The eternal choice. Either, or. The accursed Democratic bargain. This is one of those ideas that never seems to work out well. And if we should expect no better on this occasion, that might well be the point.
You’d have to ask Matt Bors, of course. Meanwhile, yeah, one more time around. You know?
No?
Oh … er … ah … right. Get used to it.
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Image note: False dichotomy ― Detail of cartoon by Matt Bors, 27 December 2016.
This couldn’t have waited until tomorrow?
Striding into history, Hillary Clinton will become the first woman to top the presidential ticket of a major U.S. political party, capturing commitments Monday from the number of delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination.
It seems for the moment this development has any number of people puzzled. On msnbc, Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, and Andrea Mitchell all offered double-takes over the timing. While it is certainly possible to understand a certain notion, that these superdelegates decided to start wrapping up the Democratic Show in favor of turning to the Big Show, the idea that professional political hands couldn’t see the problem with the timing is problematic. Then again, maybe they didn’t coordinate. We might note this isn’t like when South Dakota upped its prestige a notch when its superdelegates decided to clinch the nomination for Donald Trump. Right now, as far as we can tell, of the ninety-five Democratic superdelegates who had yet to commit publicly during repeated inquiries over the last seven months, some did this time around, and AP just happens to be able to turn its eye to history, scooping the candidate herself.
Today.
This is our honor.
• There is, of course, the decision itself: Obergefell v. Hodges (14-556)
• Or perhaps a headline: “Gay Marriage Supporters Win Supreme Court Victory”
• The author: “Kennedy: The Gay Marriage Justice”
• Another headline, this one somewhat overstated: “Texas Pastor Says He Will Set Himself On Fire In Protest Over Gay Marriage”
• Dissents or temper tantrums? “‘Ask the nearest hippie’: The conservative SCOTUS justices’ opinions on marriage equality are hilariously bitter”
• And why not ask a hippie? “We Asked the Nearest Hippie About Scalia: It Was David Crosby”
• Unfit for duty: “To avoid marrying gay couples, some Alabama counties have stopped marrying everyone”
• GOP presidential timber, part one: “Constitutional Remedies to a Lawless Supreme Court”
• Fifty-four years, cookie dough, and Stonewall celebrations: “From Ice Cream To Ian McKellen: Reactions To Same-Sex Marriage Ruling”
• GOP presidential timber, part two: “Jindal: ‘Let’s just get rid of the court'”
• GOP presidential timber, part three: “Scott Walker calls for Constitutional amendment to let states define marriage”
• What a real President of the United States sounds like: “Remarks by the President on the Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality”
I would at this time raise a glass to homophobic traditionalists from Sea to Shining Sea; without your dedicated, horrifying zeal, we might never have come this far. Indeed, your own cruelty and hatred shepherded this day.
Drink up, dreamers of hatred and supremacism; you’re running dry.
Then again, we also know you’re nowhere near finished, at least in your own minds. We’re here. We will hold the line. We know you’re targeting children, now, and we will hold the line.
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Image note: People celebrate inside the Stonewall Inn, an iconic gay bar recently granted historic landmark status, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled same-sex couples have the right to marry in all 50 states. (Yana Paskova/Getty Images)
And it’s Tom the Dancing Bug for the score. And the win, really.
No, seriously, just click the damn link.
Or the picture. That works, too.
And when you do, read. Understand. Get the point.
You know it’s the only way this can go.
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Bolling, Ruben. “Lo, in the land of Indiana …”. Tom the Dancing Bug. Daily Kos Comics. 2 April 2015.
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