Monday, June 05, 2006
Senate Debates Gay Marriage Amendment
If there is a God, he’s laughing his ass off right now.
Today the senate began debate on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, an empty effort to pander to the GOP base so pointless (except to score political points in some arcane political calculus) that the New York Times wrote this listless review of the debate.
It is as if the newspaper of record were shrugging its shoulders and sighing, as if to say, “Our democracy has degenerated into bad theater put on for ignorant fundamentalists. We, as always, will report on this long, depressing event.”
Bob Geiger writes a great essay on McCain here at Alternet.
Today the senate began debate on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, an empty effort to pander to the GOP base so pointless (except to score political points in some arcane political calculus) that the New York Times wrote this listless review of the debate.
It is as if the newspaper of record were shrugging its shoulders and sighing, as if to say, “Our democracy has degenerated into bad theater put on for ignorant fundamentalists. We, as always, will report on this long, depressing event.”
Bob Geiger writes a great essay on McCain here at Alternet.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 9:14 PM 
