think on this.

get these fuckers out of here

here’s a bush administration rep explaining why they are against a bill that would provide federal benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees:

First of all, to suggest that we are being far-fetched in the sense that these benefits are open to fraud or abuse. It’s not an unrealistic concern. I would suggest even Hollywood has discussed this in a movie with Adam Sandler. In which, I think, ‘Chuck and Larry’ get married, which the subject of the movie, was quite frankly, was insurance fraud, along the lines of what we’re discussing. This is not far fetched and it’s not disingenuous to suggest such. (pam’s)

no, that’s a real quote. the movie ‘i now pronounce you chuck and larry’ is being used to defend federal policy choices.

other movies i would like to see influencing policy:

• green card, with gerard depardieu, to demonstrate why granting legal permanent resident status to spouses of citizens is a bad idea
• rush hour, to mandate the inclusion of chinese investigators in kidnappings of chinese consul family members
• minority report, on why we aren’t developing pre-crime detection technology
• cloverfield, on community preparations for mysterious monster attacks