Please Don't Pet My Project

Dear Dr. Bones,

Once again it is Letters-the-Editor-Was-Spared time here at Château McTammany. I suppose I’ll send the nobility and gentry a CliffsNotes™ version without any blatant signs of forelock thumbing.

The comments to the Bay Windows piece tell the whole story: "Wow. Good to know Senator Brown views my right to marry as a 'pet project.'" And this: "So the senator promises to create jobs... that we can then be legally fired from in most states just for being who we are. No thanks." And this: "Marriage is a major economic issue for LGBT people...not a 'pet project.'" Amazing that Senator Brown apparently doesn't realize the economic impact of marriage. - promoted by david How obnoxious can U.S. Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) be? In a guest opinion published today in Bay Windows, a Massachusetts LGBT newspaper, Brown tells us that: I don’t come before you with a checklist of items promising that I will be an advocate for you on each and every one of them. My opponent has already started down that road, promising to support everyone’s pet project. That’s not the way I have ever operated. [snip] I believe all people should be treated with dignity and respect. I recognize the liberty of every citizen to live as they choose, and it is from this diversity that we derive our strength as a nation. We are Americans first and must work together to fix our country’s real economic problems. So apparently working to pass ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act) to ensure the basic civil right to not be fired from your job because you are or are perceived to be trans or gay is just someone’s “pet project”. It’s not a “real economic problem”. Getting the federal government to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act and finally recognize same-sex civil marriages just like it recognizes every other civil marriage legally enacted under state law is a “pet project”. Does he really think that dumping this insulting garbage in an LGBT newspaper will win him votes? You have got to be kidding me.

Ad quam responduisset Patricius:

This is the first foolish mistake (( fold here )) (in Paddy's judgment) that the Funders of Fratboy have made. If their hired operatives were as clever as I used to think until about three minutes ago, there would have been a vague cloud of eulogies of Tree Freedumb that did not *obviously* exclude anybody in particular who may happen to feel herself restricted in this or that respect. If Fratboy is wingin' it, though, not takin’ the advice of the competent but goin' with his gut, he may have decided that "the Middle Class" [*] cares only about J*BS. Even that makin' the point clear is a way to make himself look like like a *moderate* Republicanine, a strictly economic reactionary who has nothin' to do with the cultural G-hods of Sen. Sanctorum et hoc genus omne.

Happy days.
--JHM

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[*] My own general rule is that all analysis containing those three words is ipso facto baloney, a guideline that cuts down the contents of the political IN box admirably. This is not an exception, for "a dumb move presumably based on a witless analysis" is exactly the present diagnosis.

Before they ran off the rails, the Fratboy Funders’ hired hands were makin' hay mostly with ‘cultural’ stuff. The contempt successfully disseminated for Warren, Esq., has not much to do with her real estate or her portfolio, after all, but with H*rv*rd and a’ that.