38. BUSH JUDGES: Talk Well, DO EVIL.

That's not my opinion, that's what Bush judicial nominee Bill Pryor is professing.

Pryor, you may remember, is the judge who ran Roy Moore out of office for standing for the ten commandments, so Pryor's conservative and Christian credentials are already highly suspect.

His latest comments remove any lingering doubt as to his illegitimacy. Pryor, like so many other phonies, sys although he believes abortion is evil, he will rule in favor of it anyway.

What difference does it make if Bush nominates supposedly 'conservative' judges, if they profess ahead of time that they will DO the SAME things as liberals? Are we supposed to feel good because guys like Pryor at least SAY they are on our side, while they stab us in the backs? Are the babies supposed to feel better that their torture and death warrants will be signed by a man who SAYS he's against it?

11th Circuit's Pryor Calls Abortion 'Evil' but Says He'll Follow Laws

http://biz.yahoo.com/law/050624/c18f0b1f93979450d1be5aed690c14e7.html?.v=1

Friday June 24 Eliott C. McLaughlin and Jonathan Ringel, Fulton County Daily Report

Federal appeals Judge William H. Pryor Jr., whose fierce opposition to abortion prompted a two-year fight over his Senate confirmation, said Wednesday that "it'd certainly be wrong for a Catholic lawyer or judge to do something to advance a grave evil like abortion."

TG: Well, that's EXACTLY what he's planning to do. He's confessing his sins ahead of time - and some ignorant conservatives and Christians will support him (and his boss) anyway.

Pryor emphasized that as an appeals court judge he would uphold abortion laws.

TG: It is kind of refreshing that Pryor ADMITS he's a phony,but that makes it all the more frustrating that constitutional conservatives think his kind are any more worth supporting than admitted liberals.

Pryor's announced topic at the meeting was "The Duty of a Catholic Lawyer or Judge to Avoid Evil." But when he reached the podium, he said he had chosen a different topic, and he drew laughs when he said that one of the benefits of life tenure is the freedom to change his mind.

TG: No doubt all the babies on Pryor's death-row though tthat was quite humorous. His jest about life tenure also hints that he has a despotic mind-frame.

After the speech, Pryor took questions, which is when Roe v. Wade came up. Pryor's statement that he would follow the 1973 decision, which he previously has called "the worst abomination of constitutional law in our history," reflected his promise at his Senate confirmation hearing two years ago to adhere to all decisions of the Supreme Court, whether or not he agreed with them.

TG: So he would've enforced slavery when it was legal? He would've enforced killing Jews if this was a Nazi German court?

Along with abortion rights supporters, other liberal groups had vigorously opposed Pryor's nomination for the past two years. They hounded him with reminders that he once ended a speech praying for "no more Souters." That was a reference to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, whose votes to uphold Roe have disappointed many conservatives.

TG: He is setting himself up to be a greater compromiser than Souter ever has been.

Becky Rafter, the executive director of the local chapter of the pro-abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America, said she was concerned particularly about Pryor because, as a judge on a federal appeals court, he will deal with abortion only in the most delicate and complex situations, such as when a girl or woman has been the victim of rape or incest. "His personal beliefs are going to affect his rulings. He is going to look at that lawyer as advancing an evil," she said.

TG: A supposed pro-lifer's views will affect his rulings, so all judges must be pro-abortion because that WON'T affect a judge's rulings? Did Rafter have her brain aborted? She can at least take comfort in knowing that Pryor has gone on the record as being a wimpy compromiser and promising that his pro-life beliefs, as shallow as they are, WON'T affect his rulings.

Pryor Calls Evil Good

Federal Judge Bill Pryor to Uphold 'Evil' Abortion Law, But Says Upholding Evil Doesn't Make Him Evil

http://www.covenantnews.com/abortion/

DOUBLED MINDED -- Federal appeals Judge William H. Pryor Jr., emphasized that as an appeals court judge he would uphold abortion laws. "The law does not empower you to stop someone else from doing evil," he said.[?] (Jer.22:3; Gen.9:6; Rom.13:1-4) Upholding a law "does not make you a formal cooperator with the evil act," Pryor says.[?] (Rom.6:15-16; Jas.1:5-8; Isa.5:20; Rom.2:12-13; Pss.2:10-12)

6E. ANOTHER ANTI-AMERICAN LEADER in MIDDLE EAST.

