This man is not fit to be a United States Senator. I say this on the basis of his comment today that there is no more important issue in America right now than banning gay marriage.
There may in fact be no less important issue in America today than banning gay marriage. Here is a sample list of things that are more important. Feel free to add to this list as it is far from complete.
1. The Iraq War
2. The slow loss of our liberty to a cretinous power-grabbing idiot who occupies our highest office
3. Terrorism
4. The matter of whether world opinion of the United States can get much lower
5. The NSA tapping our phones for no reason
6. The capacity of our economy to absorb continued increases in energy costs
7. The man who oversaw the illegal NSA wiretapping program taking over the CIA
8. The fact that crime rates are rising again for the first time in a decade
9. The Real ID act, which will produce a massive storehouse of personal data to be maintained by the government, which has already proven itself incapable of protecting such data
10. The fact that American consumer debt has leveraged the worldwide economic expansion for the past few years and the slowdown in housing prices is putting a crimp on our ability to continue spending
11. The continually increasing budget deficit that the current administration has shown no interest in, not to say no capacity for, bringing under control
12. Social Security's eventual bankruptcy shortly before today's under-30 crowd attempt to retire
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Wasn't too many posts ago that I listed a quote by H.L. Mencken, "The whole purpose of practical politics is to keep the population menaced by an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." This gay marriage issue, in particular the idea of adding it to the U.S. Constitution, is nothing more than just a pointless hobgoblin, a diversion, an attempt by the President to rile up his base and stop all of us from thinking rationally. Why? Because when we, the people, think rationally, we'll realize how inept our leadership is. They can't have that, at least not until they've completed construction on the police state they're trying to turn this country into.
4 comments:
Good list of things worth worrying about. I am particularly irritated at #9. The husband's personal info was compromised when Bank of America's official government credit card data was stolen. But at least he got a personal letter confirming that fact. The "fix" of putting a hold on his credit while he was deployed only took 18 months to straighten out. I can only assume my data was stolen as my dates of active duty service are within the time periods reported in the press. I won't hold my breath waiting for a letter. How ironic that it was our military service that made us vulnerable.
It amazes me that we can "ammend" the Constitution on a subject that is in no way covered BY the Constitution. Voting age, sure, makes sense. Equal citizenship for all races, that fixes the 3/5ths mess. Votes for women, plan to exercise that Tuesday in my primary. But gay marriage? That's right up there with prohibition, and we know how well that played out. Hasn't marriage been under state jurisdiction throughout our country's glorious/checkered past?
Ah the gay marriage scare. What a crock of crap. That’s what happens when you take a traditionally religious construct that has become a standard of societal function and apply legal and monetary benefits to it while keeping the traditionally religious name. People can’t separate the legal and monetary effects from the religious ones. If the law had always called it a contracted union of two people then it might not cause such a stir. But they used marriage, because it was the most sensible word to use at the time. Ug, and it seems to be a remarkably effective smoke screen.
Chocolate cake. Chocolate cake and whether or not I will get some tomorrow (which I have no reason to believe I will), is more important than keeping gays from marrying.
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