Meet the Evangelical Cabal Orchestrating the Shut Down

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

At Ebenezer's Coffeehouse, a small shop next to Union Station and around the corner from the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, "fair trade" coffee is dispensed and Christian books are available for customers to read.

For a group of political operatives and evangelical firebrands behind the strategy to shut down the government over healthcare reform, they couldn't have picked a more unassuming meeting place. Though the more famous "Wednesday meeting" is across town at the offices of Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, the shut down plotters often meet at a weekly lunch held on Wednesday at the event space of Ebenezer's. (The group also meets regularly on Wednesday mornings at the offices of the Family Research Council.)

This other Wednesday group is a convening of the "Conservative Action Project," an ad-hoc coalition created to reorganize the conservative movement since the early years of the Obama administration.

The coalition is managed by Heritage and the Council for National Policy. The latter organization, dubbed once as "the most powerful conservative group you've never heard of," is a thirty-year-old nonprofit dedicated to transforming the country into a more right-wing Christian society. Founded by Tim LaHaye, the Rapture-obsessed author of the Left Behind series, CNP is now run by Christian right luminaries such as Phyllis Schlafly, Tony Perkins, and Kenneth Blackwell.

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[gopiscrap]

1. Christo-fascist crazy fucks!

[kestrel91316]

2. Ahhhh. Phyllis "Make Teh Wimminfolk Stay Home So They Can Be Happy And Fulfilled" Schlafly?

THAT explains a lot.

That woman has been a pox on my life (and all thinking women's lives) since I started college. And I'm 56 now.

[red dog 1]

3. one Council for National Policy (CNP) official has a surprising connection to Obama

and the shutdown.

(From the OP)

"Since 2009, a consultant named Patrick Pizzella has helped to ensure that the
Conservative Action Project achieves it's goals.
For a fee of $133,333, he's been the highest paid full-time employee since 2009, when the effort began.

In August of this year, President Obama nominated Pizzella to be a member of the
Federal Labor Relations Authority.
The FLRA acts as a miniature National Labor Relations Board for federal workers, helping to arbitrate disputes between federal employees and labor unions.
Two months later, 800,000 federal employees now find themselves at home because of Pizzella's project."