{"id":1018,"date":"2004-07-14T15:16:25","date_gmt":"2004-07-14T19:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/terror_alert\/"},"modified":"2004-07-14T15:16:25","modified_gmt":"2004-07-14T19:16:25","slug":"terror_alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/terror_alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Terror Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our national security faces a new threat, now that the Federal Marriage Amendment has been voted down<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“I would argue that the future of our country hangs in the balance because the future of marriage hangs in the balance,” said Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa. “…..Isn’t that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So we had four days over this, for what<\/a>?<\/p>\n

In the end, Frist and White House strategist Karl Rove couldn’t decide whether they really wanted to pass the measure or merely have a vote they could campaign on. The result is that they got neither.
\nRather than seek an up-or-down vote on a toughly worded version of the amendment, Frist and his allies (led by Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania) allowed discussion of a second, milder one. But since that one (which would leave latitude to the states) might actually pass, Democrats opted to mount a filibuster. As a result, the central (and only) vote turned out to be on a motion to shut off debate\ufffda harder vote to use in an attack TV ad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But I’m sure Congress didn’t have much other business to take care of, so this was worth it.
\nScore another one for the terrorists<\/strike> liberal Democrats. Thanks to the media hype and our nation’s political leaders, we now live in an environment where everything is referred to in terms of terrorism.
\nVia SayUncle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our national security faces a new threat, now that the Federal Marriage Amendment has been voted down: “I would argue that the future of our country hangs in the balance because the future of marriage hangs in the balance,” said Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa. “…..Isn’t that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?” […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}