CNN – which has just had one of its finest hours – puts together a string of quotes from officials compared with what their own reporting showed at the time. The gap between Bush rhetoric and reality in America is stunning. Now transpose that to Iraq. And worry.
A SENATE VOTES: Missed in the Katrina coverage was an historic event: the California Senate passed a bill allowing gay couples the right to marry. The bill faces an uncertain future. But it does change the dynamics. For the first time, unprompted by a court, a state legislature has passed a marriage bill. The entire argument about judicial tyranny may soon disappear – and may evaporate if the Massachusetts legislature shelves a constitutional amendment later this month. Then we can have a substantive debate about marriage rights, and states’ rights. Conservatives whose only objection to equal marriage rights was the way in which they were being imposed will have to think again.
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