Blue Dog Boyd Won’t Talk About Oil Spill
As of yet, Blue Dog Allen Boyd has said nothing about the spill at all. It’s as if he’s pretending the problem doesn’t exist.
As of yet, Blue Dog Allen Boyd has said nothing about the spill at all. It’s as if he’s pretending the problem doesn’t exist.
Sarah Palin is going after low hanging fruit. She’s chosen to target Democrats that will be easy to defeat, because they don’t have strong support from voters in their own political party.
In 2008, Florida congressman Allen Boyd told the Christian Family Coalition that he would vote for a constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality under the law, cutting off marriage and its benefits to all same-sex couples, even for states that had made it legal. Indeed, in 2004 and in 2006 he voted for just such [...]
For this bunch of new blue dogs, indifference to the needs of working Americans is only the start of the problem.
The problem is in the way that this resolution provides the official recognition and sanction of Congress for Billy Graham’s religious practice and promotion of Christianity. Congress has no place passing legislation respecting that kind of activity. Americans ought to judge for themselves whether one religion is worthwhile, not have Congress lecture them on the subject.
To vote for this bill was to insult the Constitution of the United States of America, and in doing so, to insult the USA itself. A vote in favor of this bill is a betrayal of the Oath of Office every member of Congress has taken. It is unpatriotic, and a grave breach of trust.
You are probably not aware of it, but the Equal Rights Amendment did not die back in the 1980s. It has been brought back to the House of Representatives and to the Senate. Both the Senate and House versions of the proposed constitutional amendment state that: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be [...]