Quotes of the day
posted at 10:52 pm on January 25, 2011 by Allahpundit
“House conservatives say they will pursue legislation that would ban gay marriage in the nation’s capital.
“Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC), told The Hill that he will push for a vote on the controversial issue in the 112th Congress. The RSC has 175 members.
“‘I think RSC will push for it, and I’m certainly strongly for it. I don’t know if we’ve made a decision if I’ll do it or let another member do it, but I’m 100 percent for it,’ Jordan said.”
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“On Dec. 15, the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) and other conservative groups met with Rep. Jim Jordan, chair of the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC), and learned that the group’s focus in 2011 was going to be on fiscal issues. R. Clarke Cooper, LCR’s executive director, walked away from that meeting reassured that the GOP wouldn’t be going after LGBT rights when they took control of the House…
“Cooper said that he was ‘very disappointed’ by [today's] announcement. ‘From our perspective, not only is it an attack on states’ rights, but it goes in direct violation to the DC Human Rights Act,’ he added…
“Asked for clarification, Jordan’s Press Secretary Meghan Snyder said that the congressman’s top priorities are still creating jobs and reducing government spending. However, she added, he also ‘believes that, in addition to addressing our country’s fiscal issues, advocating for low taxes, less spending and a strong national defense, conservatives must advocate for traditional family values like life and marriage. Family is the cornerstone upon which our communities, our states and our nation is built, and conservatives must lead the way in promoting the strengths of the traditional family whenever we can.’”
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“Log Cabin Republicans deputy executive director Christian Berle told The Advocate that his organization has not yet spoken with Jordan’s staff or any other member of Congress on the potential legislation. Log Cabin issued the following statement Tuesday:
“‘Last November the American people made their priorities perfectly clear,’ Log Cabin Republicans executive director R. Clarke Cooper said. ‘The primary mission of this Congress is to address trillions of dollars in deficits and out of control government spending, which will not happen if individual members take their eyes off the ball to manufacture controversy. Just two months ago, Congressman Jordan said to me ‘Democrats are the party of government; we are the party of principle.’ Today I am calling upon him to remember the core Republican principle that respects local government and states’ rights over interference from federal lawmakers.
“‘This Congress has important work to do without meddling in local affairs,’ Cooper continued. ‘Such an overreach sends a mixed message from a Republican party actively trying to shrink the role of government in Americans’ daily lives.’”
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as I said before you’re all talk. people who make threats on the internet are gutless punks…as you have proven.
bet you have a FINAL SOLUTION in mind for christians and other people of faith don’t ya now?
right4life on January 26, 2011 at 9:38 AM
right4life on January 26, 2011 at 9:41 AM
Pot, meet kettle.
Usually, you’re right. For once.
Except unlike most people I NEVER say such things unless I’m willing to back them up. Ever. I laugh at the libtards who threaten hardened people with usernames like “Battlescared_Marine”…
“Don’t check your brains at the door.”
Dark-Star on January 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM
Aww look the little piggy goes crying for daddy after someone actually calls him on his squealings…
Dark-Star on January 26, 2011 at 9:43 AM
well then post your address. show us all how tough you are.
nows your chance.
right4life on January 26, 2011 at 9:43 AM
Omaha, NE.
That’s quite close enough for you, slobberchops. Especially since we probably live halfway across the nation and it ain’t worth the plane ticket.
Dark-Star on January 26, 2011 at 9:46 AM
LOL gutless piece of shit. thanks for proving you’re all talk.
right4life on January 26, 2011 at 9:47 AM
So what city do you live in?
Prove that you aren’t all talk.
Dark-Star on January 26, 2011 at 9:49 AM
I didn’t threaten you sweety pie. you are good for a few laughs though…
LOL like I said you’re good for a few laughs, thats about it.
gnats like you don’t bother me at all…I’m amused at you. you can’t win the argument with me, so you have to resort to threats…then you make a fool out of yourself…I have no desire to hurt you…I pity you.
right4life on January 26, 2011 at 9:53 AM
No, just to sling feces.
