A Turkey Baster to the Bush Administration...

Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter is knocked up! Don't worry - she didn't switch teams. Mary Cheney, 37, and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, 45, are expecting a baby in late spring, said Lea Anne McBride, a spokeswoman for the vice president. For years, Mary Cheney's openness about her sexual orientation had posed a dilemma for conservative activists who admire Dick Cheney's stance on many issues but consider homosexuality a sin. A gay-rights group said the vice president faces "a lifetime of sleepless nights" for serving in an administration that has opposed recognition of same-sex couples. He'll definitely have some sleepless nights with that lesbian baby around all screaming and crying and stuff... And now for some of the conservative comments:

• Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America described the pregnancy as "unconscionable.""It's very disappointing that a celebrity couple like this would deliberately bring into the world a child that will never have a father," said Crouse, a senior fellow at the group's think tank. "They are encouraging people who don't have the advantages they have." Sounds like she should be a little more concerned about how she's going to extract Queen Victoria from her ass.
• Carrie Gordon Earll, a policy analyst for the conservative Christian ministry Focus on the Family, expressed empathy for the Cheney family but depicted the pregnancy as unwise.
  "Just because you can conceive a child outside a one-woman, one-man marriage doesn't mean it's a good idea," Earll said. "Love can't replace a mother and a father." Take that line to Jerry Springer. [source]