Gay marriage amendment dead, pandering lives on.
By on Jun 7th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Gay marriage amendment dead, pandering lives on.
House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said the House will consider the constitutional amendment banning gay next month. The Senate rejected the same amendment today.
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At least they have their priorities in order.
June 7th, 2006 at 9:57 pmYep. They’re in full-on pander mode.
As pessimistic as I usually am about them pulling the wool over the eyes of the public, something tells me that as soon as that first hurricane hits the Gulf coast people are going to ask just what the hell these jokers were doing while people were without adequate shelter.
You lie in the bed you make…
June 7th, 2006 at 10:02 pmDon’t look at Iraq… Look over here… this is REALLY important. We are doing a fine job with that Civil war, Bin Laden, the economy, finding an alternate fuel source from oil, health care. You name it. We got it covered.
Now lets get our hands dirty on some of those other less important things. Like flag burning and Gay Marriage.
Oy.
This Congress deserves a special place in Hell.
June 7th, 2006 at 10:09 pmStupid is as stupid does..and the house repugs just qualified themselves on that point….
June 7th, 2006 at 10:09 pmStupid is as stupid does..and the house repugs just qualified themselves on that point….
Comment by clif — June 7, 2006 @ 10:09 pm
You’re sugar-coating it again :)
June 7th, 2006 at 10:21 pmYeehaw! There’s queers in them thar hills. Let’s git a lynch mob and go git ‘em!
Clearly, the keys of the nation have been placed into the hands of a band of lunatics and glue-huffers.
-GSD
June 7th, 2006 at 10:22 pmThey’re allowed to do this? Why in hell would they take up something that’s already been rejected?
Isn’t this, in a sense, stealing a paycheck? I’m stunned.
June 7th, 2006 at 10:25 pmWhere’s Bin Laden? What is their plan to get us out of Iraq? What are they going to do about gas prices? What about the issues regarding the new healthcare plan for seniors? What is the status of the Plame leak? Did Bush really win the 2000 and 2004 elections? Why was there never a real investigation into 9-11? Why is our president signing bills into laws only later to make a foot note what parts they don’t have to abide by? What about those secret torture prisons? What is the status of the NSA wiretapping investigation? What happened to the ethics committee? Why are they giving tax breaks to the wealthy? Why is the economy doing so lousy? How do they plan to cut spending on pet-pork projects? Why are they stalling on investigating what happened in Haditha?
June 7th, 2006 at 10:35 pm#8 – Exactly. What a colossal waste of time.
June 7th, 2006 at 10:40 pmBoehner gets a boner for naughty gay stuff.
What else can they do when the gutter is the only way up?
June 7th, 2006 at 10:55 pm#7
To keep Bush’s base riled up until the election is my guess. Heard on Olbermann tonight that Frist is going to bring this back up next month as well. With both houses of Congress debating it, they’ll be rockin’ America, eh?
June 7th, 2006 at 10:56 pmDid the Bohner say why he wants to re-consider this?
June 7th, 2006 at 11:05 pmIf you all haven’t done so yet, go check post # 165 on the Sen. James Inhofe thread from yesterday. One of his constituents called his local and Washington offices and inquired about same sex marriage, and posted the transcripts of the calls. Some pretty good stuff there.
June 7th, 2006 at 11:13 pmLOL if the Republicans in the House debate Gay bashing like their GOP losers in the Senate, then they truely are stupid bigots as well!
June 7th, 2006 at 11:30 pmThe current mania for ethanol, biodiesel fuels, “flex-fuel vehicles,” and the like, is creating a financial bubble—within which is a swindle—inside of which is a slippery old methane fart, waiting to explode. Members of Congress taking part in the swindle, enthusiastically or not, are going to wind up very smelly when the ethanol party ends, the investment boom collapses, and motorists indignantly demand regular gasoline again.
Why should we shift to biofuels for transportation; ethanol, for example? Well, first, we’ll get 20% less gas mileage from our fuel that way. Second, we can pay a good deal more for fuel, in direct prices and subsidies; in fact, we’ll be able to use a fuel whose price is inflating much faster than the price of gasoline. Third, we’ll be able to spend tens of billions of dollars more a year in tax revenues, subsidizing ethanol makers, including some of the biggest global cartels. Fourth, we can use up more petrochemical energy making ethanol than we get by using it. Fifth, we can use up large volumes of water making the ethanol, including in some very water-scarce regions of the country—and overburden our tranport infrastructure as well. Sixth, we could soon deny corn exports to nations that need them—maybe even cut our own consumption of corn—and burn it in our cars instead.
June 7th, 2006 at 11:55 pm——————————————————-
Flex-Fuel is yet another machination of the confused and incompetent congress. A financial fiasco. I wouldn’t invest a plug nickle in it.
Flex-Fuel is yet another machination of the confused and incompetent congress. A financial fiasco. I wouldn’t invest a plug nickle in it.