And so it’s true then. You really are a lazy little coward who won’t even face a random person calling you on your nonsense. I could be a paraplegic typing with a mouth stick for all you know – and you still won’t even say where you live.
Dark-Star on January 26, 2011 at 9:56 AM
BWAHAHAHAHAHAH keep digging the hole you’re in….too funny….what a loser.
right4life on January 26, 2011 at 9:57 AM
you need professional help. the truth is you’re a hate-filled pathetic little loser.
I love you, and will pray for you.
right4life on January 26, 2011 at 9:58 AM
ROTFLOL.
Satan doesn’t need your shout-outs to know about me, or anyone else for that matter.
Dark-Star on January 26, 2011 at 10:00 AM
He knows who are his.
right4life on January 26, 2011 at 10:01 AM
gotta run for a while…keep posting your hate-filled lunatic drivel…I’ll check back late for a few laughs…
keep telling yourself how tough you are!!! bet your mommy is so proud of her tough little man!! LOL
right4life on January 26, 2011 at 10:03 AM
Dark-Star, you will enjoy your own life better, if don’t be as hostile to people with whom you disagree. I somewhat like your politics, and want to keep you healthy. Hostile attitudes increase blood pressure.
thuja on January 26, 2011 at 10:07 AM
Yeah, I’m really sad that your ability to discriminate and deny equal protection to gays is systematically being stripped away. Gonna cry now.
Love the hardcore socons. Only they can argue in earnest about “fascism” when people challenge them on their attempts to oppress an entire class of people for their sexual orientation, and not appreciate the irony.
Vyce on January 26, 2011 at 10:08 AM
equal protection? laughable…you want, and have special rights, that the rest of us don’t have. if a photographer didn’t want to photograph a hetero wedding, no problem…but he’s sued unless the fascist gays gets their ways…
but of course you have no problems opppressing an entire class of people…in fact its your main goal…talk about irony….
right4life on January 26, 2011 at 10:28 AM
he’s a typical ‘fiscal con job’ a faux conservative who hates social conservatives….he’s emblematic of the entire thuggish gay ‘rights’ crowd. violent and hate-filled…
while they accuse others of what is in them….
right4life on January 26, 2011 at 10:29 AM
I have only read a few of the comments here because as usual they are totally off point. As to this proposal I think it’s great and should go forward. Jordan and the FSC will not be pushing for a law banning “gay marriage” in DC. They will push for a law which allows the people of DC to vote on the matter. Something they are entitled to and was denied to them by both their local government and the courts. Why? Because it will pass easily. I don’t think Obama will actually back the bill but he will surely sign it. He doesn’t want to turn off his AA base who overwhelmingly reject changing the definition of marriage.
Rocks on January 26, 2011 at 10:33 AM
Now that there’s right funny.
Akzed on January 26, 2011 at 10:39 AM
oh and I have no doubts if he was a social conservative issuing threats he’d be banned in a NY minute…
right4life on January 26, 2011 at 10:40 AM
Sodomists oppress themselves without help from others. What with all the VD they swap, the high suicide rate, the short life-expectancy and so on that they wantonly bring on themselves.
If they’d only stop all that self-oppression they’d by much happier, and not have to wonder if someone didn’t hire them because of their little rainbow lapel pins.
I don’t see how not wanting to associate with sex perverts oppresses them. If one of them really really want to associate with me to the point of feeling oppressed by my inattention, that should be more worrisome for me than for him. Don’t you think?
Akzed on January 26, 2011 at 10:51 AM
Let Jordan and the social conservative Republicans push for a vote by the people of DC to ban gay marriage. It will certainly please people like Akzed, who considers gays to be perverts, and right4life, who thinks that gays are fascists.
Regretfully, it will be a losing issue for the Republican Party as a whole.
SC.Charlie on January 26, 2011 at 11:02 AM
Well, you know I am one of those ‘fiscal con jobs’ in the thuggish gay rights crowd. In fact, in terms of some areas of social policy, I be among the most extreme in opposition to what social cons want. Yet, I have been called “homophobic” by other people in the “thuggish gay rights crowd”, because I oppose hate crime legislation, think bisexual rights makes no more sense than unicorn rights, and think transgender individuals deserve no more rights than the rights of individuals with ugly tattoos.
