Just yesterday John Aravosis said:
Time for some crow.
I wrote a few weeks back about how odd it was that George Bush’s White House was being so quiet about its views on ENDA, and that it was odd that neither Bush nor his staff were even hinting at a veto. Some raised the point that formal veto threats often aren’t issued until right before the vote, but still, the White House’s silence struck me as odd.
But according to the Washington Blade:
Democratic leaders announced they have decided to postpone a vote in the House of Representatives this week on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA. The announcement came several hours after the White House issued a statement saying that senor advisers have recommended that President Bush veto the gay rights measure if Congress were to pass it.
Aravosis boasted that:
I wrote repeatedly about my inkling that ENDA could very well become law this year, in spite of the naysayers who said that Bush would definitely veto, that there was no way around his veto, and that I was either naive or a liar (in addition to being a racist, misogynist, native-American hater, bigot, rich, white, transphobe, homocentrist). Well, the religious right doesn’t appear as unequivocal about that veto, and neither does the White House.
So much for the gay conservatives continued belief that President Bush will somehow stop his attacks against GLBT people and worry about his legacy.
But really, isn’t worrying about the Presidential veto is a bit premature? For the life of me, I can’t see how this would ever pass in the Senate. The Matthew Shepard Act passed by ONE VOTE, how could anyone in their right mind think that this bill has a snowball’s chance in hell of passage?
Hopefully this smack in the face will wake up Congress and “conserva-queers” enough to join the rest of the community in passage of a United ENDA. Until then, crow pie anyone?
12 Comments, Comment or Ping
Kathy
But, but, but…we got rid of the trannies!!!
It has to just sail through, they were the only thing holding it back. ’cause they really, really like us. We’re not at all icky like them.
Hey John - 25 million gays and lesbians were just disenfranchised by your actions. The petulance, hate mongering and divided community you promoted?
That vulture has come home to roost.
You’re Greek - so I’ll assume you’re intimately familiar with this word. Hubris.
Oct 23rd, 2007
Kat
“Hubris”
Isn’t that a particular type of ceremonial get-together at which a baby named Hugh is the guest of honor when he’s a few days old?
Oct 23rd, 2007
Polar Bear
“Managers tend to make their biggest mistakes in things they’ve previously done best. In business, as elsewhere, hubris is the unforgivable sin of acting cocky when things are going well. As the Greeks tiresomely told us, Hubris is followed inexorably and inevitably by Nemesis.”
Robert Townsend (former prez, Avis Car Rental)
“Up the Organization”
Don’t you all agree that being a transphobic gay guy ought to be classified in the DSM 4 as a disease. Calling that disease “aravosis” might be the way to go.
PB
Oct 23rd, 2007
Kathy
Chortle.
Yes - it’s the only ceremony I’ve aware of that has to be performed in the back of a luxury car.
Poifect!
Oct 24th, 2007
Polar Bear
Pass the Senate? I’m convinced, now, that 3685 isn’t going to pass the House - with or without
Baldwin.
PB
Oct 24th, 2007
Kat
But only on Saturday Night
Oct 24th, 2007
Val
I have come to the conclusion that ENDA ought to come to a vote in its current, non-inclusive form, and fail as it is.
Let this sucker sink under its own lying weight, and then we can have the real fight again later, when the temperature in hell might have a chance of lowering just a wee bit.
Do I expect Aravosis and Co. to learn from that experience? No. But I do expect the relevance of his opinion - and of those like him - to take a dive in the old “market of ideas.”
Let it crash, and let it take the people who cling to it down with them.
Oct 25th, 2007
Kat
“Let it crash, and let it take the people who cling to it down with them.”
So long as Celine Dion doesn’t sing while it happens.
Oct 25th, 2007
Lisa Harney
I like how he obsesses over what people called him in response to his screeds, given how nasty he’s been about everything.
I also like how he clings to the idea that they didn’t say for sure that they’d veto it.
Nov 3rd, 2007