BUSHY COMES OUT OF THE CLOSET
First, the Jeff Gannon Affair...now...well...make your
own decision on this one!
People For the American Way - September: Right-Wing Religious McCarthyismSeptember: Right-Wing Religious McCarthyism
Right Wing Watch Online
September 25, 2003
Right-Wing Religious McCarthyism
As part of their relentless campaign to promote the confirmation of the Bush Administration’s most ultra-conservative federal judicial nominees, some Senate Republicans and their right-wing allies have engaged in a variety of troubling and dishonest tactics. From seeking to tie the confirmation of nominees to the war on terror to threatening to drastically and unilaterally alter Senate rules, they have sought to reduce the Senate to a mere “rubber-stamp” for President Bush’s judicial nominees. Despite the fact that the Senate has already confirmed more than 150 of the president’s nominees, some Senate Republicans and their right-wing allies recently sunk to a new low when they launched a slanderous campaign to intimidate Senate Democrats and their political allies by accusing them of being anti-Catholic.
These allegations first surfaced rather quietly, but with the nomination and Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on William Pryor, accusations of anti-Catholicism were, for the first time, openly leveled in Senate chambers. From there, the fight spilled out into the media and the right-wing echo-chamber and quickly exploded into a smear campaign replete with insulting allegations that any Democrats who oppose their extremist agenda cannot consider themselves to be “real Catholics