HOW INVOLVED IN ALL THIS REPUBLICAN CORRUPTION ARE THE RIGHT-WING CHURCHES?

If you haven't seen the big stink coming about the cozy (criminal) relationship between GOP rainmaker Jack Abramoff and Ralph Reed, the corrupt little holier-than-thou shit who headed the Christian Coalition and is now trying to run for Georgia lieutenant governor, you will. Ralph Reed's prissy little mug will be plastered all over the network news in the next few weeks; he'll be as famous as Tom DeLay. Abramoff admits paying Reed over $4 million in order to get him to bamboozle dumb-as-doornails right-wing "Christian" voters to help with the fleecing of American Indian tribes in a pointess series of casino turf battles. Scanlon and Abramoff have no respect for Christianity-- the real thing with Jesus, not the political hate-based crap purported to be Christianity by the likes of Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed, George Bush and Fred Phelps-- and even referred to the suckers who Reed was bringing into their scheme as "the wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees. Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them."

The disgraceful, dangerous and Unconstitutional relationship between the far right of the Republican Party and fundamentalist pseudo-Christianity has had a huge-- and entirely negative-- impact on American politics. Today's COLUMBUS DISPATCH has a major expose about how the "Christian" right has involved itself in the filth and sleaze of Ohio Republican politics-- and how the IRS has finally been asked to look into it. "More than 30 local pastors last night officially accused two evangelical megachurches of illegal political activities... The grievance claims that the Rev. Rod Parsley of World Harvest Church and the Rev. Russell Johnson of Fairfield Christian Church improperly used their churches and affiliated entities — the Center for Moral Clarity, Ohio Restoration Project and Reformation Ohio — for partisan politics, including supporting the Republican gubernatorial candidacy of Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell.


WEDNESDAY UPDATE: BLACKWELL URGES RIGHT-WING POLITICAL "CHURCHES" TO IGNORE IRS COMPLAINT AND JUST KEEP SUPPORTING HIS BID FOR THE OHIO GOVERNORSHIP

Ohio's extreme right-wing Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, is best known nationally for having conspired with indicted GOP fundraiser Thomas Noe and with former Diebold CEO Walden O'Dell to steal the 2004 presidential election for George Bush by, in O'Dell's own 2003 words "helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." Now the most criminally corrupt secretary of state in the nation is attempting to replace Ohio's historically unpopular governor, Bob Taft by appealing to the most extreme and basest elements of the Republican base. Yesterday at a meeting on radical right fake pastors he urged his most vicious supporters to ignore all of Jesus' teachings in favor of a fascist and authoritarian government.