People who don’t live in Indiana may have been perplexed by Senator Evan Bayh’s recent vote for the President’s tax cut. After all, our junior Senator is–theoretically–a Democrat. He was also a governor for eight years, and ought to understand what virtually every credible economist in the country has been saying about claims that the President’s tax cut package will create jobs: If jobs are the goal, the best way to create them in the short term is to help the states out of their worst fiscal crisis since the Depression–a crisis that has been caused in large part by the economic and tax policies of this administration.
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Priorities
When Bart Peterson became Mayor of Indianapolis, those of us who had followed the prior Administration’s fiscal operations felt sorry for him.
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Spinning Whole Cloth
Now, I know that–consciously or unconsciously–we all engage in spin; what each of us sees as reality is shaped to a considerable extent not just by our individual beliefs and/or prejudices, but by how much we really know about the subject at hand. But more and more, people are spinning whole cloth?what we used to call lying.
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And So It Begins…
Two items from the ongoing culture wars give evidence of the challenges facing the gay community in the wake of the 2004 election. I could have chosen many others, but these will serve to illustrate my point.
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The New Jews
Well, it worked. Karl Rove’s goal was to get four million Evangelical voters who had skipped the 2000 election to come to the polls in 2004. His strategy was to use gay men and lesbians as the "bait," through ballot initiatives to ban same-sex marriage. And it worked. My youngest son, a lawyer, worked at the polls in Ohio, where he reported large numbers of voters who came in to "vote against the queers."
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