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The Senate on Tuesday afternoon voted against moving forward on the defense authorization bill that included a repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” The vote ended up 56 to 43, but 60 votes were needed to proceed.
The bill also included the DREAM Act, which would grant a path to legal status for illegal immigrants who serve in the military.
All Republicans voted against the bill, and so did Arkansas Democratic Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor.* (see UPDATE)
Democrats will no doubt use the defeat to argue to their base that they are trying to do something on gays in the military and immigration reform, but are being thwarted by Republicans.
Before the vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid addressed Republican obstructionism, saying, “It’s remarkable we have been able to get as much done as we have, given all the roadblocks that have been thrown up.”
UPDATE: All Republicans who voted, voted against the bill, but Sen. Lisa Murkowski didn’t vote. Instead, the 43rd vote against came from Reid himself, which the Washington Independent reports, was to keep his procedural options open. Here’s the full roll call of the vote.
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Siegfried X| 9.21.10 @ 3:26PM
Tremendous victory!
All Republicans stuck together too. No RINOs today. We are a team.
Jonathan M.| 9.22.10 @ 2:01AM
Any day faggots suffer humiliation and defeat is a good day for God and this country.
Jeremiah| 9.25.10 @ 10:01PM
Shut up, troll.
MarkJ| 9.21.10 @ 3:28PM
This defeat is only going to confirm in the minds of a lot of Nevada voters--both Republican and Democrat--that Harry Reid is a certifiable idiot. I'm opposed to repeal of DADT, but I do have some sympathy for the gay activists who were pushing for it. They must surely be livid right now as "Fast Harry" picked exactly the wrong time to try repealing DADT. If there was ever a time Reid could have done it, it was Spring and Summer 2009 when the bloom was still on Lord Obama's Rose. Now Obama's Rose is thoroughly wilted, repeal is almost certainly dead, dead, dead for the indefinite future, and Harry's continued tenure as Majority Leader looks like it's on life-support as well.
What's not to like?
John beckham| 9.21.10 @ 3:36PM
I am ashamed to be a part of a country that thinks the way you petty single minded idiots do. The GOP is out of hand and aren't even willing to debate about the issues?!? What the hell is this country coming to?
Warrior | 9.21.10 @ 4:12PM
Then leave.
Burton Choinski| 9.21.10 @ 4:13PM
If it's so f'ing important, then have it in its own bill instead of shoving it all together in a big ball of crap. Then it can stand or fall on it's own instead of getting dragged along with stuff that needs to be passed.
Conservative Bob| 9.21.10 @ 4:18PM
A little home work for you John my man.. Count up all the seats in the Senate held by Dems, then count up all the seats in the house.
The math says they can pass anything they want whether the GOP agrees or not.
If you have a beef with the results I suugest you call Mr. Reid or perhaps the One himeself.
This didn't pass because there was not enough Dem support.
Jonathan M.| 9.22.10 @ 1:59AM
Are you a faggot who supports DADT, or a dirty Mexican who supports the "DREAM" Act? Either way, get the hell out of are country.
Jeremiah| 9.25.10 @ 10:02PM
Typical liberal troll--vicious, vicious, vicious.
Christopher Holland| 9.22.10 @ 2:15AM
You were visiting another planet when George W Bush was regularly being compared to Hitler and called a liar and a war criminal? I didn't see any liberals talking about polite debate then. As usual, they have a double standard on anything relating to conservatives - one rule for us, another for them.
I just spent a month in Russia. If you hate America, go there and see how long your convictions can hold. I imagine about 5 minutes after you arrive at Domodedovo airport in Moscow.
Stan| 9.21.10 @ 3:36PM
I wasn't as concerned about DADT, as I was about the DREAM act. This would have given all of the illegals that are here now official status and would have led to more illegals flooding in across the southern border. I am jumping for joy that Dirty Harry took another one in the shorts.
Dan| 9.21.10 @ 3:42PM
Stan, educate yourself before you comment. It wouldn't give all illegals a chance to become legal. Only those whose parents brought them here when they were young. Are you saying you saying those who were 3,4,5 years old, when brought here, should be sent back to a country they don't know anything about. These kids only to America... And they were to young to make there own decisions, they didn't break any laws.
Siegfried X| 9.21.10 @ 3:46PM
DREAM allows "children" up to 35 years old to become legal. Also, once one becomes legal they can bring in as many "relatives" as they want.
None of this will happen until we build a fence and there is serious enforcement of the existing laws. We will get rid of all of Obama's law suits and the entire country will have stricter laws than Arizona.
Warrior | 9.21.10 @ 4:16PM
Dan, yes send them all back. To correct you, they were breaking a law when they were brought here illegally by their parents.
Tom| 9.21.10 @ 4:25PM
John Kennedy (who in case you are a liberal and know nothing of history) was once a Democratic president of the United States. Before he was murdered, during a crisis with the Russians over Berlin, he ordered the National Guard called up. One of his senior advisors said to him 'Mr. President, if you call up the National Guard, many people will have to close down their businesses to go to Germany, families will suffer, they may even die'!
