Wow, Republicans are really, really afraid of Wendy Davis. 
Apart from another shutdown being terrible for Republicans, I don’t even get how McConnell thinks this is supposed to work. He says that he and Boehner won’t let the government default. But without the threat of default there’s no hostage. This isn’t even holding the gun to your own head and threatening to shoot if your demands aren’t met, it’s not even holding a gun in the first place. Isn’t this flat out admitting he’s going to waste billions of dollars for nothing?
If the last shutdown is any indicator, he a Boehner will threaten a standoff just long enough to allow the House Loonies to actually create one.
Common wisdom is that as minority percentages increase, and minorities continue to be attracted more to the wisdom of the D party rather than the bigotry of the R’s…that the country will be more and more D as time goes by. (When the D’s can foresee election majorities every time, they will also have schisms, but that is another thing for another time)
anyway, this tipping away from R’s to D’s has to be one where one state after another becomes D country.
I think Texas is way up on that list.
Republicans have almost a two to one edge in representation in the Texas legislature, so I’m pretty sure that’s not it.
Of course if they went through with this they would immediately turn around and use it as evidence that gay marriage destroys traditional marriage.
Is that not in part due to heavy gerrymandering? ISTR Texas has some interesting districts.
I’m sure it is, but Texas went for Romney 4.5 million to 3.3 in 2012 so the GOP would have a huge edge even with fairly drawn districts.
“We don’t smoke marriage-wana in Muskogee…”
Wait, is this the same Dr. Scott DesJarlais, pro-life Republican, who taped himself encouraging one of his patients whom he had an affair with and impregnated to get an abortion? That Scott DesJarlais?
I mean, I know it is. But I can’t let any mention of him go by without reminding potential GOP voters in Rutherford County that HE COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH A PATIENT AND TOLD HER TO GET AN ABORTION.
That’s DIFFERENT! Desjarlais is a good, god-fearing man who made a mistake! Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven! Not like those godless liberal baby-killers.
/snark, if it wasn’t obvious.
Let’s play “spot the mistake of the God-fearing Christian”
- cheat on your wife
- have sex with your patient(s)
- encourage your patient-lover to have an abortion
- complain on social that religious freedom laws protect religions other than yours
What gets me is that just last week, the director of our county schools was forced to resign. Why? Did he sleep with a student? Organize massive fraud of test results? Slap a teacher? No, the community was up in arms because after canceling school on a recent snow day, while driving the county-own vehicle provided for his personal use, he stopped at a restaurant for lunch and had… a beer! DUN DUN DUN. /fanning myself.
I think this qualifies as stupid, in the sense that it is a childish over-reaction of “I will burn my toys rather than let you play with them!” Oklahoma Republicans want to ‘deregulate’ marriage so that the government will not be involved in it.
Thus proving that republicans have no respect for the sanctity of marriage, and allowing republicans anything to do with marriage will destroy the marriage of others. Obviously, anyone against SSM should be against allowing republicans to marry or legislate anything to do with marriage.
I can get behind this one, but not for the reasons they have.
The morons who push the decoupling of marriage from the government forget one thing. *Some religions allow gay marriage. *
How they gonna deal with some liberal preacher marrying people? Hopefully by mass suicide.
I am thinking we should have a GD thread on the subject. In the culture we have, marriage is an important thing, but the culture we have is also kind of formed around that idea. I have heard, rightly or wrongly, that the nuclear family concept was an invention of Roman origins devised to minimize intra-empire tribalism that could pose a threat to the nation – kind of a divide-and-subdue strategy.
Even if that is true, I doubt it could have anything to do with the modern nuclear family concept.
Duh. They’ll throw bricks through his window, burn down his church, assault his parishioners, and then lynch a gay dude. No school like the old school.
The Romans had enough civil wars that I don’t think it worked if true.