I've never used my daily quota before and posted 2 diaries in the same day. But first I felt a need to post about an article I saw in the Oregonian today, and now I'm amazed at something I saw over at
Atrios a few minutes ago. Comments on the CPAC conference these past few days. I shouldn't be surprised and yet, I am. A member of the United States House of Representativis actually said
that we had found WMDs in Iraq
"America's Operation Iraqi Freedom is still producing shock and awe, this time among the blame-America-first crowd," he crowed. Then he said, "We continue to discover biological and chemical weapons and facilities to make them inside Iraq." Apparently, most of the hundreds of people in attendance already knew about these remarkable, hitherto-unreported discoveries, because no one gasped at this startling revelation.
The Wingnuts never cease to amaze me. And to make things still more amazing, Rick Santorum (Wingnut-Penn)actually argued that a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BANNING GAY MARRIAGE WAS NECESSARY TO KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF PEOPLE'S LIVES.
"I know there are some people who may be economic conservatives and not consider themselves cultural conservatives," he said. Addressing himself to them, he tried to explain how banning gay marriage is crucial to laissez-faire governing. "Think about those communities where marriage does not exist," he said, invoking their poverty and illegitimacy. "What you see is a model of what life would look like in a country that has fathers and mothers not wedded together in strong relationships to raise children." In poor neighborhoods, he said, there's a strong government presence, "because if Mom and Dad isn't there to raise the child, someone else has to bridge the gap, and that someone else is always the government."
This must be a bad dream, could someone please wake me up and tell me it's April of 2000? I do believe that the Country has completely gone off the deep end.