Best and most thorough analysis I've seen. Though this is on Salon, I got to it without having to log in or subscribe. Greenwald is a constitutional law scholar from NY; he makes a number of pertinent asides about NJ re: the CA decision.
What's next, of course, is the attempt to write discrimination against same sex couples directly into the California state constitution. I haven't read all the recap articles here at the San Francisco Chronicle, but for some reason I'm thinking the Guvinator has said he'd veto any such legislation ... but having initiative and referendum, I don't know what Ahnold can do about a ballot initiative.
House votes No on Iraq War Funding Bill
(kwilkinson)
132 GOP 'present' votes - they claimed to object to the rules. That's $162 billion that Bush isn't getting, so far this year. All the NJ Dems voted no.
Kerry sends fundraising e-mail for Lautenberg
(Hopeful)
And even finds more than just Iraq to talk about...
Only eleven brave Democrats stood with us and voted for an end to the Bush Iraq policy.
Frank Lautenberg was one of them.
It's not the only time. When I led that filibuster against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Frank signed on -- and spoke out on the Senate floor.
When Ted Kennedy and I filibustered Judge Alito's nomination for the Supreme Court, Frank didn't take a pass just because Alito was from New Jersey -- he stood up to that pressure to stick with a home state nominee -- and he did what was right -- filibustering Alito.
Doblin on FL: Dial-up Sen. in FiOS World
(denniscmcgrath)
Yes, I want FL to debate RA. Not because I want the 84-year-old to crash and burn publically, but because it's what's demanded by a fair and open election process. The Record's Alfred Doblin wants a debate, too:
