"Concerned Women" are IRATE over filibuster, "foolish 7 dwarves"

[Bluebear]

To: National Desk

Contact: Rebecca S. Jones of Concerned Women for America, 202-488-7000 ext. 126

WASHINGTON, May 24 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Last night seven Republican senators cut a foolish deal with seven Democrats that left Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tennessee) holding an empty hand. Frist announced yesterday that he had scheduled a cloture vote today on Priscilla Owen, the President's nominee to the Fifth Circuit, who's been waiting for a floor vote for more than four years. If the cloture vote failed, Frist planned to use the constitutional option—a ruling from the Senate president, Vice President Dick Cheney, that only 51 votes are necessary to confirm a nominee.

"Instead of ending the unconstitutional use of the filibuster, the seven dwarves have handed the filibuster key to the Supreme Court Castle with the Democrats. It's the key they want more than anything," said Jan LaRue, Concerned Women for America's (CWA's) chief counsel. "They're willing to vote for cloture on the three nominees they've most opposed in order to keep the filibuster for all future nominees, including the Supreme Court."

The seven Republicans are John McCain (Arizona), John Warner (Virginia), Mike DeWine (Ohio), Lindsay Graham (South Carolina), Susan Collins (Maine), Olympia Snowe (Maine) and Lincoln Chaffee (Rhode Island).

"The deal says, 'Nominees should only be filibustered under extraordinary circumstances, and each signatory must use his or her own discretion and judgment in determining whether such circumstances exist.' The Republicans say that after the Democrats allow confirmation of Owen, Janice Rogers Brown and Bill Pryor, they won't be able to call a nominee 'extraordinary.' Does the name 'Charles Pickering' ring a bell? Democrats unanimously confirmed him to the district court and then filibustered him as a racist when he was nominated to the Fifth Circuit," LaRue added.

"Sen. Frist said the compromise is 'short on principle' because every nominee deserves an up-or-down vote. He's right. It was like watching a parallel universe: Seven giddy Republicans talking mutual trust with Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia), while Harry Reid (D-Nevada) continues attacking the President and bragging about saving the Supreme Court from the radical right. The American people won't take this lying down," LaRue concluded.

Concerned Women for America is the nation's largest public policy women's organization.


http://www.earnedmedia.org/cwfa0524.htm

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. My memo to the "Concerned Women"

[ohio_liberal]

8. That truly made me LOL

:thumbsup:

[Coexist]

15. but they do! They're CONCERNED!!!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

16. So is my middle finger!!!

[annabanana]

2. lordie lordie that's funny . . . . . . eom

[ComerPerro]

3. Yeah, concerned women

Concerned that they might not be able to have dinner ready on time for their husbands (as is their role).

:sarcasm:

[Bluebear]

5. "Well, you know how he gets if supper's not on the table." nt

[LisaM]

4. Is that the weird eyebrow lady who was on Now on Sunday?

She was really obnoxious. She cares about women and their rights about as much as I care about the Colorado Avalanche ever winning a game (which, if you knew me, is not very much.)

[Bluebear]

6. Is this the one?

Jan LaRue
"Concerned Woman"

[LisaM]

11. Yes!

Isn't she odd?

[Bluebear]

12. Extremely odd

I saw her on CSpan over the weekend, I hadn't had the 'pleasure' of seeing all that concern live before. Bizarre!

[Cleita]

13. That's what happens when generations of your family

marry their cousins.

[ComerPerro]

7. Concerened women: concerend about their Xanax perscription

Will it be refilled in time for Jimmy's birthday party?

[tinfoilinfor2005]

9. Singing...

"Hi Ho, Hi Ho, the wingnuts have to go!"

[sui generis]

10. I want to furnish a new House bill

preventing conservative bigots from using the word "Concerned" in their names. It implies some kind of quorom of the majority, which is entirely dishonest and misleading as far as CWA is concerned.

they need to start minding their own damn business and not everyone elses. They're just a bit too "concerned" about everything, as far as I'm concerned.

I did my time as an infiltrator at CWA - all they care, think, and talk about is evil homoseckshuls and unborn humans, mostly eeeeeevil homoseckshiluls.

I believe that the APA had it right the first time, with some nuance:

compulsive obsession with homosexuality is mental illness, and double extra points if you're not even gay.

[Bluebear]

14. Concerned = busybody! nt

[DinahMoeHum]

17. Dear Concerned Women: Ask your hubbies tonight to do "it".

Stuck-up prigs and hags, the lot of them.

:evilfrown:

[noiretextatique]

18. oh please...that nation's largest public policy

women's organization? i'm sure their benefactors are the usual suspects. i never heard of them until the we got stuck in the bushes.

[Ian David]

19. Southern Poverty Law Center re; Concerned Women for America

Concerned Women for America
WASHINGTON, D.C.
www.cfwa.org

When she founded Concerned Women for America (CWA) in 1979, Beverly LaHaye was a budding "family activist" best known for The Act of Marriage, a fiery anti-feminist bestseller co-authored with her husband, Tim.

LaHaye's goal was to energize the anti-feminist (or "pro-family") cause with an advocacy group that might rival the National Organization for Women — which LaHaye calls "anti-God, anti-family" — in both size and political power. With a daily radio show that now reaches more than 1 million listeners, four affiliate organizations, and a cadre of attorneys, researchers and lobbyists battling the "radical, leftist crusade to transform America into Sextopia," LaHaye has done just that.

She pins much of the blame for the "radical crusade" on gay people. In 1992, LaHaye said gay activists "go after boys by becoming teachers and Boy Scout leaders." In 1998, CWA called homosexuals "people who make lewd phone calls, expose themselves to others, and engage in prostitution."

n 2001, LaHaye hired two of America's most prominent anti-gay propagandists, Robert Knight and Peter LaBarbera, to launch CWA's Culture and Family Institute. LaBarbera, a former Washington Times reporter and editor of an inflammatory anti-gay journal called The Lambda Report on Homosexual Activism, had earlier been thrown out of the American Psychological Association due to his faulty "science." That didn't prevent him from producing CWA's 11 Ways You Can Fight the Homosexual Agenda manual.

Knight, called "America's premier gay-basher" by Rob Boston of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, produces reams of sensationalistic reports like "Sexual Orientation and American Culture," which warns that accepting "sexual orientation as a civil right" will lead to "a loss of stability in communities, with a rise in crime, sexually transmitted diseases and other social pathologies."

Knight has also accused gays of preying on "shy and artistic young boys," using the boys' desire for male affirmation to make them into "an easy mark for seduction."

After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, CWA accused same-sex partners of those killed of "trying to hijack the moral capital of marriage." Last year, CWA raised a ruckus over a gay Canadian couple that wanted to visit the U.S. together, calling the men "a new threat to border security" and "the latest pair of 'domestic terrorists.'"

The group has also accused the Harry Potter books of promoting the practice of witchcraft among children.

More:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=871#6

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[sui generis]

21. some days I wished I truly believed in a hell

where these evil creeps could roast for a few centuries as they pondered their inhumanity.

[A HERETIC I AM]

20. Why is it that these nimrods dont understand the concept of

the majority not having tyranny over the minority? THATS why the 2/3rds vote is required. As Randi Rhodes said yesterday, all but a handful of Bush's nominees got the 2/3rds vote. ALL of them. There is a reason that these few have had a hard time getting one. THEY DONT DESERVE ONE!!!!!!

"If we cant get our way, we'll change the rules" seems to be a song they are wearing out.

[Avalux]

22. LOL - I'm starting to enjoy this

and beginning to think the deal will be a good thing. The rightie extremists are whiners and cry babies who didn't get their way. :popcorn:

[Bluebear]

23. It's fun watching them eat their own, idn't it?

:popcorn: