Kit Bond's office stated that his position is that Certain Religions aren't   "Real" religions.  What is a real religion, Mr. Bond?  What you have been practicing?  He says on the one hand that only certain Christian denominations are valid.  Read the following and remember: "By their Works may they be known."  This is a summary of information collected from several sources about Kit Bond.

(Remember it is best to investigate on your own when looking at allegations about anyone.     Don't believe us, think for yourself and investigate for yourself!  And remember, the First Amendment Coalition and Religious Freedom Coalition of the South East do not represent any political party nor do we recommend any political candidate, nor are we involving ourselves in the political process.)

EXTREMIST (TEA PARTY) REPUBLICANS ARE THE ENEMY AND TRAITORS TO AMERICA by R. Blackbird

Extremist (Tea Party) Republicans are selfish, power hungry, hateful of the poor, disloyal to the nation and its people, dishonest, avaricious, scornful of the nation's history, the dignity of its institutions, its standards of political morality, and its vision of advancement for all the people. The Republicans love war as long as they and theirs do not have to put on helmets and carry guns into the fighting. They use lies to start wars that kill hundreds of thousands of innocents and thousands of our own military service people. They love massive war-time profits, unavailable to their rich masters if war is absent.

Those Extremist Republicans hate the rest of us, which they must, in order to pass away from themselves and onto us, the financial burdens and losses their crimes, schemes and thefts cause. They are prolific, incessant, and destructive liars. They are blasphemers for they insist that their hateful and destructive deeds are the work of God. They are apostates for they gleefully attack the poor, the immigrants, the old and the sick, of whom God has commanded all of us to be mindful.

There is no reasoning with them, for all their logic is built on false premises. There is no appealing to them for honor's sake for they have lost all sense of shame and have no honor, there is no appealing to them for the nation's sake for that it what they hate the most.

Extremist (Tea Party) Republicans are the enemy.

 

 

I think that all homo sapiens can understand how the mere thought of an organization that receives government money through contract mechanisms being tangentially involved in setting up a fake tax shelter for a fake pimp and his fake prostitution ring of fake prostitutes can justifiably lead to lawmakers going absolutely cross-eyed with white-hot, impotent rage. But what happens when a similarly taxpayer-endowed contractor attempts to cover up employee-on-employee gang rape by locking up the victim in a shipping container without food and water and threatening her with reprisals if she report the incident? Somehow, it doesn't engender the same level of anger!

30 misogynist Republicans in the U.S. Senate are totally OK with rape, at least where women are concerned.  Predictably in yet another routine attempt to serve their corporate masters, (this time the GOP stood by Halliburton) Republicans voted against women and for corporate contempt of rape victims.

Some Republican senators are taking heat for voting against an amendment that would allow employees of military contractors to sue their employers if they are raped at work -- and they want the Democratic senator who wrote the amendment to help them fight off the bad publicity.

In October, 30 Republicans voted against Sen. Al Franken's amendment to a defense appropriations bill that would de-fund contractors who prevent their employees from suing if they are raped by co-workers. Since then, those Republicans have faced outrage for what critics say amounts to support for rape.

Instead of standing up to take responsibility for or clarifying their disgraceful votes, Republican cowards are instead attacking Al Franken, blaming him for their votes.  

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) accused Franken exploiting the story of Jamie Leigh Jones -- a former KBR employee who says she was locked in a container in Iraq after alleging she was raped by co-workers -- to further his political agenda.

"Trying to tap into the natural sympathy that we have for this victim of this rape --and use that as a justification to frankly misrepresent and embarrass his colleagues, I don't think it's a very constructive thing," Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said in an interview.

I guess Franken held a sledge hammer over Cornyn's head and said if he did not vote against the anti-rape amendment Franken would crack it over his head.

What shameless cowards.

To summarize the Republican position: As women, we are not "average Americans," and gang rape is not a "serious" issue. As women, no matter how powerful we become on our own merits, the Republican establishment will still be hoping for a man to come along and put us in our place.

Not every Republican signs onto these views -- indeed, 10 Senate Republicans voted for the Franken amendment, giving the lie to the NRSC's claim of partisanship -- but this is the undercurrent of the party's policies. This is what they're hoping to get voters to overlook when they run a Sarah Palin or a Kelly Ayotte for office. This is why Bob McDonnell's campaign for Virginia governor has been such a popular campaign stop for 2012 prospects: because of, not despite, his opposition to marital contraception and women in the workplace. This is why David Vitter (who voted against the Franken amendment) is still a senator in good standing with the party of alleged sexual morality.

You don't have to go very far beneath the Republican surface claims of equality-but-not-really to get to the rock-bottom sense that women just don't count, that our rights and our wellbeing are always subordinate to whatever interest of men they might conflict with. When it comes to it, even the (themselves sexist) notions of chivalry and protecting women come behind protecting the right of corporations to imprison their female employees to shield their male employees from rape charges and still get government contracts.

Credit new Senator Al Franken however, for introducing an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill that would punish contractors if they "restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court." You'd think that this would be a no-brainer, actually, but that didn't stop Jeff Sessions from labeling Franken's effort a "political attack directed at Halliburton." Franken, of course, pointed out that his amendment would apply broadly, to all contractors, because otherwise, 'twould be a bill of attainder, right? Right?

Franken's amendment ended up passing, 68-30. Here's a list of the Senators who showed broad support for Rapists and Pedophiles by voting against it: (Click on their names to find out more about them).

Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

ADDENDUM: It's been pointed out to me that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbied against the Franken amendment as well:

Republicans point out that the amendment was opposed by a host of business interests, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and applies to a wide range of companies, including IBM and Boeing.

I guess we must cover up crimes like rape in order to save capitalism.

RELATED:
Franken Wins Bipartisan Support For Legislation Reining In KBR's Treatment Of Rape

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June 22, 2009

Today, Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) appeared on CNBC to provide his thoughts on, among other things, the consumer protection agency that the Obama administration wants to create as part of its financial regulation package. Like the banking lobby, the Chamber of Commerce, and some conservatives in Congress, Bond is opposed to creating the agency. However, his reasoning seems to be that, in his personal experience, banks actually provide “too much information” to consumers:

I think, really, the idea to have a consumer protection regulator, in addition to a banking regulator, is a bad idea…We bought a bunch of houses in recent years. My wife likes to move. And each year, each time we go through this, you get these stacks of paper. You get too much information. It is not consumer information, and that is part of the problem.

So, Sen. Bond, how many houses do you own? But more importantly, isn’t the fact that mortgage contracts are getting larger and more complex an argument for the creation of a consumer protection agency? It would seem that the overabundance of material would make it more likely that a consumer gets unwittingly ripped off.

As David Lazarus wrote in the Los Angeles Times, the real problem here is that banks “have consistently proved themselves unworthy of customers’ trust“:

From runaway credit card interest rates to mortgages that turn into one-way trips to foreclosure, lenders have repeatedly demonstrated their inability to deal with customers fairly and responsibly. Instead, they place their own interests ahead of all other considerations, and in so doing expose frequently unsophisticated consumers to enormous risk and financial ruin.

There are a lot of ways to get lost in the forest of subprime mortgages, reverse mortgages, and other complex financial instruments, even without taking into account the banks’ active predatory actions. Bond wants to have bank regulators also regulate products on the ground level, but those regulators have already demonstrated that they operate at 30,000 feet, watching over the soundness of an institution overall (and not even doing a good job with that), but not the financial safety of consumers. I think it’s asking too much to have them policing both an institution’s health and the way in which that institution interacts with consumers.

But at least Bond didn’t join the rest of the CNBC crew in claiming that only “suckers” and “idiots” are victims of predatory lending.

Dec 11, 2007

Senator Kit Bond appeared on PBS's The NewsHour and further muddied the water with all the lies and rationalizations one must use to abet war crimes, bless his heart (I'm learning from Blue Gal), including the laughable-on-its-face claim that discussing waterboarding enables "the enemy" to adapt to it.  This is an assertion that I feel strongly should be tested out on anyone amoral enough to suggest it.  But it was this claim that earns him the Wanker title for today (and from such an embarrassment of riches of other awardees too!):

IFILL: I just would like to -- but do you think that waterboarding, as I described it, constitutes torture?

SEN. KIT BOND: There are different ways of doing it. It's like swimming: freestyle, backstroke. The waterboarding could be used almost to define some of the techniques that our trainees are put through, but that's beside the point. It's not being used.

I don't know if you're a religious man, Sen. Bond, but I surely do hope that if you are, this fine bit of wankery is used against you at the Pearly Gates.  One word for you to hold in your heart: Nuremberg. 

Does Bond Ever Tell the Truth?

If Missouri really does pride itself on being "the show-me state," you have to wonder how long it's going to be before Missourians demand that Senator Kit Bond (R-MO) show them the truth.

Bond, who was one of George W. Bush's most ardent rubber-stampers ever since the Supreme Court handed Bush the presidency, has shown repeatedly that he's not beyond bending or breaking the truth for any White House cause. After all, it was just last month that Bond went public with glowing and demonstrably false statements about how well the troops surge is going in Iraq. It seems like his staff must hope they can distribute disingenuous press releases to the Missouri media and get some unchecked local ink without any meddling bloggers getting in the way.

I guess I'll be the fly in the Bond ointment again.

A good example of Fibber Bond blatantly misleading his constituents came when the Director of National Intelligence under Bush released key findings from the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), updating the country on prevailing terrorist threats to America.

The 'Key Judgments' section of the NIE document (PDF), which is produced collaboratively by the nation's 16 Intelligence agencies, declared that America is in as much danger or more than before 9/11 and that al-Qaeda's efforts to base an attack on U.S. soil will continue.

"Although we have discovered only a handful of individuals in the United States with ties to al-Qaeda senior leadership since 9/11, we judge that al-Qaeda will intensify its efforts to put operatives here," said the NIE. "As a result, we judge that the United States currently is in a heightened threat environment."

