That’s right — Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) is under siege by gay rights groups for leaving transsexuals and transgender individuals vulnerable (in a bill that stands no chance of becoming law while Pres. Bush is in office):
“This is a moment of truth for responsible liberals in the Democratic Party,â€Â
Frank said in an hourlong news conference on Thursday.
Good luck with that, Rep. Frank.
It’s the peg for an NYT piece on tension the between Democratic lawmakers and their base, not only on the Iraq conflict — where the defeat movement is stuck in a quagmire made of their own inability to compromise or strategize — but also over a host of other issues, including a fight over increased fuel economy standards in the energy bill, and demands for more spending on environmental programs in the farm bill.
Call it the surreality-based community.
As I previously noted with respect to Iraq:
The already evident disenchantment among the nutroots will grow as they realize how badly they have been had. And the lefty bloggers’ theory that the foundation for a lasting majority can be built in 2008 by alienating their base in 2007 seems counter-intuitive at best… because nobody likes a tease. You can keep talking about that new direction, but if you don’t go all the way, you quickly become unpopular.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/11 @ 10:39 pm #
Shouldn’t that be the National Gay and Lesbian and Transsexual and Transgendered Task Force? But it’s not, is it? I guess them she-males need their own task force is the gist of this.
Comment by The Lost Dog (El Pero Perdido) on 10/11 @ 10:48 pm #
Here’s the deal.
I don’t care about anyones sexual identity. I am a musician, and have many gay friends that I am close to.
The only thing I hate about some gay people is that some of them INSIST on waving their genitals in my face.
Do what you want, but please don’t insist that I have to put up with assholes – gay or not.
Being gay does not make anybody “special”. If it did, I’m sure I would pretend to be gay.
As we say to Heteros: “Keep it in your pants”.
Grow up kids. It is what it is.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 10/11 @ 11:09 pm #
I’m convinced being loony liberal left (gay, straight, or indeterminate) means never having to grow up.
Comment by MayBee on 10/11 @ 11:54 pm #
If I were cynical, I’d say the Dems keep funding Iraq so they can keep pushing other programs by saying, “You can spend billions on Iraq, but you don’t care enough to spend ____ on our ____?!!!”
In reality, I think the Dems have always known they couldn’t abandon Iraq but thought the netroots wouldn’t notice until sometime after they made their donations.
Finally, I think we should just cut to the chase and pass a bill that only straight white Republican men can be fired from– or not hired by- any employer.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/12 @ 4:42 am #
Raspberries
Comment by Alec Leamas on 10/12 @ 4:44 am #
He he he
http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/11/you-work-for-who-again/#more-6168
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/12 @ 4:51 am #
I think Pelosi was just pointing out what assholes some of the Netroots are. What’s the big deal?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/12 @ 5:42 am #
You want people to actually grow up, Lost Dog?
Talk about a lost cause.
Comment by Mike C. on 10/12 @ 5:59 am #
The Nutroots are going to be going full-bore today.
Comment by Pablo on 10/12 @ 6:27 am #
Terrific. If it didn’t do so with Arafat, and it didn’t do so with Jimmah, the NPP has officially – demonstrably, even – jumped the shark.
If it isn’t a political issue, how in the hell does it have anything to do with peace?
Comment by Pablo on 10/12 @ 6:30 am #
If we all do this together, we can heal the world. Say it with me people!
Comment by BJTexs on 10/12 @ 6:44 am #
Save that chant for the game tonIght, Pablo!
GO SOX!
Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/12 @ 6:46 am #
Speaking as a male lesbian, I condemn Rep. Frank’s flint-hearted disregard for the slings and arrows I take for my sexuality and demand he protect we vagophilic males with this vital federal legislation.
Now I’m off to quadruple my per-square-foot home energy consumption so I, too, can have a shot at one-a them Peace Prizes.
Comment by Big Bang (Pumping you up) on 10/12 @ 6:51 am #
- ““Leadersâ€Â? Leaders don’t get led around by the nose by a two-bit moron like George W. Bush.
- So tell us Nancy. You know, that thing you decided to do to try to gain a “broader” base, and even the playing field for the Dems.
- Well you bought ‘em, so you own ‘em. Let us know how that works out for you.
- Oh, and if the crowd of hip 60’s paste eaters gobble all the grass on your front lawn you can always have San Fransisco’s finest chase them all back to Berkeley.
Comment by JD on 10/12 @ 6:51 am #
Pablo – That whole thing about Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize was a sick joke, right? It feels like my head is going to explode. Are they intent on making this once prestigious award absolutely meaningless? Arafat wasn’t bad enough for them? Good Allah. Next thing you know they will give Saddam a posthumous award. Or to the Gleens for his role in reconciling the parties in our system.
Comment by JD on 10/12 @ 6:54 am #
Where is the call for all of this bi-partisan legislation that it called for by the media at the beginning of every Congress? Why does the media not call on the Dems to compromise, to reach across the aisle?
Comment by Pablo on 10/12 @ 6:57 am #
BJ, Sox-Rox would be a great Series, wouldn’t it?
