Obama Administration Gets A Savaging

This seems to be snowballing. Dan Savage reacts to tonight's presidential signing:

Which brings us back to sheer insulting incompetence of this idiot maneuver. Why announce a bold plan and an Oval Office signing ceremony for a something-or-other that will "extend federal benefits" to the partners of gay employees... when that package does not include the only workplace benefit that most people can name off the tops of their fucking heads: health insurance? This is your big gesture to mollify your gay critics? This is designed to calm the waters in the wake of your DOMA betrayal? When I wrote earlier tonight that the federal benefits Obama is extending "are by no means trivial," I was naturally operating under the assumption that these benefits would include health insurance. They do not. What benefits will federal employees enjoy the day after tomorrow anyway? Discounted entrance fees to our national parks?

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This is worse than insulting. This is outrageous, another slap in the face, salt in the wound left by last week's DOMA betrayal. Fuck the Obama administration. That DNC fundraiser next week has to be shut down.

The question facing this administration and the broader community is whether or not the power structure as it has been commonly understood in D.C. will hold in the face of all this anger. The professional gay overclass that has spent the past twenty years telling politicians they had the community under control seems about to fail spectacularly.

Comments

[North Dallas Thirty]

I do so love watching people who sold themselves to Obama whining about being treated like whores.
:)

[Robbie]

John Aravosis is an especially interesting case, as Obama was his own personal Jesus during the primaries and general election. Remember how viciously he went after Clinton while praising every "uhm" Obama ever uttered?

Woman scorned, etc.

[Jamie]

There are only so many times I can say I told you so. And good riddence to the "gay establishment." All they established was a precedent of donating.

[Tim]

It's good to see that people can be educated about the real truths of our political establishment and stop depending on groups like HRC to organize legislative attempts to protect and establish our rights. If you want to be a rabble rouser you have to do it yourself. Oh and don't put all your political eggs in one basket.