There is a recurring arguement on several diaries this morning that any and all criticism of Harold Ford for remarks he made yesterday on the prospect of gay marriage/civil unions in NJ are not only counter-productive, but could actually cost the Dem. control of the Senate. The reasoning goes that such criticism will among other things diminish the enthusiam of those in Tennesee who are working tirelessly for his election.
The shocking revelation this week that all the Republican House leaders who enabled and covered-up the internet stalking by a House member were, in fact, known heterosexuals raises the unfortunate but necessary question - "can straights be trusted to lead anymore?" I wish I could report that this phenemenon of mal-governence by straights was restricted to the current scandal but,alas, one only has to look at the incompetance, immorality, and sexually of all our current leaders: Bush, Chaney, Rumsfeld, Brownie, - the list is endless - and you will see a glaring pattern emerge. Every last one of them is straight.
Head for the hills! Run for your lives! A gang of crazed, rabid,baby-killing, baby-EATING, flaming liberals are poised and salivating to usurp the chairs of House committees if the unspeakable happens and the dems take back the House this Nov. Not since Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge has any cabal so threatened to radically transform a society. How did I learn this ? From reading Andrew Taylor of the AP. (sorry I tried and tried to link it - go to Yahoo news , then politics , then AP).[http//news.yahoo.com] "Prospective Democatic chairs all liberal"
The mood in our nation's capital turned somewhat somber today with the news of the untimely death of the once venerated Democratic Party, apparently of self-inflicted wounds.