Stealth priorities
“ After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans. Of course, Congress can't order colleges what to teach or to fire their tenured Marxist professors, but the universities are among the biggest recipients of federal handouts and the power of the purse carries strings.
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Judicial supremacists recently nullified the Solomon Amendment, which requires universities that take taxpayers' money to allow equal access on their campuses to military recruiters. The congressional response in 2005 should be to slice out of the federal budget those universities that exclude the military - and then watch those parasites beg to be reinstated. ”
Dinosaur battleaxe Phyllic Schlafly decided to show up at the mandate party a little late. We already know the "moral values" myth was a sham, and when we counted up all the votes we could find (that didn't disappear into the black-box voting machines) and Bush only won by less than 3 percent -- no landslide mandate here.
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| Bush and the far right agenda gained "political capital" in the election. |
Instead of moving to the center after the weakest re-election in history, Bush bizarrely claimed he had "political capital" he intended to spend on a stealth agenda. Reminder to the Karl Rove "base": the election was about terror, and it was a squeaker. More people voted against the president than against any other candidate, ever. Flash back to Media Matters for more on this myth. |
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"Judicial supremacists" is priority one. "Reining in judicial supremacists who have been legislating from the bench to remake our culture should top the list. Bush campaigned against such judicial mischief, and we expect him and the 55-44 Republican majority in the Senate to deliver on those promises. "We expect Bush to use the Supreme Court litmus test he announced in his St. Louis debate, i.e., that he 'wouldn't pick a judge who said that the Pledge of Allegiance couldn't be said in a school because it had the words 'under God' in it.'" |
"Eagle Forum" Schlafly is that rare bird, a conservative who admits to the obvious, that Bush supports a litmus test for judicial nominees. Bush himself was never quite clear -- denying the obvious litmus test and making a confused argument against slavery. So-called judicial "activists" (or "supremacists," Schlafly's own term) are simply judges who are independent of the far-right agenda. Even ailing Chief Justice Rehnquist has felt the need to stick up for judicial independence. |
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The Republicans will rein in deficit spending. "Of course, conservatives expect Congress to stop the runaway federal spending that plagued George W. Bush's first administration. It's the job of the House of Representatives to reduce the bloated federal budget and to stop funding institutions that spend our money to oppose American values." |
That'll be the day. |
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Congress should rein in unapproved thought on campus. "After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans. Of course, Congress can't order colleges what to teach or to fire their tenured Marxist professors, but the universities are among the biggest recipients of federal handouts and the power of the purse carries strings. "... The congressional response in 2005 should be to slice out of the federal budget those universities that exclude the military - and then watch those parasites beg to be reinstated." |
Schlafly is parrotting the insidious claims made by the pro-McCarthy Accuracy in Academia in the 80s. (There are 10,000 known Communists on college faculties!) But claims of liberal campus bias are fundamentally wrong. While there are certainly some liberal professors out there -- the smart ones -- unsubstantiated complaints of classroom bias are broadcast through a $20 million "young conservative" megaphone. As for ROTC, while nationwide enrollment at over 300 colleges has increased since 9/11, a brave handful of universities have found that the Army policy of homophobia conflicts with their own policies. Maybe if reactionary neanderthals like Schlafly didn't make the armed services a petri dish for backwards, exclusive policies, ROTC would be everywhere. |
Dinosaur battleaxe Phyllic Schlafly decided to show up at the mandate party a little late. We already know the "moral values" myth was a sham, and when we counted up all the votes we could find (that didn't disappear into the black-box voting machines) and Bush only won by less than 3 percent -- no landslide mandate here.
Despite this, Schlafly and others believe they have a God-given right to have their extremist agenda imposed on the nervous nation. Most of her ideas were never mentioned or only coyly hinted at during a campaign focused on terror; only now, after votes are cast, does she unearth her stealth agenda. Campus military recruitment and banning Title IX athletics? Where did that come from?
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