Welcome to your Thursday open thread. It’s starting to feel like December, right? Who has their shopping done yet? I know I don’t!
Shots fired in the War on Christmas? Crazy Senator Jim Inhofe is extremely offended that Tulsa, OK is having a holiday parade.
U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe said Tuesday that he won’t participate in Tulsa’s Holiday Parade of Lights until organizers put “Christ” back in the event’s title.
“Last year, the forces of political correctness removed the word ‘Christmas’ and replaced it with ‘Holiday’ instead,” the Oklahoma Republican said. “I am deeply saddened and disappointed by this change.”
Inhofe, who was Tulsa’s mayor from 1978 to 1984, said he had participated in the parade annually, riding a horse as his children and grandchildren watched.
“I did not do so last year because I’m not going to ride in a Christmas parade that doesn’t recognize Christmas,” he said. “I am hopeful that the good people of Tulsa and the city’s leadership will demand a correction to this shameful attempt to take Christ, the true reason for our celebration, out of the parade’s title. Until the parade is again named the Christmas Parade of Lights, I will not participate.”
I’ve never understood the conservative hyperventilation over “holiday.”. Isn’t there more than one holiday within the month? Why is this so offensive?
Steve Benen catches McCain playing Calvinball with DADT repeal. McCain just can’t be honest, he just doesn’t like LGBT people.
The anti-gay senator started by saying we can’t repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” until the Secretary of Defense says it’s a good idea.
When the Pentagon chief did just that, McCain shifted gears and said repeal should wait for the go-ahead from the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff. When the chairman did just that, McCain said he’d take his cues from Colin Powell. When Powell endorsed repeal, McCain said he’d honor the opinions of servicemen and women.
And now that service members are on board with repeal, McCain told NBC News yesterday, “I’m paying attention to the commandant of the Marine Corps.”
Just for good measure he also said this:
McCain also told the Daily Caller that he doesn’t consider the President of the United States or the Secretary of Defense to be “military leaders.” This guy really has lost it.
That’s right, McCain is the only person that speaks for the whole military. It doesn’t matter what any darn survey says.