Kinda sums up my week. How about you?
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12/4/2009
People, get with the program!
If you’re going to try to convince people to come around to your point of view, could you go by the book so that your opposition won’t be so easy?
Or at least make it so that people are so scared they’ll demand that your point be heard?
12/2/2009
Once again, Republicans decide to vote against a bill, seemingly because Democrats are for it. It happened with the stimulus bill, it’s happening with health care, and it just happened with the vote to allow gay marriage in New York State, which was defeated 38-24.
What confounds me is that the Assembly voted for it three times since June of 2007. This last vote didn’t even warrant much debate. Governor Patterson said he would sign it into law, and he even encouraged the Senate to bring the bill to the floor (which in itself was apparently a major victory.) And the majority of New Yorkers (not just residents of New York City, but of New York State) support gay marriage (Daily News, April 20, 2009). Of course, that vote is split by political party.
Maybe that’s the problem. Even though polls consistently show that a majority of Americans are in favor of thus-and-such, it’s mainly Democrats that are in favor, and their senators/assemblymen/congressmen vote likewise. All the Republicans are honoring their constituents who are opposed, and without full Democratic support (which is bound to happen,) bills that should be obviously voted into law end up rejected.
And I’m proud to say that both my Assemblyman and my Senator voted in favor of gay marriage. I just wish the rest of them would get with the program. I mean, if I can marry another woman in Iowa, how come I can’t in New York?