Jeb Bush Has to Go

He's at a place in the polls where he's unlikely to emerge as a winner, so why single out poor Jeb!? Because he is simply the worst candidate in the world. Period. He's released a healthcare plan--of sorts, that is probably the least-thought out thing a supposedly serious candidate could release--but the thing of it is--he dropped it like it was hot. There's no protection for pre-existing conditions and it rolls back the gains for women's health care under Obamacare. Having a female reproductive system is back to being a pre-existing condition. This idiocy is coming from a candidate that should have heard the criticism when his idiot idea that women weren't worth $500M in health care spending (about $2 and change for every woman in the US) and tried to learn.

Lessons learned? Bush men aren't learners. But Jeb! is toxically worse than he ought to be. He says the government should not meddle, but his record is of concern-trolling in the right of a minor to choose abortion, and the right of people to a dignified end of life.

I think I was wrong--Bush doesn't not want to be President--maybe he actually does and is just horrifically stupid. He was born on third base and thought he hit a triple--like Ann Richards said of his brother. Like you could even say of Donald Trump. But his fecklessness is an inability to grasp that other people have rights and judgment and will criticize him. And he ought to be criticized a lot. His low place in the polls is earned because he brings nothing good or new. At least Rubio is young. He might learn.

One can reasonably despair of Jeb! doing any such thing. And campaign-watchers probably also know.

State Tyranny Over Marriage Equality Is Ended in US

In just the way that all people are created equal, same sex marriages will have equality under the law. The states will not have the ability to pick and choose among human adults which shall be valid to do so on the strength of gender alone. And this is a damn good day for the Constitution and for what this country was founded on, because individual states should not have the ability to invalidate the rights of individuals to do what is largely viewed as acceptable if not salutary.

The argument against marriage equality is, basically, this is a civil good when straight folks do it, but somehow it transforms into a morally abhorrent thing when gay folks do it. But the moral difference between gay and straight is nowhere established because where is the difference between male and female? Between races?  All citizens of legal age need to be treated equally under the law.

So two consenting men or two consenting women can enter the bonds of marriage because two people--those gender things being equal--will do. It doesn't invalidate laws regarding bigamy, and it doesn't suddenly sanction incest. All it does is say that there are no "gay marriage states" vs "no gay marriage states", and that there is no longer a separate but equal snobbery where  gay people can enjoy  some, but not all privileges of marriage.