It seems every leader chosen in the Middle East is anti-American.

http://www.conservativenews.org/ForeignBureaus/archive/200506/FOR20050627a.html

New Iranian Leader Sees No Need for US

By Patrick Goodenough CNSNews.com International Editor June 27, 2005 (CNSNews.com) -

Iran does not need America, Iranian president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared on Sunday."Our nation is continuing on the path of progress and has no significant need for the United States," said Ahmadinejad, the fundamentalist Tehran mayor who came from nowhere in opinion polls two weeks ago to grab a decisive victory in Friday's election runoff.

Addressing his first press conference since his surprise win, the 48-year-old former officer in the Revolutionary Guard said he would consider establishing ties with any country that was not hostile to the Islamic Republic.

Ahmadinejad promised a government based on "religious democracy," saying domestic policies would be based on moderation, with "no room for radicalism."

He also vowed that Iran would press ahead with its nuclear program, saying the country needed peaceful nuclear technology for medical, engineering and scientific purposes.

The U.S. and Israel suspect the program is a cover for an effort to build nuclear weapons.

In Friday's election, Ahmadinejad defeated former president and wealthy mullah Hashemi Rafsanjani.

The U.S. was critical throughout of the electoral process. Rafsanjani and Ahmadinejad were two of only eight men permitted to run by a religious-legal body appointed by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

More than one thousand other would-be candidates were disqualified, including all 89 female hopefuls.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dismissed what he called "mock" elections, saying on Sunday that Ahmadinejad was "no friend of democracy.""

He is a person who is very much supportive of the current ayatollahs, who are telling the people of that country how to live their lives," Rumsfeld told Fox News Sunday.

"My guess is, over time, the young people and the women will find him -- as well as his masters -- unacceptable."Tehran's foreign ministry spokesman said the U.S. should "respect the Iranian nation's choice and stop intervening in Iran's internal affairs.

The election of Ahmadinejad, who succeeds Khatami in August, means that "hardliners" once again control all levers of Iran's government - executive, legislative and judiciary.

37. BUSH Supreme KANGAROO COURT A & B.

Hollywood comedy writers no longer need to come up with new material. They simply have to observe the Bush administration to find all the comedy they need.

First, many conservative Christians voiced that they felt the most important reason to support Bush over Kerry was to get better Supreme Court nominees. Why, Kerry might give us *liberals* and *pro-aborters*!

(Aside: This is certainly not an endorsement of Kerry, who consorted with the Communist Vietnamese enemy while he was a uniformed American military officer. Such action is treason and worthy of the death penalty. And he is a flaming liberal as well.)

Well, Bush is giving us liberals in federal courts. ALL of those he has nominated have professed that they will make no attempt to reverse the Roe vs. Wade decision which has been used to murder tens of millions of innocent infants since 1973. And now even his front-runner for a Supreme Court position has more baggage than Samsonite. It is Alberto Gonzales - not only is he pro-abortion, but he is the judge responsible for not even allowing parents to be notified when their minor daughters have abortions in Texas. He supported the torture and abuse of prisoners, which in the post 9-11 era could apply to political prisoners. He is also an advocate of illegal alien benefits. He further supports the banning of constitutionally protected semi-automatic arms. But what got Alberto the job was when as Bush’s general counsel in 1996, Gonzo got the then Texas Governor out of jury duty which kept him from having to disclose his 1976 arrest for drunk driving.

If Gonzo is an example of a Bush appointed 'conservative', we might truly have been better off with judges appointed by John Kerry (after all, it was the Clinton appointee Stephen Breyer who cast the deciding vote to allow the Ten Commandments in Texas).

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL ...

If you read the last article posted here, you'll see that Att'y Gen. Gonzalez, because he already is serving as a gov't employee where he has faced many related cases, will have to recuse himself from such cases. Gonzo will in effect be a mannequin on the court. He won't be able to participate or rule in significant cases.

Judge Wapner would still be on the air if he had this kind of material for his TV court show.

