What Will They Stop At?

Nothing.

What a crappy morning - literally. I read that Bush is extending presidential prerogative in appointments even further, essentially vitiating the Senate's advice and consent powers. Then I read that he might have decided to go the whole way in imitating Nixon and spied on journalists and the political opposition. Now normally I might decide to believe that Bush is innocent until proven guilty, but then again when was the last time he didn't do something he was accused of?

And if Bush's anti-democratic antics weren't enough, I read this story about people being suckered into signing an anti-gay petition under false pretenses. Outrage over such duplicitous campaign tactics is a given. Even more shocking is the fact that it was perpretrated by people who are supposedly serving the will of God. Hello, aren't you supposed to be holier-than-thou? Whatever happened to "Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness" ?

Sorry, for a moment I thought that those people were believing Christians, not totalitarian fundamentalists using the bible as a figleaf for social authoritarianism. Silly me.