Leave Dorothy Alone!
February 23, 2011 - 5:34 pm
Irradiated by LabRat
Irradiated by LabRat
Seems New Hampshire Republicans want to use their newfound legislative muscle to repeal gay marriage, because obviously that can be the only reason voters were suddenly inclined to give them a supermajority. Meanwhile, the Obama justice department has suddenly decided that now is the correct time to stop defending DOMA.
Option A: the national zeitgeist and voter unrest is all about gay marriage.
Option B: both parties are trying to remind their dwindling supply of allies that they’re supposed to be buddies by ringing Pavlov’s bell for red meat.
Not only do I lean toward Option B, I think the bell has probably lost its clapper at this point.
February 23rd, 2011 at 6:38 pm
Our political process makes sense if you pretend that each party is secretly controlled by the other… or by the Discordians.
February 23rd, 2011 at 7:05 pm
“Well, let’s go beat up some queers. It’s easier than working.”
February 23rd, 2011 at 8:28 pm
And yet everyone thinks the libertarians are crazy for wanting both a balanced budget and gay marriage. Can’t we just compromise?
February 24th, 2011 at 12:45 am
Privatize marriage.
Get the government out of it. A contract, and an optional ceremony.
February 24th, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Is it any wonder we call them The Stupid Party?
I fail to see why the government should have any say in who we marry. I agree with those above, get them out of the marriage business entirely.
February 24th, 2011 at 3:21 pm
Get married in Hawaii is about as Libretarian as it comes:
1.) only one witness required,
2.) they just “record” the event for a nominal $60 State-charge, 3.) The forms filed in triplicate are done on a TYPEWRITER (not a computer) and are subject to some error and repetition attempting to fill them out properly eresults in errors in other locations.
4.) They’ll probably lose it, like The Birth Certificate, (which was probably not a “certificate” as much as a 60’s era Post-It note on mimeograph paper - since state workers enjoy the warm dulcet zephyrs coming off the beach and are unimpeded by the angry tones of managers by a little (or a lot) pakilolo…
5.) Re pakilolo - the drug war there in The Islands is all about “Ice” which is much-hated because it tears up the fragile and much-beloved Hawaiian Ohana or family-structure, preventing weekend family luaus and picnics and fishing and surfing together. (Hawaii has been *owned* by the Democrats since forever.)
February 24th, 2011 at 5:50 pm
I agree, option B… and he’s crawfishing to the center as fast as he can…
February 25th, 2011 at 12:05 am
DirtCrashr: Yeah, but you’d have to be in Hawaii to do it, and frankly, I’d rather run over my own balls with a steamroller than ever go back.
February 25th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
We go back every year to snorkel and drink mai-tais…