So, I am simultaneously in the thuggish gay rights crown and homophobic. I think the problem is that we label each other as the enemy too quickly. Why can’t we get along?
thuja on January 26, 2011 at 11:08 AM
No, really it won’t. It’s been a big winner with the public for a while now. Passes each and every time it’s put to a vote. Plus each and every vote drives a wedge between Democrats and their minority base. It’s a win-win all around.
Rocks on January 26, 2011 at 11:13 AM
I think you are wrong about this. Obama wouldn’t dare sign the bill, because he would lose his liberal college base. African American politicians pretty overwhelming support gay marriage despite blacks being more anti-gay than other groups. Why would Obama be hurt when almost the entire African American political class isn’t?
thuja on January 26, 2011 at 11:13 AM
given the hatred and vitriol on the gay rights crowd…as demonstrated here…and in the aftermath of prop 8 in CA…I don’t think we can…
their behavior is thuggish and fascist.
right4life on January 26, 2011 at 11:17 AM
so no outrage at your supporters threatening violence? no surprise there….
right4life on January 26, 2011 at 11:19 AM
It isn’t possible for a Demcrat to lose his college base. He will hem amd haw. Twitch and twitter and then sign the bill. Local AA pols are never in a close election as long as vote to keep the gravy train running so being for it doesn’t really hurt them. Obama will have a close election. I don’t really think AAs would abandon Obama in real numbers but some might stay home. 1-2% drop in the AA vote for a local poll is nothing because they get 90% of the vote and it’s the majority anyway. That isn’t true statewide or national. A lower turnout of AAs in a close elction would hurt Obama.
Rocks on January 26, 2011 at 11:26 AM
Let’s put everything up to the people to vote on. We don’t need any elected representatives or a constitution to protect the rights of the few from the votes of the many. A true democracy is nothing more than mob rule.
SC.Charlie on January 26, 2011 at 11:28 AM
I told people that when you lose a referendum 52% to 48% like Prop 8, and you have future demographics in your favor, you don’t get angry and you don’t go to court. You organize for the future. I was told it “an important matter of justice that we have gay marriage immediately.” Such crazy talk does lend itself to thuggish and fascist behavior, but you should be aware that such people are a minority in gay rights circles.
thuja on January 26, 2011 at 11:29 AM
Why the libertarian party must be taken seriously.
abobo on January 26, 2011 at 11:34 AM
If there’s no such thing as sexual perversion, there must also be no such thing as sexual normalcy.
As Daniel Patrick Moynihan put it, that’s “defining deviancy down.”
Once there’s no normal, perversion just might lose its appeal.
Akzed on January 26, 2011 at 11:36 AM
So you admit that the suicide rate is higher among young gays? My guess is they meet too many people like you.
And, of course VD does not exist among straight folks/sarc
SC.Charlie on January 26, 2011 at 11:36 AM
It has nothing to do with it. “Gay marriage” has nothing to do with rights. If you are going to decide basic issues like when life begins or what marriage is, which have been clearly defined forever, only an idiot of a politician would want to take it on themselves. Let the people vote and then you can say clearly where things stand.
Rocks on January 26, 2011 at 11:39 AM
What is sexual normalcy between grown adults, only all sex acts performed between men and women? ……… and, what is your suggestion to do with gays and lesbians?
SC.Charlie on January 26, 2011 at 11:40 AM
I don’t think the demographics are in their favor…if you can’t win in liberal CA….with a large hispanic population…then your chances aren’t too good anywhere, since the hispanic population is the fastest growing.
as far as being a minority…well notice the lack of outrage from the gay rights supporters about the violent threats from one of their own.
right4life on January 26, 2011 at 11:43 AM
Yeah, it’s my fault, and Sarah Palin’s.
Not saying that it’s unheard of among normal people, but it’s rampant among sodomists.
I blame Sarah Palin and myself, and the uncivil tone of political discourse.
Akzed on January 26, 2011 at 11:53 AM
Married men and women, yes. Or do I not have a right to that opinion?
