The minority party needs to take a clue that they are a minority for a reason, and will remain that way for a long time. This kind of BS just puts the Democratic agenda into perfect light. (h/t to Blogs For Bush)
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s Communication Director Bob Stevenson today made the following statement in response to the Senate Democrats’ refusal to grant consent, effectively shutting down the Senate’s committees and preventing them from meeting after 11:30 a.m..
“What a difference a day makes. Less than 24 hours after he complained the Senate is ignoring issues important to Americans, Democrat Leader Harry Reid today threatened progress on an energy bill, a jobs bill, disaster relief, and a closed intelligence meeting.
“To close down the committees over the judges issue is not only counterproductive, it could hurt Americans looking for work or suffering at the gas pumps.
“Despite any differences over the judges, the American people want their government to continue working on issues important to them. They want the Senate to do its job.
Sorry, Bill, but that is about all the Dems have these days. They have no plans and no agenda, at least that is positive and benefits the United States. They have lost the House, the Senate, and the White House. Without their disgusting behavior during the past election, their candidate wouldn’t even have made it close. The only thing they can do is try and make sure that they have radical, Left wing judges on the bench, to push their pitiful way of government on people. Like this (registration req’d)
A federal judge Thursday struck down Nebraska’s ban on gay marriage.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon ruled that the measure interferes not only with the rights of gay couples but also with those of foster parents, adopted children and people in other arrangements.
The constitutional amendment, which defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman, was passed overwhelmingly by voters in November 2000.
So the voters of Nebraska went through the effort of passing an amendment, and one man, one judge, was able to effectively do away with majority rule with one swipe of the pen. Should judges protect the minority from tyrrany from the majority? Yes, they should. Doing away with jim Crow laws made sense. People were harmed. No one was denied any US Constitutional Rights in this case, but the judge pulled out the "it’s for the children" argument the Left is so fond of, and pushed his individual decesion down the throats of the People of Nebraska.
Now, let me just state, before someone goes down the road that I am a bigot and a homophobe, that when it comes to the gay marriage issue, I could really care less. It is not an issue that I really care to get involved in, nor think about. Search my archives. Nada. Except a post or two that support several gay bloggers. I do believe in the sanctity of family, raising a child with a man and a woman. But that is a much longer discussion that I will not get into at this point. Ask me another time.
This is just one of the numerous times that an activist judge has put his/her stamp on overturning the Will of the People. Where does it stop? If the Democrats have their way, it won’t. Don’t like a law? The Dems will get it overturned. Doesn’t help the Democratic agenda? See a judge.
This kind of stuff is what will ensure that they remain the minority party. I expect the Republicans to make even more gains in the mid term election.