House Rules Committee Chair Rep. David Dreier (R-Calif.) is to be one of the three temporary replacements for House Majority Leader Representative Tom Delay. A review of Rep. Dreier's career and voting record is therefore in order...
* Supported a ban on adoption by gay and lesbian couples in the District of Columbia. * Supported the Defense of Marriage Act, banning same-sex marriage. * Supported the ability of federally funded charities to discriminate against gays in employment, even where local laws prohibit such bias. * Opposed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would have banned discrimination against gay people in hiring. * Opposed the Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."