My clock-radio is set to come on at 5:30 every morning, right at the beginning of the NPR news. For the last two mornings I’ve been treated to the stupid Texas twang of acting president Bush, delivering a speech in support of a federal marriage amendment. The good thing is that it gets me out of bed fast, because as I’ve mentioned before, any time that guy speaks I know it’s either going to be a lie or something intended to stir up the flag-worshipers.
But today he said something so absolutely moronic that I knew it was time to fire up the Runes again. Today he said this:
“When activist judges insist on imposing their arbitrary will on the people, the only alternative left to the people is an amendment to the Constitution, the only law a court cannot overturn.”
Oh, where to begin.
How does one become president of the United States without the simplest understanding of how the judicial system works? In Bush’s fanciful world, bands of marauding judges are roaming the land imposing their arbitrary will on the people. It’s like he has no idea what judges do or where they come from, which might in fact be true but in no way diminishes the reality that judges don’t make laws, they interpret them.
And their guide to interpreting laws is, say it with me, the U.S. Constitution.
Bush knows just enough about the Constitution to be dangerous, which can also be said for how much he knows about economics and foreign policy. He’s correct that an amendment to the Constitution can’t be overturned by a court, but he’s overstating the case when he says “the only alternative left to the people” is a Constitutional amendment.
The only alternative to whom? Who are these people so desperately turning from place to place, looking for a solution to the problem of gay marriage?
Why, they’re bigots, that’s who. People who aren’t affected by gay marriage in the least, except to the extent that it doesn’t fit into their narrow view of the world. They’re people who can’t see the difference between marriage as a legal partnership and marriage as a union of blessed souls. Sadly, though, they’re people who don’t pay a damn bit of attention to what a mess this president has been making until he gets them all fired up with some non-existent bogeyman.
In an election year, of course. And people call me a cynic.
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An excellent entry, Dono.
A friend of mine who invests in real estate rehab & flipping attended a conference in San Diego recently, where the guest speaker explained how to pick up-and-coming neighborhoods in which to invest.
He said. "First, the artists come, then the gay people. The gay people fix up homes and raise the profiles and the values of entire neighborhoods."
From a practical, money grubbing standpoint, the pseudo Christians Bush is trying to court with his discriminatory amendment don't realize how much gay marriage could personally enhance their property values.
Any queens looking to set up housekeeping are sure as hell welcome in my neighborhood.
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