Friday, July 16, 2004
Link: Failure Is Not an Option, It's Mandatory (NYT)
A New York Times op-ed piece (registration required) that I believe sums up well part of the hidden strategy behind the right's attempt to remain in control in the upcoming elections: long hours attempting to pass a brain-dead constitutional amendment (the "Federal Marriage Amendment," as appropriate and well-named addition to the ol' parchment as the Bill of Rights, I'm sure) that no one seriously expects will garner the two-thirds majority it needs, in order to generate the necessary degree of failure to alarm voters into action in November. Kind of like using a legislative gravitational slingshot effect.
An interesting concept. I'm rather certain that things like this happen to some degree, though I honestly don't know how effect this one will be.
In other news, sorry for the lack of Headlines lately. I'm considering giving them a different name, in order to distinguish them from Jay Leno's frequent (and frequently lame) Headline feature. But what, oh what, could the new name be?
A New York Times op-ed piece (registration required) that I believe sums up well part of the hidden strategy behind the right's attempt to remain in control in the upcoming elections: long hours attempting to pass a brain-dead constitutional amendment (the "Federal Marriage Amendment," as appropriate and well-named addition to the ol' parchment as the Bill of Rights, I'm sure) that no one seriously expects will garner the two-thirds majority it needs, in order to generate the necessary degree of failure to alarm voters into action in November. Kind of like using a legislative gravitational slingshot effect.
An interesting concept. I'm rather certain that things like this happen to some degree, though I honestly don't know how effect this one will be.
In other news, sorry for the lack of Headlines lately. I'm considering giving them a different name, in order to distinguish them from Jay Leno's frequent (and frequently lame) Headline feature. But what, oh what, could the new name be?
