What is going on?
No, I mean it. Someone please tell me what the hell is going on.
The President of the United States wants to amend the Constitution in order to discriminate against a huge body of people. An amendment which says separate, not equal. An amendment based 100% on a religious belief and on nothing else. Nothing. There has yet to be a single argument for this reprehensible proposal that isn't based on religious belief. If you believe that this amendment is a good idea, then you'd better stay the hell away from me. Far away. This is a make it or break it issue for me, and if you can sit there and tell me that you are in favor of denying rights to a group of citizens based on who they are, then you can just get the hell away from me and stay away.
Scores of people are flocking to see a two-hour movie filled with scenes of torture, starring a pale-skinned American citizen as Jesus, made by a man who is obsessed with violence (watch his other movies, would you?) whose father believes that
the Holocaust was fictional (and this same man was quoted as saying "My father has never lied to me about anything) - and these scores of people? They are taking their small children. To a two-hour graphic beating. With subtitles. (Don't write to me with any shit about religion, because I don't want to hear it. The last thing anyone in this country needs right now is more religion.)
Our precious administration wants to reclassify fast food jobs as MANUFACTURING so they can cover up how many manufacturing jobs have been lost since Bush took office; they moved the accepted date of the recession's beginning back so it would appear as if it began during the Clinton administration (which is untrue); they have cut benefits for veterans and money for AIDS care and prescription drugs and
doubled the amount of money going to useless abstinence education. (Because that worked so well in Texas, George! You know, where they still have one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the country? Good job, buddy.) This is an unbelievably stupid and dangerous way to placate the growing-more-terrifying-by-the-day religious right who are starting to make me feel like they are taking over the country.
I don't understand Republicans right now (and yes, believe it or not, I usually do at least to some extent) because I cannot believe that intelligent people would vote for George W. Bush again and remain sane. That is,
I cannot remain sane if I believe that, so I'm going to have to not believe it. Perhaps somewhere in my little fantasy world where everyone has equal rights and God is kept where God should be kept - in the church and in the home and in private lives and not in the government that is in charge of this country - and people are employed and have retirement money and don't have to work until they're 75, if they can even keep a job that long. I need to live in this fantasy world or I will seriously go out of my mind.
If you can look at the record of this administration and tell me unequivocally that this country is a better place, then I have to question your sanity and not my own. Look at the joblessness rate, the cost of healthcare, the deficit, my God, the deficit, the rollbacks to environmental programs, the partial-birth abortion ban which makes absolutely no allowances for the safety of the mother, the price of gas, the kinds of things the budget is concentrating on, the screwed-up mess that is Afghanistan and Iraq, our hundreds of dead soldiers (who continue to die daily), the terrorist attacks and lack of security still in our ports and many other places, the threat to our Constitution and our private rights -- if you can look at all of those things and tell me that the Bush Administration has done a great job of governing this country, then you really are insane.
