Either I'm crazy or half the country is nuts

The Bush administration's non existent "yer with us or with the terrorists" foreign policy has isolated us from our allies. North Korea is capable of firing a nuclear warhead at the west coast, people without medical insurance are dying in the street. People with medical insurance are going bankrupt. And what is this Republican Congress worried about? A ban on gay marriage and flag burning. Some think that these are nonsense issues that won't do any good for the Republicans at the polls, but don't be too sure. The Conservative Harper government in Canada used gay marriage issue to win a minority government defeat the Liberals after they were a majority for over a decade.

GOP looks for 2004 gay marriage replay
Effort is to force lawmakers to take a stand just months before election

WASHINGTON - Undeterred by a decisive defeat in the Senate, House Republicans are moving ahead with a vote on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, forcing lawmakers to take a stand just months before the election.

The vote, scheduled for Tuesday, will occur in a week devoted to several priorities of social conservatives _ what House GOP leaders call their "American values agenda." Also on tap are a pledge protection bill and several Republican-backed stem cell bills.

President Bush, under some pressure from conservatives to take a more active role in promoting their issues, spoke out for the gay marriage amendment several times before it was rejected in the Senate last month.

Changing the Constitution is necessary, he said in one of his weekly radio addresses, because "activist judges and some local officials have made an aggressive attempt to redefine marriage in recent years."