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The Other Faith
Just yesterday I noted that despite the rising power of the Christian Right in the US, we're not seeing anything that warrants the comparisons between these folks and the Taliban. I'll stick with that, but I definitely need to qualify it. What we're seeing in some quarters is actually much more insidious in some ways. Consider this bit of dog whistle rhetoric gaining ground (from a speech Vice-President Cheney gave at a "Town Hall Meeting" on "Strengthening" Social Security at Campbell High School in Smyrna, Georgia):

If we don't do anything at all, if we just stay where a lot of people have said we ought to stay -- there are a number of members of Congress of the other faith who have said that we don't need to do anything -- well, if you don't do anything, the net result will be, for somebody today, say, in their 30s, by the time they get to retirement age, their benefit levels are going to be cut some 26 percent or 27 percent.

The "other" faith? What does this mean? "Other" than what?

It wasn't a misstatement of any sort either. ...