http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=5147&MediaType=1&Category=25

Clearly nobody voted for Brown because they suddenly changed their mind on gay rights issues, so his stay will be a short one if he chooses to ignore the popular will on that count.

“As a life-long Democrat: Not one dime! As a gay man: Not one dime!
As a concerned american citizen: not one dime!

I can only say that you are as spineless and useless as the Republicans are stupid and vicious.

Not one dime!”

Politically controlled programs tend to benefit the majority to whom politicians are appealing. To do that they often have consciously screw minorities. Gay people are taxed at higher rates in order to subsidize straight people in program after program, often for programs they can’t apply for because its for “married” people (consider how gay people subsidize social security so surviving wives can collect but not surviving same-sex partners).

Gay people will be at the short-end of the stick once again. But, hey, don’t worry, Obama will appoint a gay person to some relatively unimportant position and give us hope.

And ENDA? DADT repeal? Just as dead. Any gay person celebrating this win should be ashamed of themselves.

Which is not to say the democrats are faultless here. This is the scorched earth war on the Clinton presidency all over again and if they can’t see it coming then maybe they just aren’t up to governing after all. You don’t bring a warm handshake and a friendly smile to a knife fight.

As jon stewart has pointed out, , The demos have a bigger majority than the republicans ever had since 1923. But they didn’t do a thing that we elected them to do, OFAMA (our fierce advocate my ass) included. They managed to pass the hate crimes bill– better than not passing it, but of little value to our community compared to ENDA, and DADT and DOMA repeals.

and as for the greater community– the bailout went to the people who caused it, rather than creating jobs. we’re still in Afghanistand, iraq, and threatening to go into dumbfuckistan as well. Healthcare? A joke. Arcane senate rules that mean the minority, not the majority rules? Still there. It has paralyzed my homew state of California as well.

And on and on and on.

I could think of almost no republican i could vote for, and haven’t since john anderson in 1980. I can barely stomach the democrats– any of them. And worse, I fear our country is in serious decline, with no hope on the horizon.
$14 trillion in debt owed to people who do not like us, 2 wars we cannot win, and greed, pettiness, and stupidity constituting a major portion of our very gross national product.

And worst of all, i keep wondering about the handmaids tale.

In fact, while it’s too early to tell, I think that Brown has the potential to be a significant asset. Supporting at least some gay issues gives him a ready-made way to distinguish himself from those “other” Republicans, especially if he sticks closely to the fiscally conservative platform he campaigned on. It would unquestionably improve his re-electability in Massachusetts in 2012. His ability to provide Democrats with unmatched political cover on a number of key gay issues–such as federal civil unions–could therefore prove pivotal.

Currently 60% of US personal bankruptcies are because of health care costs, and of those, 75% had some form of coverage. Meaning the bare bones system is not enough to drive someone into financial ruin. These bare-bones do-nothing coverages are what everyone will be forced to buy. It’s regressive, it won’t improve the US’s healthcare system, and absolutely should be blocked and real UHC demanded with a public option from both democrats and republicans, because neither of them are behind what we need.