Cornyn says the quiet part out loud on marriage vote delay: ‘I can’t imagine anybody’s undecided’
Embattled Sen. Ron Johnson got a big reprieve Thursday. The Wisconsin Republican has flipped and flopped and flipped again on the issue of marriage equality. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer agreed to postpone the bill Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Johnson’s Democratic counterpart from Wisconsin, has been working on enshrining same-sex and interracial marriage protections in federal statute.
Johnson’s been downright nasty about Baldwin and her bipartisan effort to give these marriages federal protection. “We’ve got enough problems,” he said a few weeks ago. “We have enough things to divide this nation. Let’s not drag that back up,” Johnson continued. “So I’m not happy with the Baldwins of the world who are just opening that wound and opening that debate.”
The delay isn’t going over well with some House Democrats, who passed the bill two months ago.