Sigh. Look at the wrangling over fed hate crimes bill strategy

C'mon, Democrats -- can't you assemble enough vertebrae among yourselves to form at least one spine?

The House Democrats called the Republicans' bluff with the speedreading of the energy bill.  It's time for Senate Democrats to call the Senate Republicans' bluff.  Let the Democrats start coming to the Senate chamber with phonebooks and when someone declares they will filibuster, let them offer phonebooks for the Republicans to start reading.  It's time for some political theater from the inept Democratic leadership.

# Duty, duty -- honor is, is --
Honor, Creideiki -- alertly
# Shared, is -- Honor #

It would also be interesting to see how long these guys can stand.

I'm really sick of these unrelated amendments (like the gun amendment to the credit card bill). It's like ordering a pizza and finding out you have to take a left front fender from a 1969 Camaro with it.

I forget who the commenter was who predicted this. I'm right-wing, but even I didn't think the Dems were quite that bad.

I guess all that Religious Right propaganda about it being the "Pedophile Protection Bill" is causing some panic in the Senate.

Maybe if they stripped out all that Gender Identity stuff, and just made it explicitly GLBs they may have the votes. We have a precedent for this, after all.

I've stopped having any expectations of the current Congress. R or D, their snouts are in the trough, the economy's circling the drain, and the vast majority tell themselves that porkbarrelling and doing favours for friends is what it's all about.

There is no situation so complex it can't get even worse

Second, if you leave gender identity out, there's no protection for anything at all.  The defense goes from, "I attacked him because he was gay," to, "I attacked him because he was holding hands with a man, and only a woman should do that."  

Some people really need to understand that transgender issues are tied inextricably with choice of sleeping partners.

# Duty, duty -- honor is, is --
Honor, Creideiki -- alertly
# Shared, is -- Honor #

I think a standalone bill would pass.  Then again, I just visited 94 of the Senate offices over the last month, in person, to drum up support, and all but 8 actually gave an attempt at listening to me.

However, I think the Dem leadership thinks that they do not have the kind of strong coalition within the party to get this through.

Because they are scared.

Anyone who has merely written something being upset should call their senator, should have their friends and family call their senator, and should generally make it known that such a bill is important.

Even if you don't think they will support it.

Let's have that roll call vote.

http://www.dyssonance.com  Breaking all the rules...

The politicians need to grow a set and stop coddling these hypocrites.  

Then they said DADT would come first

and now...?

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid