Small Victories Last Night
November 5, 2008The victories last night were almost unnoticeable. However, there were a handful:
Senate
- The Democrats did not get 60 Senators. This means they don’t have a blank slate, the GOP can keep them in check, if they choose to do.
- Alaska Senator Stevens won but he will have to resign when he is sent to jail, which means Gov, Palin will choose the replacement.
- Senator Norm Coleman beat liberal loon Al Franken in Minnesota.
- Senator Gordon Smith keeps his seat in a tough and liberal Oregon.
House of Representatives
- Rep. Michele Bachmann won last night, after the Democrats poured hundreds of thousands of dollars in to her opponents campaign trying to beat her.
- Tom Rooney beat Rep. Tim Mahoney in FL’s 16th.
- Rep. John Shadegg won easily in Arizona after the Democrats dumped millions of dollars there trying to beat him.
- RINO Rep. Chris Shays is gone.
- Bill Cassidy won back the Baton Rouge seat, the Democrats stole earlier in the year.
Ballot Measures
- Arizona bans gay marriage
- California bans gay marriage
- Florida bans gay marriage
- Nebraska ends ‘Affirmative Action’
I’m glad that in some places some people are thinking clearly. Legalizing gay marriage sets up the logic for other types of “marriage”. If marriage is all about marrying “someone you love”, then what if someone really is “in love” with his own daughter? Or his neighbor’s little girl? Or his dog? Guess we have to allow all that too if we allow marriage to be redefined to suit gays. After all, if they can get married, why not others with different sexual “preferences”?
That’s the danger with gay marriage.
Yes to Prop. 8!
I’m shocked California baned gay marriage. Completely dumbfounded here. How did that happen?
Here’s how these so-called “tolerant” people who want to “respect” show their tolerance and respect to others.
Video Shows Gay ‘Marriage’ Backers Terrorizing Cross-Carrying Elderly Woman and Reporter
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/nov/08111010.html
“Phyllis Burgess, a supporter of true marriage, had been assaulted earlier as she displayed a large cross in front of the protesters. Video footage shows the anti-marriage crowd pushing Burgess, slapping the cross out of her hand and stomping on it as they surround her.
When reporter Kimberly Chang attempted to interview Burgess shortly thereafter, she grew visibly upset as dozens of protesters encircled the pair and shouted them down while blocking the camera with their signs, rendering the interview impossible.”
It’s interesting, Jeff, that you find a victory in the Republican’s being able to “keep them in check” by denying the Democrats a fillibuster-proof majority when in an earlier article on your blog you trash the Democrats for doing nothing over the last two years when they had simple majority control. Which is it?
When the Republican’s had majority control of the Senate and Democrats used the filibuster to “keep them in check”, we frequently heard terms like “a simple up or down vote” and that the Republicans were prepared to “use the nuclear option”. Over the past two years of Democratic control of the Senate, the Republicans set a record of over 90 filibusters (the previous high being in the 60’s), yet you never heard those same terms from the Democratic side over the past two years.
There’s a political thought that your simplistic view of things misses; never put a power in one side’s hands that you’re not willing to accept in the other’s hands.