<That mandate includes the power of the state to force pregnant women to give up control over their own lives.

This makes sense, given the liberal premise that unborn babies are not really alive. You know, if women with unwanted pregnancies had control over their own lives in the first place, they wouldn't be pregnant*, but that is a mean-spirited and chauvinistic attitude.

It includes using the taxing power to transfer wealth from working people to the rich.

I'm sorry, I must have missed the laws that pipe billions in tax money from street bums and dockworkers to Bill Gates. Of course, given the liberal premise that all wealth belongs to the State, any money Bill gets to keep is therefore money "taken" from the State and its constituency, so I guess that one makes sense to liberals too.

And will somebody please tell me the income threshold where one is no longer a "working person?" Apparently no one who is rich ever works, and I would like to get there as soon as possible.

It includes giving corporations a free hand to eviscerate the environment and control the regulatory agencies meant to hold them accountable.

It means backing off a bit from the total war on the private sector that the Left has been waging. No one is saying corporations should be dumping crap in the rivers, but shutting down entire industries because a butterfly might be threatened is starting to get a little nuts (this is happening in California)

And it includes secrecy on a scale you cannot imagine. Above all, it means judges with a political agenda appointed for life. If you liked the Supreme Court that put George W. Bush in the White House, you will swoon over what's coming.

This is just dumb. Like a Democrat would not appoint judges with a political agenda? And the old 2000 election bitch again?

And if you like God in government, get ready for the Rapture. These folks don't even mind you referring to the GOP as the party of God. Why else would the new House Majority Leader say that the Almighty is using him to promote 'a Biblical worldview' in American politics?

Apparently, thou shalt have no God before the State. The Left's revulsion toward religion is understandable, but it's getting a bit old. And these are the same people who are complaining that we are not sufficiently sympathetic to the Muslim worldview.

So it is a heady time in Washington - a heady time for piety, profits, and military power, all joined at the hip by ideology and money.



Don't forget the money. It came pouring into this election, to both parties, from corporate America and others who expect the payback. Republicans outraised democrats by $184 million dollars. And came up with the big prize - monopoly control of the American government, and the power of the state to turn their ideology into the law of the land. Quite a bargain at any price.

That's it for this week. For NOW, I'm Bill Moyers.



Another pissy little gripefest. Geez, first Garrison Keillor, now Bill Moyers. These are supposed to be the SMART ones.

*And don't give me crap about rape. Less than one percent of abortions are the result of a rape pregnancy.