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1. 

   fennec said, 4 months ago

   Calling DallasDan! What’s the scoop here?

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   motivemagus said, 4 months ago

   You mean onto drugs, ANandy?

3. 

   dtroutma said, 4 months ago

   Inhofe and Coburn matriculated there as well- Oklahoma IS just across the line.

4. 

   Simon_Jester said, 4 months ago

   Motive…hey, it worked for Rush

5. 

   M Kitt said, 4 months ago

   Literally 666’s school of thought….

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   RussellNash said, 4 months ago

   If Texas seceded, we’d just have another border with immigrants pouring over.

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   motivemagus said, 4 months ago

   And less hardworking immigrants too – judging by a certain previous president…

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   Dale Hopson said, 4 months ago

   Texas gets back 80 cents on every federal tax dollar… that would stop if Texas seceded and, boy, would taxes rise!

9. 

   Anthony 2816 said, 4 months ago

   Striper, go worry about your own party.

   Meet Sen. John Ensign, a Republican senator from Nevada, and a
   sanctimonious blowhard with a staunch “family values” voting record
   who opposes abortion rights, wants to re-instate teacher-led prayer
   in public schools, and steps up to the nearest podium to denounce
   other public officials who engage in private sexual misconduct.
   He is also active in the Promise Keepers movement, and according to
   one news report, “resists temptaation” by not being alone in a room
   with a woman other than his wife. Now, the spotlight is on Ensign
   who admitted Tuesday that he engaged in an extra-marital affair
   with a woman who had served on his campaign. staff. According to a
   spokesperson, Ensign and the unidentified staffer carried on their
   tryst between December 2007 and August 2008. Her husband worked in
   Ensign’s Capitol Hill office at the time.

   “Last year I had an affair,” declared Sen. Ensign in a statement to
   news media. “I violated the vows of my marriage. It is the worst
   thing I have ever done in my life. If there was ever anything in
   my life I could take back, this would be it.”

   Ensign’s wife, Darlene, dutifully released her own spin-control
   statement, saying that she and her husband had “come to a
   reconciliation.” The couple have three children.

   It is not clear why the Senator, who has been mentioned as a
   possible candidate for the 2012 GOP presidential race, admitted
   to the wrong-doing, although there are unconfirmed reports of a
   blackmail threat. What makes this latest revelation of misconduct
   by a leading public official noteworthy, though, is Ensign’s staunch
   social conservatism and penchants for denouncing others who have
   committed similar peccadilloes. In the midst of the imbroglio over
   Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, for instance, the Nevada Republican
   loudly denounced the president’s actions and describe the affair as
   “an embarrassing moment for the country,” adding “I think we have
   to feel very sad for the American people and Hillary and Chelsea.”
   Ensign demanded that Mr. Clinton resign from office and said “I came
   to that conclusion recently and frankly it’s because of what he put
   the whole Cabinet through and what he has put the country through…”

   At the time, Ensign was in a hotly-contested race with incumbent
   Harry Reid. The brash challenger said that the Clinton affair
   “could have a dramatic effect on Democrats like (President Nixon’s
   resignation following the Watergate break-in) had on Republicans
   in 1974.” During the campaign, Ensign hammered away at the Clinton
   scandal, and accused Mr. Reid of weakness when it came to denouncing
   libertine politicians and sexual hanky-pank.

   Despite losing to Reid, Ensign later won a seat in the U.S. Senate
   where he quickly established credentials as a water-bearer for
   religious right groups. The Christian Coalition “voter guide”
   gave him a 100% favorable rating; and at the congressional well,
   Ensign was quick to denounce any hint of sexual misconduct, even when
   it involved fellow Republicans. He towed the line on hot-button
   political issues, voting against abortion rights for women,
   opposing same-sex domestic partnership benefits, and coming out
   strongly in defense of teacher-led unison prayer in public schools.
   Sen. Ensign also emerged as a supporter of Sam Alito and John
   Roberts for confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States.
   When it came to legislation having to do with the Establishment
   Clause separation of government and religion, Ensign earned a zero
   percent rating from the state-church watchdog group Americans United.

