What is your favorite name for GOP politicians?

The message of God's Own Party is not "we have good ideas, let us try them", because they've been tried and they've failed. The message of the Republicangelicals is not, "work with us and together we can make the world better", it's "we won so sit down and shut up." The message of the "morals and values" party is not one of the power of humility and compassion, but one of fear and intimidation. Everything different is viewed as a threat.

A majority taken collectively is only an individual, whose opinions, and frequently whose interests, are opposed to those of another individual, who is styled a minority. If it be admitted that a man possessing absolute power may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should not a majority be liable to the same reproach? Men do not change their characters by uniting with one another; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with their strength. For my own part, I cannot believe it; the power to do everything, which I should refuse to one of my equals, I will never grant to any number of them.

No one will assert that a people cannot forcibly wrong another people; but parties may be looked upon as lesser nations within a great one, and they are aliens to each other. If, therefore, one admits that a nation can act tyrannically towards another nation, can it be denied that a party may do the same towards another party?

I presume that it is scarcely necessary to remind the reader here, as well as throughout this chapter, that I am speaking, not of the Federal government, but of the governments of the individual states, which the majority controls at its pleasure.

During today's same-sex marriage amendment debate, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) used a prop of a blown-up photo of his family (some 20 people or so). Gesturing towards the photo, he said:

(MR. INHOFE) As you see here, and I think this is maybe the most important prop we'll have during the entire debate, my wife and I have been married 47 years. We have 20 kids and grandkids. I'm really proud to say that in the recorded history of our family, we've never had a divorce or any kind of a homosexual relationship.

Um, wow. The Inhofes' very married, very not gay family pictured below.

The above picture was taken off of Inhofe's website. You can visit at inhofe.senate.gov. But be careful, once you start poking around on Inhofe's office computers for pictures, you never know what you'll find....

July 20, 1999 http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_1999_July_20/ai_55183016

Inhofe's porn-gate - discovery of Internet pornography on Sen James Inhofe's office computers forces him to withdraw opposition to gay ambassador-designate James Hormel - Brief Article

It seems there is nothing like a good sex scandal to hammer some sense into antigay politicians. Just days after the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call reported that aides in Sen. James Inhofe's office had downloaded massive quantifies of Internet pornography, Inhofe announced that he would drop his threat to block all nominations by President Clinton.

The Oklahoma Republican made the threat after Clinton employed a rarely used executive privilege during Congress's Memorial Day recess to make philanthropist James Hormel the first openly gay U.S. envoy. Inhofe had led an 18-month battle to block Hormel's nomination as ambassador to Luxembourg even though a majority of senators indicated they were prepared to approve the nomination.

Inhofe said he dropped the threat because Clinton had written to Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) saying that he "made it a practice to notify Senate leaders in advance of our intentions in this regard, and this precedent will continue to be observed."

But gay rights groups jumped on Inhofe's scandal nonetheless. The pornographic material was found during a routine check of his office computer system. Roll Call reported that there was such a huge volume of sexually explicit material that it had "messed up the senator's computer system." The newspaper did not describe what kind of X-rated material was found.

"Senator Inhofe's staff should have used their highly honed Internet skills to download the Constitution instead of pornography," said David Smith, communications director for the gay lobbying group Human Rights Campaign, in a press release. "They would have learned that there isn't a constitutional right to place a hold on nominations."