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This is what one year in the Senate, occasionally breaking with your party, does to your body in an era of extreme polarization. Hopefully the appreciative gays will find a way to fix him up. [Google News]
Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) is backing the standalone Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell bill in the Senate, his office confirms to TPM. So is Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). The pair join Republican Sens. Susan Collins (ME) and Olympia Snowe (ME) in publicly supporting the measure, giving it more than enough votes to secure the 60 needed [...]
“While I believe the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy will be repealed someday, and probably should be repealed in the near future, I do not support its repeal at this time,” Manchin said in the statement. “I truly understand that my position will anger those who believe repeal should happen now and for that I [...]
So the Senate faced the cloture vote on the defense authorization bill including a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, but it failed by a vote of 57-40, because majority rule is the hallmark of a democracy. Susan Collins ended up voting with the Democrats, and Joe Manchin voted against it, because he has a [...]
Harry Reid is going to finally try to get a cloture vote passed to be able to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell today some day soon, at long last, but there’s a very good chance it will fail, because our modern democracy is so advanced that it doesn’t work and can’t rule on matters of [...]
The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer knows why the current WikiLeaks headache is happening to the government: The Gays. “Julian Assange is not the bad guy here – the homosexual soldier is” is the title of this latest column, one that will earn Fischer a Pulitzer or at least a MacArthur genius grant. You see, [...]
Walnuts! The fact is, this was a political promise made by an inexperienced President or candidate for Presidency of the United States. Jonathan Chait says this shows John McCain is bitter about losing the 2008 election, but to us it seems he just never stopped running for president. He didn’t lose the 2008 election; it [...]
In the past week or two, we have brought you some exciting, fun stories about how Democrats were probably going to cave on the Bush tax cuts and probably going to cave on repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” But somehow it has finally started to get through to Democrats that, despite what the Republicans do, [...]
The Pentagon has advised recruiting commands that they can accept openly gay and lesbian recruit candidates, given the recent federal court decision that bars the military from expelling openly gay service members, according to a Pentagon spokeswoman. So, military recruiters at high schools, you are no longer allowed to shoot weird glances at the drama [...]
A California federal judge has issued an injunction stopping the military from enforcing its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in uniform. U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips ruled Tuesday that the policy “infringes the fundamental rights” of military service members and prospective service members, violates their due process [...]
