Moving on…
George W. Bush is going to bash homosexuals on Monday in a big show in the Rose Garden. I plan on making popcorn. It should be about the most offensive thing seen on television since Freddy Got Fingered last aired.
The campaign against gay marriage is scheduled to get the full White House treatment on Monday — words from President Bush in front of assembled VIPs and a bank of television cameras.
Such a carefully staged production aims to confer the grandeur of the office on the push for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. But even before administration officials announced the event, some invitees denounced it as a sham.
Of course it’s a sham. The amendment has no prayer of getting two-thirds of the Senate’s vote, and is therefore dead in the water. There is no point in bringing it up other than to use a nay vote to question whether nay-voters have a sufficient dedication to homophobia in the upcoming elections. The Republicans can put their opponents on the record as gay-lovers, and then appeal to their bigoted constituencies to throw the gay-lovers out.
Sham is a nice word for it. It is so far below the dignity of the Office of the President that I think it’ll make Monica Lewinsky gag.
