{"id":7501,"date":"2006-05-24T13:50:31","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T17:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7501"},"modified":"2006-05-24T13:50:31","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T17:50:31","slug":"bush-facing-resistance-on-anti-gay-amendment-close-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bush-facing-resistance-on-anti-gay-amendment-close-to-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush facing resistance on anti-gay amendment — close to home"},"content":{"rendered":"

The right is hitting the White House for not doing enough on a constitutional amendment on gay marriage, but according to [tag]Insight[\/tag] magazine, the president is facing the opposite pressure closer to home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The issue of [tag]gay marriage[\/tag] is causing divisions within the Republican Party, including the highest reaches of the [tag]White House[\/tag].<\/p>\n

The split has been so pronounced that President Bush faces strong opposition within his own administration to a [tag]constitutional amendment[\/tag] that would outlaw gay marriage. The split has pitted Mr. Bush against his own wife, [tag]first lady[\/tag] Laura [tag]Bush[\/tag].<\/p>\n

Mrs. Bush has warned that promoting the amendment could backfire against the GOP in congressional races in November. She has suggested that a constitutional amendment would hamper any constructive debate over gay marriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First, I’m looking forward to the front-page NYT piece which dissects the extent to which this conflict is weighing on the First Family’s marriage.<\/p>\n

Second, if the article is accurate — and Insight’s reliability isn’t exactly rock-solid — it will no doubt make the GOP base even angrier to know it’s not only pushing a White House that isn’t attentive to its needs, but also taking on a First Lady who disagrees with them.<\/p>\n

And third, for those keeping score at home, this is the eighth<\/i> Insight article in just the past few months that casts the Bush gang in an unflattering light. In late March, there was an article about Bush effectively delegating his responsibilities<\/a>. Two weeks before that, it was a piece on Cheney becoming a political liability<\/a> who will be thrown overboard after the midterm elections. Two weeks before that, it was “the largest crackdown in decades<\/a> against whistleblowers in government.” The week before, it was an item on Karl Rove threatening to “blacklist”<\/a> any Republican who goes against the president on warrantless-wiretaps. In January, Insight quoted “administration sources” talking about internal turmoil<\/a> at the Bush White House. In November, Insight ran an item explaining that Bush has become melancholy and paranoid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s odd, considering that we’re talking about the far-right [tag]Washington Times[\/tag]’ “sister publication<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The right is hitting the White House for not doing enough on a constitutional amendment on gay marriage, but according to [tag]Insight[\/tag] magazine, the president is facing the opposite pressure closer to home. The issue of [tag]gay marriage[\/tag] is causing divisions within the Republican Party, including the highest reaches of the [tag]White House[\/tag]. The split […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}