To quote Al Franken from his pre senate days….. Brian Brown is a big fat idiot!

He says, “to try and compare in any way the attempt to redefine marriage with the Civil Rights movement is simply false.”

Since he calls the movement for racial civil rights “the” civil rights movement instead of “a” civil rights movement, he is implying that only rights based on race are “civil” rights.

Then he goes on to claim that children have the “civil right” to have both a mom and a dad.

He doesn’t seem to understand that women’s rights are “civil” rights. Or, that Civil Rights legislation was written, not just as rights based on race, but on race, gender, religion, etc. Even Caucasians have “civil rights”. Civil rights are not in limited supply and only available to racial minorities. Every human being is entitled to civil rights and to be treated equally under the law.

And, finally what he doesn’t understand is that the movement for the rights of the LGBT community is about more than marriage equality. It’s about ENDA, it’s about access to housing. It’s about including sexual orientation and gender identity to existing civil rights laws.

” and in Washington “balanced deficit reduction” is basically the code word for cutting entitlements.”

No one needs to “cut” entitlements. Just make reforms.

For social security, only one reform is needed, ELIMINATE THE CAP on FICA taxes.

For Medicare:
1. allow for drug price negotiations
2. change the system to pay health providers for outcomes instead of procedures.

I realized that. I don’t agree with them…. but, that is their position.

It is my position that had the government NOT borrowed the soc sec surpluses and paid some sort of interest on it those same Rs would have complained that the money was just sitting there idle and not earning anything…..

The Rs that I speak with claim to me that Soc Sec effects the deficit and debt because the government has to borrow money from China in order to pay back the money it owes to Soc Security because of the fact that Soc Sec is not currently bringing in enough revenue to pay its current obligations. They want cuts to Soc Sec so that current revenues will be able to fund current obligations and then the govt will NEVER have to pay back the old Soc Sec surpluses that they borrowed.

Hold on there Batman…. How did they sneak in another lowering of the Revenue number without ever getting even one concession yet from the R’s? Revenue started at 1.6 trillion. Then Obama lowered it to 1.4 in his second offer. Now I see you report it here as 1.2 trillion. And, still nothing from the R’s.

If Boehner waits long enough, Obama will end up offering another tax-cut instead of demanding any revenue.

If I recall my history right, the reason a constitutional amendment was REQUIRED to get rid of slavery is because slavery was written into the constitution in the first place. There isn’t anything in the constitution about marriage pro or con, straight or gay. So, no constitutional action is necessary to get us to marriage equality.

I keep seeing this kind of comment about the effectiveness of the Amendment 1 campaign. But, the comment never actually includes what the writer feels was wrong with the campaign or what should have been done instead. It doesn’t help to complain without providing the details.

Not the case, they replaced the cut in FICA taxes with money from the general fund. Social Security is receiving all of its payments and not losing any money.

Irrelevant? Irrelevant? I’ve never understood that excuse. The votes in CA may not be relevant for the presidential race, but there are certainly state and local elections on the same ballot that need the attention of the citizens of CA. Do you suppose these people who didn’t vote because it wasn’t relevant were just planning to stop in, vote for president and leave the rest of the ballot blank? At minimum there had to be a member of the house up for election.

The super pacs would have EASILY bought themselves the Ohio senate seat if the republicans hadn’t nominated a complete fool. Look how close they have managed to get that race with the idiot nominated by the republicans. If they had nominated anyone with a brain they would have ousted Sherrod Brown with ease.