Of Tammy, Timmy, and Pastor Ted
If my little rant on the racial politics of the Tammy Lee campaign didn’t convince you, Rahelio, over at American Hot Sausage, makes it all very explicit in an excellent dismantling of the Tammy Lee phenomenon. Don’t miss the delightfully crass Tammy Lee website parody, wherein AHS decodes the marketing speak of Ms. Lee’s campaign. To Rahelio, The Alice Cooper/Mike Hatch Award.
As a politico in the know said to me in discussing the 5th CD race–everyone has a past. Presumably, that includes Tammy Lee. Uh, what have you heard?
Regardless, put a fork in her. She’s done.
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Everything you need to know about Tim Pawlenty emerged in the first year of his administration. On February 7, 2003, as his smugness turned to a palpable glee, he announced his “unallotments” to balance the state’s budget and coined the phrase that became the hallmark of his administration.
“Pain is in the eye of the beholder.”
There is no better description of Bushoid/Pawlenty Republican policy over the past few years. Think of almost any facet of government as these Grover Norquist beholden whores like Pawlenty tried to choke government down to the point it can be drowned in a bathtub.
Think of Katrina. Think of Iraq. Think of the smears on Cindy Sheehan and Michael J. Fox. Think of the no new taxes pledge. Think of the state shutdown two summers ago. Think of the ugly troll, David Strom. Think of steadily increasing college tuition. Think of your health care premiums. Think of your closed libraries. Think the lost jobs. Think of global warming.
Pawlenty is in the thick of it, but he recognizes that all that doesn’t serve him so well now.
He’s back to ask your forgiveness. Like the abusive spouse who has reformed, Tim is all smiling softness in his “Positve Ideas” ad, telling you how much he has done for us and how he′ll make it all better. Then he reminds us how much he loves us.
But let him stay, and the abuse will return.
You know better.
All Tim has left is to attack his competing suitor now, “How can you be with that guy? That Mike Hatch, he’s an asshole! How can you let that freak touch you. What? I’ve put you through a lot of pain? Well, pain is the eye of the eye of the beholder, baby.”
It is time to end it.
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Pastor Ted Haggard, that crystal meth snorting cock sucking man of God got booted from his own church yesterday. A product of Oral Roberts University, where Michele Bachmann went to “law school,” Pastor Ted was one of the most powerful preachers in the country. There are only two possibilities: it was a simple frame up or Ted needs treatment.
According to Harpers, Pastor Ted talks with the “President” every Monday. Wonder what they′ll talk about tomorrow?
Tim Pawlenty’s chosen congregation, Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, is part of the Pastor Ted’s network of megachurches; the pastor of Wooddale, Leith Anderson, preceded Haggard as president of the National Association of Evangelicals.
Pawlenty, to his credit, doesn’t foreground his religion. Nonetheless, he too is party to the theocratic designs of the religious right.
In August, Pawlenty purportedly fired a prison chaplain one day before she was to become a permanent classified employee because she was critical of a Bible-base prison program called the InnerChange Freedom Initiative, after a Federal judge ruled the program unconstitutional.
Perhaps freedom of speech and fairness are in the eye of the beholder, too.
–Loosestrife
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