{"id":135623,"date":"2017-12-12T22:10:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T05:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135623"},"modified":"2017-12-12T23:23:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T06:23:29","slug":"well-faith-america-alabama-strengthened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/well-faith-america-alabama-strengthened.html","title":{"rendered":"Well, my faith in America (and Alabama) is strengthened"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll ignore hundreds of thousands that voted for Roy Moore, and focus on the majority<\/i> who voted for Jones and\/or against Moore.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I’m happy that the GOP majority in the US Senate has shrunk to 51-49. In a hyper-partisan era, this close of a vote means that the extremism of the Senate GOP (and Congress) is perforce tempered still further.<\/p>\n

But I’m significantly more happy to see Roy Moore crash, burning, in defeat. Even besides the credible and multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and assault against him, the man is a positive menace of theocracy, states-rightism, and all the worst of divisive Southern conservatism.<\/p>\n

It is probably too much to hope that this is the end of Roy Moore’s career. But I’m inexpressibly glad to know that even the people of Alabama were willing to give him a solid NO.<\/p>\n


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\nDemocrat Doug Jones defeats Roy Moore in tight US Senate race in Alabama<\/a><\/span>
\nFor the first time in more than two decades, a Democrat has won a US Senate seat in Alabama. Doug Jones narrowly defeated Roy Moore on Tuesday after Moore’s campaign was rocked by allegations of sexual misconduct in the 80s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I’ll ignore hundreds of thousands that voted for Roy Moore, and focus on the majority who voted for Jones and\/or against Moore. Yeah, I’m happy that the GOP majority in the US Senate has shrunk to 51-49. In a hyper-partisan era, this close of a vote means that the extremism of the Senate GOP (and … Continue reading “Well, my faith in America (and Alabama) is strengthened”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,9,358],"tags":[125,1320],"class_list":["post-135623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-politics-law","category-poor-citizenship","tag-gop","tag-roymoore"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Moore-Jones.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135624,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/senator-cory-gardner-chutzpah.html","url_meta":{"origin":135623,"position":0},"title":"Senator Cory Gardner has … chutzpah","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Dec-17 9:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"On the election of Doug Moore (BWAH-HA-HA-HA!), my GOP Senator, Cory Gardner, had this to say: \u201cTonight\u2019s results are clear \u2013 the people of Alabama deemed Roy Moore unfit to serve in the U.S. Senate. 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