I have this need to call Thune’s office tomorrow and ask whether the Senator has a problem with nominees of color, or women, or if his bigotry is restricted solely to homsexuality. And then ask the person whether the Senator is aware of Federal laws which, in many agencies and governmental offices, protect employees against discriminatory hiring practices for sexual preference.

You know, like the DOJ. Why do people learn nothing whatsoever from other scandals?

Against whom would Jesus discriminate, sir? SIGH

Do it. Call him. Ask him and give us the details.
Gay bigotry just makes me So Mad!
Did you see what Joe the Plumber said?
He wouldn’t let gays anywhere near his children. No, he’s not a senator, but he might have voted for one.
Here’s what Tony Peyser says:
VERSE-CASE SCENARIO
by Tony Peyser
Some of my best friends are plumbers
They did good work & made reasonable bids
But while they’re nice, there is no way
That I’d ever let them be alone with my kids.
I like Tony. He’s funny.

Folks like Thune might want to consider how history has treated politicians who have embraced bigotry as the times are changing.

Does he want to be remembered in the same manner as Lester Maddox or Orville Faubus?
Given his extreme vanity, [I know him] I doubt it.

I wondered if he’d even thought about it before the words came flying out of his mouth. And who put them there in the first place — him or some moneyed campaign donor nee 501(c)(3) interest group funder.

Here is Thune in 2005. Then, he didn’t like Senators that blocked the President’s judicial nominations.

In the campaign, you sharply criticized those who blocked the President’s judicial nominations. What’s ahead?
To shut off a filibuster, you have to have 60 votes in the Senate. We still don’t have 60 votes. But we have new leadership on the Democratic side. I hope members of the Senate who previously had been held hostage to their party’s leadership will now feel more freedom to vote their conscience. I don’t know, maybe they did. But it seems to me that some of these guys who represent states that are more conservative than their national party, might now be thinking twice and might be more inclined to support not only legislation but also judicial nominations that are more in line with their state’s interest and their state’s fundamental beliefs and values.

http://www.christianitytoday.c…..ml?start=2

This was before Jeff Gannon became a scandal himself I believe, but I’m not convinced that no one knew about him.
And then there was Jeff Gannon’s connection to Thune’s election. My bold.

One of the most talked-about examples of the power of blogging is the story of how Senator John Thune paid bloggers to attack the media and how this allowed him to beat for Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle. This story became even more interesting after information came out on how GOP prostitute and fake report Jeff Gannon, “worked in tandem with the local bloggers, picking up on their complaints ab
out the Argus Leader.”

Before he was buttering up Bush at White House press conferences, “Jeff Gannon” was doing the GOP’s dirty work in attacking Tom Daschle.

Feb 18, 2005 | Long before “Jeff Gannon” became a household pseudonym in the nation’s capital, he had earned considerable recognition among the political elites of South Dakota. During that state’s closely contested Senate race last year, the Talon News writer — whose real name is now known to be James Dale Guckert — dug his claws deep into Tom Daschle, the former Senate minority leader narrowly defeated by Republican John Thune.

Way OT: Anyone thinking about how the Arlen storywill play out? I saw only a part of the coverage and from a distance, so many details were sketchy…but he looked awful.

He’s energetically digging his grave imo.

Why doesn’t he just come out of the closet? Anyone beating it (hah) this hard must really be torn.

Maybe he was inspired by Dobson’s latest rant in which he named all the things he considered perversions – including dead people sex. Nice. /s

One day the right wing of America tried to raise the bar for it’s party but the bar fell down the stairs and plunged off into the cloudy abyss.

Dear Senator Specter:

I have some really sweet shovels – yours for the asking.

Sincerely,

jayt

It’s time to push the envelope and make the thugs react to us. Of the SCOTUS candidates mentioned so far, the best IMO is Pamela Karlen. Besides the sweet irony of someone named Karlen (Carlin ?) on the Supreme Court, I cannot imagine a stronger, more outside the box thinker, or better representative for progressives. She would not let blustering fools like Scalia run roughshod over her or the Constitution.

I don’t know if she’s gay. She talks about her partner, which after 27 years in the SF Bay Area, tells me yes. But I don’t know and I don’t give a damn. If the thugs want to make themselves look even more like the sordid sub-humans they are, go right ahead. And if they knock that nomination down, move on to the next most qualified woman. And if it’s Sotomayor, let them show their true colors and turn down the Latino woman representing the largest growing sector of the American population. We’ll see how that plays in 2010 and 2012.

In other words, grow a pair!

How far over the edge have you gone when even Jeff Sessions runs away from your idiocy?

well, senator Sessions *is* something of an expert in idiocy….

And Jayt? I have some wicked good hip boots to go with those shovels. ;-)

The republic reaction to this potentially socialist appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States demonstrates the republican determination to protect this country from malice and bigotry, by ensuring the best candidate, suitable to bipartisan embrace, is appointed to the court.

It really brings out the Republican’s best side, their broadmindedness, egalitarian focus, inclusiveness, and overall fitness to represent the people in the people’s government.

I hope they reflect and consider that their every public utterance is recorded, and they will be richly rewarded in their next election for their sterling and upright work.

Thuneology… It’s not a litmus test, as long as you are hetero.

Not too surprising for someone name Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

*humming Johnny Cash’s A Boy Named Sue”.*

“Thune”.

do I hear a lisp?

*cupping ear to listen* I think someone is trying to say, “soon”.

Isn’t Thune up for re-election in 2010?

The GOP needs to reorganize its leadership.

What leadership? they can’t decide whether it’s Rush, Newt, Ms. McConnell or Michael (da man) Steele. I think they should stay right where they are – it’s great for the Dems.

I forgot Sarah – shame on me.

after some dental work last week, I seem to have acquired something of a brand new lisp. Who knew that those things were so expensive?

I should have gotten a used one.

Jeff Sessions, me thinks has “undercover” experience in another perennial hot topic.

Thanks, Christy.

Sessions, ranking minority Judiciary member, was quoted on NPR tonight favoring the Gang of 14 opposition to blocking Obama’s SCOTUS nominee by filibuster, the same as the former war criminal in chief. He said that in a private conversation with Obama, he’d been assured that Souter’s replacement wouldn’t be a bomb thrower.

After eight years of poisoning the federal bench with Federalist Society kool-aid drinkers, we’ll see if Obama stands up for the Constitution and rule of law by getting someone on the Court that deserves the title, the Honorable Justice …

Like rearranging their chairs on the Hindenburg.

I seem to recall that congress regularly exempting itself from certain legislation it passes…sigh

Why do so many of our elected officials behave like the south end of a horse going north?

How about a candidate who isn’t really gay, but experimented a little in college? Would that be acceptable to Thune, I wonder?

You should have gone to Mexico. Best dental work ever!

Thune- best argument against “Gay people have all the rights that straights have…so why should we give them ’special rights’” there is. He just proved that one can’t be gay and even be considered for the Supreme Court regardless of the qualifications and expertise. Race..okay. Woman…okay. But not…by God..A GAY!