My email to the Congressman will inform him that until today I'd never heard of him but as of today I will be doing whatever I can to fund his opponent.  

There's more time for the GOP to try to lie and distort after a bill passes but before it takes effect.  The provisions of the current drafts don't even start taking effect until 2013, right?  

I agree, though, that passing a public option will be a huge Democratic win, short and long term.

Looks like we've got several contenders for most corrupt state in the union, though I still have my money on Alaska for the most corruption per capita and RI as the most corruption per square mile.  

"For now, this is a peaceful but firm protest..."

Imagine if all the apologists saying Obama should wait for Congress to lead made the same argument about torture or health care--NOTHING would get done.

The President has a role in setting the agenda, and he's doing nothing substantial to advance civil rights (and some would argue, has done substantial damage to the civil rights cause).

Prop 8 has radicalized the queer community in the U.S..  If having rights preemptively prevented is bad, having rights taken away at the ballot box is terrible, and a huge wake-up call.

I think Obama and his team are just starting to realize how much the equality movement is snowballing, and they'd better catch up quick with some action.  

The U.S. populace has been way to the left of the leadership for as long as I can remember, and with a pivot on culture-war issues the GOP could outflank today's Democratic party on populist/labor issues.

I don't think they're going to, but they could.  

Either way, both parties have to take a big leap to the left, and I don't see the Democrats doing it yet.  

but I look forward to the day when we have a vibrant democracy in this country.

If I recall correctly, soon after taking office, California's A.G. Jerry Brown was tasked with defending California's state DOMA law.

He did so, but he took a rather unusual legal tack, saying that marriage is not a fundamental right in California.  

The strange thing is that the California Supreme Court had stated (in Perez v. Sharp, the ruling invalidating California's anti-miscegenation law, before Loving v. Virginia deemed those laws unconstitutional nationwide) and had affirmed and reaffirmed that marriage is a fundamental right in California.  

The California Supreme Court was not swayed by the A.G.'s unusual argument, and declared the state's DOMA unconstitutional in "In Re: Marriage Cases" last year.  (And we all know what happened after that.)

Dare we hope that Obama's DOJ is coming up with bizarre and legally unsound arguments for DOMA, or at least bizarre and uncomfortable ways of phrasing arguments, to "heighten the contradictions" and make it easy to overturn?

Two slimeball Senators in legal trouble accepted an offer they couldn't refuse.  It may affect the marriage equality bill, but it's not a result of it.

More on this from Law Dork 2.0

http://lawdork.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/ ny-senate-control-flip-throws-marriage-v ote-into-question/

WTF??

including women's health services in ALL states.

I'm very concerned that it's probably good news for John McCain, too.  

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