Tag: Conservatives

Do Conservatives Really Want to Kill Medicare and Social Security?

Based on Tom Coburn's town hall meeting, it is the first in a deliberate and strategic path to end Medicare, Social Security and other government run systems that do not have explicit basis in the constitution, and they have people

Does effective organizing lead to REAL change?

But to what end, do we do these things? What do we expect the outcomes to be, and how do we measure how successful we are being? Which brings me back to the Health Care fiasco, and the organizing that

An odd silence on gay marriage and the current state of insanity.

The linked post is from the Chicago Tribune. by Steve Chapman. Chapman sees a potential to test out the theories and fears of social conservatives given that we have 6 states that allow same-sex marriage and “Most of the remaining

The new intersection of politics and faith?

EVANGELICAL CO-BELLIGERENCE … the new intersection of politics and faith? « Flotsam and Jetsam I’m posting this mostly because I think it interestingly helps map the conservative/religious landscape by defining one discreet faction of that force. Not discreet in the

Family Values News

It is always so surprising to me that conservatives want to hang their hat on “fixing GLBT people- as if GLBT people are the real threat to the family, and therefor, the threat to their conservative morals and beliefs. I tend

Tony Perkins and the KKK

This really isn’t the type of post I would generally comment on, but Tony Perkin’s name caught my attention. Tony Perkins of the FRC, after all, got his mailing lists from the KKK. Can anyone comment on this? Is this

What Do Republicans Want?

I doubt it is news to anyone but there has been a battle of words going on about who is the head of the Republican Party, and the winner of seems to be Rush Limbaugh.  On some level, that is