Pro-Abort for Top Court Rankles Right

http://www.covenantnews.com/abortion/archives/013297.html

http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak27.html

It was not merely a leak from the normally leak-proof Bush White House. For more than a week, a veritable torrent has tipped Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as President Bush's first nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. It has sent the conservative movement into spasms of fear and loathing. Gonzales long has been unacceptable to anti-abortion activists because of his record as a Texas Supreme Court justice. Beyond pro-lifers, he is opposed by organized conservative lawyers. Ironically, the same Bush supporters who have been raising money and devising tactics for the mother of all judicial confirmation fights are in a panic that Gonzales will be named. With the president's popularity falling among his conservative base as well as the general populace, a politically disastrous moment may be at hand.

Is The Religious Right Gullible, Naïve, or Willingly Ignorant?

Related http://www.covenantnews.com/baldwin050310.htm

President Bush has repeatedly said that he has no litmus test on the life issue when it comes to appointing federal judges. Why does the Religious Right claim he intends to do something he has plainly and repeatedly denied? Again, are they gullible, naïve, or willingly ignorant?

Gonzalez and the Recusal Problem

http://www.covenantnews.com/abortion/archives/013296.html

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/11098

If President Bush nominates Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, he won't be naming a new justice. He'll be naming something more like a new half-justice. A Justice Gonzales would have to recuse himself from cases dealing with a wide range of issues — from the Patriot Act to partial-birth abortion — because of his high-level service in the Bush administration.

Federal law is clear: No federal judge, including any Supreme Court justice, may participate in a case if he "has served in governmental employment and in such capacity participated as counsel, advisor or material witness concerning the proceeding or expressed an opinion concerning the merits of the particular case in controversy." In addition, justices are to recuse themselves "in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned." Given that Gonzales was Bush's White House counsel for the entirety of his first term, and is now attorney general, that means he will have to decline to participate in a lot of important cases.
The administration's legal positions could therefore lose ground precisely because one of their architects would be on the Court.

The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to provide constitutional protection for partial-birth abortion. If Gonzales replaces Justice O'Connor, who voted with the majority, that becomes a 4-4 split that leaves the lower courts' judgment in place — which almost certainly means that partial-birth abortion continues without restriction. If Gonzales replaces Chief Justice Rehnquist, who dissented, there's a 5-3 majority for keeping the procedure legal.

Gonzales might be compromised on campaign finance, on Patriot, on affirmative action, on military tribunals for terrorists, and on the disclosure of executive-branch documents. Maybe the Bush administration isn't deeply interested in all of these issues, but it surely wants to maximize its odds of prevailing on some of them. And nobody can know what other issues demanding recusal might come before the Court — or rather, before eight of its justices.

8B. BUSH AGAIN SUPPORTS PRO-ABORTER.

Our supposedly pro-life president is once again contributing to the campaign of a pro-abortion, liberal Republican, just like he did for Arlen Specter.

Someone please remind me, why was it so important to vote for Bush instead of Kerry? Weren't things like abortion and sodomy supposed to be important distinctions? Don't those things matter to Christians anymore?

http://www.covenantnews.com/abortion/http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/062305/bush.html

Bush Raises Money For Pro-Aborts

Bush shakes money tree for Chafee while stupid Christians look onSome of President Bush’s biggest donors are hosting an event next week for Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.), a centrist Republican who has frequently opposed Bush’s top priorities. Bush and the Republican establishment in Washington have previously supported centrist GOP candidates over the objections of social-conservative activists. Bush and Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) worked hard to reelect Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) when he ran against conservative Rep. Pat Toomey in a GOP primary in 2004.

19E. ANOTHER QUEEN IN BUSH COURT.

There are now at least a dozen open homosexuals in the Bush administration. We are so fortunate that "Brother" Bush is a conservative Christian! Imagine what would happen if some LIBERAL (like AlGore or John Kerry) was in office? Well, when liberal Democrat Bill Clinton was in office, he was able to get ONLY ONE avowed sodomite confirmed by Congress because the Republicans in Congress OPPOSED such perversion. However, now with one of their own in the Oval Office, the GOP votes party over principle and SUPPORTS the SAME things they once opposed.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/322031p-275336c.html

Out of the closet & into sub-Cabinet?

