Right wing (all GOP?) reactions to the Supreme Court DOMA decision:
The obvious common theme of these ravings is that by granting at least partial marital equality to gays, the Supreme Court has taken away rights of people in straight marriages.
Ravings (or insane ravings) describes those quotes to a tee.
Well, I’ve been in a straight marriage for over forty years now and I do not feel the least little bit threatened in any way that some of my kids’ friends can now get married (if they’re in a free state) to their same sex partners. I’ve never been to a same sex wedding, but if ever invited I plan to attend and enjoy myself.
The Rick Wiles quotes are my favorite. I’m also a fan of how he thinks people will float on rafts to Cuba to escape “El Presidente Obama’s Communist revolution.”
Welcome to Pennsylvania-that-isn’t-Pittsburgh-or-Philly. My preferred framing of this is “Rep. Metcalfe was so terrified of his physical reaction to Rep. Sims’ pure, industrial-strength hotness that he had to stop him from speaking.”
So much hot air but yet they still can’t string together a coherent argument against gay marriage. They can’t even lie about it, the issue triggers some primal rage factor that seems to shut down all critical thinking.
Yesterday (unfortunately no cite), the local liberal talk radio gave a platform to Dr. John Eastman of Chapman University who is the Chairman of the National Organization for Marriage. They were discussing the SCOTUS decision and the host, Mario Solis (subbing for David Cruz), asked about why Eastman feels the SCOTUS decision was wrong. Eastman got into the whole notion of standing, and argued that the court was wrong and the defendants did have standing to fight the case in court. Standing apparently boils down to 2 criteria: 1) you’re representing someone else who has standing to defend a case, and 2) you’re a victim.
Eastman, despite given multiple chances, just could not articulate a reason for why #2 was valid (he already agreed that based on #1, the defendants didn’t have standing) because as we all know, there are NO victims in gay marriage and there never will be. This, apparently, doctor, a scholar at a university, could not answer the basic question of how people were harmed.
It almost made me want to call in to remind the host and the audience that, months and years ago, during the actual Prop 8 trial, the lawyers against Prop 8 got star witnesses on the homophobic side to agree there was no harm. All of this harm stuff is bullshit! That’s why no conservative can ever come up with a good reason that will stand in court! They’ve had years to do it and no one person on the GOP side has been able to even bullshit a plausible reason! Especially not one that can stand up in court. The ONLY reason anybody has to be against gay marriage are traditional and personal ickiness. Even god himself wouldn’t be able to come up with a reason
Fox News’ Erick Erickson took to his blog recently to complain that the price of milk and bread are continuing to go up in spite of the lack of inflation. This prompted noted economist and reality fan Paul Krugman to point out in his blog that that statement is completely false - the price of bread has pretty much been flat since 2008, and bread is about the same price today as it was in 2004.
[QUOTE=Erick Erickson]
Not everything is academic or chartable and sometimes the accuracy of the chart isn’t as real to people as the perception they have that their grocery store bills are getting more expensive though their shopping habits haven’t changed…
Seriously, Paul’s point is correct, but it is an issue of perception of people versus the reality of his chart. He can certainly go tell people milk prices haven’t gone up, but good luck getting them to believe him.
As far as I can parse this, Eric is complaining that it does not matter what the facts are, the point is that people are believing his lies about prices, and so this is a problem that needs to be dealt with by someone!
Satire. Not very GOOD satire (and arguably actually worse than the Daily Currant stuff…which SHOULD take work) but satire.
Not to mention counterproductive. Gohmert is stupid enough and vocal enough that there’s TONS of stuff that he’s actually said to be snide about. There’s no need to make over-the-top stuff up as he serves the real thing piping hot fresh from his scrambled brains every day.
