Thursday, June 25, 2009
Politics / Homo DADT Letter: Adam Smith Signs On
Posted by Dan Savage on Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:12 AM
After first saying it was too late for him to sign the Hastings letter—"once the letter is sent it is sent"—Rep. Adam Smith has decided to join Rep. Jay Inslee in adding his name to the letter sent to Obama on Monday asking the president to suspend enforcement of DADT while Congress works on a solution/repeal. The Hastings letter was originally signed by 76 members of Congress; now it's been signed by 78 members. I'm going to keep calling members of Washington state's congressional delegation—including the rude douchebags on Brian Baird's staff—until they've all either signed on or given me their reasons for declining to sign on.
Fort Lewis and McChord Air Force Base are in Adam Smith's district.
And if Obama wants tips about suspending the enforcement of a law while congress works "on a fix," he can check with Janet Napolitano at DHS about how it's done.
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Way to go, Dan. Your efforts are making a difference!
I heard you on NPR this morning, talking about DOMA. Very good stuff.
I heard you on NPR this morning, talking about DOMA. Very good stuff.
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YAY Dan.
Who else hasn't signed it, Larsen?
"We can't sign a letter after it is sent" hahahahahahah what a bunch of pussies.
These people are ridiculous. They don't lead or stand for anything at all.
Please post a whole scoreboard on DADT DOMA gay marriage and public option. Fucking Cantwell, we need to sign on line petitions saying she ain't gonna get any check and we will support a challenger if she doesn't support the public option and tell that idiot from Montana he does not rule over us.
Who else hasn't signed it, Larsen?
"We can't sign a letter after it is sent" hahahahahahah what a bunch of pussies.
These people are ridiculous. They don't lead or stand for anything at all.
Please post a whole scoreboard on DADT DOMA gay marriage and public option. Fucking Cantwell, we need to sign on line petitions saying she ain't gonna get any check and we will support a challenger if she doesn't support the public option and tell that idiot from Montana he does not rule over us.
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Dan, buddy. What is the deal with straight liberals telling us to "shut up" and "stop whining" about "nothing" ("nothing" meaning "our basic civil rights")? To "leave Obama alone" because he's too busy to listen to our adolescent griping?
Example: http://bloggerinterrupted.com/2009/06/no…
ANNOYED
Example: http://bloggerinterrupted.com/2009/06/no…
ANNOYED
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so where is he on single-payer national health care - the thing that actually is on the table right now?
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Hey Dan, I know that people consider you to be a gay activist and sex advice columnist and all, but why are you always writing about gay issues and sex?
I've decided that I want to read about coral reefs. Rather than navigate to one of the many websites that talk about coral reefs, I am going to whine in every thread about how you need to talk about coral reefs and the dire situation they face in the midst of ocean acidification, trawl fishing, and cyanide fishing.
In fact, every day, whatever I feel like reading about, I'm going to whine at you until YOU write something about it. Today it's coral reefs. Tomorrow it might be mushroom picking. Japanese internment camps. The NYT bestseller's list. Health care. Domestic violence. Who knows?
Signed,
- Will in Seattle
PS- I can't take a fucking hint.
I've decided that I want to read about coral reefs. Rather than navigate to one of the many websites that talk about coral reefs, I am going to whine in every thread about how you need to talk about coral reefs and the dire situation they face in the midst of ocean acidification, trawl fishing, and cyanide fishing.
In fact, every day, whatever I feel like reading about, I'm going to whine at you until YOU write something about it. Today it's coral reefs. Tomorrow it might be mushroom picking. Japanese internment camps. The NYT bestseller's list. Health care. Domestic violence. Who knows?
Signed,
- Will in Seattle
PS- I can't take a fucking hint.
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Oh, and btw Will, single-payer national health care is NOT on the table right now. I wish it were, but they took it off the table over a month ago. What's on the table right now is the "public option," a sellout half-measure. Sad, I agree, but if you're gonna whine about health care on a blog that isn't about health care, then at least get your shit right.
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@8 - wrong. it is on the table. you just refuse to recognize the giant elephant in the room, and prefer to whine.
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@4
those straight liberals are wrong, others are behind gay rights 100%.
those annoyed ones are afraid. Because the political system continually disapoints us, they are askeered that somehow pushing gay rights means less hope on health care.
They don't realize we have the power, we have the majority, if we aren't pushing full bore right now for every damn thing we want from gay rights to health care, well my god we're only defeating ourselves.
The GOPSters are weak and in death throws. Our Democratic "leaders" are chicken shit and have to be pushed into everything. The tipping point on gay rights is NOW. The tipping point on health care is NOW. But to tip it over we've all got to pusha nd bitch and rally an e mail and raise a ruckus NOW.
Hope, change and unity!
those straight liberals are wrong, others are behind gay rights 100%.
those annoyed ones are afraid. Because the political system continually disapoints us, they are askeered that somehow pushing gay rights means less hope on health care.
They don't realize we have the power, we have the majority, if we aren't pushing full bore right now for every damn thing we want from gay rights to health care, well my god we're only defeating ourselves.
The GOPSters are weak and in death throws. Our Democratic "leaders" are chicken shit and have to be pushed into everything. The tipping point on gay rights is NOW. The tipping point on health care is NOW. But to tip it over we've all got to pusha nd bitch and rally an e mail and raise a ruckus NOW.
Hope, change and unity!
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9: so then what's all this talk by Obama about allowing a "public option" to work ALONGSIDE private insurance and compete with it? That's not single-payer. And what was all that talk about single payer being taken off the table, in those very words, which hasn't been revoked?
There may be implications that they might put single-payer back on the table, years from now, if they're pleased with the public option. But to me, that doesn't qualify as having single-payer on the table.
And I love how begging Dan, who has no expertise in health care, to post about health care (instead of going to a health care blog) is not whining, but petitioning for suspension of DADT IS whining. Way to be as obliviously ass-backwards as possible.
There may be implications that they might put single-payer back on the table, years from now, if they're pleased with the public option. But to me, that doesn't qualify as having single-payer on the table.
And I love how begging Dan, who has no expertise in health care, to post about health care (instead of going to a health care blog) is not whining, but petitioning for suspension of DADT IS whining. Way to be as obliviously ass-backwards as possible.
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Besides, health care is not some "elephant in the room" that we all refuse to recognize. In case you haven't noticed any of the hundred times it's been pointed out to you, this is a blog that focuses on GAY ISSUES. The reason that health care isn't discussed (much) here is that it's not a gay issue, not because we're all a bunch of weirdo fags who hate health care and refuse to talk about it.
Dan also doesn't talk much about NASA. Does that mean he's against space exploration?
Dan also doesn't talk much about NASA. Does that mean he's against space exploration?
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That's great, Dan (and I mean that sincerely). Are you also asking these representatives to keep the pen in their hand after they sign this letter and, I don't know, start drafting legislation to repeal DADT? After all, they keep saying it's going to take a long time, and this session started 1/6/09...which means they've had 14 more days than President Obama to work on this and haven't done anything more than he has.
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Having done lobbying for human services in D.C., I second your comment on the douchebaggery of Brian Baird's staff. They are rude. But it starts at the top -- word from staff for other members of the Washington delegation is that Baird is on of the most difficult members to work for in the entire Congress. Apparently these irritating jerks are the best staff he can keep.
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