President Bush isn't letting potential howls from the Christian right stop him from nominating an openly gay man as assistant secretary of commerce.

Just in time for Pride Week, Bush has tapped longtime aide Israel Hernandez for the post, which also carries the title of director general of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service. The 35-year-old Republican go-getter has been a Bush acolyte since the President's 1994 campaign for governor of Texas. (Among Hernandez's duties was supplying the candidate with breath mints, prompting Dubya to dub him "Altoid Boy.")

Most recently, the graduate of Texas A&M's George H.W. Bush School of Government served as aide-de-camp to senior White House adviser Karl Rove.

One source tells us Hernandez waited until Bush was sworn in for a second term to formally tell him he is gay. By then, says a source, he'd brought his partner to several official events.

36. Bush Supports Continued UN Funding.

Wasn't Bush the big, bad cowboy who told the UN to lump it when he attacked Iraq? That gave him the IMAGE of being a pro-America, anti-UN crusader. Once again we see it's a FALSE image. His administration supports full funding of the UN, no matter how badly they behave.

http://www.covenantnews.com/politics/archives/013027.html

http://washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050616-113652-7271r

The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com

White House hits bill to hold U.N. dues

By David R. Sands THE WASHINGTON TIMES June 17, 2005

The Bush administration warned Congress yesterday to drop a threat to withhold dues to the United Nations as a way to spur reform of the world body, saying the tactic would prove counterproductive.

The bill -- co-sponsored by House International Relations Committee Chairman Henry J. Hyde, Illinois Republican -- would hold up to half of the U.S. annual payment to the world body if more than three dozen administrative and management reforms are not adopted.

Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns called the provision "unacceptable." "It would diminish our effectiveness and not allow us to play the leading role that we need to play on reform," he said.

The United States is the largest single contributor to the United Nations, paying nearly a quarter of the world body's $2 billion regular operating budget and 27 percent of its peacekeeping costs.

Supporters of the Hyde bill argued on the House floor yesterday that the dues threat was the only way to get the United Nations' attention in the wake of scandals such as the Iraq oil-for-food program and abuses by U.N. peacekeeping troops. "Yes, this is radical surgery, but sometimes it is the only way to save the patient," Mr. Hyde said.

35. Muslim Unitarianism.

...President Bush has declared that he believes in a god who speaks to different religions.

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/142005h.asp

While many Evangelicals believe the president has accepted Christ as his Savior, some have been somewhat disturbed by such things as the White House celebration each year of Ramadan. The president may have added to those Evangelicals' concerns yesterday (June 13) when he told a group of international exchange students that he believes in a god who is not confined to one religion.

"I believe there's an almighty god who speaks to different faiths -- and I believe freedom is a gift from that almighty," the president said.

At the White House ceremony, President Bush went on to praise the exchange students for teaching their American classmates about Islam, and noted how one Muslim exchange student helped his Michigan high school classmates learn about the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Quoting the student, Bush said, "When I got to one of my classes on the first day of Ramadan, I was totally amazed. There were signs everywhere in the class saying 'Happy Ramadan, Abdul.'" The apparent celebration of Ramadan at the Michigan school seems in sharp contrast to the increasing hostility towards Christianity in many public school systems around the U.S. [Fred Jackson]

34. Bush Supports MAJOR Pro-Abortionist.

Bush supporting another MAJOR pro-Abortionist. I'm SHOCKED! She's a pro-aborter (in fact raises money for other fake Republicans who support baby-killing), an ungodly feminist, and an anti-American one-worlder (read: traitor).

http://www.covenantnews.com/blog/archives/012746.html

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050609/ap_on_go_co/brownback_nomination_2

Spat Over Pro-Abort Nomination

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Sam Brownback has put a hold on President Bush's nomination of a prominent abortion-rights supporter, Julie Finley as ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Finley, a longtime feminist Bush supporter and Republican fundraiser, is a founding member of the WISH list, a political action committee that raises money for female Republican candidates who support abortion rights (read: baby murder). Finley is also a trustee and treasurer for a one-world government organization National Endowment for Democracy.

(Editor's note: To see how evil it is for Bush to nominate Julie Finley, think of it as equivalent to the president nominating someone from International Planned Parenthood Federation, and then you'll begin to get the picture.)