2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMeet the Evangelical Cabal Orchestrating the Shutdown
At Ebenezers Coffeehouse, a small shop next to Union Station and around the corner from the Heritage Foundation, fair trade coffee is dispensed and Christian books are available for customers to read.
A group of political operatives and evangelical firebrands behind the strategy to shut down the government over healthcare reform couldnt have picked a more unassuming meeting place. Though the more famous Wednesday meeting is across town at the offices of Grover Norquists Americans for Tax Reform, the shutdown plotters often meet at a weekly lunch held on Wednesday at the event space of Ebenezers. (The group also meets regularly on Wednesday mornings at the offices of the Family Research Council.)
This other Wednesday group is a convening of the Conservative Action Project, an ad hoc coalition created in the early years of the Obama administration to reorganize the conservative movement.
The coalition is managed by Heritage and the Council for National Policy. The latter organization, dubbed once as the most powerful conservative group youve never heard of, is a thirty-year-old nonprofit dedicated to transforming the country into a more right-wing Christian society. Founded by Tim LaHaye, the Rapture-obsessed author of the Left Behind series, CNP is now run by Christian-right luminaries such as Phyllis Schlafly, Tony Perkins and Kenneth Blackwell.
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Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)And get some medication, go lie down quietly for a bit.
MindMover
(5,016 posts)CBHagman
(16,981 posts)First I hear about Edwin Meese and the Koch brothers playing their roles in the shutdown timeline (Kochs were expected but Meese wasn't), and now we're on to Round Up the Usual Suspects...except for LaHaye, who's been off my radar screen a bit lately.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Long story short for these freaks: you'll either convert to hard right Christianity, or be put to Death by the State.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)To get these assholes out of our politics and public life.