DiFi Sucks

Recently, the Senate voted on the Republicans biennial attempt at saving America from the horrible threat of flag burning. Goodness gracious, imagine the hullabaloo if a bunch of gay Mexicans ever decided to burn a flag. Anyways, we hoped that the bill would fail miserably and the Democratic Party would have nothing to do with it but it didn't happen. Instead it came a vote short of passing. We did happen to notice, however, that the bill was labeled as "bipartisan" as it was co-sponsored by a Democrat. And the particular Democrat who cosponsored it? Our very own Diane Feinstein. Which we knew about but totally forgot because what with the war still raging, government eavesdropping programs going unfettered, and our complete and total obsession with "Battlestar Galactica," had moved onto bigger and more important things to concern ourselves with.

And so the question is raised, why DiFi, why? In her speech to her fellow Senators, DiFi put up that famous picture of marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima and talked about all the warm fuzzies she got when she first saw the picture. Calling it more than a symbol, she said that "freedom of speech enshrined in the First Amendment is the cornerstone of our great nation...but any thought expressed in the burning of the flag can be expressed equally well in another manner." Like wearing it on TRL Live? And couldn't we then start arguing that other components of freedom of speech that some people dislike, like protesting or downloading internet porn, could also be done in "another manner" and if so, could somebody let us know what it would be for internet porn?

The problem with Diane doing all this is that it gave this political stunt the "bipartisan" tag even though most Democrats cowered in a corner the moment the thing started being debated. It also merely enables the Republicans to do more stuff like this because there will always be someone like DiFi to say, "well, gee, that's not a bad idea."

Thanks, Diane.