Time to get off our collective asses...even mine

ModFab has the top five Republicans Making Shit Up items of the week, along with your Liberal Marching Orders (cf. Maron) for the weekend.



I want to point out this particular item for those of my friends (and you know who you are) who are still on the fence and think that the Republicans are in any way rational:

Campaign mail with a return address of the Republican National Committee warns West Virginia voters that the Bible will be prohibited and men will marry men if liberals win in November.



The literature shows a Bible with the word "BANNED" across it and a photo of a man, on his knees, placing a ring on the hand of another man with the word "ALLOWED." The mailing tells West Virginians to "vote Republican to protect our families" and defeat the "liberal agenda."



Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said Friday that he wasn't aware of the mailing, but said it could be the work of the RNC. "It wouldn't surprise me if we were mailing voters on the issue of same-sex marriage," Gillespie said.

It wouldn't surprise me either. But sending mailings that claim John Kerry will ban Bibles isn't just over the top, it's laughable -- or would be, if there weren't plenty of people who actually believed it.



But that's how the Bush Administration operates, isn't it? Fear, fear, fear, and more fear. Fear of terrorists. Fear of gay people. Fear of banning Bibles. Fear of liberals. Fear of everything. Keep being afraid, and look for Big Daddy George to take care of you. This is leadership? Not in my book.



So it's time to swallow my bitterness about what Kerry's people, along with Dick Gephardt's people, did to Howard Dean in Iowa. We're not talking about just another election here, people. We're talking about getting rid of a President who not only wants to turn us into a dictatorship, as he has stated repeatedly, but regards himself as God's Anointed Instrument to deliver Christians to the Rapture. We used to call guys like this "crazy people". Now we call them "Mr. President." This is no longer about messianic believe in Our Chosen Candidate; this is about the very survival of this nation as it was originally conceived.



I just signed up. Your turn.



Just as an aside, you probably won't hear much of this on your network newscast tonight over dinner (and isn't it interesting that this is being released over the weekend, when no one will see it), but Vice Adm. R.A. Route, the Navy inspector general, has completed the investigation into John Kerry's medals at the request of The Association To Torment Bill Clinton Lo Unto His Grave, Judical Watch. Route sent the following to Navy Secretary Gordon England yesterday:

"Our examination found that existing documentation regarding the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals indicates the awards approval process was properly followed,"



"In particular, the senior officers who awarded the medals were properly delegated authority to do so. In addition, we found that they correctly followed the procedures in place at the time for approving these awards."

So can we now toss the Swift Boat Liars into the garbage where they belong?