"We assess that al-Qaeda will continue to enhance its capabilities to attack the Homeland through greater cooperation with regional terrorist groups. Of note, we assess that al-Qaeda will probably seek to leverage the contacts and capabilities of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), its most visible and capable affiliate and the only one known to have expressed a desire to attack the Homeland. In addition, we assess that its association with AQI helps al-Qaeda to energize the broader Sunni extremist community, raise resources, and to recruit and indoctrinate operatives, including for Homeland attacks."

In other words, the strength of the al-Qaeda operation we've engendered in Iraq has boosted Osama bin Laden's global capabilities to harm our country.

The Christian Science Monitor didn't think the report was good news, running a headline that said "National Intelligence Estimate: Al Qaeda stronger and a threat to US homeland" while the New York Times called the NIE a "bleak new assessment" and a "dreary judgment" under the headline "Six Years After 9/11, the Same Threat."

"The summary of the latest National Intelligence Estimate, which was released by the White House, told Americans, in effect, that they are less safe now than they were after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, almost six years ago," read the lead editorial in the July 19 Pittsburgh Post Gazette, under the headline "Four years into Iraq, America is no safer."

But what did the big happy press release issued by Bond tell people in the Show-Me State? "Intelligence report confirms America is safer since September 11th."

"Today's report confirms that our terror fighting tools and efforts are working. We must continue to use everything in our arsenal to protect Americans from another terrorist attack," said Bond.

But he urged caution and used the happy news to warn that we still need to curtail the Constitution and "give law enforcement and the intelligence community the tools needed to track, interrogate and prosecute terrorist like the Patriot Act and modernization of the 1979 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act."

Now Vice President Joe Biden who was the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- and a guy who knows his way around such reports -- disagreed with Bond, calling the latest NIE a "devastating indictment of Bush Administration failures."

"The NIE now confirms what was reported last week: the al-Qaeda we failed to finish off in Afghanistan and Pakistan has 'regenerated' and remains intent on attacking us at home," said Biden. "That should put to rest once and for all this Administration's false refrain that we're fighting them over there in Iraq so they won't hit us here."

Senate Intelligence Committee member Russ Feingold (D-WI), who has been warning for two years about the fact that the Iraq war has allowed al-Qaeda to gain strength worldwide, reiterated his message that the Iraq occupation is a deadly, expensive distraction from the real challenges America should be meeting.

"The NIE confirms that al-Qaeda is the most serious threat to the United States, and that key elements of that threat have been regenerated or even enhanced," said Feingold last week. "The Administration's policies in Iraq have also allowed the emergence of an al-Qaeda affiliate that didn't exist before the war. According to the NIE, al-Qaeda's association with this group helps it raise resources and recruit and indoctrinate operatives, including for attacks against the U.S. The sooner we redeploy from Iraq, the sooner we can develop policies that deny al-Qaeda these advantages and allow us to effectively combat this terrorist network and its affiliates worldwide."

And even military newspapers like The Army Times concluded from the NIE that the Iraq war has created a new and massive branch office for al-Qaeda -- and one that now poses a threat that did not exist before.

"The report makes clear that al-Qaeda in Iraq, which has not yet posed a direct threat to U.S. soil, could become a problem here," wrote The Army Times last Tuesday. "Of note, the analysts said, 'we assess that al-Qaeda will probably seek to leverage the contacts and capabilities of al-Qaeda in Iraq, its most visible and capable affiliate and the only one known to have expressed a desire to attack the homeland.'"

All of this adds up, as it often does with Senator Bond, to a scenario where we are forced to conclude that he is either the dumbest man ever to serve as ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, or such a compulsive liar that he'll tell his constituents anything, under the assumption that at least the percentage who watch Fox News will be none the wiser.

And lest you think that the Senate's collective stance on this was a strictly partisan affair-- with all Democrats reading the NIE with dread, while the GOP side of the aisle uniformly hailed the good news -- you need simply look at how many Republican Senators joined Bond in shouting the NIE's good news to the folks back home.

Despite the fact that any legitimate good news on Iraq and the bogus "war on terror" would be greeted with a press release tsunami from every GOP member of the House or Senate, do you know how many Republican Senators issued any statement at all last week about the NIE?

One. Kit Bond.

In a party famous for standing together on the most transparent spin and carefully-crafted lies on behalf of the Bush White House, Bond stood alone even among Republicans in offering up this bunch of feel-good nonsense.

And Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) unloaded on the Senate floor, taking to task Bush, Cheney, Bond and the whole White House cabal who let Osama bin Laden run free, while saying how great things are going in Iraq.

"Now we have a report that says Osama bin Laden and his top deputies are in a safe haven," said Dorgan. "Six years after they murdered thousands of Americans, they are in a safe haven. There ought not be one square inch of ground on this planet that ought to be a safe haven for the leaders of al-Qaeda."

That all makes perfect sense -- unless you're on Senator Bond's planet.