Pastor David Grisham of Amarillo is not shy about his fundamentalism. He recently set up a website encouraging Christians to boycott Houston because, in his words, the election of an openly gay mayor and opening of a Planned Parenthood facility in the city:
are [] abomination[s] in the eyes of God and should [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2010’
Debate of biblical proportions with the pastor behind boycott of Houston
Democratic leadership to party activists: You dirty hippies just stay home in November
No doubt President Obama will deliver an inspiring and substantively appealing State of the Union speech tonight. With a year of history as a guide, it seems unlikely that either the White House or Congressional leadership will have the guts to stand up for anything he says. (Last year, Obama promised [...]
This week’s Partisan Gridlock
Who de-balled the Democrats? The obscene Citizens United decision from the Supreme Court which will permit ExxonMobil to decide who serves in what office…plus listener calls and quotes of the week.
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Heads I win, tails you lose — in Massachusetts and everywhere else
Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown, the Republican who defeated Democratic candidate Martha Coakley yesterday, ran a great campaign. Coakley ran a horrible one — expressing shock that anyone would think that she needed to stand in the cold to shake hands with actual voters. She spent more than a week vacationing when she should have been [...]
Live update from Haiti – Updated
Today on Partisan Gridlock, we’ll get a live update directly from Port-au-Prince from Danny Biran, coordinator of Israel’s Haitian rescue efforts. We’ll find out what conditions are like on the ground, how the rescue and recovery effort is going, what rescuers are seeing, and what they expect over the days and weeks to come.
Update: In [...]
Things Rick Perry cares about more than Texas kids: Himself, his political future, hair care, also himself
At the base of the Texas Republican party are lots of angry teabaggers. And if there’s one thing angry teabaggers don’t trust, it’s money sent to the states by a federal government headed by Barack Obama.
Because he’s being challenged in the Republican primary and must now relentlessly pander to the extremist right-wing base of his [...]
Democratic pandering, the ‘Negro dialect,’ and John Cornyn’s championship buffoonery
According to a just released book about the 2008 presidential election, Game Change by Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin and New York magazine’s John Heilemann, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)
was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama — a [...]
Bart Stupak, phony
Congressman Bart Stupak, an anti-choice Democrat from Michigan, has held up and threatened to destroy health care reform unless it severely restricts abortion coverage. In a New York Times profile, “Stupak says his stand is a straightforward matter of Roman Catholic faith. . .”
Stupak casts himself as a man of principle, determined to get what [...]
Today’s Partisan Gridlock…
Today’s Partisan Gridlock: Republican solicitation of money off of the attempted Christmas bombing of Northwest Airlines….plus, my new year’s resolution: Not to take it so easy on Republicans.
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