Here are a few articles about “crazy” Bernie’s (as Rush Limbaugh so appropriately calls him) massive blunder this past week. Like John McCain and so many others in Congress, age does have a negative impact. It’s time to retire.
First up is an excerpt from the above titled article by David French at National Review. Then links to a few other articles. Then the video of the exchange:
Vermont’s junior senator could use a remedial course in the text and meaning of the Constitution.
If your political sun has been rising and setting on the cage match between Donald Trump and James Comey, there’s an ominous little story that you might have missed. In an otherwise-uneventful Senate hearing for Russell Vought, Trump’s nominee to be deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, Bernie Sanders launched a direct and aggressive attack on Vought’s religious beliefs.
I won’t transcribe the entire exchange (you can read it in my Corner post on the matter), but Sanders aggressively took issue with a piece Vought authored at The Resurgent, which defended Wheaton College’s decision to terminate a professor who declared that Muslims and Christians “worship the same God.” The post is well-written, and it expresses orthodox Protestant Christian theology. It also contains a passage that apparently infuriated Sanders: “Muslims do not simply have a deficient theology. They do not know God because they have rejected Jesus Christ his Son, and they stand condemned.”
In the Senate hearing, Sanders called this statement “Islamophobic,” and, with his voice rising, challenged Vought’s fitness for office. Eventually, he all-but-declared Vought un-American. He concluded his remarks by declaring that, “This nominee is really not someone who this country is supposed to be about.”
Sanders’s tirade was certainly outrageous: Article VI of the Constitution prohibits religious tests for public office, and he blatantly violated the language and spirit of that prohibition in Skewering Vought. But it was also instructive: This is what happens when our national polarization breeds both ignorance and intolerance, and when intolerance trumps even the rule of law.
Read more: National Review
Other articles…
Bernie Sanders Exposes His Anti-Christian Bigotry
Bernie Sanders disagrees with Jesus
Shameful! Trump Nominee Attacked for Following Teachings of Christ
Bernie Sanders: Knave or Fool?
When socialists attack Article VI
Bernie Sanders Shows the Left’s Refusal to Coexist With Traditional Believers
Furious Bernie reveals he’s the one not fit for public office
Senator Bernie Sanders Attacks Trump Appointee for Christian Views
Sanders Viciously Attacks Trump Nominee’s Devout Christian Faith
