Remember a few years back when Republicans were predicting they'd hold bicameral majorities for the next thirty years and some media boob with his head up his ass anointed Power Line as "Blog of the Year?"
Thankfully, things have changed. Not everything, though, unfortunately...
This from the limp pen of Power Line's Scott Johnson -- Boy Wonder to the Assrocket's Batman, Champion of Hypocrites, and a guy who loves him some Rick Santorum, and fellates him some Bill Bennett, and...don't laugh... considers Rush Limbaugh one of the most important figures of the 1990s:
According to the invaluable report of the Chicago Tribune, the Muslim Brotherhood operates in the United States as the Muslim American Society. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross's "MAS's Muslim Brotherood problem" expands on the meaning of MAS's relationship to the Muslim Brotherood. Like the Muslim Brotherhood and the MAS, the Islamic Circle of North America promotes the establishment of the Islamic system of life. According to Steven Emerson, the ICNA also has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The two groups -- MAS and the ICNA -- hold a joint annual convention. This year's joint annual convention in Dearborn welcomed -- who else? -- Minnesota Fifth District Rep.-elect Keith Ellison as its keynote speaker. The Detroit Free Press reports on Ellison's speech this past Sunday night:
"You can't back down, you can't chicken out, you can't be afraid, you got to have faith in Allah, and you got to stand up and be a real Muslim," Detroit native Keith Ellison said to loud applause.
"Allahu akbar" -- God is great -- was the reply of many in the crowd.
Surely one of these days some bigfoot journalist will ask Ellison what branch of Islam he adheres to in reconciling Islam with the Democratic platform on abortion rights, homosexual rights, the rights of women and the like. Perhaps some bigfoot journalist might then ask a question or two about how Ellison's branch of Islam views the legal equality of Muslims and infidels and the supremacy of the United States Constitution over Sharia law. Until that time, we will have pay attention to the friends of Keith Ellison for the light they may shed on his views on these subjects.
My head asplode.
Surely one of these days some bigfoot journalist will ask Rick Santorum, Bill Bennett, Rush Limbaugh and Scott W. Johnson what branch of Christianity they adhere to in reconciling the teachings of Christ with the Republican platform and practice on:
Lying to Congress
Lying to the people
Wars of aggression
Waterboarding
Sexual torture
White phosphorous
Rampant poverty
Decaying schools
Children without health care
Minimum wage
Global warming
The environment
Corporate giveaways
K Street graft
Co-mingling of Church and state
Workplace safety deregulation
Immigration
See, Scott, your house is made of candy glass.
Because unlike Ellison, whose declaration of faith comes with a hefty price tag, your faith is a Pharisitic adornment that you drape around yourself to create the illusion of righteousness.
Of course you could, if you weren't either intellectually lazy or engaged in the assembly of straw boogeymen, simply look up the answer to your own stupid question. Just click your mouse on the pretty orange letters and read what comes through the tubes.
By my count, there is one Muslim in Congress come January, and untold hundreds of Christian Republicans. If you're prepared to engage with an honest examination of how Republican politics reconcile with the teachings of Christ, then you will have demonstrated your good faith, and then we can turn the microscope on Ellison.
Howzat?
Scott? Hey, Scott...you out there?
Chirp...chirp...chirp...