This really annoys me. I see it happen over and over and over again.
When the Repubs are in trouble, they throw out some manufactured "issue" like a grenade into a crowd.
They KNOW, and it always works, that the Democrats will take the bait and go freaking bat-shit about it.
They must be laughing their asses off right now over the reactions to this flag-burning amendment.
Why is everybody taking the bait on this?
Ignore it and it will go away.
Let them TRY to pass it. It won't pass. I'm 43 years old and I've seen them threaten this shit every couple of years. It never works. Hell, they couldn't even get the ERA to pass back in the swinging 70's.
They are baiting you and you are taking the bait.
Just like on the "gay marriage" amendment that they "threatened" us with during the campaign. The Dems took the bait on that, too, and it became the ONE thing that people knew the Democratic Party stood for -- gay marriage. People now know us as the party of gay marriage and abortions.
Just great.
Listen, the only reason they're throwing this bomb our way is because they're in trouble, they're desperate, and they know it.
We have them on the ropes with the DSM, for God's sake.
Bush's numbers are PLUMMETING. The repubs who support him are gonna realize their ship is gonna go down with HIM unless they DO SOMETHING -- like actually OPPOSE HIM. Think about it -- if you're a Repug politician, you're between a rock and a hard place here. You're screwed if you support Bush in the long term, and you're fucked up the ass by the Bush hardliners short term if you DON'T support him.
These guys are in BIG BIG trouble, folks.
So stay out of the way of a perfectly good train wreck here! It IS a train wreck! Don't let them distract you with a runaway car that's gonna crash anyway.
Let them stew in their own vile juices and just dodge the bombs they're gonna throw our way.
This is just the first of many many bombs surely to come from them.