Too Busy: The Sexual Politics of the Presidential Crisis

[babylonsister]

http://www.alternet.org/sex/50246/

Too Busy: The Sexual Politics of the Presidential Crisis

By Susie Bright, SusieBright.com. Posted April 6, 2007.

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As many observers have pointed out, the Rovian Era of presidential politics is to gut every federal "helping hand" and then transform what's left into a propaganda arm for fatuous rightwing causes -- the more loony and "sexy," the better.

Since the day the Moral Majority got its Ralph-Reed milk teeth into the base fears of sexual repression, we have seen the America's political leadership throw everything they've got at sex-fear mongering:

"Why do we go to war?"
Because we're not PUSSIES.

"Why is corporate crime no big deal?"
Because CHILD PORN is destroying America.

"What's the most important moral question facing the country?"
GAY MARRIAGE.

"What's the problem with public education today?"
QUEER LIBERALS are passing out CONDOMS.

Do you know what the eight fired prosecutors have in common?

All of them declined to press obscenity charges on cases that the DOJ was desperately running up a flagpole without success.

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[crikkett]

1. KICK!!

[brainy]

2. EXTREME porn

Do you know what extreme porn is, and are you certain that you wish to defend it?

[htuttle]

3. There used to be this guy named Voltaire

And he once said, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".

If so-called 'extreme porn' (does it involve skateboards or mountain dew, btw?) is legal, then people have a right to produce and sell it. Making it illegal requires an act of the Legislature, not the Courts or the Executive branch.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

4. Searched and searched OP and did not find a "defense" of "extreme" porn.

:shrug: MKJ

[Kurovski]

5. K&R. (nt)

[Morgana LaFey]

6. The 8 prosecutors

No, whether or not that was the claim AND even if it's entirely true -- the REAL or PRIMARY reason for the 8 prosecutors being fired was to put in place those people who would help the GOP win the 08 elections. I really, really, REALLY hate it when that message gets diluted or overlooked or hidden.

State GOP official pushed vote fraud issue-mystery solved (Michigan)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3205305
Link:

More links between prosecutor firings and election fraud
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x599314
Link: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/gop-voting-integrity-by-digby.html (plus several other links)

Newsweek: GOP repeatedly pushed Iglesias to prosecute a group that was registering minority voters
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x558608
Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17888551/site/newsweek

Prosgate: It Was About The 2008 Elections, Y'All !!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x548266
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/30/205

Election thief Acosta (Asst. Atty Gen. Civil Rights '03-'05)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x541003
Link: http://january6th.org/acosta.html

Kennedy: Justice firings are keyed to '08 vote
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2785889
Link: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/03/29/kennedy_justice_firings_are_keyed_to_08_vote

Whose Election Fraud? (about GOOP votER fraud scam)
Barbara Burt is director of election reform programs for Common Cause. Jonah Goldman is director of the National Campaign for Fair Elections with Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x469917
Link: http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/03/28/whose_election_fraud.php


Check Out Karl Rove's List Of Targeted 2008 House Races
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x525239
Link; http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/mar/28/check_out_karl_roves_list_of_targeted_2008_house_racesinsight_into_gop_dem_openings_in_2008

Rough Justice from DOJ Exposes "Voter Fraud" ='s Voter Suppression-Collins/Scoop
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x509734

New U.S. attorneys seem to have partisan records
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2779726
Link: http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16962753.htm

ROVE IDENTIFIED 11 PIVOTAL STATES FOR '08; BUSH HAS APPOINTED NEW U.S. ATTORNEYS IN NINE OF THEM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x491130
Link: http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16962753.htm

Justice's new U.S. attorneys have partisan records (Dem vote suppression experience!)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2779325
Link: http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16962753.htm

BUSH Appointed Attorney Accused Of Participating In Florida 04-Dem Voter Suppression (McClatchy)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x487446
Link: http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16962753.htm