Comment by Mesell Malkintent — June 7, 2006 @ 11:55 pm
Google Brazil+E85 and you will see that they have actually worked this out for themselves…while we just gave tax breaks to big oil
June 8th, 2006 at 12:10 amI heard most of the speach by our Commander-in-Chief tonight on my way home from Bar-Review. Both He, and the hosts of the “Christian” talk show blasted what they labeled “activist judges” for “redefining marriage.”
Their whole point being, if the majority wants to discriminate, then judges who uphold the Constitutional bans on discrimination are “activist judges.”
And this really is more about political posturing than accomplishing the goal of banning gay marriage. Think about it. A Constitutional Amendment is so difficult to pass that we couldn’t even approve the equal rights amendment for women. On the other hand, if they really wanted to, they could just take federal jurisdiction away from the courts. That, after all, is the ultimate way to curtail the power of “activist judges.”
So, it isn’t really about “activist judges.” It boils down to manipulating the people.
The Puppet Master pulls the strings and we hop and dance to the fiddler’s tune.
June 8th, 2006 at 2:42 amthe next major GOP priority, to prohibit flag-burning. These idiots really DO have their priorities in order. Never mind about getting us out of Iraq, gaping holes in our borders, budget deficits, millions with NO health insurance. The ral agenda is more tax cuts for the rich and pandering to the American taliban(Dobson, Robertson, Falwell).
June 8th, 2006 at 6:59 amthe next major GOP priority, to prohibit flag-burning. These idiots really DO have their priorities in order. Never mind about getting us out of Iraq, gaping holes in our borders, budget deficits, millions with NO health insurance. The real agenda is more tax cuts for the rich and pandering to the American taliban(Dobson, Robertson, Falwell).
June 8th, 2006 at 6:59 am…something tells me that as soon as that first hurricane hits the Gulf coast people are going to ask just what the hell these jokers were doing while people were without adequate shelter.
Comment by Docciavelli
Not likely. They’ll just blame it on gays, you know….God’s vengance.
June 8th, 2006 at 8:50 amQuote, “This argument for same-sex marriage reflects a demand for political correctness that’s gone berserk. We live in an era in which tolerance has progressed beyond a mere call for acceptance and crossed over to become a demand for the rest of us to give up beliefs that we revere and hold most dear in order to prove our collective purity. At some point a line’s going to have to be drawn by rational men and women who are willing to say ‘enough.’” Senator Robert Byrd September 10, 1996
June 8th, 2006 at 8:55 amPromise me, promise us all, that the next time this non-issue is put forth that you will refrain completely from covering it.
Just say that this is a settled issue and that republicans are using it to stimulate their base and drive a wedge between two parties.
Do not lend this lie any more credence, even by supporting it.
The world doesn’t care what gay people do and no one who has a reasonable intellect can be said to believe that gay marriage is a threat to the institution.
Straight people are the threat.
June 8th, 2006 at 10:01 amThis is purely a roll call tactic to be used against members who don’t agree, plain and simple.
June 8th, 2006 at 10:27 amQuote, “This argument for same-sex marriage reflects a demand for political correctness that’s gone berserk. We live in an era in which tolerance has progressed beyond a mere call for acceptance and crossed over to become a demand for the rest of us to give up beliefs that we revere and hold most dear in order to prove our collective purity. At some point a line’s going to have to be drawn by rational men and women who are willing to say ‘enough.’†Senator Robert Byrd September 10, 1996
Comment by Antagonist — June 8, 2006 @ 8:55 am
And future senator Strom Thurmond had sex with an African American woman, the result of which was the birth of his illegitimate daughter, yet he had no problem denying blacks the civil rights that they deserved. Funny world we live in, ain’t it?
June 8th, 2006 at 11:12 amSometimes the right makes me a bit sick to my stomach. I found this article, and I really, really hope it is satire. We need to defeat these animals. They claim that God is on their side…how can God approve of this???
http://cfav.blogspot.com/2005/06/flagrant-faggotry_17.html
Homo Depot?
This is an example of why the right is against gay marriage. Do they really think this way???
June 8th, 2006 at 3:32 pm“Do they really think this way?”
A more pertinent question is whether they think at all – at least in the way reasonable people understand the word “think.”
If you examine the top of the heap, GWB, you find someone who trusts “gut feelings.” What neocon “logic” appears to boil down to again and again is:
- if it makes me feel good, it must be true
and conversely
- if it makes me feel uncomfortable, it must be wrong (and/or from Satan himself).
And unfortunately, “uncomfortable” almost always includes things like “uncertainty that I have always been right about X.”
I can easily respect a conservatism that equates to, say, skepticism. I cannot respect a conservatism that equates to a closed mind — a mind that is closed simply because the alternative is “uncomfortable.”
June 8th, 2006 at 4:09 pm