“The fact of the matter is we live in a free society and freedom means freedom for everybody. We don’t get to choose, and shouldn’t be able to choose and say, ‘You get to live free, but you don’t.’ People should be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into. That matter is regulated by the states. I think different states are likely to come to different conclusions, and that’s appropriate. I don’t think there should necessarily be a federal policy in this area.” — Vice President Dick Cheney

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Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has abruptly changed leaders for the party’s LGBT outreach efforts, and the ousted man’s partner believes the shakeup was an act of political retaliation.

Dean this week fired gay outreach adviser Donald Hitchcock, whose partner, Paul Yandura, recently wrote a letter urging LGBT donors to rethink supporting Democrats until they get tougher on gay rights.

In a statement Wednesday afternoon, the DNC announced that the ex-Vermont governor had appointed Brian Bond, former head of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, as executive director of the party’s Gay & Lesbian Leadership Council. The announcement did not mention Hitchcock, who had held the post for nearly a year.

DNC spokesman Damien LaVera refused to comment on Hitchcock, saying, “The governor decided we needed a change, so we hired a proven leader.”

Hitchcock declined to comment on the matter, telling the Washington Blade he may consult an attorney about his termination.

Yandura told the PlanetOut Network that Hitchcock was escorted from DNC headquarters Tuesday after refusing to resign. Yandura, who runs a progressive political consulting firm in Washington, D.C., believes the action was a result of an April 20 letter he sent to gay activists and donors.

“All progressives need to be asking how much has the DNC budgeted to counter the anti-gay ballot initiatives in the states. We also all need to know why the DNC and our Democratic leaders continue to allow the Republicans to use our families and friends as pawns to win elections,” Yandura wrote. “We need answers to these questions. Until we get them my advice is don’t give any more money to the Dems.”
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Another example of the hard right’s inability to think I guess.

Odd that that one is considered a “conservative” sticker on one of the sites linked to.

True comedy gold, my friend. They need to be promulgated far and wide across the land.

http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingstuff/705150: This one is especially ironic. Not only is the line “religion of peace” from Bush, this also implies that Americanism isn’t a religion of peace.

Apparently, some of our fellow Americans on the left find this message to be profound and witty. But it is not these individuals’ presence or absence of wit or profundity that interests me here — both are so obviously absent, no comments are necessary.

these sentences are so profoundly poorly written it does more offense to the English language than a thousand Dick Cheney anecdotes could do to dennis douchebaglington’s arguments.

1. some lefties find something witty. but it’s got a modifier, “apparently”, for no apparent reason.
2. said lefties, whom Dennis has already stated find said message to be witty, possibly don’t find said message to be witty. or maybe they do. and maybe they don’t find them profound. or maybe they do. of course, though dennis cared, oh, i don’t know, A SENTENCE PRIOR, he doesn’t anymore. wait, because…
3. it’s so obvious that the statement in question is neither profound nor witty. so whether or not the left finds them so (a question left open by dennis’s three turns of the mind in but two measly sentences, quite a feat) is immaterial all of the sudden. because the whole thing isn’t worth commenting on. due to its obviousness. this from the man who just mangled the english language like krueger on a sleeping 16 year old object-of-derbyshire’s affection in order to undermine, or maybe negate, his own point.

yes, i’m a pedant, no doubt about it, but there are at least 15 regular commenters on this site in addition to 3 or 4 of the bloggers here who right with better language skills than a guy who is paid around america to opine in print. say what you will about george will or william f. buckley, at least those malignant turds can compose a sentence.

i hate dennis prager so very very much it makes me want to swear. egads. there, i said it.

Yes, you’re right. The politics of the right-wingers have inspired great hatred in me. I hate you fucking stupid wingnut pieces of shit, because you are ruining my country.

Now go suck on mama’s titty, you sorry, pussy-ass crybaby.

Cluck Finton is funny.

But the funniest all …

Pruck Fager …

and the forse he rode in on.

cool thanks for the heads up!

They have been helping me get through this Presidency for years now.