January 20, 2005
Inauguration
By Byron LaMasters
Via Matt Stoller, Terry McAuliffe puts it best:
Departing national party chairman Terry McAuliffe: "If I truly wanted to match Bush's accomplishments, I would max out my credit card, take out a second mortgage and steal my mother's Social Security. Instead, I'll just spend it with my five kids and, in the spirit of the second Bush administration, we're going to rent 'Titanic.'"
It's hard to top that. The only inauguration coverage I plan to watch is whatever The Daily Show puts together tonight. My friend Chris is attending some of the Inauguration protest activities. It's not something that I'd spend 16+ hours in the car to do, but to each his own. I'm sure that he'll have an interesting report on the trip when he returns to Florida.
There's not too much news out of Texas this week, because our state legislature is adjourned until next Monday. They've simply abdicated their responsibility to the voters of Texas by going to this weeklong party in Washington D.C. when Texans have such important issues such as the budget and school finance (and of course, the critical need to re-defend marriage from the all those gays). Why are all the Republican state legislators going on the lam? I just don't understand it. At least the Democrats went somewhere boring like Ardmore. I don't remember any high-dollar parties or lavish balls in Oklahoma.
Posted by Byron LaMasters at January 20, 2005 01:31 PM
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I also plan to watch the Daily Show. BTW, Joe Lieberman is on tonight.
McAuliffe's humor is dark, but accurate and funny.
I had the pleasure of spending a day with McAuliffe, and he is hysterical.
I just hope you boys all remembered to register with Selective Service . . . it'll cost a lot of money and bodies to fight in Iran, Syria, Korea, Zimbabwe, the GOld Coast of Africa, Uruguay, Tazhikistan, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela . . . did I forget anyplace?
Keith.. i registered with Selective Service when i turned 18. They sent me all sorts of recruitment stuff, but I ignored most of them, because they would reject me as gay.
Now they wouldn't accept me because I'm gay, but whatever they want. If I'm a threat to national security, I'm sorry.
If the gay ban on military service is overturned by a Democratic President, I would consider joining the military in order to prove the point that gay people are just as dedicated Americans as anyone else, but not until then. THere's no way in hell that i would serve under president Bush
