While Rome Burns

Tomorrow the Senate will discuss a right-wing political ploy. We could be working on the deficit, we could be working on health care, we could be stripping the War President of his imperial powers but instead, the Senate will vote on enshrining radical Christian bias into the Constitution of the Untied States with a symbolic vote on an amendment banning gay marriage.

The vote will fail and the rabid will use the vote to whip the Soldiers of Christ into a frenzy, hopefully reenergizing them to vote in what seems a desperate situation for their Republican bretheren. I only hope the Democrats have the sense to vote against it as a block, then to represent it as exactly what it is, an attempt to place bigotry over tolerance for political gain. Aside from the small percentage who, as an issue of faith, refuse to see the vote for the blatantly political maneuver it is (Bush has confided he doesn't really care one way or another yet he will make his gay marriage bad speech tomorrow), I really don't believe Americans are stupid enough to fall for this desperate ploy.

In the meantime, the Senate under Frist's lackluster rule continues to fiddle.