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Many thanks to a reader who sent this along; it almost flew under the radar. Which is a crime, since the sheer, politically-driven, destructive cynicism of what DC establishment GOPer Judd Gregg participated in deserves to be made widely known to his constituents in the Granite State.
As we all know, the Judd Gregg led approach to stopping the passage of health care reform was both to challenge as many aspects of the bill as they could with the senate parliamentarian, and to try to offer as many amendments as they could during the time allotted for debate on the reconciliation sidecar bill.
They knew these were bogus amendments, meant to get Democrats to vote against stupid sounding things for the purposes of campaign ads in the fall (banning Viagara for sex offenders, to use just one extraordinarily cynical example).
Which makes the following amendment offered during that time all the more monstrous:
Tuesday afternoon, John reported that Senator Robert Bennett had offered an anti-gay amendment to the reconciliation bill currently being debated in the Senate:
...On the Senate floor, according to the Senate transcript, Bennett said his amendment (the transcript came in caps):"THIS BILL DOES NOT TAKE ANY POSITION WITH RESPECT TO GAY MARRIAGE, SIMPLY ALLOWS THE DISTRICT TO HOLD A REFERENDUM." Well then, what a coincidence that it's the exact position of the National Organization for Marriage and Bishop Harry Jackson, the leading opponents of marriage in DC.
Judd Gregg voted for this. Interestingly, so did all other GOPers save Collins and Snowe.
It is hard to take in the monstrosity of this vote. Judd Gregg voted to strip some residents of people who live far away from New Hampshire of their marriage rights, and under the same bogus "Let the People Decide" scheme that was so overwhelmingly defeated here.
And he did it entirely within the scope and for the purposes of weakening a health care bill for all Americans.
