Senators Specter and Feingold Get In Heated Discussion During Federal Marriage Amendment Mark-Up Session
Posted on | May 19, 2006
Word coming out of the Senate is that the closed-door session of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s session to write discrimination and bigotry into the US Constitution, also known as the Federal Marriage Amendment, included a hot exchange between Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI), the senior Democrat member, and Arlen Specter (R-PA), the committee’s chairman.
Apparently when Feingold expressed the truthful observation that this amendment is bullshit and serves only to enshrine discrimination into the United States Constitution, whose sole purpose is to protect the rights of US citizens, Specter shot back with the statement "I don’t need to be lectured by you. You are no more a protector of the Constitution than am I."
I beg to differ Mr. Specter. You do need a lecture and you are less of a protector of the US Constitution than Russ Feingold is. We do not see him, or any Democrat attempting to write anti-gay discrimination, or discrimination of any kind for that matter, into the Constitution in order to distract the American public from the fact your party is full of incompetent and corrupt leaders. In fact, any senator who votes against the Federal Marriage Amendment in the coming weeks will automatically be more of a defender of the Constitution than those who vote in favor of it.
Bravo to Senator Feingold for walking out of the meeting. Since Republicans would not have cared one bit about what you and the other Democrats would have said during the meeting anyway, you did the right thing by not contributing to quorum.
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May 19th, 2006 @ 4:54 pm
Yeah Russ.
May 21st, 2006 @ 12:44 am
What? If members of congress aren’t supposed to be “protectors of the Constitution”, who is?