You blow twenty million bucks to deny Americans their rights as human beings, and what do you get for it? Grief.

“People of faith have been intimidated for simply exercising their democratic rights… These are not actions that are worthy of the democratic ideals of our nation. The end of a free and fair election should not be the beginning of a hostile response in America.”

That was a statement issued Friday by Mormon leaders, who apparently didn’t expect to be held accountable for their actions.

Which in no way is related to another statement from a church spokesman decrying other people of faith for exercising their democratic rights to vote against a Mormon candidate in the Republican presidential primaries:

“Latter-day Saints were just amazed to think there was such bigotry in the country.”

Because when you do it, it’s a matter of principle.

Mormon Church feels the heat over Proposition 8 [LAT]

• John Paul II apologizes in 1995 for Church’s treatment of women: 1,995 years
• Pope Benedict apologizes in 2008 for child sex abuse by clergy: 869 years
• John Paul II apologizes in 1999 for Jan Hus being burned at the stake: 584 years

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVNqJSPrfio

Joe Biden during the veep debate: “Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American history.”

The Bidens will be visiting the Cheneys at the vice-presidential residence this afternoon. We recommend they leave before dusk.

Biden to Meet Cheney, Make Really Awkward Small Talk [CQ Politics]

We’ve seen that movie too:

“Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.”

So ruled the Virginia trial judge following the January 1959 conviction of Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving for marrying against the wishes of the state. The crime of illegal matrimony was a felony, one-to-five; the judge suspended the sentence on the condition that Jeter and Loving profane God’s will elsewhere for twenty-five years.

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Just when we feared we’d have to start working for our material, Paul Broun, House Republican from Georgia, serves it up on a platter:

“You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I’m not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I’m saying is there is the potential of going down that road.”

Yes, yes, oh god, yes! It’s only been a week, and we didn’t realize how empty our life felt. Where are the terrorists of yesterday? Whither the socialists? Where have you gone, Michele Bachmann?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ45Q2zXxiQ

Fun story: We scoured Google for the actual video, but Fox lawyers were years ahead of us. Fine, we thought, we’ll just set up our own YouTube account, rip the clip from the DVD, and name it something vague so it doesn’t turn up in searches. But the moment it finished uploading, Fox flagged it, the FBI showed up at our door, and now we’re posting from Gitmo.

Awkward meeting is ahead for Obama [IHT]

The First Bush-Obama Meeting [Political Wire]

Use this forum to post your ideas about how we can rebuild the party. The best ones as voted by the community may be incorporated in the plan we deliver to candidates for RNC Chairman.

The next RNC Chairman should…

free delivered bags of cheetos
From my experience, I wanted to help spread the message and fight our troops. but it was very tough to do that when I ran out of Cheetos. I had to keep leaving my mom’s basement and driving two blocks to the store to buy more. Even worse was when I didn’t have the money. How can I fight the libtards without Cheetos?

Stop having sex with men in public bathrooms
I mean, seriously. It’s bad publicity. Go on craigslist and have your shame-filled, down-low gay sex in the privacy of a stranger’s bedroom.

say the words “Hussein,” “Ayers,” and “Rev. Wright” a lot
I mean, like, every time he opens his mouth

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