Leave it to the Family Research Council to lay
it out all for us: it's new "Congressional Scorecard" let's you know just who backed their
Right Wing agenda and who is on their sh*t list.
Some of the legislation it focused on for this past session of Congress:
- Reauthorization of Violence Against Women Act (did not support)
- Allow Medical Marijuana Act (did not support)
- Repealing Health Care Law (supported)
- Ban on Sex-Selection Abortion (did not support)
- Presidential Nomination Act (did not support)
- Prohibit the Justice Department for Undermining
the Defense of Marriage Act (supported)
Needless to say, it also considered previous sessions of Congress in regards to
the repeal of DADT, gay rights, women's rights, abortion, health care and
anything that could be construed as being considered "social
justice". The FRC's recent Values Voter Summit was a good barometer as to
the FRC political climate: Michele Bachmann, Jerry Boykin, Paul Ryan, "Bishop"
Harry Jackson, Gary Bauer, and the like spoke and kvetched about the evils of
liberalism and Barack Obama. The Values Voter Summit featured a totally
moralizing yet blatantly compassion-less group of voters (ala Paul
Ryan).
Although labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Family
Research Council still considers itself as the arbiter of Conservative values
and what it states about the votes in Congress on any bill should be taken as
absolute. And although its power has waned and will eventually become (we hope)
imaginary, the FRC is still has a sounding box in FOX News, Mike Huckabee being
its chief supporter.
Are They Groveling Enough?
With scores ranging from 0% (no support) to 100% (total support), the FRC has
given us a picture of the congressmen who kowtow to the Christian Right, those
who are mildly groveling, those who are contemptuously obstinate and those who
are hopeless, worthless demonspawn. The scorecard illustrates its frustration
that more congressmen aren't falling in line with its Christian Right agenda:
34 Senators and 127 Members of Congress are demonspawn who should be eradicated
at all costs. Thirteen states have scored abysmally low and only 7 are true
blue morality meccas. Of course, California bottoms out with the most 0%s, but
other states like Maine come as a surprise. And states that fare poorly
(contemptuously obstinate) have stellar Christian Right shills in place:
Michele Bachmann's Minnesota, for example falls into a 50% as far as voting
records are concerned. The FRC loves Bachmann's Islamophobia, but the rest of
Minnesota's legislators are getting tired of it.*
Other surprises: Pat Robertson's Virginia, Bible belt states like North
Carolina, Georgia, Missouri, and West Virginia. And even though Gov. Jan Brewer
continues to amaze people with her Right Wing political fisticuffs, she hasn't
been able to sway Arizona's congressmen completely to her side. The mildly
groveling states of Alabama, Idaho, Nebraska and Wyoming don't have the popular
(electoral) votes needed to swing elections, and some work needs to be done on
Ohio and Pennsylvania.
States scoring 87% or higher overall (total kowtow) are: Florida, Kansas (Fred
Phelps should be proud) Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Utah. But some
of them might fall from grace if Obama takes any of them in the upcoming
election (Florida looks that way, thanks to the bumbling machinations of the
Romney/Ryan campaign).
Altogether, it's a scorecard that the FRC has been sending out in a frantic attempt
to let its supporters know just how dangerously liberal even a Republican-held
House and marginal Senate can be: it's a frightened plea, a warning that
"liberal" America is alive and kicking ... quite vigorously.
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