Say hello to the new head of the Republican Party

Over the weekend, Cathie Adams was elected the new Chairwoman of the Texas Republican Party.

Adams also happens to be the President of the Texas Eagle Forum who has deep ties to other right-wing leaders in the state, such as David Barton and, as the Texas Freedom Network notes, has a long history of ultra-right-wing activism:

- Ms. Adams has compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler, suggesting that his speech to American students was “eerily like Hitler’s youth movement.”

- In an e-mail to far-right activists in 2008, Ms. Adams viciously attacked the faith of then-candidate Obama (page 40):

“While many question Barak Hussein Obama’s ‘religion’…, the more important question is whether he has a ‘relationship’ with Jesus Christ because that is the only HOPE that any of us have to obtain eternal life. I personally see NO evidence that Obama has that kind of ‘saving faith.’”

- Two years ago Ms. Adams opposed a ballot measure providing $300 million annually over 10 years for cancer research. Voters approved the measure, which had the support of Gov. Perry and then-President George Bush. But Adams didn’t, falsely claiming that the money would be used in embryonic stem cell research and suggesting that medical researchers are amoral monsters:

“Scientists are on the verge of cloning humans, injecting them with diseases and studying them, then killing them.”

- Defending the dominance of failed abstinence-only programs in Texas schools recently, Ms. Adams blamed the state’s sky-high rates of teen births and sexually transmitted diseases on the supposedly inferior morals of Mexican immigrants:

“If mom had a baby at age 15, are her morals going to be setting different standards than someone who has grown up in the American culture where that is not typical? As a matter of fact, we would look at someone impregnating a 15-year-old as child abuse.”

- She opposes the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which gives children of the working poor access to health care:

“Now illegal aliens will be able to purchase cheap insurance for their children. This is an incentive for them to come here.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/state-eagle-forum-president-becomes-head-texas-gop

just think - I she were male, she would be perfect.

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but in order to save our nation, we are going to have to dig deep to yank these "Freepers" out of every position, from "Dog Catcher" to "Deputy Sherriff" before this cancerous form of "KKKonservatism" is whiped from the face of the earth.

Too bad this twit has outlived Paul Wellstone.

Incidentally, I have read the insanity that is the Texas GOP platform (which explicitly refers to America as a Christian theocracy) and I think this pitiful woman is right in line with the party's warped values.

Will they ever move back into "fiscal responsibility" and away from a false moral superiority?

Will they ever open a political science or a history book?

Will they ever be able to deliver prosperity to the same rubes they keep fucking over?

Stay tuned...same GOP time! Same GOP channel!

...but I'm not.

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..... to fill top posts with.

to the Texans.

Whether or not to call her a 'head' is a different matter. ;-)

This is infuriating. I've found my next topic to write about. This deep running notion of a "Christian Nation", and why separation of church and state is a fucking joke as of 2009.

Heaven help us!
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I shouldn't laugh, but I can't help it.

Welcome to DU tmyers09. Where do you write your topics? Look forward to reading it.

It's about Glenn Beck ripping on the people of Detroit waiting in line for stimulus money - and it's also about America's negative attitude towards the needy.

Look up Ms Adams, your ceiling has been lowered.

Dunderheads, the whole lot.

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Misleading subject line.

... During an April CNN discussion of a Texas proposal to ban same-sex couples from becoming foster parents, Cathie Adams, president of the far-right Texas Eagle Forum, declared that it was "a proven fact" that "children in same-sex couple homes are 11 times more likely to be abused sexually" ...

It was, as it turned out, utterly false.

As was pointed out in a lengthy article by Carl Bialik, the Wall Street Journal's "Numbers Guy," Adams' statistic ultimately came from Paul Cameron, a gay-bashing activist whose research was discredited long ago and whose organization, the Family Research Institute, is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. Adams told Bialik she derived it from an article on the far-right WorldNetDaily Web site. That article cited another by Cameron that was published in the journal Psychological Reports ...

Cameron looked at the 270 cases of sexual abuse of foster children reported to Illinois authorities between 1997 and 2002 ... But Cameron had no idea if the abusers were in gay or heterosexual partnerships ...

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=546