Comment by Pablo on 10/12 @ 6:59 am #
JD, I think they should give the next Nobel Peace Prize to the guy who invented those Breathe Right thingies. He, at least, has a plausible claim to the promotion of peace.
Comment by Darleen on 10/12 @ 7:01 am #
Alec
Don’t ya just feel for St. Amanda’s suffering?
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Comment by BJTexs on 10/12 @ 7:05 am #
Pablo: That’s what I’m rooting for. Sox-Rocs would be a great matchup: New Blood vs Old Established; Veteran Playoff Team against Young Guns Who Don’t Care; Fenway vs Coors.
I know, I’m getting ahead of myself but it would be sweet!
Comment by Darleen on 10/12 @ 7:19 am #
Pablo
If it isn’t a political issue, how in the hell does it have anything to do with peace?
AGW (notice the cutsy-ness of now calling it “man-made climate change” or “climate crisis”) is a substitute for religion and religion is all about teh peas. The Nobel has been one to “honor” on polical/religious grounds for quite a while. This obviously has nothing to do with science
Comment by JD on 10/12 @ 7:29 am #
Pablo – Those Breath Right strips are awesome. They are the only product that has ever been able to stop my snoring. My better half had to take Ambien to be able to sleep in the same wing of the house prior.
BJ – Rox vs. Sox would be fun, but would end in heartbreak for the Sox.
Comment by psychologizer on 10/12 @ 7:31 am #
I will always fail to see the gayness in having one’s dick chopped off. The “gay rights movement,” as it is today, is incalculably lamer than the wacky ’70s thing I grew up watching semi-admiringly. Chicks ruin everything.
The already evident disenchantment among the nutroots will grow as they realize how badly they have been had.
No, it won’t. They are, above all, obedient. They went down for Kerry (remember how very, very much they hated him, until they were ordered not to anymore, and they all stopped), they’ll go down for Hillary — for anyone, anything, if they’re told. The smattering of tantrums will fade, a few of the more principled tantrummers excommunicated (there’s sure to be nearly two of those, at the lowlier levels of the nut’), but — you watch.
They exist to be led. They will be.
Also: vote Rudy.
Comment by Aung San Suu Kyi on 10/12 @ 7:40 am #
Gore really deserved that prize. I watch his movie over and over, and it has kept me entertained while I sit in prison waiting for someone in the UN to notice me. Way to go, brave brave Al!
Comment by Christopher Hill on 10/12 @ 7:47 am #
Good for Al. Negotiating a nuclear treaty with Kim Jong Il is nothing compared to working with Laurie David. Way to go, Nobel Peace Prize committee!
Comment by RC on 10/12 @ 8:12 am #
the Nobel started out as crap. The whole thing is nobels atonement or penance for creating TNT. Heaven forbid anyone be greatful for a substance that has allowed for some of the greatest construction projects of all time while greatly reducing the risks to construction workers (not to mention miners and the like).
Comment by JD on 10/12 @ 8:19 am #
My world is spinning counter-clockwise upon hearing this news. What is next? A Pulitzer for Gleenwald and his minions? Alfonseca wins a Cy Young. Ostertag as NBA MVP. Leinart NFL MVP. Cubs win the World Series.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/12 @ 8:25 am #
Tony LaRussa becomes warm and fuzzy?
Cardinals ban beer sales?
Peyton Manning stops making commercials?
Oh, I know! JD gets season tickets to the Cubs! BWAAA HAHAHA!
Comment by JD on 10/12 @ 9:04 am #
LaRussa is as warm and fuzzy as a grizzly bear, except when passed out in an intersection. Peyton will quit making commercials … never. I would gladly take season tix to Wrigley. Would see the Cardinals 9-10 times and would have the pleasure of seeing the Cubs lose around 40.
Beer being banned in Busch Stadium is about as likely as the Dems becoming honest.
Comment by Karl on 10/12 @ 9:23 am #
Dan,
Eric Carmen knows his stuff.
Comment by JD on 10/12 @ 9:24 am #
Dan, in case I forgot to mention it, you have been on a Rockies-esque tear here recently. Kudos!
Comment by JD on 10/12 @ 9:24 am #
Not faggotComment by Dan Collins on 10/12 @ 9:30 am #
Thanks, JD
Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/12 @ 10:34 am #
Tony likes animals. It’s people he’s not wild about.
Comment by Big Bang (Pumping you up) on 10/12 @ 12:26 pm #
- The world according to the Left
>strikeBush>/strike…..Comment by daleyrocks on 10/12 @ 1:22 pm #
I’m really really looking forward to another big David Obey hallway explosion moment over his frustration with trying to satisfy the fringe policy positions of the nutroots. His dilemma, do I try to satisfy the most people or just these gibbering loons over here to get them to shut up even if I do knowing that the legislation has no fucking chance of passing.
Comment by JD on 10/12 @ 5:48 pm #
How much more of teh ghey can Barney Frank be? Hell, his ghey luver was running a gay escort business out of their Washington townhome. If that is not enough to gain entrance into the GLBT Hall of Fame, what is?
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