I'm not certain what there is to worry about with this bill. Certainly it's horrific, but it's also being supported by Lieberman, whose burned through a lot of his political capital, and by a bunch of far-right Republicans. One of them (James Inhofe) voted for the recent jobs bill, but the rest have pretty much voted against everything supported by the Democrats, and so this bill has zero chance of passing. It looks to me merely like one of those horrific bits of pointlessly evil grandstanding that the far right loves so much.
I agree that they should be widely denounced, but given that most of the people who vote for these monsters actually like this sort of vileness, I'm not certain how useful or important denouncing this sort of grandstanding actually is.
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Date: 2010-03-19 01:39 am (UTC)I agree that they should be widely denounced, but given that most of the people who vote for these monsters actually like this sort of vileness, I'm not certain how useful or important denouncing this sort of grandstanding actually is.