Do with? I don’t want to have much to do with them at all. Oppose their manifold political agenda, keep them away from children unsupervised, not rent to them, not hire them, and so on, that’s basically it.
So far so good.
Akzed on January 26, 2011 at 11:59 AM
I am glad that you can take the blame for something, gay suicide rates. And, if gays get married we can do something about the VD rates.
SC.Charlie on January 26, 2011 at 12:00 PM
Sodomists don’t want to get married, really. They just wanna muck it up for everyone else.
“Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?” -Proverbs 27:4.
Akzed on January 26, 2011 at 12:03 PM
In other words gays and lesbians are the scum of the earth? Nice to know that people such as you and Right4life have high morals. I just pray that neither one of you have a gay or lesbian child. And, I guess you detest Dick Cheney’s acceptance of his lesbian daughter?
SC.Charlie on January 26, 2011 at 12:07 PM
And, how are the gays and lesbians, “going to muck it up for everyone else.”
SC.Charlie on January 26, 2011 at 12:10 PM
and your lack of outrage out violent threats from one of your own speaks volumes about you charlie.
right4life on January 26, 2011 at 12:11 PM
Right4life, don’t be discouraged because you have alot of supporters. Most people don’t want to get down in the mud and argue and fight with these people and that is too bad, because at times it makes them look as though they have more support than they really do. Everytime the American people have been given the opportunity to vote on this matter they have been over ruled by radical Judges and Politicians. Just like ancient Rome eventually the pendulam swings back and the loud minority loses its influence. Keep up the good fight, because God rewards those who keep his commandments.
SGinNC on January 26, 2011 at 3:33 PM
thank you for you kind and gracious words.
I’ve broken all of them at one time or another, thankfully He is merciful!
right4life on January 26, 2011 at 3:51 PM
Nice to see the social cons are still trying to crap on the rest of the world.
I’m sure Obama greatly appreciates your stupidity in times of crisis.
Shambhala on January 26, 2011 at 3:56 PM
so good of you to denounce the thuggish threats by one of your fellow gay rights supports…oh I guess you just forgot right?
by any means necessary, right?
right4life on January 26, 2011 at 4:02 PM
Well said.
SC.Charlie on January 26, 2011 at 6:53 PM
Akzed, I guess you don’t believe that being conservative and gay rights is possible. I would suggest that you argue that with Mr. Conservative himself…………..Barry Goldwater. However, I think that the 1.5 billion deficit this year and fiscal irresponsibility by political entities is something that will bring down this nation.
SC.Charlie on January 26, 2011 at 7:03 PM
Footnote, off topic: Last year in the Spring I had to go to Federal Tax Court to testify on a case on a minor issue. I was testifying for the Federal Government. It was the first time that I have ever had to testify in Federal Court. Now at the end of the January the case has yet to be decided by the judge. Our system of income taxation is deeply flawed.
SC.Charlie on January 26, 2011 at 7:08 PM
Translation:You’re sticking to your claim even when corrected.
Pointing out the actual history of marriage from the time the human race began is a “romantic notion” of marriage?
And traditional marriages needs to be put in scare quotes?
And most traditional marriages are dismal failures?
Did you just take a wrong turn and wander into a conservative blog by accident?
Marriage is not a contract. You can draw similarities, but contracts can include any arrangement the parties find satisfactory, and any number of parties. But because you can try to argue that marriage can be treated like a special case type of contract, you try to turn it around and proclaim that it’s nothing but a contract.
Now, you can have any opinion you want, however wrong. But don’t try to claim that you represent a conservative viewpoint when you’re perfectly willing to throw out the single most important social institution in our nation, and in our culture, absolutely bar none, because you want it to include two men or two women instead.
Many communists are more conservative than you are.
There Goes The Neighborhood on January 27, 2011 at 12:29 AM
Way too vague. But pushing for the government to unilaterally change the definition of marriage is the epitome of radical and anti-conservative belief.
Goldwater was more libertarian than conservative. Not a good example. It would certainly be absurd to call him “Mr. Conservative.”
Way too vague.
There Goes The Neighborhood on January 27, 2011 at 12:41 AM
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