Ralph Reed in the Marianas Trenches

[Canuckistanian]

As the sun slowly sets over the Republican National Convention in Tampa, we settle back in the chairs that nice Mr. Eastwood just gave us and ponder some of the other oddities of the week. Like this item in the official GOP platform pointed out by Brad Plumer of The Washington Post:

No minimum wage for the Mariana Islands. “The Pacific territories should have flexibility to determine the minimum wage, which has seriously restricted progress in the private sector.”

This caught our attention (and thanks to colleague Theresa Riley for sending) because it once again reminds us of the sordid past of evangelical and political entrepreneur Ralph Reed who, as this week’s edition of Moyers & Company reports in detail, has emerged from the ashes of epic career fail to reestablish himself as a powerful figure in Republican politics.

Reed’s was a monstrous lie by one of the monumental hypocrites of our time. Yet he marches on, Christian soldier to the end, turning the temple of faith into one big ATM. There’s a word for this in the Bible: Abomination.

http://billmoyers.com/2012/08/31/ralph-reed-in-the-marianas-trenches/

[Coexist]

1. knr

[sofa king]

2. We can still get him.

He was never prosecuted for his money-laundering three-step between Jack Abramoff and Grover Norquist.

If their work can ever be tied to terrorism--and I believe it can--there will be no statute of limitations on their crimes.

And thanks to their own efforts, if they are busted, we can ship them out of the country and have them tortured to death.

So there's that.