A Conservative Man's World

This just in from my Congressional Quarterly midday update:

The House Republican leadership plans to continue promoting its election-year “American values agenda” next week with floor votes on two more hot-button social issues — gay marriage and the “Under God” phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance.

The Senate last month killed a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages. And the House Judiciary Committee deadlocked on the bill to strip federal courts, including the Supreme Court, of power to review constitutional challenges to the pledge.

Nonetheless, House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., has vowed to bring the GOP “values” legislation to the floor for votes. This week, the House passed a measure to ban Internet gambling. Still to come, in addition to the gay marriages and pledge measures, are a bill requiring that women seeking late-term abortions be told that the fetus feels pain, a ban on human cloning and more votes on tax-cut extensions.

Hastert has said these items are aimed at protecting the “faith of our people, the sanctity of life and the value system on which America was built.”

I bet you can guess what my favorite part is.

Total. Bullshit.