Kennedy's reply (by the way, Kennedy would have never gotten the nomination in today's Democratic Party, which is Marxism masquerading as politics), was simple Dan, and it speaks to your point about "...they didn't break any laws". Kennedy simply stated 'Life's unfair'. So Dan, that's the answer. You are obviously a bleeding heart liberal and never, EVER want life to 'be unfair', so you tax, spend, redistribute, etc., all with the goal to make sure no one is ever 'treated unfairly. Sorry Dan, Kennedy was right. Life IS unfair and, unless you again are a bleeding heart liberal who is willing to discard any laws you don't like, any boundaries you disdain, like you apparently are...which has resulted in this and many other problems, then SINCE life is unfair, then the people that have played by the rules, obeyed the laws, waited in line for their turn to enter our country but because of the parents of these kids could have cared less about our laws, our borders, our boundaries, then the rest of the people trying to get it, its OK with you for THEM to be treated unfairly, but not OK for us to treat those 'unfairly' whom you favor with your 'bleeding heart'.
It was also 'unfair' Dan, for over 8 million southeast Asian Vietnamese & Cambodians to be genocidally wiped out, murdered, in the most horrific ways imaginable Dan after the 'bleeding hearts' abandoned VietNam in the 70's. How about them Dan. Where was Hanoi Jane 'bleeding heart' about their lot Dan? Where was Barack Hussein Obama's and Bill Ayers concerns.
Sorry Dan, life's unfair and hopefully, after November, REAL Americans, the ones who survived life's screw jobs and unfairness at the hands of liberals like you are going to take back their country and begin to use the same sort of rules that EVERY other country on earth uses to defend their borders and to EXPEL those that don't.
Don't think that that's FAIR Dan? Then how about this? How about the U.S. simply using EXACTLY the same rules that Mexico uses on its southern border to handle their illegal aliens. They rape, rob, imprison, indenture, steal all of their belongings or even shoot them! Is that fair Dan? Source: http://www.cis.org/articles/2002/back702.html
So Dan, life's unfair, get a life. American's are sick and tired of getting screwed by liberals who hire illegals and then pay them slave wages....That's slavery Dan. Is that unfair too?a
Steven M| 9.21.10 @ 10:31PM
This is your argument lifes unfair? Americas don't want the jobs illegals do, the GOP just bitches about anything and everything and makes up excuses when thing to go their way.
Jeremiah| 9.25.10 @ 10:04PM
Typical liberal loser--whine, whine, whine.
Stop lying about the jobs--Illegals take a lot of good jobs away from Americans. Traitor.
Kenneth E. MacAlister Jr.| 9.21.10 @ 3:43PM
Did someone lock the RINOs out of the Senate Chamber or were they paying attention to the Republican primaries this year? Dingy Harry usually has no problem talking RINOs like Olympia Snowe & Susan Collins , to name two into voting for garbage like this. I don't know which I enjoy more, seeing this bill go down in flames or seeing Dingy Harry defeated. It's amazing how a few RINO losses in primaries will keep them from crossing the aisle to aid Dingy Harry & the Democrats.
Siegfried X| 9.21.10 @ 3:47PM
Yes, the defeat of Castle was like a fastball under the chin for the other RINOs. It keeps them from getting too close to the left side of the plate.
Oldefarte| 9.21.10 @ 3:57PM
Ah, geez, and they had Lady Gaga's endorsement too. HOLY EXCREMENT as a pedifile priest may say! It's a shame that someone doesn't lock Harry Reid in a closet with Barney Frank and see if he isn't thereafter willing to change his tune!!!!!!!
DRed| 9.21.10 @ 4:13PM
I thought a majority of Americans supported getting rid of 'don't ask, don't tell'. Ah well, it's not like the military needs any one right now. God forbid gay Americans be allowed to serve their country openly.
Conservative Bob| 9.21.10 @ 5:14PM
DRed
Actually they can and do serve. It is the openly part that presents the difficulty. It seems that those charged with issues of readiness and effectiveness do not think the open practice of homosexuality adds to either.
DRed| 9.21.10 @ 5:32PM
Hi Bob,
I'm aware that they can and do serve. And I have no problem with the military limiting the practice of homosexuality. Forcing those who do serve the rest of to do so while concealing their very nature strikes me as dishonorable. These people are willing to die for you, but you don't think they should be allowed to admit who they are?
Siegfried X| 9.21.10 @ 7:58PM
DADT _IS_ a ban on homosexuality. If there is visible evidence of such behavior, then the soldier is discharged.
The "don't ask" portion simply means that there has to be overt evidence before an investigation can be started. It bans profiling of individuals based on stereotypical non-sexual behavior.
Siegfried X| 9.21.10 @ 4:43PM
The one thing Republican politicians are good at is goal line stands. They don't seem to get serious about playing defense until the Democrats get the ball to the one yard line.