DNC presents James Dobson's greatest "hits" with links.

[madfloridian]

First they discuss the letter from Alito to Dobson, then they show James Dobson up for what he really is. I notice they left out the one about beating his little chihuahua unmercifully. Will need to find that link.

http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/03/justice_alito_t.php

Here are some of the greatest hits from Samuel Alito's valentine:

-- James Dobson comparing stem cell research to human experimentation in Nazi concentration camps -- http://mediamatters.org/items/200508030007

-- James Dobson explaining that SpongeBob Square Pants is pro-homosexual propaganda -- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6852828/

-- James Dobson comparing the men in black robes (the Supreme Court) to people who used to wear white robes (the KKK) --
http://mediamatters.org/items/200505250005

-- James Dobson after the 9/11 attacks: "e need to accept the truth that this nation will suffer in many ways for departing from the principles of righteousness. 'The wages of sin is death,' as it says in Romans 6, both for individuals and for entire cultures." -- http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=4257#4

-- James Dobson even wrote a treatise on how fathers can cure their children of homosexuality, including the following tips: "He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger."
http://www.family.org/docstudy/newsletters/a0021043.cfm

Unfortunately, it's people like James Dobson that pull the strings in the Republican Party and end up getting notes of thanks from recently confirmed Supreme Court Justices.

[FreedomAngel82]

1. What a sick man!

[Beaverhausen]

2. Who were the dems that voted for cloture again?

We need to get rid of them!

[Earth_First]

4. Take your pick:

Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Carper (D-DE)
Clinton (D-NY)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)

[Beaverhausen]

6. No, not all of them voted for cloture on Alito

IIRC it was only about 7 of them.

[Earth_First]

7. Appologies, you are correct

I've been watching patriot act reauthorization coverage all day, so that's must be what i had on the brain at the time...i'll dig up the alito fillibuster roll call now...

[Beaverhausen]

11. Oh- I wondered if that's what your list was

damn that Feinstein...just when I was liking her again! :mad:

edit- I just changed my avatar back to the wonderful Barbara Boxer. She never lets us down!

[emulatorloo]

8. Your list is messed up - Kerry and Kennedy led the Filibuster Attempt

Not sure what your list is of ----

[Squeech]

10. Wrong

I don't know where you got this list, but in my reality, neither Massachusetts senator voted for cloture on Alito. I paid attention because they're my senators. (I didn't bother to call their offices, because I was pretty sure of how they would vote. Instead I tried to sway the Maine and Rhode Island Repukes.)

[emulatorloo]

12. HERE IS THE REAL LIST OF THOSE WHO VOTED FOR CLOTURE

i.e., against filibustering alito

from this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=317871&mesg_id=317871

AR Blanche Lincoln
355 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington Dc 20510
FAX: [phone]
• First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2004.

• Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

AR Mark Pryor
257 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
FAX: [phone]
• First elected: 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

CO Ken Salazar
702 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
FAX: [phone]
• First elected: 2004
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CT Joe Lieberman
706 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
FAX: [phone]
• First elected: 1988; re-elected: 1994, 2000
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

DE Tom Carper
513 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
FAX: [phone]
• First elected: 2000
elected Governor: 1992; re-elected: 1996]
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

FL Bill Nelson
716 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
FAX: [phone]
• First elected: 2000

• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

HI Daniel Akaka
141 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
FAX: [phone]
• Appointed by Governor John Waihee (Democrat) 16 May 1990, to fill vacancy caused by the death of Senator Spark M. Matsunaga (Democrat): 15 April 1990; elected to finish out the term in a Special Election: 1990; elected to full term: 1994; re-elected 2000

• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

HI Daniel Inouye
722 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
FAX: [phone]
• First elected: 1962; re-elected: 1968, 1974, 1980, 1986, 1992, 1998, 2004.

• Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

LA Mary Landrieu
724 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
FAX: [phone]
• First elected: 1996; re-elected: 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

MT Max Baucus
511 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
FAX: [phone]
• First elected: 1978; re-elected: 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

ND Byron Dorgan
322 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
FAX: [phone]
• First elected: 1992; was induced to take the oath of office: 5 December 1992 when the seat became vacant upon outgoing Senator Kent Conrad (Democrat) having taken the oath of office for the "Class 1" seat from the state; re-elected: 1998, 2004.
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

ND Kent Conrad
530 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
FAX: [phone]
• First elected to the "Class 3" seat from the state: 1986; was not a candidate for re-election in the 3 November 1992 General Election; Elected to finish out the "Class 1" term in a Special Election: 4 December 1992 ; elected to a full term: 1994, 2000
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

NE Ben Nelson
720 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
FAX: [phone]
• First elected: 2000
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

NM Jeff Bingaman
703 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
FAX: [phone]
• First elected: 1982; re-elected: 1988, 1994, 2000
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

SD Tim Johnson
136 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
FAX: [phone]
• First elected: 1996; re-elected: 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

WA Maria Cantwell
717 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
FAX: [phone]
• First elected: 2000
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

WI Herb Kohl
330 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
FAX: [phone]
• First elected: 1988; re-elected: 1994, 2000
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

WV Jay Rockefeller
531 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
FAX: [phone]
• First elected: 1984; re-elected: 1990, 1996, 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

WV Robert Byrd
311 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
FAX: [phone]
• First elected: 1958; re-elected: 1964, 1970, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

[Beaverhausen]

14. oh my god...was it that many?

