A Christian Liberal is NOT an oxymoron.

Posted by XT on November 1st, 2009 in General

Frank Rich writes that Obama has helped the GOP eat its own:

The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama. The movement’s undisputed leaders, Palin and Beck, neither of whom has what Palin once called the “actual responsibilities” of public office, would gladly see the Republican Party die on the cross of right-wing ideological purity. Over the short term, at least, their wish could come true.

And lays bare the self-hatred at the heart of the “conservative” movement:

Last week it turned out that Hoffman’s prime attribute to the radical right — as a take-no-prisoners fiscal conservative — was bogus. In fact he’s on the finance committee of a hospital that happily helped itself to a $479,000 federal earmark. Then again, without the federal government largess that the tea party crowd so deplores, New York’s 23rd would be a Siberia of joblessness. The biggest local employer is the pork-dependent military base, Fort Drum.

Equal rights requires Republicans:

FROM THE CIVIL Rights Act of 1964 to putting a man on the moon, the great reforms and achievements in American history were only possible because of unwavering commitment and leadership from members of both political parties. Likewise, full equality for gays and lesbians will remain but a dream without advocates on both sides of the aisle.

Unfortunately, neither party has adequately fought to lift the legal barriers to equal rights for gays in the United States.

Many Democrats deserve to be commended for their efforts to end discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The party as a whole, however, has the tendency to hit the right notes on the campaign trail only to ignore the issue of equal rights for gays and lesbians once elected. After all, it was Bill Clinton who signed the Defense of Marriage Act, and it is Barack Obama who is now defending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the courts.

And you and I both know that the Republican Party, for all its talk of individual freedom and limited government, has for too long been on the wrong side of this issue.

I’d highlight the important parts, but once you highlight the whole thing, it shoots the purpose of highlighting.

An extended thought on book burning.

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