Posted on 11/17/2011 5:26:50 AM PST by EternalVigilance
Ping...
Just more evidence of what we already knew. Many Republicnas are just Democrats in drag.
A third party without sycophants is what is needed.
What we have now is one party with two names.
Nice verb in the headline. Quite apropos.
Come on...greased & same-sex marriage in the same sentence. Really?
This will not become law and this story is making a big deal out of nothing. They allowed it to come to a vote so they could indeed GO ON RECORD as voting against it. They also know the House will NEVER pass it and likely the full senate will not either. In fact, a vote in the full senate will be great politics for conservatives.
Misleading headline and non story.
Read what happened. Misleading story. They wanted to be on record of voting AGAINST it which is what we all want. They allowed the vote to happen so they could vote against it.
Accepting that homosexuals can get in front of their families, friends and an official to declare their undying lust is not the problem. By ‘six degrees of separation’ we are all working with them or have friends and relatives who are gay. That’s the reality.
Such ‘coupling’ does not result in offspring or progeny and accordingly should fade away.
The most heinous result of legitimizing these partnerships is the de facto qualification to adopt, foster or IVF children. That is the real travesty.
“They also know the House will NEVER pass it and likely the full senate will not either.”
This is what everyone said about DADT. It was passed. I don’t trust this at all. MANY Repubs are really Dems! Sad. Very sad.
You tell a lot about yourself with your hearty approval of putting meaningless election year theatrics ahead of protecting marriage and preserving the foundational institution of our society.
And folks wonder why the country is so screwed up.
>> This is what everyone said about DADT. It was passed. I don’t trust this at all. MANY Repubs are really Dems! Sad. Very sad.>>
Apples and oranges. No Republican voted FOR this measure. NONE. And I don’t think many if any will. This article is misleading in how it described what happened. If anything, the Republicans wanted to make sure they were on record as voting AGAINST it and the Dims were on record as voting FOR it.
It was - for a change - good politics. Now I don’t like many of the Republicans on that committee, but they did the right thing in this instance and the article is trying to stir up trouble where none exists.
If they had voted no it would have been dead. I guess you missed that part.
>> You tell a lot about yourself with your hearty approval of putting meaningless election year theatrics ahead of protecting marriage and preserving the foundational institution of our society. >>
That is a crass and totally ignorance based charge. They did not put “theatrics” ahead of marriage - they used them to DEFEND marriage by having the chance to publicly show their defense of it.
Look, these Senators mentioned do plenty to get our ire up, especially Graham. And Graham may support in his heart gay marriage for all I know. But in this case, they SUPPORTED marriage publicly and forced the Dems to come out against it.
It will never pass the full Senate - and certainly not the House. Learn how the system works, because we do govern ourselves by a system.
It’s those who think like you do that have screwed “the system” up almost to the point of no return.
>> It’s those who think like you do that have screwed “the system” up almost to the point of no return. >>
Go ahead and feed your delusions of your own moral superiority and just continue to luxuriate in the purity of your own irrelevance. Please, go ahead since it makes you feel better.
For me, I’ll THINK instead of FEEL - and a thinking person realizes that there is nothing wrong here. There are plenty of times the system is screwed up and plenty of times that folks like Cornyn and Graham and Grassley are part of that screw job.
BUT I’M SORRY - THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE TIMES AND YOU MAKE YOURSELF LOOK IGNORANT BY TRYING TO MAKE IT SO. Save your indignation for a time when it’s needed. This is not one of those times.
It is good practice to allow the opposition to hang themselves with their own rope - to put their votes on record. It is bad practice, with repercussions in future business, to vote against voting, even in Committee.
The third party is EternalVigilance’s agenda.
Your problem is the same problem these Senators have. You think this matter, like all deeply moral matters, is some kind of political toy. It’s not. It’s the equivalent of a rag soaked in a deadly pathogen. You don’t mess around with it. You incinerate it immediately. Which they could have easily done.
But frankly, I wouldn’t expect anything else from you.
When I read that a Republican voted on a bill like this...I knew... Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) couldn’t be FAR BEHIND! LOL... Seriously this guy has got to go in 2014!!!!
For the pantywaist Republicans, sure. Of course, the Democrats have no such phony qualms.
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