49!

what the. . . ? forty-nine, (count 'em), forty-nine U.S. senators voted in favor of adding discrimination to our Constitution this morning.

of course, this is well below the two-thirds threshhold for actually amending the Constitution, but really. . . 49?! do nearly half the states actually think that gays marrying will somehow harm straight people's marriages??

more importantly, do nearly half the states actually think that putting the tom-boys and nancy-boys in their place will somehow manage to lower the divorce rate, the single parent rate, the poverty rate, the low test scores. . . ?

do nearly half the states actually think that the big gay problem is actually bigger than our montruous debt, our negative personal savings, our unwinnable and unaffordable war in Iraq, our administration that cloaks itself continually in the tragedy of 911 to get whatever it wants no questions asked Constitution-be-damned, our diminished and diminishing national status as a moral bulwark in the world, our millions upon millions of uninsured individuals, our crumbling infastructures, our rising water levels, our corrupt politicians and business leaders?

i do think the answer is NO. i truly believe that the American people are smarter than that.

i think that those pandering, smarmy senators and back-room pollsters will have a shock come November when we the people will remember them as playing that big gay fiddle while Rome was burning.