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Lamar Alexander, ACLU Senator

March 16th, 2009 at 8:36 am by Preston Taylor Holmes

Who’d a thunk it?  You may remember our profile of David Ogden, the candidate for the #2 position at the Dept of Justice.

Short version, this is a guy who is a anti-constitution, pro-abortion, pro-public-library-porn ACLU attorney who prefers the U.N. to the U.S. on most issues of law and justice. Or as Terry summarized:

Porn filters at the libraries? No, says David Ogden. Parental notice for a 14 year old to abort? No. Verify that your porn models are 18? Nope. Citing international law and consensus for your legal arguments? Yes. Original intent of framers? Yuk. Living, breathing Constitution? Oh, yes. Openly serving as homosexual in the military? Progress. Using the court to write policy on anti-tobacco agenda? Most definitely! Respecting private property rights? Forget it! David Ogden’s views of our Constitution are very tied to his own personal agenda as you notice the discrepancy between his liberal leanings towards pornography and abortion, but not for tobacco.

This is the guy who our Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander voted FOR as our second most powerful authority at our United States Department of Justice. Fortunately, this is one occasion where we can say thank you to Senator Bob Corker. He voted against the confirmation of David Ogden.

Now this isn’t the first exercise of poor judgment by the guy who tried to scare the crap out of everyone when he said that if we didn’t put him in office, Fred Thompson’s desk would be wheeled around to sit with the likes of Ted Kennedy. Well, it looks like we got that anyway. Please note that Senator Alexander stresses moderation, but Ogden is in no way a liberal moderate.

Apparently, this is all right up Lamar’s alley, since he helped push Ogden right through the Senate with a handful of other limp-wristed Republicans.

Others from the GOP Gutless Caucus: Bond, Collins, Graham, Gregg, Kyl, Lugar, McCain (ha!), Snowe, Specter, Voinovich.

Maybe my friend Dan is right. Perhaps the GOP is too far gone to salvage. All I know is that Lamar must not be reading his e-mails, faxes or snail mail – his voting record certainly doesn’t reflect the wishes of his constituents. Then again, he spends most of his time avoiding his constituents and tonguing the dumpers of the inside-the-beltway powers-that-be, so what should we expect?

Lamar isn’t up for re-election until 2014, which, on the bright side, means we have plenty of time to find a primary challenger – and with his voting record, he should be easy to beat.


One Response to “Lamar Alexander, ACLU Senator”

  1. average_guy Says:

    Voinovich is one of my senators, so of course I have been corresponding with him as well as my other elected “representatives” in DC….well, corresponding is not the correct term in Cryin’ George’s case, as apparently he has decided that since he is a lame duck he’s not going to reply to any letters or e-mails at all.

    He’s a Cleveland Republican, sort of like the polar opposite of a Southern Democrat.

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