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Seems unlikely according to American officials, but they’ve gotten it wrong before. At least thirty five are dead and millions have taken to the streets of Tehran, Isfahan and other Iranian cities and towns.

Tonight on the show, we’ll discuss what’s happening in Iran with Dr. Hossein Ziai, Director of Iranian Studies at UCLA.  We’ll also take your calls.

Tonight from 10:00-11:00 on KPFT, 90.1 FM in Houston.

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George Tiller’s family has announced that the clinic he ran in Kansas will close.  The financial and medical considerations which went in to making this decision are completely understandable. But what about the symbolism and political consequences?

A domestic terrorist murders a doctor to stop the doctor from doing his job. The clinic closes. How is this  not a win for terrorists like Dr. Tiller’s murder and his supporters? Tonight on Partisan Gridlock we’ll ask Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization for Women.

Tonight from 10:00-11:00 on KPFT, 90.1 in Houston.

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While I was gone, there were two acts of domestic terrorism:

Doctor George Tiller, a Kansas OB/GYN, was murdered because he performed abortions. His alleged killer appears to be a Christian fundamentalist.

And in Arkansas, an Army recruiter was killed and another wounded. The alleged murderer is said to have carried out the attack for “Islamic” reasons.

Two more senseless acts apparently committed by people who have a direct line to the almighty. Two more terrorists who are so sure they’re right about everything that they committed murder.

Also tonight, we’ll be joined by Joseph Farah of World Net Daily. Mr. Farah is in the midst of a campaign to post highway signs across the nation demanding to know why President Obama hasn’t released his “long form” birth certificate.

That’s tonight from 10:00-11:00PM on KPFT, 90.1 in Houston…streamed live at kpft.org.

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On this week’s Partisan Gridlock….Leo Gold takes over and wonders whether Pacifica ought to follow GM’s lead into reorganization. That’s tonight from 10:00-11:00PM on KPFT, 90.1 in Houston.

“But in the fight against terrorism, there is no middle ground. . . ” Dick Cheney, 5-21-09.

“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.”  Barry Goldwater, July 16, 1964.

Update: Plus, it’s not every day that a (formerly) major American political party stands up for those parts of the constitution that codified the enslavement of millions of blacks. GOP! GOP!

On this week’s Partisan Gridlock, we’re joined by Maggie Gallagher, President of the anti-same sex marriage National Organization for Marriage. NOM has been running this ad in New Hampshire:

We’ll ask Ms. Gallagher whether having to teach kids something new is really as bad as all that.

Plus, pledge drive concludes with a gigantic session of giving from you.

All of that and more tonight on Partisan Gridlock, 10-11pm on KPFT, 90.1. in Houston.

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KPFT’s pledge drive continues and we’ve got what you’re looking for. Tonight, remarkable idiocy from “opposite marriage’s” newest spokesmodel / Constitutional scholar, Carrie Prejean, who says that her First Amendment rights are being violated because there are people who disagree with her.

Also tonight, the Republican Party finds the forward-looking strategy it’s been searching for. This idea is so dead-on and such a sure winner that its national committee has called an emergency meeting to implement it:

[W]hen the RNC meets in an extraordinary special session next week, it will approve a resolution rebranding Democrats as the “Democrat Socialist Party.”

BURN! See you tonight from 10:00-11:00PM on KPFT, 90.1FM — and don’t forget to pledge. The number is 713-526-5738.

Update: Democrat Barbara Ann Radnofsky announced her candidacy for Texas Attorney General today. She’ll join us to talk about the race and politics in general.

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Tort “reform” has finally reached its logical conclusion:

The Texas Supreme Court has wiped out a $7.64 million judgment in a 9-year-old case centered on a San Antonio girl diagnosed with leukemia [] at age 3. . .

A Bexar County state district court in 2003 ordered San Antonio to pay the family $23 million, a judgment later cut to $7.64 million.

This, of course, is nothing new to the Texas Supreme Court, the Texas Legislature or Rick Perry. Over the last ten years or so, Republicans, insurance companies, home builders, and their allies have made every effort — and been remarkably successful — at preventing citizens and small businesses from recovering what they’re owed in court. I don’t know of a multi-million dollar judgment rendered by a jury in favor of a citizen against a large company that has been upheld in the last ten years. Other lawyers are encouraged to call in tonight and set me straight.

For its part, the Texas Supreme Court — with its nine Republican justices — rules consistently in favor of big business and against average citizens.  There are a number of egregious examples (including the infant about whom the Republican Supreme Court couldn’t care less), but all you need to do is look at the orders it issues every Friday. If the header is State Farm v. Smith, Humana v. Jones, or Perry Homes v. Ramirez, you don’t have to be a lawyer to know how things will turn out.

Tonight on Partisan Gridlock, we’ll talk to Alex Winslow, executive director of Texas Watch, which quaintly continues to look out for the rights of Texas consumers.  We’ll also have prominent personal injury trial lawyer Jim Perdue, Jr., who can describe first hand effects of Texas Republicans’ anti-consumer laws have had on those of us who aren’t gigantic insurance companies.

That, plus pledge-drive mania, Arlen Specter, and Maine adding itself to the list of most-fabulous states, tonight from 10:00-11:00PM on Partisan Gridlock on KPFT, 90.1FM in Houston.

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