Bush Meets Barney Frank's Boyfriend, Claims He's "Open Minded"

from AlterNet's PEEK:



Bush Meets Barney Frank's Boyfriend, Claims He's "Open Minded"

Posted by Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend at 6:43 AM on January 30, 2008.

Bush knows discrimination is wrong but it's politically expedient to toss homos under the bus time and again to pacify the right and stoke the Base.



What prompted that statement? Dear Leader, good old jokester that he is, saw Barney Frank on the phone before the State of the Union, walked up to him and grabbed his cell and said hi to the person on the other end, and returned the phone to Frank.

It turned out that Bush was speaking to the Massachusetts congressman's boyfriend, who didn't believe Frank when he said it was Bush on the line.

Susan Milligan of the Boston Globe:



Everyone knows Bush is a hypocrite on this issue given the boatload of openly closeted head cases in the GOP. That makes him even worse than open homophobes, IMHO. He knows discrimination is wrong but it's politically expedient to toss homos under the bus time and again to pacify the right and stoke the Base.

It's about as ridiculous and shameful as Dems using the LGBT community as ATMs then running for cover when they feel it's necessary to distance themselves from our issues. We're doing way better in this presidential election cycle in terms of openly engaging on LGBT issues, but as we know all too well, the bus is barreling down the road and we're always in flinch mode...

Watch Faux News (via Cliff Schecter) talking head Brit Hume get the vapors over a Bush-Frank embrace to your right.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/75451/

... they're not pro- or con- gay rights, abortion, immigration, prayer in schools - any of the fundie flame-issues.

All they care about, truly, is whether or not they and their friends are getting rich(er) ... and the sooner the Evangelical wing of the GOP gets its collective head out of its collective ass and realizes that, the better off they'll be (a 3rd party made up of the religious zealots representing 20% the GOP would be ideal. Perpetually marginalized and generally out of government.)

Wow, he sounds a lot like the Democrats. :eyes:

I thought Frank had gotten married, but I could find no information on that. My apologies.

:shrug:

If he had married it would be Globe front page news.

I figured he was from Mass. and (I thought) had a steady partner of some years. That they had married seemed reasonable, but a quick Google turned up nothing to that effect.

:blush:

gay marriage and the right to choose to vote for him.