[quiet.american]

3. Good for the DNC.

What a freak Dobson is.

I have never understood how "taking a shower with Dad" is supposed to "cure" anything!

[madfloridian]

5. It was a dachshund named Sigmund he beat. Cruel story.

This is not for the faint of heart.

http://www.geocities.com/cddugan/DobsonsDog.html

DOBSON:'What developed next is impossible to describe. That tiny dog and I had the most vicious fight ever staged between man and beast. I fought him up one wall and down the other, with both of us scratching and clawing and growling and swinging the belt. I am embarrassed by the memory of the entire scene. Inch by inch I moved him toward the family room and his bed. As a final desperate maneuver, Siggie backed into the corner for one last snarling stand. I eventually got him to bed, only because I outweighed him 200 to 12!"

Commentator: This is one sick puppy, and I don't mean the dog, either. Dobson is OBSESSED with control. I suspect that this stems from the punitive upbringing he endured as a young child (and which he now praises, with unintended irony, for making him what he is today). Now that he is a grownup, and too old to spank, he is determined to get everything HIS way, by golly! He is a 200 pound, verbally articulate version of the "strong-willed" toddlers whom he always exhorts parents to whip into submission "with a belt or switch" because "pain is a marvelous purifier." Dobson is walking proof of how just how badly a spanked child can turn out. The fact that parents like this exist in the world is an excellent argument for why all forms of corporal punishment should be abolished forthwith.

Commentator: Just in case the more slow-witted among his readers fail to grasp the obvious parallel between his relationship with his dog and the type of parenting advice the man as become rich and famous by dispensing, Dobson then lays it explicitly on the line:


DOBSON: "But this is not a book about the discipline of dogs; there is an important moral to my story that is highly relevant to the world of children. Just as surely as a dog will occasionally challenge the authority of his leaders, so will a little child -- only more so." (emphasis Dobson's)

From the book called The Strong Willed Child.

[emulatorloo]

9. Thanks again to Kerry and Kennedy for fighting the good fight.

And thanks to those who voted w them. . .

Those that voted w Kerry and Kennedy against Cloture and to pursue fillibuster:

Evan Bayh (D-IN)
SR-463
Washington, D.C. 20510-1404
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE)
SR-201
Washington, D.C. 20510-0802
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
SH-112
Washington, D.C. 20510-0505
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY)
SR-476
Washington, D.C. 20510-3204
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Mark Dayton (D-MN)
SR-123
Washington, D.C. 20510-2305
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Christopher J. Dodd (D-CT)
SR-448
Washington, D.C. 20510-0702
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
SD-332
Washington, D.C. 20510-1304
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Russ Feingold (D-WI)
SH-506
Washington, D.C. 20510-4904
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
SH-331
Washington, D.C. 20510-0504
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

James M. Jeffords (I-VT)
SD-413
Washington, D.C. 20510-4503
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA)
SR-317
Washington, D.C. 20510-2101
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

John F. Kerry (D-MA)
SR-304
Washington, D.C. 20510-2102
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ)
SH-324
Washington, D.C. 20510-3003
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT)
SR-433
Washington, D.C. 20510-4502
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Carl Levin (D-MI)
SR-269
Washington, D.C. 20510-2202
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
SH-502
Washington, D.C. 20510-3004
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD)
SH-503
Washington, D.C. 20510-2003
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Patty Murray (D-WA)
SR-173
Washington, D.C. 20510-4704
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Barack Obama (D-IL)
SH-713
Washington, D.C. 20510-1305
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Jack Reed (D-RI)
SH-728
Washington, D.C. 20510-3903
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Harry Reid (D-NV)
SH-528
Washington, D.C. 20510-2803
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Paul S. Sarbanes (D-MD)
SH-309
Washington, D.C. 20510-2002
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)
SH-313
Washington, D.C. 20510-3203
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Debbie A. Stabenow (D-MI)
SH-133
Washington, D.C. 20510-2204
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Ron Wyden (D-OR)
SD-230
Washington, D.C. 20510-3703
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=317871&mesg_id=317871

[atommom]

13. Looking at penises makes gay boys turn straight?

There's something wrong with that theory. I just can't put my finger on it... :crazy:

[Initech]

15. Gets better: Dobson defends his stem-cell comment

http://mediamatters.org/items/200508050007

Why do they keep giving this fucking asshole TV time?

[madfloridian]

16. Well, you gotta give Media Matters credit, though for being on top of this

:hi:

Maybe people will see what he truly is...at least I hope.