Michael Steele, figurehead for a failed racist party, thinks that gay marriage would be bad for small businesses because of all the damned benefits that newly legal partners would be deserving.

What the idiot refuses to get, according to said article is that his argument not only is BS, it is also a good argument for a) not hiring married people or those with children, and b) socialized medicine.

So now the GOP is Anti-Family Employment? Only single people will have jobs in the Talibangelical Hegemony?

Say it with me: the Republican Party hates YOUR marriage and YOUR children!

That said, I read another article recently that states how good instituting gay marriage would be for gay families. And not just the “you are no longer second class citizens” benefits. I hadn’t thought about this, but consider the following. Gay couples have to file taxes as single people. They also can’t claim each other as dependents so have to pay double insurance. It’s called the “gay tax”.

And contrary to Steele’s point, a death in a gay couple saves people money. No social security benefits and I am sure beneficiary payments are fought tooth and nail by the insurance industry.

Saving money by being anti-democracy bigots. Sounds just like some kind of GOP rallying cry.

I still stand by the concept that gay couples shouldn’t have to pay taxes. If we are going to deny them freedoms, they should be exempt from paying to be treated so. It sure looks like they are paying more than their fair share, and that in itself should be a crime some bigots should have to do time for.

Just a quick rundown on some crap that should be pointed out more and isn’t.

Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee can’t handle the truth when it is laid out by the President of Pakistan. You know, our ally.

State Senator Kim Hendren of Arkansas decided it would be cute to refer to Senator Chuck Shumer of New York as “that Jew”. Granted, that kind of talk is probably accepted in close door sessions of Republicans nationwide, but seriously….

The Washington Times thought it would be cute to run an article concerning school violence in Chicago and attach a picture of the Obama girls to it.

You know, the kids that haven’t been Chicago school students since…um…their father became President? To only message to infer here is that they’d like the girls shot dead.

Representative Tom Price is another of those Republicans who think that exploratory drilling off our coasts can make up for not buying Saudi oil or some such, says we can create 36 million jobs by doing so. One, there is no guarantee the oil is out there. Two, it will take over a decade to really pump any oil or gas we *might* find. Oh, and three, we currently employ less than 200,000 people in the oil and gas industries.

Last up, the costs of our stupidity. The Taliban has taken to waterboarding captured American soldiers. They swear it is legal and useful based on the opinion that WE said it was legal and useful.

Thanks for endangering our troops assholes!

I’ve been rough on Paul Begala. Not that he cares, but I do.

Prior to becoming a raging Clintonite, he used to make a lot of sense. His pal James Carville didn’t but Jimmy has always been more about finding the cogent needle in the haystack of madness he unleashes. Basically, Jimmy is a lost cause trying to ass kiss his way back into relevancy. Begala is the sane component of that duo.

So, here is his detailed, coherent, and rational argument against the madness of Dick Cheney.

Honestly, anyone taking the side of Dick in this argument, should probably be taken out back, waterboarded 183 times, and then asked again what they think. I imagine these chickenhawks might be changing their minds when faced with reality.