Reply #13: I wonder if these Teavangelicals would even be organized without FreedomWorks [View All]

[Jim_Shorts]

Jane Hamsher: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/the-corporate-lobbyists-b_b_186367.html
FreedomWorks was launched a GOP version of MoveOn.
In 2004, a woman who identified herself as a "single mother" in Iowa, Sandra Jacques, appeared at a George Bush town hall and gushed about his plan to privatize Social Security. She left out the part about being an employee of Freedomworks, who were lobbying on the issue at the time.

When you put together a football team, you look for the biggest, baddest, meanest guys you can find. The GOP version of this team would be Christian Reconstructionists. Frank Schaeffer: http://www.alternet.org/story/151960/michele_bachmann_was_inspired_by_my_dad_and_his_christian_reconstructionist_friends_--_here%27s_why_that%27s_terrifying?page=5

In the scorched-earth post-Roe era of the “health care reform debates” of 2009 and beyond, evangelicals seemed to believe that Jesus commanded that all hospitals (and everything else) should be run by corporations for profit, just because corporations weren’t the evil government.