Friday, June 09, 2006
Read the Writing on the Wall
There is a memorable line Driftglass wrote several months ago where he stingingly mocks a conservative writer as being in the “carefully, climate-controlled conservative greenhouse where shambling GOP obsequi-bots with marginal typing skills are cultivated like rare blood-orchids.”
This description, frankly, applies to almost anyone who draws a paycheck at the National Review, The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator, or any of the lesser known think tanks, blogs, and periodicals. For example, check out this example from the National Review. Ipso Loquitor, my friends.
Ann Coulter (why do I have to even comment on this lunatic?) is making the rounds to pimp her new book. Thinkprogress has her on NBC. It is an unambiguous sign of the depravity of our culture that Ann Coulter can be found anywhere on TV. Need I resurrect some choice Coulter quotes? I hope not.
So how’s Iraq doing? See for yourself. Are here, too.
While the senate debating the marriage amendment is getting all the headlines, She Does Respond is planning on killing the estate tax, or at least massively reducing it. Sneaky, sneaky Fristy. I like the “Paris Hilton” thing. I tire of republicans rebranding things they don’t like as part of their war on language and truth, like the estate tax is really the “death tax” because everybody that dies pays the tax…or maybe only .3%. Whatever. Close enough.
The right has a problem with honesty and the English language, and not just as it relates to taxes. Press Secretary Snow equated the Same-Sex Marriage Amendment to “civil rights.” In fact, it is the opposite of civil rights. Civil rights legislation was an effort to include minorities and protect them with equal rights, not discriminate against minorities, in this case homosexuals.
They just can’t own up and say this amendment is an effort to discriminate against gays by not allowing them to marry. No, it’s an effort to “defend” “traditional” marriages, kind of like slavery was an effort to “defend” the “traditional” institutions of property and citizenship from those uppity niggers.
They can’t follow their reasoning to its inevitable conclusion, to say that homosexuals shouldn’t be allowed to marry because they are sinful and wrong and should be marginalized. Gays should be happy they’re tolerated, apparently, without demanding that their marriages be recognized.
A lot of democrats and talkers on the left similarly oppose the amendment with truthful but mealy-mouthed language, whining “isn’t there something better congress could be doing?” Of course there is, but even the democrats that I’ve heard don’t have the courage to stand up and say the amendment is wrong on principle. No, they talk about how few states even recognize gay marriage anyway, and they passed a law a while ago outlawing the practice, etc.
They can read the polls. The polls show that most people are in favor of gay rights, but not necessarily gay marriage. The polls also show that most people don’t think it’s a real big priority. So the democrats attack it from that angle. Safe, very safe, but not honest.
How does Mary Cheney feel about all of this, I wonder? Sure, the GOP isn’t hunting homosexuals with dogs…yet. But it’s their agenda to outlaw gay marriage. It’s their agenda to enact sodomy laws in conservative states and make sure homosexuality isn’t accepted as “an alternative lifestyle,” as the Republican Party platform states in Texas and North Carolina.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that state sodomy laws were unconstitutional back in 2003. The three dissenters were the justices that conservatives idolize, the justices that provided the model for Bush when he nominated Roberts and Alito: Scalia, Rehnquist, and Thomas.
Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas still have sodomy laws on the books that exclusively target homosexuals. Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah, and Virginia all still have sodomy laws on the books that effect homosexuals and heterosexuals. I suppose I don’t need to tell you that those states are all GOP strongholds.
Read the writing on the wall, Mary. The only people standing between you and a jail cell are democrats and those “liberal” justices your party hates. I mean that literally.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 3:45 PM 
