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Not to anyone's real surprise, Hawaii's governor vetoes same-sex civil unions. Somewhat to people's real surprise, her reasoning:

"It would be a mistake to allow a decision of this magnitude to be made by one individual or a small group of elected officials," she said.

Really? Because I was under the impression that making decisions like this was precisely what government was elected to do. I say this as someone who generally vehemently disagrees with much of what small groups of elected or appointed officials actually decide, and as someone frustrated by the general U.S. tendency to return incumbents to Congress every year even when the general U.S. tendency is to think said incumbents are a group of incompetent loons, but, still.