As outrageous as that comment is, it is entirely predictable.

We are truly witnessing the death of the Republican party.

Why do they blame everything on gay people? Hm.

Yeah, I guess Senator Hewitt just never got any of the memos about the innumerable committee meetings where budgetary issues were discussed prior to the Marriage Equality vote.

Either that, or he's just a lying sack-of-shit...

Yeah, Republicans TOTALLY HATE wasting time voting on moral issues. They never, ever do that.

Hewitt also forgot that the marriage bill was passed with Republican support in both the Senate and the House.

What a baby! Who is he talking to I wonder?

Jim Kastama supported the marriage equality bill, FWIW. Doesn't make him any less of a turncoat on the budget, but it kinda puts a hole in Hewitt's apparent theory.

@6, anyone without a brain who will listen and follow republican drool.

Republicans started the gay rights debate by denying us rights in the first place, so screw him.

@7

A few Republicans also voted for marriage equality. It's likely Hewitt sees this as payback in the sense that it gives him particular satisfaction because of marriage equality, but really, it's simply Republicans being Republicans.

@1: we are not witnessing the death of the Reublican party. This is what the Republican party is now, and it is unfortunately not anywhere near dead.

It's amazing how Republicans are suddenly against the majority party shoving legislation down everyone's throats as soon as they become the minority.

Yes. If I try really hard to pretend I'm back in grade school, I can see how forcing a Senate floor vote on a Republican budget with no opportunity for prior discussion might seem like fitting payback for the perfidious Democratic majority's having allowed a full Senate-floor debate on marriage equality.

I so wish we had seven or more functional political parties, like France or Germany. This "two-party" bullshit is... Bullshit.