BUSH REGIME CAUGHT MOCKING EVANGELICALS-- CALLS RELIGIOUS RIGHT LEADERS "NUTS"

Yesterday evening John over at Crooks and Liars told me about a great Olbermann "Countdown" on the subject of the upcoming star of the next 60 Minutes, David Kuo #2 at Bush's Office of Faith Based Initiatives. John's got the video, of course.

Meanwhile Olbermann's producer, Jonathan Larsen, has the story over at the MSNBC website and a sordid story of typical Bush Regime hypocrisy it is. "More than five years after President Bush created the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, the former second-in-command of that office is going public with an insider's tell-all account that portrays an office used almost exclusively to win political points with both evangelical Christians and traditionally Democratic minorities."

Kuo, a self-described conservative Christian and a former special assistant to the president has a  book, Tempting Faith, coming out next week. It's not like Kuo has never seen hypocrisy before. He used to work for the King of Hypocrisy, Bill Bennett. But he just couldn't hold back any longer and let's Bush and his sleazy, Satanic crew have it with both barrels. Bush's closest advisor and his staff referred to the big time, preening, pompous evangelical ministers like Dobson and Robertson as "the nuts." According to Kuo "National Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person and then were dismissed behind their backs and described as 'ridiculous,' 'out of control,' and just plain 'goofy.'"

He also talks about how the closeted gay head of the RNC, Ken Mehlman, was in charge of manipulating the suckers of the Religious Right to serve the partisan ends of the Bush Regime. And, of course, it wasn't just Mehlman, Rove and the rest of the "Velvet Mafia" around Bush who were laughing at the religionist bumpkins (who put them in power). The other mainstay of the Bush Regime, Abramoff and his huge bribery operations also were in hysterics over the evangelicals. Remember, Abramoff admitted paying Ralph Reed at least $4 million in order to get him to bamboozle dumb-as-doornails right-wing evangelicals to help with the fleecing of American Indian tribes in a pointless series of casino turf battles-- pointless except for the huge payments extracted from the Indians for Abramoff, Reed and their Republican cronies. Abramoff and his partner Michael Scanlon (an ex-DeLay aide who has also plead guilty) 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 [who] 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 evangelical pastors are still on the GOP gravy train and they seem to delight in selling out their flocks. Some of the flocks are waking up to reality and smelling the stench of the Bush Regime's hypocrisy. And according to a brand new Gallup poll, "at this point, religious whites are equally as likely to say they will vote Democratic as Republican, a marked change from their strong tilt towards the Republicans." It'll be interesting to see what they do November 7.