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To: TigerPaw who wrote (1595)	5/22/2003 10:30:05 AM
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<font color=green>The Texas Republican Party chief told colleagues last week that she was deliberately using language in public statements that connoted "criminal wrongdoing" in a Democratic walkout that shut down the state House. She acknowledged at another point in the conversation that the act was not criminal, but that it "probably should be," </font> chron.com Another tactic that is now increasingly used on the national stage. Outright lieing in press statements. This is usually accompanied by claims that the democrats are liars. The claims to religion are more obvert here, but are increasing at the national level. <font color=green> State GOP Chairwoman Susan Weddington also said she believed that "God will protect the work we're doing" in support of Republican efforts to seek major changes in state government, including cuts in health care and other services. Weddington, a Christian activist from San Antonio who has headed the state GOP since 1997, said in an interview Wednesday that she was referring to her own personal faith and not suggesting that God was taking sides in political battles. "I just have a trust that God will protect me from the people who attempt to malign," she said. </font> Note the claim to be a maligned victim here. <font color=green> the walkout was a political and parliamentary maneuver that didn't break any laws. Department of Public Safety officers were instructed to try to round up the missing lawmakers, but only to enable the House to resume business, not to charge them with any offenses. </font> The most important thing to learn from this excercise is that the neo's eventual push the extreme positions until even their supporters no longer support them. When defied, they can do no more than complain. TP