Category: Politics

Senate votes

I’m sure you’ll all have your opinion on this. Positive and negative.

Here’s what scripture tells me:

“Here’s another old saying that deserves a second look: ‘Eye for eye, tooth for tooth.’ Is that going to get us anywhere? Here’s what I propose: ‘Don’t hit back at all.’ If someone strikes you, stand there and take it. If someone drags you into court and sues for the shirt off your back, giftwrap your best coat and make a present of it. And if someone takes unfair advantage of you, use the occasion to practice the servant life. No more tit-for-tat stuff. Live generously. – Matthew 5:38-42

Here’s an e-mail I received from a family member:

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” Winston Churchill

Shocking Senatorial Votes

“Never argue with an idiot; they’ll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ~ anonymous

The following senators voted against making English the official language of America :
Akaka (D-HI)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Domenici (R-NM)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mik ulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Obama (D-IL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wyden (D-OR)

Now, the following are the senators who voted to give illegal aliens Social Security benefits. They are grouped by home state. If a state is not listed, there was no voting representative.

Alaska: Stevens (R)
Arizona: McCain (R)
Arkansas: Lincoln (D); Pryor (D)
California: Boxer (D); Feinstein (D)
Colorado: Salazar (D)
Connecticut: Dodd (D); Lieberman (D)
Delaware: Biden (D); Carper (D)
Florida: Martinez (R)
Hawaii: Akaka (D); Inouye (D)
Illinois: Durbin (D); Obama (D)
Indiana: Bayh (D); Lugar (R)
Iowa: Harkin (D)
Kansas: Brownback (R)
Louisiana: Landrieu (D)
Maryland: Mikulski (D); Sarbanes (D)
Massachusetts: Kennedy (D); Kerry (D)
Montana: Baucus (D)
Nebraska: Hagel (R)
Nevada: Reid (D)
New Jersey: Lautenberg (D); Menendez (D)
New Mexico: Bingaman (D)
New York: Clinton (D); Schumer (D)
North Dakota: Dorgan (D)
Ohio: DeWine (R); Voinovich(R)
Oregon: Wyden (D)
Pennsylvania: Specter (R)
Rhode Island: Chafee (R); Reed (D)
South Carolina: Graham (R)
South Dakota: Johnson (D)
Vermont: Jeffords (I); Leahy (D)
Washington: Cantwell (D); Murray (D)
West Virginia: Rockefeller (D), by Not Voting
Wisconsin: Feingold (D); Kohl (D)

The e-mail requested I share the information with everyone I know. For some reason they failed to include the scripture I included up top. Thoughts?

Newt admits affair

Newt Gingrich admitted to James Dobson that he had an extra-marital affair while in office.
Gingrich the guy who led the charge against Pres. Clinton and his “affair” now admits he had one as well.
Gingrich said his affair was going on at the same time he was leading the charge against Clinton. He’s now married to the Congressional aide.
He also said Clinton was wrong because he lied about his affair to a grand jury.
Here are the highlights from the CNN story:

• Former speaker led charge against Clinton over Monica Lewinsky affair
• Potential ’08 candidate discusses issue with conservative Christian group
• Republican may enter 2008 presidential race
• Leading Republican candidate, Rudy Giuliani, also had an affair

Here’s another interesting part of the CNN story:

Critics are likely to call the lot of them hypocrites, however, noting that religious conservatives make allowances for people they agree with politically, like Gingrich, but not for Giuliani or Clinton.

I think either way, this should be rule #1 for politicians: Keep it in your pants.

Re: Amazing Grace

More perspectives on Amazing Grave at RelevantMagazine.com:

John Newton laments his past as a slave trader, and throughout the film he becomes emotional at the thought of that past as he struggles with visions of past victims. However, it is evident by the film’s end that he finds peace in the forgiveness he has received from the only source that matters to him. “Although my memory’s fading,” he tells Wilberforce, “I remember two things very clearly: I’m a great sinner, and Christ is a great Savior.”

Another writer asks:

While I was at a Wilberforce conference last month, a speaker made these two great objects personal by posing this question: “What would you be willing to commit 20 years of your life to doing?” After all, that’s what Wilberforce did. He dedicated 20 years in single-minded pursuit of the abolishment of the slave trade. In fact, if we’re to be completely accurate, it cost him 47 years, since an additional 27 were required to eradicate African slavery from every British colony completely. He received news of this final victory just three short days before his death.

What would you give 20 years of your life to?

Amazing Grace review

Amazing Grace Promo

Another blogger at The Beatitudes Society gave a review of the movie Amazing Grace this week.

Check it out and be sure and check out the movie before its out of theaters.

Update: Purchase the DVD from Amazon.

‘Green Faith’

My buddy Chad Crawford over at The Beatitudes Society asks if ‘Green Faith’ will take a role in the 2008 election.
Sen. Hillary Clinton gave a speech yesterday in Selma, Alabama and one current struggle she named is climate change, which she described as “tinkering with God’s creation.”
Interesting.
Are candidates realizing the importance of both religion and environmentalism and trying to combine the two? Are more “religious folk” taking notice and concern over environmental issues?