Comments on: Rep. Loretta Sanchez’s Health Care Prayer Vigil

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Tax Revolt 2009 » Blog Archive » Sanchez Phoning It In — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:05:43 +0000

[...] the opportunity to push her government takeover agenda and attack her Orange County critics. Even liberal supporters condemned her tactic as “disingenuous and [...]

By: Cockroach People

Cockroach People — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:47:52 +0000

I’ve always said he is a good showman–he raises a raucous about immigration issues to ensure that his Mexican base here reelects him every time (in-district Puerto Ricans don’t support him). He also gets himself arrested here and there as needed for attention: http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/vol4n17/ProtesArrested-en.html

Here’s a comment that I made recently on my friend’s public radio piece (re: payday lender contributions to Gutierrez’s campaign):

Reylc, South Loop // Thursday, July 02, 2009 @ 8:41 PM

This is disgusting. But no one should be surprised. He has never been a trustworthy politician. First he’s independent, then he’s with the machine. This guy will say and do anything to get elected. He’s run people against his own allies (against Del Valle back in the day) and he’s endorsed mediocre hacks to the chagrin of progressives who normally support him because of his immigration positions. He should return the money and then go take a shower! (full post at http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=35277)

158 words, I think

By: theKaiser

theKaiser — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:24:16 +0000

Cockroach People:
What do you think of Luis Gutierrez’s performance in Congress? He misses a lot of votes, and is really into protecting the Loan Sharking vendors. Give us your opinion in two thousand words or less.

By: Cockroach People

Cockroach People — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:11:26 +0000

DoctorH–I think we can agree that one should not use religious ideology (actually, ANY IDEOLOGY) to “demonize and segregate ethnic and social groups.”

No, it would be a sad, sad day to have a Falwell type as a Congressman. I no longer live in Cali; so, I have also been spared having Sanchez as a Congresswoman too!

By: Cockroach People

Cockroach People — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:07:31 +0000

I had the privilege of speaking with Cesar Chavez on several occassions; his activism was strongly rooted in his faith. Dr. King was a preacher first. His idea of Christianity commanded him to out his faith into action:

How long [will it take for Justice]? Not long, (Yes, sir) because “no lie can live forever.” (Yes, sir). How long? Not long, (All right. How long) because “you shall reap what you sow.” (Yes, sir)
How long? (How long?) Not long: (Not long)
Truth forever on the scaffold, (Speak)
Wrong forever on the throne, (Yes, sir)
Yet that scaffold sways the future, (Yes, sir)
And, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow,
Keeping watch above his own.
How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. (Yes, sir)
How long? Not long, (Not long) because:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; (Yes, sir)
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; (Yes)
He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword; (Yes, sir)
His truth is marching on. (Yes, sir)
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; (Speak, sir)
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat. (That’s right)
O, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant my feet!
Our God is marching on. (Yeah)
Glory, hallelujah! (Yes, sir) Glory, hallelujah! (All right)
Glory, hallelujah! Glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on. [Applause]

By: DoctorH

DoctorH — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:24:53 +0000

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Dorothy Day, and most notably Cesar Chavez were social activists first, and neither one of these social activists advocated hatred, or used religious ideology as a sledgehammer to demonize and segregate ethnic or social groups. Malcolm X walked that line, and often crossed over it, but he never embraced a self-righteous attitude, nor did he paint illusions to his public. Can you imagine the late Jerry Falwell as a Congressman?

By: Cockroach People

Cockroach People — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:11:33 +0000

“That’s why religious intrusions into politics make for terrible laws and even worse leaders.”

Does that include Dr. King? Mahatma Gandhi? Cesar Chavez? Dorothy Day?

By: DoctorH

DoctorH — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:02:37 +0000

Of course it’s hypocritical…wholly hypocritical…unbelievably hypocritical. But what do you expect of people with a sheep mentality? That’s why religious intrusions into politics make for terrible laws and even worse leaders.

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:53:21 +0000

Whether you support or don’t support this bill, can you imagine if a church like Clavary Chapel or Crystal Cathedral held a prayer vigil to pray that the bill did NOT pass? This is all very hypocritical to me.

By: Bearguez

Bearguez — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:19:44 +0000

Don’t you wonder how the upper brass of the U.S. Army working at the Pentagon, especially those interacting directly with the Joint Chiefs of Staff deal with this political aberration within their culture? All those centuries of efforts to instill and convey that image of honor, duty, and loyalty to their country and they have to listen to Loretta Sanchez pontificate that superficial, dim, and condescending patter so common at the Playboy mansion, whenever she shows up with Jack Einwechter at any U.S. Army social function. Maybe since I deal with them from a distance, I don’t inhale that inducing hypocrisy that they all seem to breathe on Capitol Hill. Watching her deal with the OCCCO in that abrasive condescending manner of hers, the finger pointing, the hand gestures, and that shrill tone accompanied by all the usual lies makes wonder how they deal with such an internally ugly human being. It certainly says something about California’s 47th Congressional district.