How ever are we to leave now?

“…and then what did he say?”

“The aeroplane flys high, looks left, banks right.”

“Right before he hit the ground.”

“Right, right. Steady pace. He’ll never have the wings back on by the time we reach the front.”

When he was dead broke, man I couldn’t picture this…

The Federal Marriage Amendment is back — with Vitter’s and Craig’s support
Posted June 27th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

Just this week, a group of Republican senators re-introduced the Federal Marriage Amendment to the Constitution, which, as we know, would ban gay marriage.

And once again, the language is pretty straightforward:

Section 1. This article may be cited as the `Marriage Protection Amendment’.

Section 2. Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman.’.

This isn’t especially surprising. Republicans are looking at the political landscape, and they’re feeling awfully discouraged. The polls look bad, the base looks depressed, and fundraising looks iffy. Rallying the far-right troops with an anti-gay amendment to the Constitution — even though it has no chance at even getting so much as a hearing — might be helpful to the conservative movement.

But the funny part is looking over the list of the 10 original sponsors. Most of the names are predictable — Brownback and Inhofe, for example — but there are two others whose names stand out: Sens. David Vitter (R-La.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho).

…and so the GOP Veepstakes heat up.

Because what everyone needs to hear is more about what Karl Rove thinks.

Upper Left: The Clinton House. Upper Right: This nice lady keeps getting in all my pictures. In fact she insisted on standing in front of the “Bake Sale for Obama” that was going on in front of the Cornell Sun while I was clicking away. Lower Left: I bet our good friend Mike knows who put this sign up.. Lower Right: Lucifer Falls, Robert H. Treman State Park .

This is about as political as I’ll be getting the rest of the summer. In fact it about as much blogging as I’ll be getting done too. I’m starting the Summer Semester today and I’m happy to be returning to school. Now lets see if the National Guard can leave me alone long enough to finish these last few credits.

The Flickr Set. My favorite is the one on the lower right. Stopped over to Castaway’s to catch JBB after.