Grumpiness
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Assailing the "cabal of geniuses" who cooked up the gay marriage ban, one of the GOP's only openly gay leaders breaks with his party.
*leans close to David and whispers*
The President is a liar and a hypocrite. Imagine, if you will, a high-ranking Nazi with Jewish friends. He wouldn't see a contradiction because he would have the power to spare his friends, and therefore would face none of the suffering inherent in his policies. Wealthy gays don't have to bear any of the weight of discrimination simply because they have the power to shrug it all off.
Are there still a few gays wondering aloud why their President might betray them in this manner? There's not much question left, I'm afraid. He does it to win votes. He doesn't agree with the policy, but he champions it gladly because he knows none of his friends will ever suffer under even its worst excesses. This is the reason no one has been able to convince Mary Cheney to demand better of her father, the fact that she will never, ever suffer for the absence of equal rights for gays.
David Catania, a relatively low-level Republican insider, will. That's the one and only reason he has the balls to demand better of the people he has supported. Otherwise he'd still be chuckling over the size of his refund.
I'm so disgusted that we need people like him to win.
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A few days ago I called D.C. Council member David A. Catania a hero for his decision to leave the... Read More
Obviously, Catania is not from the South as the President is. You see, in the South, appearances count as much or more than anything else. Of course, the President was perfectly polite to Catania and his partner to their faces...it's what gracious good manners and tradition dictate. But it's what he does when you're NOT in front of his face that really counts.
It's no great feat to be remembered when you're in the room. The trick is to remembered once you're gone.
Jere beat me to it. Catania's description of Bush's behavior indeed smacks of Southern, DAR-type bullshit. Being gracious and demonstratively tolerant doesn't prove how Bush feels about anything. It only proves that he's a politician. That's what they do.