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Jan 27, '06, 11:44 am
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Re: Sen. Kerry calls for filibuster of Alito
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How Kennedy stays in office is one the great mysteries of my life time.  |
Unfortunately, Massachusetts doesn't seem to have many solid candidates willing to go against Teddy!
Amazingly, I have yet to meet anyone from MA who will admit to voting for him. Yet he is re-elected time after time. 
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Jan 27, '06, 11:51 am
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Re: Sen. Kerry calls for filibuster of Alito
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Unfortunately, Massachusetts doesn't seem to have many solid candidates willing to go against Teddy!
Amazingly, I have yet to meet anyone from MA who will admit to voting for him. Yet he is re-elected time after time. |
Nobody admits voting for him yet he wins? I demand an investigation. 
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Nobody admits voting for him yet he wins? I demand an investigation.
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Hold your breath on that one.
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Nobody admits voting for him yet he wins? I demand an investigation.
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In Mass. 
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Jan 27, '06, 12:58 pm
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Thomas Jefferson was the original proponent of the separation of Church and State. He wrote the prohibition of a state sponsored religion in to the US Constitution....
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No, he didn't. While the Constitution was being written, Jefferson was in Paris. James Madison is the architect of the Constitution.
And the idea of separation between Church and State was developed by Pope Gregory Hildebrand well before Europeans had ever set foot in the Americas.
-- Mark L. Chance.
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Jan 27, '06, 1:00 pm
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No, he didn't. While the Constitution was being written, Jefferson was in Paris. James Madison is the architect of the Constitution.
And the idea of separation between Church and State was developed by Pope Gregory Hildebrand well before Europeans had ever set foot in the Americas.
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COOL!
Do you have a reference for that?
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Jan 27, '06, 1:05 pm
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I don't want to nitpick but isn't Virginia is the birthplace of the separation of Church and state.
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It's actually Danbury, Connecticut, where then-President Thomas Jefferson (perhaps writing from Virginia) wrote to the Baptist Church there assuring them that the Federal Government has no interest in setting up the Congregationalist Church as a national church. His infamous phrase "wall of separation between Church and State" is a direct quote from this letter. Secular liberals elevated this quote to the same level as the First Amendment, and many Americans seem to think that the phrase is actually written in the Constitution. But, as you already know, Jefferson had nothing to do with penning the language of the Constitution, only the Declaration of Independence.
FYI: Later on during the same year he wrote to the Danbury Baptists, Jefferson established the National Day of Prayer which should not escape the notice of anyone other than an ACLU lawyer what Thomas Jefferson actually meant by his phrase.
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Jan 27, '06, 1:12 pm
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Re: Sen. Kerry calls for filibuster of Alito
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Where are the church leaders today calling for men like this to repent?
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They're too afraid of offending people to tell people they're out of line.
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Are they afraid that their heads will be put on a plate like john the baptist?
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Yes.
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Jan 27, '06, 1:26 pm
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Re: Sen. Kerry calls for filibuster of Alito
The Democrats are hijacked by pro- abortionists.
If they continue to make it an issue it will backfire and our social agenda will never get heard.
www.democratsforlife.org
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Jan 27, '06, 2:05 pm
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Re: Sen. Kerry calls for filibuster of Alito
Looks like they have anough votes to block the fillabuster:
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Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito Has Votes to Stop Filibuster
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 27, 2006
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Both Republican and Democrats agreed on Friday that Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito not only has enough votes to be confirmed, but enough to stop a last-minute filibuster threatened by a handful of Democrats.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has planned a cloture vote for Monday to close off debate on Alito's nomination to replace retiring pro-abortion Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
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Looks like the Senate will not go nuclear (although I will expect Kennedy and Kerry to go nuclear.  )
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Jan 28, '06, 9:50 pm
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A lot of us wonder that here in MA....  |
AnnE, being from Illinois is no picnic either. We have Senator Durbin who is part of the problem and we have the charismatic Obama that is very liberal on many issues, but he is also proabortion.
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Jan 31, '06, 9:41 am
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Re: Sen. Kerry calls for filibuster of Alito
Alito was confirmed. Now Kerry and Kennedy can cry in their soup.
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Jan 31, '06, 10:38 am
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Re: Sen. Kerry calls for filibuster of Alito
So, I guess that would be a 'no' on the chance for a filibuster then?
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Alito was confirmed. Now Kerry and Kennedy can cry in their soup.
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Jan 31, '06, 10:51 am
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Re: Sen. Kerry calls for filibuster of Alito
Hurray!!! Alito made it despite the likes of Kennedy, Kerry, and Schumer.
My sincere best to Alito and his family. Maybe us pro-lifers will finally have a chance to overturn RvW. 
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Jan 31, '06, 11:26 am
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Re: Sen. Kerry calls for filibuster of Alito
Please send a thank you not to Senators Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Tim Johnson of South Dakota and Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia who stood up against the "hi-jacked" Democrats and voted yes
Ben Nelson often speaks at Democrats For Life functions.
www.democratsforlife.org
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