Dear GOP…
Irradiated by LabRat
This kind of crap would be exactly what you were NOT elected to spend your time and energy on.
Same electorate in 2008, same electorate in 2010. No one cares about the vague possibility that gay people might someday be able to get married in DC except about ten guys in Focus On The Family, and three of them are in the closet. Yes, this is still a point of cultural disagreement, but the list of issues more pressing than this one even to people who think gay marriage should be stopped is about twenty miles long.
We have a budget crisis, we have an economic recession, we have a debt crisis, we have wars in limbo. Dicking around with culture-wars issues was all well and good when none of these things were true, but it is not 1994 anymore.
Hands off your dicks, heads out your asses, GET WITH THE FUCKING TIMES.
January 25th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
The old guard GOP does not want to deal with the real issues. They want to be Democrat-lights, and channel the sweet sweet federal funds to their friends instead.
They are raising the gay-cooties banner in hopes the fundies will save them from the tea-partyers. Fundies will vote for Joe Stalin, as long as he makes church attendance mandatory.
January 25th, 2011 at 4:46 pm
AMEN!
January 25th, 2011 at 4:50 pm
No kidding Kristopher. These ‘feel-good’ cultural fights are nothing but pandering to the base, and need to stop right bloody now. They’ve got less than 2 years to impress us, and they’re not off to a good stop.
January 25th, 2011 at 5:50 pm
Congratulations, GOP, you are fucking idiots.
January 25th, 2011 at 7:30 pm
FIXIN AMERICA: UR DOIN IT WRONG (facepalm of historical proportions)
January 26th, 2011 at 7:18 am
[…] pushing gay marriage ban in DC. Because, you know, they’ve solved all the country’s […]
January 26th, 2011 at 8:04 am
Maybe he’s pushing for a ban because gay marriage being illegal is the only thing keeping him in the closet? If it wasn’t illegal, he’d leave his wife and marry some boy toy. Then where would his kids be.
God Labrat. Why do you hate his children so much. You heartless ghit.
January 26th, 2011 at 11:06 am
The GOP was elected to focus on the economy and get our revenue and spending within two clicks of each other. So far, they’ve managed to hold a symbolic vote to disband “Obamacare” in the House, renewed a tax cut without any real cuts in spending, and want to waste time on gay marriage.
*sigh*
January 26th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Far as I can tell, the GOP took the House because voters were worried that the Dems were fucking up in new and exciting — that is, terrifying — ways. This is an old and familiar fuckup by the GOP, so it’ll probably play well. It’s got a sort of 1997ish nostalgia to it, back when the dot-com boom was really starting to ramp up and people still took Jerry Falwell seriously as a political creature. It’s the next best thing to Team Elephant pulling out blankies in the middle of the chamber and sucking their thumbs.
January 26th, 2011 at 3:18 pm
I don’t think the gay marriage issue has any currency even with the missionaries at my evangelical church. This is going to piss lots of people off and appease no one.
January 28th, 2011 at 12:28 pm
Mousie762: Good. It’s about time the believer community stopped being suckers to these vote pimps.