“Daines is a stinking selfish POS and is accepting payment for a job he now has refused to do.”
Do you realize what you are saying?
A daughter’s wedding is an extremely important event. Daines made absolutely certain that his absence would not change the outcome. He was even willing to split his day between both events.
Do you have any idea of the logistics of planning a wedding? Cost? The human capital?
Sure, a lot of people have small weddings or even elope. I have no objection. But Jesus Himself honored a wedding with a famous miracle which was simultaneously symbolic and met a practical need in which He honored the importance of such a life event. If it was good enough for the Song of God to go out of His way to help, I think a private jet ride or a gentleman/gentlewoman’s agreement is quite reasonable.
I don’t know how lavish this wedding is, but a father who raises a daughter has every right to expect, and the daughter has every right to expect, that he will be there to give her away. Sometimes men are unable to do this for various reasons, but it is very reasonable to try to make every accommodation for this situation.
Republicans are the pro-life and pro-family party. This is important enough that if necessary the senate should delay voting rather than demand for him to miss his daughter’s wedding.
Weddings like this sometimes cost six figures and involve a multitude of out-of-town guests. The venues are booked months or sometimes years in advance. Photographers, bakeries, hotel accommodations of hundreds of people are impacted, and rescheduling is often impossible at any expense.
The Republicans accommodating this event makes perfect sense. The important thing is for the president’s nominee to be confirmed, not for supporters to self-flagellate with a symbolic vote that does not change the result.
The Democrats already ripped an innocent man’s life to pieces along with his innocent wife and children. But you are advocating that another man’s daughter, family, friends, and others should undergo a complete upheaval for something purely symbolic. That symbolism would be bad.