Kent Conrad: I don't know of any religion practicing in America today that

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preaches from the pulpit that what one should do is take from the least among us and give to those that have the most."

Press conference on C-SPAN about the budget. He's quite a speaker. Calls the GOP budget "profoundly wrong."

The budget cuts $40B from programs for the poor and cuts taxes $70B on the top .1% of the population, yet the GOP calls it "deficit-reduction."

[texpatriot2004]

1. It's an immoral GOP budget nm

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2. Scientology?

nt

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3. I know of one:

It's called Health and Wealth Gospel, aka "prosperity Christianity," aka the Gospel According to God's Own Party.

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5. I like Brad Whitford's (Josh Lyman on WW) line

Supply-side economics is their religion and tax cuts are their Jesus.

Said that on Bill Maher in September. A great line.

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6. There is no god but Mammon, and Dollar is His profit

Heard that one way back in the 80's in reference to Reagan and the "new Christian right."

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8. You must mean Creflo A. Dollar, one of

the "God wants me to be rich" television preachers.

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4. They are really putting it to us

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7. Kent Conrad has a better claim to being

"God's man" than George Bush does, just by pointing out the obvious immorality of taking from the poor to give to the rich.

[Tactical Progressive]

9. Kent Conrad has been fighting the fight

against Bush's supply-side 'economics' from day one.

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10. Kent Conrad gets a lot of crap from Republicans for being a Unitarian n/t