Let's ENDA bipartisanship
Filed by: Alex Blaze
February 9, 2009 1:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/02/lets_enda_bipartisanship.phpBipartisanship and centrism are back in the news as Obama's attempts to engage in a great compromise with Republicans on the economic recovery bill have fallen flat. He tried to include Republicans in good faith and that will likely make the upcoming depression longer and more painful, while centrists in the Senate have cut out the most useful programs from the bill in favor of more "middle class" tax cuts... you know, the poor people in the middle class who only have 6-figure incomes.
Well, it's important for LGBT folks to remember that centrism and bipartisanship do us no good either. When one side thinks that we're full and equal human beings deserving of the same rights, autonomy, and opportunities as everyone else and the other side thinks we're hell-bound perverts out to rape children and destroy Western civilization, there really isn't much space to find a compromise in which everyone wins.
But that doesn't mean that there isn't a certain type of political consultant who's tried to split that baby. "The Third Way," a think tank focused on finding solutions that make no one happy and that stunt liberal solutions by pretending the right has something to offer in terms of good-faith skepticism or ideas, has position papers on just about everything, including this one on ENDA:
