So, WHAT exactly are the Republicans going to DO about this community center near the former WTC?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

They talk tough about opposing the muslim community center being built so close to the WTC ruins and that, despite their supposed recognition that it is completely constitutional and legal for a muslim community center to be built there, it still shouldn't be built there so as to not offend the sensitivities of NYC residents and/or 9/11 families. But what are they ultimately going to DO about it? Pass a law and/or resolution declaring the former WTC area to be "hallowed ground" and forbid anything anything with any ties to Islam from being built there- notwithstanding the fact that there's a mosque already nearby? :banghead:

I hear them saying that they're going to be using this as a political issue to run on/attack the Democrats in this election but HOW exactly is supporting the constitutional right of muslims to build a community center- with a mosque in it- near the ruins of the WTC supposed to RUIN a Democratic candidate? I'm trying to picture how a debate between Candidate A and Candidate B might work and what the Republicans are actually proposing be DONE to resolve the controversy. They're going to go around the country and attack the Democrats for SUPPORTING "religious freedom"?

:wtf:

Also, I would like to point out that no single group of people "own" 9/11 (well Bush, DOES own some responsibility for it occuring) nor the ruins of the WTC but the Republicans have- from day one- had absolutely NO reservations about hijacking the events of that horrific day for their own partisan political gain and political goals and exploiting this manufactured controversy like they are doing seems to be just one more thing in a long line of things which they've decided to use for bludgeoning political opponents and regaining power. Of course, it's all just a re-election ploy whose usefulness will only persist so long as people continue to give it any serious credence or thought. It's utterly shameless and dispicable! :puke:

Republicans like Cornyn may think that they're being *smart* by picking up this "issue" and trying to run with for the November elections but I just don't know how much mileage they're going to be able to squeeze out of this nonsense. If they keep this up long enough, somebody (hopefully) is going to ask the inevitable question of what they intend to DO about this and I'm not sure that the Republicans would be able to come up with a good answer to that because, frankly, there's really nothing, legally or constitutionally, that they can do about it (and they KNOW it).

[derby378]

1. A loudspeaker that broadcasts readings from GOING ROGUE during prayers?

Hey, I could see someone sneaking that past City Hall...

[LostinVA]

5. rofl

[Warpy]

2. They're going to use it as an election issue

to granstand for complete morons in flyover country who have absolutely no stake in the issue.

They're also going to hope some Operation Rescue crazy person doesn't decide to bomb it until after the election.

[liberal N proud]

4. With all the other issues in this country, if that is all they can focus on...

And if this country can't move on, then we are in worse trouble than it first appears.

[gratuitous]

3. Stamp their little feet and threaten to hold their breath?

This will be a source of concern for many in the popular media who have never learned how to deal with a spoiled three-year-old (although I've known some three-year-olds who would bristle at the comparison). Rather than ignoring them as they should, the media will coddle the poor dears, making soothing sounds and fervently promising to make everything all better. This will set off another round of tantrums, followed by media exasperation. The media will then turn to everyone else and pointedly ask why we're not doing everything we can to calm down these poor brats? And some putative Democrats will obediently jump up and scold the rest of us for being insufficiently sensitive to a party that launched two illegal wars, conducted punitive occupations, and carried out torture in our names with our tax dollars.

And some of us will be dumb enough to feel bad about it.

[Vincardog]

6. I heard that Steel was going to buy the site and use it to house a home for wayward girls and a few

rent boys.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. You forgot bondage clubs!!!

:rofl: