Take It To Your Leaders

[filkertom]

This is the kind of thing that makes me bang my head against the wall:

"The president's taken the clear position that he supports a constitutional amendment," Cheney said in an interview with MSNBC. "I support him."

Cheney said during the 2000 campaign, and again last month, that he prefers to see states handle the issue of gay marriage. His openly lesbian daughter, Mary Cheney, is an aide in the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, but the vice president declined to discuss her.

"One of the most unpleasant aspects of this business is the extent of which private lives are intruded upon when these kinds of issues come up," he said. "I really have always considered my private — my daughters' lives private and I think that's the way it ought to remain."

So, privacy is good for you and your gay family member, but not for other gay people and their families. Glad we got that straight (so to speak).

But, wait, it gets even better:

"If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years, the kind of tax increases that both Kerry and Edwards have talked about, we would not have had the kind of job growth that we've had," Cheney said.

They don't want to raise taxes, Mr. Evil Doofus Veep, they want to rescind your heavily-loaded-to-the-rich tax cuts. If they had pursued those policies, then taxes would've stayed the same as they were, not increased. And, as Josh Marshall points out, saying that "we would not have had the kind of job growth that we've had", i.e., millions of jobs lost, just isn't very bright.

To my dear friends who are Republicans (yes, I have some): WAKE UP! These psychos are killing our country. Take a look.

Comments

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

I wish I took as kindly a view of Cheney's comment on gays and privacy as you do. To me it reads less like "privacy is good for my gay family member but not yours" and more like "my gay family member is an embarrassment who should keep her head down and her life concealed out of shame, and so should all the others."

Between those, I'd frankly rather the former. It's hypocritical but loyal.

A Floor Wax AND a Dessert Topping

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

"Hey, calm down, you two! You're both right!"

Re: A Floor Wax AND a Dessert Topping

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Re: Subject. OK, I'm hearing Garibaldi..."If this leaves a yellow waxy buildup--on anything--I'm coming back here."

Other: Hi, Tom! I'm a big fan, pleased to find out you're on LJ now.

[braider.livejournal.com]

So, why not take . . . IT . . . to your leaders?

[adamselzer.livejournal.com]

Welcome to LJ, Tom!
While at the primaries today, I heard a couple of firemen - real Mileldgeville, GA good ol' boys - looking at the ballot.

"So it's Edwards or Kerry now, eh?" one asked.
"Yep," the other murmured.
"Far as I'm concerned, you can toss 'em up in a hat, and just have whoever gets tossed out of it first run," said the first one.
"That's who I'd vote for," said the other, to my great surprise.
"Me too," said the other. "I'm an independant now."

The fact that Bush is turning Georgia republicans into independants is greatly encouraging to me.

My own problems aside, my roommates have both lost jobs since the recession "ended," neither has health care, and, since they're lesbians, they can't get married. My house is a microcosm of the failings of the Bush administration.

I've been awake

[dbcooper.livejournal.com]

Tom, why do you think I AM Republican? Not all the opposition need be lined up on one side. (I was one of the 25 percent of Florida voters that still voted for McCain in the 2000 [meaningless] Florida primary.)

Re: I've been awake

[gingicat]

As an independent liberal, I'd have been perfectly happy with McCain as president; he *cares* more about people than Gore does (or, at least more than he appeared to at the time; now that he's not a professional politician he's been doing better on the humanitarian front).

But the current administration isn't conservative; it's radical and cruel.

[skipjim.livejournal.com]

I never have understood the problem the Republicans problem with gay marriage. I would think the party of family values would understand that people would want to form families. Oh wait...gay's aren't people are they? Maybe they're afraid that the lawyers (who are all evil demoncrats you know) will get rich on divorce cases.

Don't even get me started on the Defense of Marriage act (full faith and credit clause? Does the congress have to read the constitution?)

Someone will have to explain the logic works out so you can call canceling a tax cut which hasn't happened yet a tax increase. It's funny hearing Chenney talk about job growth. It's sort of like hearing Clinton lecture someone on marital fidelity.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I agree completely, with one... caveat? Proviso? Footnote: Clinton is still married. Bill and Hil had a problem; on the surface, at least, they've worked through it.

[skipjim.livejournal.com]

Oh,

Don't get me wrong I voted for Clinton both times he ran, and frankly after 4 years of the unelected fraud thats been our "leader" I'd vote for him again in a heart beat. Heck I'd even vote for Hillary if she ran.

Who knows what the next year will bring us?

Mr. Evil Doofus Veep

[stormlight811.livejournal.com]

Hee..
*snort* mwAAAAH haaah haaah!!

(please excuse me while I remember how to breathe)

Thank you, thank you. I needed that. It's been a hell of a week.

I'm not sure the party designation has been so important to me during most presidential elections; I vote for the person who gives me the fewest heebie-jeebies. I really wish McCain had made it. Ah well.

Just got the wedding invitation today for my oathsister and her beloved. It's the old-fashioned sort, where the parents invite you to the marriage. The neatest line in it is, "at the Marriage of Their Daughters..."