Divide and Conquer the Voters -- (NYTimes)

[kentuck]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/opinion/05mon2.html

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President Bush devoted his Saturday radio speech to a cynical boost for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. It was depressing in the extreme to hear the chief executive trying to pretend, at this moment in American history, that this was a critical priority.

Mr. Bush's central point was that the nation is under siege from "activist judges" who are striking down anti-gay-marriage laws that conflict with their own state constitutions. That's their job, just as it is the job of state legislators to either fix the laws or change their constitutions.

If there's anything the country should have learned over the past five years, it is that Mr. Bush and his supporters have no problem with judicial decisions, no matter how cutting edge, that endorse their political positions. They trot out the "activist judge" threat only when they're worried about getting out their base on Election Day.

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All this effort to divert the nation's attention to issues that divide and distract would be bad enough if the country were not facing real, disastrous problems at home and abroad. But then, if that weren't the case, Mr. Bush probably wouldn't feel moved to stoop so low.

[Zeke]

1. Hmmmmmmm.......

Stoop low for Bush Inc.?
Bush has no floor on how low he can go.

And if this amendmanet movement flails & flops,
then what does the GOP have to work with then?

Bush is rolling the dice on this one;
it's not a good gamble either.

This issue might just completely tip the tipping-point.
Hang in there.

[rodeodance]

2. good discussion going on Cspan now.

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. Thanks for the heads up!

I have the feeling I'm going to be getting little done today. *sigh*

[Jim Warren]

4. The early going not good

Talked with a bunch of people on this, pubs and dems, and to a person they all agreed it's a distraction from the real issues, devisive and just plain wrong-headed at a time when we should be focusing on Iraq, energy prices and the economy.

The voters see this as transparent.

[Zeke]

5. Yea, Verily...

Yeah.

Another example of right-wing stupidity was
their media attack dogs going after Murtha,
defending the US Marine atrocity murders in
Iraq.

The media dogs holwed about this for one day
and then pulled the plug, silienced themselves
about it because they "realized' it was the wrong
tactic, overplayed, just stupid.

I think it's the same kind of thing with this
amendment noise & flag burning noise, too.

The public is tipping over the tipping point,
believeing not a word GOP's say.

[kentuck]

6. They may have gone beyond the point of no return...

with their dirty politics and character attacks? I certainly hope so. But, so long as I can remember, Democrats have wanted to talk about policies and Repubs have wanted to talk about "lack of character" in Democrats. If they lose that, they have nothing. Nada...Zilch.