   John Ensign is also a key member of a shadowy, Washington, DC
   religious cult that over the years has operated under a battery
   of names and disguises. They include, according to a March 2003
   expose by Harper’s Magazine reporter Jeffrey Sharlett, National
   Committee for Christian Leadership, the International Foundation,
   the Fellowship Foundation, and Fellowship House. To members
   and informed outsiders, the group is simply “the Family,” and
   maintains a sprawling house/retreat in a quiet Arlington, Virginia
   neighborhood. There is much praying, and much talk about what
   amounts to theocratic government. The group’s $10 million annual
   budget comes from a handful of wealthy donors, and its only public
   activity is the National Prayer Breakfast. The group also conducts
   “prayer warrior” meetings in the Pentagon. The Harper’s expose
   lives at http://www.harpers.org/archive/2003/03/0079525 .

   This certainly is not the first time that a leading politician
   –especially one with impeccable religious-right credentials – has
   engaged in hypocritical conduct that speaks less to their public
   religious sensibilities that it does to the slogan, “Do as I say,
   not as I do.” Mr. Ensign joins the ranks of Rep. Mark Foley; “Larry
   “wide stance” Craig; “Crusader Eliot Spitzer, the former New York
   Governor who made his political career as a foe of corruption in
   high place; and, of course, a retinue of philandering preachers
   including Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart and Rev. Tim Haggard along
   with an undisclosed number of pedophile clergy.

   No doubt Sen. Ensign, who loudly demanded the resignation of Bill
   Clinton, will now engage in a media rain-dance that we have come
   to expect whenever public figures – celebrities, politicians,
   super-star athletes – stumble in their careers. He will “seek
   counseling,” give lipserve to apologies, engage the assistance
   of a “spiritual advisor” and then once again step up to the
   pulpit or podium taking about “the healing process.” Indeed, the
   American people are a forgiving folk. We insist on this ritual of
   self-humiliation, asking for that very forgiveness, and then smile
   when the former wrong-doer basks in the bright light of redemption.
   The only problem is that no one mentions the hypocrisy. Sen. Ensign
   is full of prescriptions, prohibitions and rules that others must
   follow lest they slip into the clutches of sin. In his case, though,
   this is just another example of being a hypocrite, and living by
   a credo that declares: “Do as I say, not as I do.”

10. 

    oldlegodad said, 4 months ago

    striper77, the libocrats here won’t believe you and will vilify you for being a hater.

11. 

    M Kitt said, 4 months ago

    Once again striper demonstrates better than could otherwise be described the effects of a corporate-owned media…thanks striper.

12. 

    dtroutma said, 4 months ago

    Striper’s crock is more than a tad cracked. H.R. 1913 says or authorizes no such thing. It’s anti- hate crimes and even defends him from abuse because of his views.

13. 

    fennec said, 4 months ago

    He’s been deleted. Bye, bye striper.

14. 

    oldlegodad said, 4 months ago

    I warned him, but you haters diss’d him anyway..You dish it out but you can’t take it. Poor benighted libocrats.

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    motivemagus said, 4 months ago

    Yeah, yeah, right oldlegodad. No one’s assassinated Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, or indeed any Republican president since Lincoln (a “Libocrat” if ever there was one), so I guess we can take a fair amount of abuse.
    The real problem is why we bother.

16. 

    oldlegodad said, 4 months ago

    Not since Lincoln…. But 3 attempts on Republicans. 2 on Ford one on Reagan Plus the “plot?” by Sadam on Bush41 that pissed off 43.

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    fennec said, 4 months ago

    Errmm…oldie, Sadam wasn’t a libocrat. Nor were the attempts on Reagan and Ford made by libocrats.
    BTW, striper got “dissed” for his over the top ranting that was mostly unconnected to anything being discussed. I just don’t believe he was saying all that much that you would agree with when you’re in a good mood.