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Jellric
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Bob Barr, Bane of the Right?
#5288880 - 02/11/06 02:25 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Saturday, February 11, 2006; A02
You could find just about everything at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference this week: the bumper sticker that says "Happiness is Hillary's face on a milk carton," the "Straight Pride" T-shirt, a ride on an F-22 Raptor simulator at the Lockheed exhibit, and beans from the Contra Cafe coffee company (slogan: "Wake up with freedom fighters").
As of midday yesterday, a silent auction netted $300 for lunch with activist Grover Norquist, $275 for a meal with the Heritage Foundation president and $1,000 for a hunting trip with the American Conservative Union chairman. But lunch with former congressman Bob Barr (R-Ga.), with an "estimated value" of $500, had a top bid of only $75 -- even with a signed copy of Barr's book, "The Meaning of Is," thrown in.
No surprise there. The former Clinton impeachment manager is the skunk at CPAC's party this year. He says President Bush is breaking the law by eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without warrants. And fellow conservatives, for the most part, don't want to hear it.
"You've heard of bear baiting? We're going to have, today, Barr baiting," R. Emmet Tyrell, a conservative publisher, announced as he introduced a debate Thursday between Barr and Viet Dinh, one of the authors of the USA Patriot Act.
"Are we losing our lodestar, which is the Bill of Rights?" Barr beseeched the several hundred conservatives at the Omni Shoreham in Woodley Park. "Are we in danger of putting allegiance to party ahead of allegiance to principle?"
Barr answered in the affirmative. "Do we truly remain a society that believes that . . . every president must abide by the law of this country?" he posed. "I, as a conservative, say yes. I hope you as conservatives say yes."
But nobody said anything in the deathly quiet audience. Barr merited only polite applause when he finished, and one man, Richard Sorcinelli, booed him loudly. "I can't believe I'm in a conservative hall listening to him say [Bush] is off course trying to defend the United States," Sorcinelli fumed.
"This debate is very simple: It is a debate about whether or not we will remain a nation subject to and governed by the rule of law or the whim of men." [Barr said].
Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/10/AR2006021001799_pf.html
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MisterMyco
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Re: Bob Barr, Bane of the Right? [Re: Jellric]
#5290219 - 02/11/06 09:59 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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I want that hilary bumper sticker.
and a f-22 simulator
-------------------- "I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural." Isaac Asimov
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Re: Bob Barr, Bane of the Right? [Re: Jellric]
#5290935 - 02/12/06 08:14 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Not a shock. Ideologues don't like to hear other points of view which may contradict the party line.
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