Thanks to Mark Gibson for pointing out a spot-on and chilling op-ed piece by Maureen Dowd.
The most frightening section is a look at the stances of some of the new members of Congress -- the people who will be part of an even stronger GOP majority and will wield the power to make laws. Our last defense - aside from the valiant struggles of some of the remaining Democrats and independent thinkers who will immediately be charged with "obstructionism" when they try to stick up for us - will be the Supreme Court... which will also be in the hands of Bush to reshape in part:
We can only hope that those who helped put these people in office - or at least the constituents who voted a straight GOP party line out of fear of terrorists and got these prizes in the box - will soon be wide-eyed in alarm over what they've done... for all the good it'll do until those terms are up."Just as Zell Miller was so over the top at the G.O.P. convention that he made Mr. Cheney seem reasonable, so several new members of Congress will make W. seem moderate.
Tom Coburn, the new senator from Oklahoma, has advocated the death penalty for doctors who perform abortions and warned that "the gay agenda" would
undermine the country. He also characterized his race as a choice between "good and evil" and said he had heard there was "rampant lesbianism" in Oklahoma schools.
Jim DeMint, the new senator from South Carolina, said during his campaign that he supported a state G.O.P. platform plank banning gays from teaching in public schools. He explained, "I would have given the same answer when asked if a single woman who was pregnant and living with her boyfriend should be hired to teach my third-grade children."
John Thune, who toppled Tom Daschle, is an anti-abortion Christian conservative - or "servant leader," as he was hailed in a campaign ad - who supports constitutional amendments banning flag burning and gay marriage."
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