Comments on: Brown backs standalone DADT repeal, assures filibuster proof support

By: customartist

customartist — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:35:07 +0000

Republican Senators have collectively participated in Extortion, plain and simple, to obtain benefits for the Rich in lieu of passing any other legislation for the American People.

Well WHAT will the incoming Tea Partiers think about THAT?____________

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:54 +0000

Well there ya go. Heckuva job, Brownnie. Now Suzy Collins and her last-second slew of amendment demands can be considered irrelevant to the process.

And yet I still can’t help be reminded of that one Celebrity Jeopardy skit on SNL all those years ago where “Trebek” told the contestants, “There’s no possible way you can get this wrong. You’d have to be the dumbest people in the world to screw this up… And now let’s see how you managed to screw it up,”

@Adrian- I’d love to see that kind of “I Am Spartacus” type of action published or taken as a public statement, even if it’d be just as likely followed the next day by a similar letter signed by servicemembers in favor of keeping DADT. If nothing else, the lid would be off of the pot and people would be able to stop pretending that there aren’t any gays or lesbians serving in the armed forces right now.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:05:29 +0000

I mean “this month”, not next month, of course.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:50:06 +0000

Adrian, I don’t think the Supreme Court’s decision is a sure thing at all. And at any rate, it’s probably a year or so off. Especially when Kagan will likely have to recuse herself. And the odds of Obama winning again and the. Democrats retaking the House in 2012 are next to nothing. So repeal will either happen next month or 2016 or 2020. Or later, depending on the next big Democratic win. Hell, Republicans don’t even give a rat’s ass about health care who 9/11 First Responders who are dying of lung disease. That’s the morality of these people.

By: james

james — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:45:43 +0000

well newsites are reporting some dem. senator has cancer and will probably miss the vote. mccain is saying he will definatly fillabuster… if there are enough votes does that mean they can overide his attempt??

By: AdrianT

AdrianT — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:38:22 +0000

If the Senate does not repeal – the courts will. The Senate’s vote is merely a rubber stamp. It cannot be stressed enough.

Though, it must be said, if 3,000 LGBT servicemembers simply came out en-masse, the law would be irrelevant. An advertisement, saying that ‘we the above, refuse to serve under DADT’ in the WaPo would do it. Strength in numbers.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:32:00 +0000

More accurately, we’ll see if the Republicans are able to delay the vote or not. Blaming Reid if they succeed is pretty beyond the pale.

By: Lindoro Almaviva

Lindoro Almaviva — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:25:17 +0000

A man of priorities I see. Now that his rich friends are taken care of (and presumably will line his pocket with donations as thank you gifts) he can take the time to address and correct the fact that people in this country are still not treated equally.

Given his behavior, it is all too well what was written: we are all born equal, just some are more equal than others.