WP, Milbank: House GOP fiddles with gay marriage while Beirut burns

[DeepModem Mom]

The Man Upstairs Is in the House
By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, July 19, 2006; Page A02

The House of Representatives could not have been any more obvious if the sergeant-at-arms had wheeled an equine carcass into the well and the speaker had pummeled it with his gavel.

Yesterday's House debate on same-sex marriage was pure dead horse: The Senate last month rejected -- emphatically -- a constitutional amendment that would allow Congress to ban same-sex marriage, so there was zero chance the amendment could be approved this year. But members of the House were answering to a Higher Authority....

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"I think God has spoken very clearly on this issue," said Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.), a mustachioed gynecologist who served as one of the floor leaders yesterday. When somebody quarreled with this notion, Gingrey replied: "I refer the gentleman to the Holy Scriptures."

Democrats and a couple of sympathetic Republicans wondered whether, with the House planning to spend just five more weeks in session for the rest of the year, their colleagues were fiddling while Beirut burns.

"We have a conflagration in the Middle East, we have raised the debt ceiling four times to $9 trillion, and this is how the Republican congressional leadership chooses to spend its time?" demanded an agitated Rep. James Moran (D-Va.)...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/18/AR2006071801336.html

[msongs]

1. the scriptures are are written by humans, so this

guy is basing his whole argument on a false premise.

maybe he would like to bring back slavery, as that is ok with his book of choice.

would you want this guy looking up your vagina?

Msongs
www.msongs.com/demfest1.htm

[rodeodance]

2. and today it is the 'under god' Bill they are talking about (now on cspan)

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. They just want to go on record for the folks back home. The gop has

quietly turned all the fundie churches into no cost campaign headquarters, this kind of stuff is their only payment.

[Oreo]

4. Musgrave trying to out-psycho Tancredo. God CO has some ridiculous reps!

From the article:
Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.), sponsor of the marriage amendment, used that logic to justify debate on her doomed bill. "Members of Congress are capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time," she asserted. "Where are those who say we are wasting time when we are renaming post offices and federal buildings?"

Can people really be that stupid?

I hereby nominate Musgrave for this week's Top 10 Conservative Idiots