posted on December 26, 2000 05:03:49 PM
Are we back to this again? Another head-case aspiring to high public office who thinks that there isn't a thing in the world wrong with poverty,injustice, sexism or racism, but has a big old vendetta against DANCING?
The short answer: Yes.
Opposing the right to dance isn't even the worst of it. John Ashcroft, the El Doofus (Dubya) pick for Attorney General, is not the right guy for the job, just a guy on the far right who's looking for a job -- affirmative action for the awful, so to speak. He's the pathetic chimp/chump that lost to the late, great Mel Carnahan, and thus, Carnahan's widow, his Missouri U.S. Senate seat.
Lets review the laundry list of good reasons as to why this loser mustn't be allowed to head The Justice Department.
A quick TOP TEN:
1. Was (before he got his sorry butt kicked) one of the most conservative U.S. Senators.
2. Is totally anti-abortion. Utterly. supports the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
3.Has never seen a civil rights bill he liked; has never voted for one. NOT A SINGLE ONE.
4.Headed the witch-hunt style obstruction of the confirmation of Bill Lann Lee to the post
of Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. Why? Because Lee, whose credentials are fabulous, opposed Prop 209 in California (which ended affirmative action).
5.Wants to give federal funds (read: YOUR TAX DOLLARS) directly to religious institutions
for outreach, but without any requirement that said outreach be non-proselytizing. In other words, we all pay so the religious right can prey -- on those in need of social welfare services traditionally provided by the state, and who'll have no choice but to be sermonized to.
6. Supports school prayer. No, not just students praying the prayer of their choice to the deity of their choice -- which is currently legal and constitutional, and has ALWAYS BEEN; but also supports government wienies (local or otherwise) sanctioning the prayer of ITS choice to the deity of ITS choice, with a captive audience of children forced to respectfully submit.
7.Supports school vouchers. Why stop at government-sanctioned school prayer? Why
not just bleed the public schools dry with voucher programs? Voucher programs that funnel more tax dollars away from the public sector and into the parochial schools of the wealthiest groups on earth -- the churches? Lord save us from such a boneheaded idea!
8.Preaches that heroes of the Confederate States should not be thought of as having
fought to "preserve a perverted agenda" -- slavery. Slavery ISN'T a perverted agenda? Haven't we, as a nation, already REPUDIATED slavery?
10. Pushed hard for Clinton's impeachment. 'Nuff said.
There's more, you know. Much more. There's the honorary degree from Bob Jones University (Y'all remember BJU, don't you? A little school that had a big problem with Catholics, and with interracial dating?), and the Ronnie White debacle (opposing a federal judgeship for a black guy with THE SAME RECORD as white guys he let sail through the appointment procedure).
Yes, you hit the hot topics on Ashcroft. I am sorry to say he comes from MO.
I believe you hit a pretty standard list for him. I should have known when he complained about Mrs. Carnahan being named to take her husbands place that he quickly said he wouldn't contest. That was not like him at all. Much to easy.
I should have known he would gamble on Bush's stalling tactics to be win out that he would be placed in the Bush administration.
The one good thing: he can play the piano. The bad thing: everything else.
I have forgotten who mentioned, Trent Lott and Ashcroft in the same sentence. Now, there is a scary thought.
I hoped that would be the last of him. I should have known better.
