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The vote on the motion to proceed with the the annual defense appropriations authorization bill that includes a repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is scheduled for this afternoon.
With Jim Webb of Virginia dissenting, Harry Reid needs two Republican votes to overcome a filibuster and move the bill to a floor vote. The two most likely votes are the ladies from Maine, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe.
Accordingly, the country’s biggest anti-DADT advocate, Lady Gaga, trekked up to Portland yesterday to demonstrate in Collins’s and Snowe’s home state.
And, apparently, yesterday Lady Gaga also had a conversation with New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who supports repeal of DADT. Needless to say, yesterday and today’s debates over DADT will not go down as a bright spot in the annuls of U.S. political discourse..
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Siegfried X| 9.21.10 @ 8:39AM
The bill also includes a mini-amnesty for illegal aliens called the DREAM act, and it provides public funding for abortions in military hospitals.
Mike | 9.21.10 @ 9:58AM
Minor clarification, the bill provides for privately funded abortions at military hospitals.
JP| 9.21.10 @ 8:59AM
It wasn't that long ago, during the Clinton Years, that when ever the Dems needed to get an important piece of legislation passed, they would simply ask the President to hold a quick impromptu rally in the state where the reclalcitrant lawmaker lived -and BINGO, they had the votes (Yes, the Boy President from Hope was very good at that game).
But things have changed. The President did not chose to travel to Maine (in order to pressure the two "Moderate" Senate gals. Instead he dispatched Gaga.
So, the future, morale and combat effectivenes of our military hinges on the ability of a nasty foul mouthed pop culture icon to apply pressure on 2 female GOP Senators. The sad thing is, it just might work.
Mike | 9.21.10 @ 10:03AM
As someone who was kicked out under Don't Ask, Don't Tell I can tell you that Conservatives fight against gay rights based on fear and emotion not logic and reason. No scientific organizations considers homosexuality a disorder.
JP| 9.21.10 @ 10:46AM
And I don't think there has yet been a "study" that concluded that sodomy improves our ability to fight and win wars. BTW, scientific organizations do not win wars.
Clark| 9.21.10 @ 5:09PM
And I'm pretty sure there has been no such study to prove it causes a detriment, either. However, taking other countries as an example, countries that promote full honesty and trust among the fighting men and women experience higher levels of morale; if you don't think morale has an impact, then your opinions on this matter are null and void.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.....ry_service
Why not take a look at the countries who do, and the countries who don't, allow open service, and decide who you want to align yourself with. If you pick Iran, Cuba, China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, then odds are you're a tremendous hypocrite.
For the record, they're not asking for the right to have sex in the barracks, they just want the right to be who they are, just like all the straight people get to.
Furthermore, if scientific organizations don't win wars, explain Japan's surrender in WWII.
Patriot| 9.23.10 @ 11:00PM
Military service is VOLUNTARY--stop whining.
Siegfried X| 9.21.10 @ 9:13AM
Yes, political culture has really gone down the drain. I can remember Nixon and Kennedy debating in ties and in a dignified way for the 1960 election.
This is like everything else is today's culture: a mile wide and an inch deep.
Andrew B| 9.21.10 @ 9:20AM
Well, let me say that I, for one, thank God Almighty that we now know Lady Gaga's opinion on the matter. Really, how has the Republic lasted so long without the wise council of disco singers? Wouldn't we have all been better off if we had known how Donna Summer felt about the deployment of Pershing missiles, or if the Andrea True Connection could have weighed in on the wisdom of the Mayaguez rescue mission?
rex & Catherine Phillips| 9.21.10 @ 4:29PM
Whatever happened to majority rule? The GOP Senators filibuster everything, so it requires a super-majority of 60 votes to pass anything. This is a very cynical strategy. The Democrats should pass a resolution making majority rule on any piece of legislation. The number required used to be 67 votes, and that is how segregationists denied for years equal treatment of blacks, by filibustering Civil Rights legislation.
And here is another example of discrimination being cemented into our law, at least for the time being. Gay Americans work hard, pay taxes and are good citizens. If they want to serve freely in the military, why should the Congress begrudge them?
Patriot| 9.23.10 @ 11:02PM
Why should heterosexual members of our military be forced to live with openly gay service members?
Especially, if they didn't sign up for same?
Who are YOU to force them?
MASON| 10.6.10 @ 2:36AM
Who are YOU, Patriot, to deny another human being the same choices and rights granted to you?