Holy crap. I just watched Sen. James Inhofe, the Republican from Oklahoma, waste 15 minutes of my life. He was there on the Senate floor, talking about how he doesn’t want DADT to be included in the Defense Department’s budget re-authorization bill. Rather, he wants a full and open floor debate on repealing the law. I’m going to save you the same time suck. It went like this: “The fear I have is that this is going to be shoved down our throat by the majority, and we can’t let that happen.”
Inhofe believes DADT — which wasn’t “that good of an idea,” he thought back in the 90s when it was signed into law — has “worked” very well for the past 17 years. You know, because the law has kept The Gays from using the military to advance very “liberal ideas.”
Steve
“The fear I have is that this is going to be shoved down our throat by the majority, and we can’t let that happen.”
And the only way to do that is to make the minority (your side) become the majority that shoves their opinion (DADT=good, gays=demonic) down everyone’s throat.
Hooray for hypocrisy!
Yet Another Steve
What is it with the “shove it down the throat” metaphors all the time?
It’s funny how he complains about the majority getting something done. If he knew the public were on his side, he’d be all over “the will of the people”.
Samuel
Yes, the Republicans are a problem, but the votes aren’t there from the Democrats either. You can thank Harry Reid for that failure.
Chuck
How about some discussion of putting your thing into a bleeding hole. Anybody for outlawing str8 people?
mulletkitty
Funny how we never hear them mention lesbians being shoved down their throats. But those gay dudes, muses Inhofe — constantly shoving their “rights” and their “agendas” and their “tolerance” down my damn throat.
Note to self: stop deep-throating the gays.
B
No. 3 · Samuel wrote, “Yes, the Republicans are a problem, but the votes aren’t there from the Democrats either. You can thank Harry Reid for that failure.”
… you can’t really blame Reid. First, some of the newly elected Democrats are from conservative areas and have to avoid pissing off their constituents, who may want something more liberal than what the Republicans are offering, but not as liberal as middle-of-the-road Democrats. Second, having just one Democrat not go along on a vote can kill it if the Republicans are also opposed due to the rules about filibusters: what we have is a government in which nothing can get done if a sizable minority is opposed.
Neither of us may like what is happening, but we don’t set the rules.
Dan
You should look into how many Senators who oppose repeal are receiving money from Saudi Arabia. Republican Governors received $1 million from News Corp, whose second largest investor is a Saudi.
AlanReeser
Inhofe represents Oklahoma, where extremist whack job Sally Kern carries on with her pro-religion, anti-everything stance. Their Bible Belt mentality is a reminder they’re wearing the chastity belt so tight oxygen isn’t getting to the brain. She should be more tolerant especially when her own son is coy about being gay.
Benjamin
This makes me realize two things:
1. We will win all of these battles eventually. Progress is just that. Things always progress. This man makes it clear. All of these fights are, for them, symbols of the simple fact that they don’t want to have to stop hating us. They remain upset that one day they, or their children, will have live in a world where it’s not OK to hate gays publicly.
2. Half the planet will always hate us, no matter how many of these battles we win. We will eventually get our way in every respect, except that really, there will always be a large section of the population that will remain disgusted and horrified by our very existence.
But could that guy look like a bigger asshole? We get to be right. That’s something.