Perhaps the Contract with America is a milestone in the march for freedom: rather than specific emancipation it offers a more general, implied emancipation--the freedom to ignore what one wishes to ignore.

But surely, this isn't a new freedom...

Pretty soon, another document: Ronnie Earle's indictment paperwork.

Those Acts and the Emancipation Proclamation are such grand achievements ---such necessary repairs to this society--- that it makes blasting Democrats for their support of the repeal of the death tax a rather small cause, doesn't it?

Y'all conceive of yourselves as being so ideologically pure that I would imagine you even hold people's tastes and preferences against them. Don't you know how close to fascism that is?

1994 Contract on America equal to the Constitution? LOL...just more spin from the Bugman.

Y'all conceive of yourselves as being so ideologically pure that I would imagine you even hold people's tastes and preferences against them.

You're right, Toby. Your preference for war, and your taste for lowest-common-denominator thinkg, I hold against you. You are, as the vernacular would have it, a dick.

Toby has probably been the one filling my in-box with that right wing tripe since I made the mistake of posting my email address. Shame on me. But keep sending it. I read it and am reminded of why I am a Democrat.

As for DeLay, the sooner he is out the better for me. Local politics of course :) I'm wondering if bringing up the "Contract" might backfire -- given what happened to Newt.

I say newt DeLay. (my roommate laughed)

Bring on the conservative newsletters -- love 'em.

The only document of freedom I want to see that has anything to do with DeLay is the indictment papers. Free DeLay from the Majority Leader's office, and free America from another wingnut.

"...so ideologically pure...[to] hold people's tastes and preferences against them." --Toby

Sounds like he is speaking of the religious right to me.

taste and preference? like gutting the social safety net that's kept millions from abject poverty? like federal intervention on a family matter? like inserting religion into the government of the people (i don't pray...the president spends federal money on "prayer teams")? like shifting a trillion dollars in debt on the middle class by voiding the estate tax?
The "taste and preference" thing, as noted above, falls squarely in the camp of social and religious conservatives. sadly, they're nothing but tools for big bidness. y'all.