They should try it. Call it “The Cruz Rule”.
Wasn’t it Palin who said in 2008 that the VP gets in there and runs the Senate, dontcha know? I seem to remember the Brickerbot defending her.
Oregon Senate candidate: “Vietnamese refugees came to Oregon, started fires in the middle of their houses, and stole cats and dogs to eat.”
Jim Wright points out that point (b) means you can legally discriminate against anyone who has any sexual relationship outside of marriage. So your boss could fire you if you’ve never been married and you’re not a virgin. (I’m not sure how’d they determine that last, though. Maybe just if you’re living with someone?)
That is not correct (pdf). The bill includes a rather specific list of what section 2 applies to. My cursory reading of the text does not reveal anything that would give your random boss the right to fire you for fucking an unapproved person.
On the other hand, it does look like it gives a jesusy CPS case worker the right to deny gay adoption if it squicks them out. And while a church may have the right to refuse a straight-like transgender marriage (assuming they go to the effort to ferret out that information), it does not require the church to refuse, so an icky marriage can be performed in a church if that church/pastor is willing to do so.
As I understand it, Republicans would like to give bosses the right to fire someone for any reason or no reason at all.
You understand it correctly. AFAIK the so-called Employee Rights Act (H.R.3485 & S.1712) is making it’s odious way thru committees now, for instance and there’s always some othera version of the National Right To Work Law hanging around (waiting for people to fall asleep or look the other way, IMO).
Let me see if I understand this. If you don’t want government to have enough power to balance corporate power, and you don’t want unions to either, that means…
Free[del]bird[/del]market!
Corporations are the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human beings I’ve ever known in my life! I think I’ll play some solitaire…
You know, I wonder how the Republican Party actually does it. Like, for as long as I can remember paying a token interest to American politics, they’ve always been overhyping whatever it is that was happening as “THE NEXT STEP IS LITERALLY HITLER !!!”. Which of course never materializes. And yet, it still seems to work for them.
The boy who cried wolf, eat your silly little heart out.
You have to remember that in American, the definition of “literally” is “somewhere in the range from ‘very’ to ‘literally’”.
"We are one liberal Justice away from a radical five justice majority the likes of which this country’s never seen.”
And it’s going to be awesome!
Impeach Earl Warren!!!
We want physicals for our candidates, but we should really be checking their level of paranoia.
Back in 1972 or 73 Firesign Theatre had an album where George Pappoon ran for president on the platform that he was not insane. Kasich should try this strategy.
“We are one justice away from the Supreme Court effectively stripping religious liberty from Americans all across this country.”
Wait, didn’t this supposedly happen already? The Supreme Court took away religious freedom, which is why Congress needed to pass RFRA. And who was it who wrote that horrible opinion?
Oh.
You mean the MAJORITY opinion.
Not since Thomas Eagleton have we had a candidate who was
[ Certified NOT INSANE ]
Shocking. Positively shocking.
Thank-you Ayatollah Cruz.