How do you know it's election year in the USA?
Your senators waste your hard-earned tax dollars fussing and fuming about the evils of gay marriage, all the while knowing that their Election Year Special Hate-A-Gay-Marriage Amendment stands absolutely no chance in the world of passing.
Republicans have cried 'Gay Marriage!' so many times now, in so many election years, you'd think that voters would be laughing in their faces.
Billie "Catkiller" Frist has set aside the week of June 5th for this year's Election Year Special Hate-A-Gay-Marriage Amendment vote.
How many times can the same old tired tricks work?
But thank you, Russ Feingold for reminding us of what a Democrat is supposed to look like.
A Senate committee approved a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage Thursday, after a shouting match that ended when one Democrat strode out and the Republican chairman bid him "good riddance."
"I don't need to be lectured by you. You are no more a protector of the Constitution than am I," Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., shouted after Sen. Russ Feingold declared his opposition to the amendment, his affinity for the Constitution and his intention to leave the meeting.
"If you want to leave, good riddance," Specter finished.
"I've enjoyed your lecture, too, Mr. Chairman," replied Feingold, D-Wis., who is considering a run for president in 2008. "See ya."
Amid increasing partisan tension over President Bush's judicial nominees and domestic wiretapping, the panel voted along party lines to send the constitutional amendment -- which would prohibit states from recognizing same-sex marriages -- to the full Senate, where it stands little chance of passing.
Via God is for Suckers where I found the cool shirt.
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