Baby Steps
Hey, Fred Hiatt and the gang rouse themselves from their slumber to write a decent editorial calling on Congress to repeal the ban on gays in the military. Good for them. But of course what’s missing from it is the acknowledgement that George Bush will not call for it and the Republicans who control Congress will not do it. The editorial would be a lot more honest if they appended “…but, sadly, the sociopathic Republican bigots who run the administration and Congress are as likely to do this as they are anything that might actually be good for the country.”
Right, and imagine if a Democrat had written an editorial in the 1990’s calling for an end to the death penalty or the drug war, both of which have seriously racist consequences, and appended “…but, sadly, the sociopathic Democratic bigots who run the administration and Congress are as likely to do this as they are anything that might actually be good for the country.”
I’m pretty sure she’d make “wanker of the day", if it had existed then.