Chalk One Up For The Republican Taliban (aka Tea Party)

Yesterday’s primary election in Nebraska was won by Ben Sasse, the candidate who proudly solicited and received the support of such notables as Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Erick Erickson, and Fox News. Sasse’s campaign was bankrolled by the Koch brothers via their Americans for Prosperity front group.

Ben Sasse

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The core of Sasse’s message was his promise to repeal every word of the Affordable Care Act, including the parts that end discrimination based on preexisting conditions, the ability for children up to 26 to be on their parent’s policies, prohibiting insurers from cancelling plans when a claim is filed, and the elimination of annual or lifetime limits on healthcare.

Sasse ran a typical Tea Party campaign that pandered to conspiracy theorists and religious extremists. He boasted of his devotion to the most radical form of “religious liberty” that would effectively condone discrimination and permit religious zealots to violate any law they deemed in conflict with their faith. On his website he says…

“Ben Sasse believes that our right to the free exercise of religion is co-equal to our right to life. This is not a negotiable issue. Government cannot force citizens to violate their religious beliefs under any circumstances. He will fight for the right of all Americans to act in accordance with their conscience.”

Under any circumstances? So Sasse will fight for the right of all Americans to stone adulterers to death; to have sex with children; to burn crosses; to refuse service (and housing and jobs) to gays, African-Americans, Jews, etc.; and to ban dancing (sorry Kevin Bacon)? At the same time, Sasse would have to support the use of illegal drugs, polygamy, and public nudity.

Unfortunately, Nebraska is a blood red state that is almost certain to elect the Republican on the ballot. This means that, barring a calamitous misstep, Sasse will be the next senator from Nebraska. He can be relied upon to try to turn the clock back on civil rights, health care, the environment, and true religious liberty that respects human rights and the Constitution. And that’s the sort of agenda that has the American Taliban celebrating on this primary morning after.

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8 thoughts on “Chalk One Up For The Republican Taliban (aka Tea Party)

  1. This is truly an idiotic, dishonest column. In other words, par for the course.

    • Oh, really? No, O’Reilly!

      (bad joke, but then you would know about [being] that, wouldn’t you, Scott?)

  2. I think one thing we can say about the Nebraska primary-elections is that it solidified all political power into one party(the tea-publican wing), it rubber-stamped the status quo, in other words. Nebraska is a deep-red state with not one Democrat in their delegation to Washington or near the state capitol with a governor presiding over a solid Republican majority. As red as red gets!

  3. Not one single legitimate org listed here. Base dishonesty at it’s finest. Typical though.

    • What’s typical is that you didn’t get it.

  4. Mark quote “Unfortunately, Nebraska is a blood red state that is almost certain to elect the Republican on the ballot. This means that, barring a calamitous misstep, Sasse will be the next senator from Nebraska. He can be relied upon to try to turn the clock back on civil rights, health care, the environment, and true religious liberty that respects human rights and the Constitution. And that’s the sort of agenda that has the American Taliban celebrating on this primary morning after.”
    You confirm that most politics and campaigning today is based mostly on FEAR. I do the same thing to you and your ilk so I’m no better, but at least i know it and don’t try to fool myself or anyone else as you do daily on this blog.
    Also – you wouldn’t know “true religious liberty” if it came up and bit you on the ass – liberty and today’s progressive don’t exist in the same reality.

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