Bad Deeds for 1-10-2008

Ron Paul’s Old Newsletters Filled With Bigotry And Conspiracy Theories – Beginning in 1978, Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-TX) name graced newsletters that were released on a seemingly monthly basis: Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, Ron Paul Political Report, The Ron Paul Survival Report. According to Jamie Kirchick, they’re peppered with a “decades worth of obsession with conspiracies, sympathy for the right-wing militia movement, and deeply held bigotry against blacks, Jews, and gays.”
On David Duke: “Our priority should be to take the anti-government, anti-tax, anti-crime, anti-welfare loafers, anti-race privilege, anti-foreign meddling message of Duke, and enclose it in a more consistent package of freedom.”
On Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “[A] comsymp, if not an actual party member, and the man who replaced the evil of forced segregation with the evil of forced integration.”
On African-Americans: “I’ve urged everyone in my family to know how to use a gun in self defense. For the animals are coming.”
On Gays: “Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.”

John McCain Would Leave Iraq Withdrawal Decision Up to Just One Person, and It Isn’t You – At his last campaign stop of the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary campaign in Portsmouth Monday night, John McCain said, “There is only one man who should decide when to withdraw from Iraq and that is (General) David Petraeus,” the Arizona Senator said. That’s unbelieveable! McCain thinks that the decision as to whether this country will have troops in another country does not belong to the American people, the State Department, the President, National Security Council, or any other cabinet or advisors. To McCain, it’s just a military matter.

Republican Rep. John Doolittle Under Investigation in in the Jack Abramoff Influence-Peddling Case – Republican Rep. John Doolittle, who is under investigation in a congressional lobbying scandal, plans to announce Thursday that he’ll retire from Congress at the end of his current term. The development comes as Doolittle, in his ninth term, faced growing political pressure from fellow Republicans who considered him a liability because of his involvement, along with his wife Julie, in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling investigation.

Republican Governor of Missouri Has a Problem with Public Documents – The former deputy legal counsel to Republican Gov. Matt Blunt sued the governor and four of his top aides Wednesday, alleging a wide-ranging conspiracy to cover up the administration’s activities. The suit describes schemes within the governor’s office to destroy public documents, to evade the state Sunshine law by sending text messages on personal Blackberrys and to fire a long-time state employee for political reasons.

Regards,

Jim