Wow. I’ve been angry for days – ever since I saw this video sent to me via twitter by a young woman who was victimized by the racist bigot hate-filled ignorant sorry excuses for a human being people yelling and screaming.
For our own style of hate here, Montana has Reverend Himes who openly called for the killing of gays during a legislative hearing on Montana House Bill 516 – one of those Missoula nullification bills. This one is designed to repeal my cities equality ordinance which extended equal protection rights to GBLT people.
Do watch Ellie get Himes on the record calling for the murder of gays.
I find myself so angry lately about this, that I’m beginning to wonder if I’m not misdirecting it even just a tiny bit towards all conservatives. I don’t want to, but one of the things I guess I expect is for those that disagree to get out there and say something. But I’m just not seeing it.
Though that isn’t completely true, as I know my friend the mayor has headed up that way twice this session already to tell these fools how wrong they are (and my mayor hasn’t, mind you.)
And one legislator stood on the floor of the House and told ‘em all they looked like buffoons. I live tweeted that one…and later saw various local and wire stories about what he said for days.
I get so damned disgusted with it all. It’s so friggin’ predictable it amazes me. Now we have the conservatives who’ve stripped everything they could and more out of the budget and dissed on everything about the proposed budget but now that it’s second half of the session they’re putting it back in. Patting themselves on the back. And doing it the same way as it was originally proposed by the great bloviator.
Which is what they did in 2007 with a whole bunch of bills.
If dems don’t fuck this up, they’ll maintain the media superiority they have on this and continue to push national coverage on our tea bagger hypocrite issue. One of the twitter people I follow is in PR and she was working on a ny times editor she knows…and I suggested she get in touch with everyone she knows who knows colbert or stewart.
Which is funny because on the last day of February, colbert did do a piece on the bill from read which said that global warming was good for the montana economy.
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Well. This is feeling cathartic. And I musta really needed it because I can’t believe I’m writing politics here.
