Protesters' tactics dispel lawmaker's doubts

[brooklynite]

TALLAHASSEE - After casting an anguished vote last week against a bill to keep Terri Schiavo alive, state Sen. Larcenia Bullard said she began to reconsider, thinking to herself: I will not have her death rest on my shoulders.

Word that the Miami Democrat was on the fence spread among protesters who have descended on the Capitol.

But instead of pushing Bullard to their side, the protesters' aggressive tactics pushed her away. When the bill to keep Schiavo alive came up for another vote Wednesday, Bullard again voted not to intervene in Schiavo's case.

Bullard told her colleagues how one group of protesters, initially claiming they were staffers from Gov. Jeb Bush's office, bowed down to her and spoke in tongues in her office Monday. They called her ''our Esther,'' referring to the Old Testament figure who saved the Jews from death.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/11215368.htm

[ewagner]

1. You gotta be kiddin'

I'm almost at a loss for words.........

[Inland]

2. "Larcenia"?

Really?

[Last Lemming]

5. You are right--

great name for a politician--or maybe bank officer

[Inland]

7. Bank officer would be

Embezzla.

[Dr.Phool]

8. Or Condiswindlia

[displacedtexan]

3. My first response to those freaks: GET A LIFE!

Too weird for color TV!

[sui generis]

4. oh my wouldn't it be nice

if you could just babble away and some magic would happen?

The entire republican party would be the party of high priests, if somewhat self-proclaimed.

Oh wait!!! they are anyway, and that's even funnier.

[Generator]

6. American Taliban again!

Should we surrender our country to them?

Vote now on CNN.com.

This just in: Democrats STILL to blame for everything as Mullah Bush proclaims himself President of GodlovesAmerica (our new name) and prepares to rule for life.

[necso]

9. The fundies also "think" in "tongues" (unintelligible nonsense).

"True faith" fundie style pretty much requires throwing out things like logic, rationality, scientific knowledge, reality and sanity (and shame, consistency, decency, humanity, etc, etc)... at least (and especially) when these things are incompatible with what the fundies wish to believe (at the moment anyway) -- and to impose as "reality" (and law) on other people.

Do not underestimate the dangers of this phenomenon, folks.

To do so would be to invite peril.

...And take a pass on all the psy-war attacks tailored for rational, "informed", intellectual, skeptical (and/or hopeful, etc) minds. The other side wants us to just keep on doing the same old stuff that doesn't work (or to fall back on even older stuff that would work even less well) -- it's much easier for them when we actively cooperate in our own destruction.

[JohnLocke]

10. To right-wing Christians: Please don't use our Megillah...

...as a prop for your horrible ideas.

--A Jew