there are no words for how disgusted I am, these days...

[lagilman]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush and congressional Republicans are aiming the political spotlight this week on efforts to ban gay marriage, with events at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue -- all for a constitutional amendment with scant chance of passage but wide appeal among social conservatives.

''Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society,'' Bush said in his weekly radio address. ''Government, by recognizing and protecting marriage, serves the interests of all.''

The rest of the NYT article is here, if you still have the stomach to read it. Or you can just call your congresscritter and inform him/her that his/her re-election chances rest upon his/her ability to tell the difference between "democratic republic" and "theocracy."  Reminders such as that are never a waste of energy -- quote Jefferson if you can.

Comments

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Um, did I screw which term got appointed up? Whoooops. But no, he didn't win the popular vote in 2004, as far as I'm concerned, because a number of my friends in Ohio have told me that they were practically turning people away from the polls by then. And then thousands of votes were discarded. A whole lotta people were told, last election day, that their votes didn't matter.

That's why I said "won" the popular vote--there was tweakage. The Supremes appointed him in 2000. In 2004 his cronies fiddled the vote as you indicate, to make it look as if he won.