I knew something was missing ...

From the HRC Weekly Update from Joe Solmonese delivered to my email Inbox yesterday:

Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave and Senator Wayne Allard, the lead sponsors of the discriminatory Federal Marriage Amendment, have announced that they will not be re-introducing the proposal. They say that it's futile in the new Democratically-controlled Congress. Anti-marriage activists will surely shop the amendment around for new sponsors, but the message from Allard and Musgrave was clear: we're not wasting our time anymore.

The news was made that much sweeter by this year's State of the Union address. For the first time since 2003, President Bush did not mention his support of the FMA in his address before Congress. Perhaps, he's finally realized he has little to gain by using his bully pulpit to attack our families. It also would have made for an awkward image from the podium, since he was flanked by Vice President Dick Cheney and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, both opponents of the FMA.

Of course, being a glass-half-empty kind of guy, I couldn't help but be disgusted by the news that W. had mentioned the FMA four years in a row.