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Politics / Homo DADT Repeal Vote Scheduled For Saturday
Posted by Dan Savage on Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:27 PM
TPM:
On the Senate floor just now, Majority Leader Harry Reid announced the Senate will begin to vote as soon as Saturday on a bill to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. That puts it ahead of the START treaty, as proponents of repeal had requested. "We've got to move this all along," Reid said from the floor.Reid is also filing cloture on the DREAM Act. That means both bills should come up for a procedural vote on Saturday. The vote on the DREAM Act will come first, followed by the vote on DADT. The cloture vote to break the filibuster on the DREAM Act is expected to fail. Next will come a cloture vote on DADT. "If DREAM gets 60 to end debate then we would have final passage Sunday," a Reid aide told TPM. "If DREAM fails, but DADT gets 60 then it's the same case—final vote Sunday."
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God bless President Obama, Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi. And God bless the members of the Hedge Fund Party a/k/a Republican Party, who are going to have some 'splainin to do to their children and grandchildren--they can reach out to the children and grandchildren of our Southern segregationists for lessons.
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@2,
Yeah, instead of honoring those who've fought from the beginning, let's celebrate the ones who grudgingly agreed only after checking the poll numbers.
Yeah, instead of honoring those who've fought from the beginning, let's celebrate the ones who grudgingly agreed only after checking the poll numbers.
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It makes me choke a bit to have to acknowledge Lieberman's hard work in getting this through. He's still a douchenozzle, but for right now, he's our douchenozzle.
*choke*
*choke*
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@2 So lessee. that gives the Senate Republicans roughly an .071 batting average on this one, right? Yay Republicans!
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I wonder how much of this has to do with Ron Wyden's recent announcement about cancer surgery. Apparently he's available this weekend, but not tomorrow or Monday.
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@8 Everything to do with it, and to not let them use START or DREAM as a leverage. Reid is too timid at times by half but he always knows what he's doing, or acts like it.
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I've been let down too many times to allow myself to get my hopes up too high. Here's hoping this time it works.
In the meantime to ANYONE from Alaska, Massachusetts or Delaware: PLEASE make yourself a royal pain in the ass for the next 24 hours. Call your senators. Write email. Call into radio and tv stations. You have a greater chance than anyone to see this through!
In the meantime to ANYONE from Alaska, Massachusetts or Delaware: PLEASE make yourself a royal pain in the ass for the next 24 hours. Call your senators. Write email. Call into radio and tv stations. You have a greater chance than anyone to see this through!
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Good luck, guys. I wish I could do more for political stuff like this, but I've got my fingers crossed.
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@8 Good luck to Senator Wyden. This is why you don't put this shit off until the very effing end.
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If DADT falls, so too will DOMA before long. Can't you just hear the arguments? "Oh, so gay people can die for their country, they just can't get married in it!" It's a knock-down.
The Xtians and retroglodytes KNOW this - it's one of the reasons they're fighting on DADT so hard. And they're right. But they're gonna lose! Frabjous day and fingers crossed.
The Xtians and retroglodytes KNOW this - it's one of the reasons they're fighting on DADT so hard. And they're right. But they're gonna lose! Frabjous day and fingers crossed.
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Hope both DADT & DREAM pass. A ray of hope before two years of madness.
To support DREAM, which is probably 3 or 4 votes shy of winning after 10 years of trying, call 1-866-996-5161 today! Takes 60 seconds.
The number will put you in touch with one of the key fence-sitting Senators whose vote we need to help hundreds of thousands of undocumented youth who are living in the shadows. Some are LGTB youth who could benefit from both DREAM & DADT!
To support DREAM, which is probably 3 or 4 votes shy of winning after 10 years of trying, call 1-866-996-5161 today! Takes 60 seconds.
The number will put you in touch with one of the key fence-sitting Senators whose vote we need to help hundreds of thousands of undocumented youth who are living in the shadows. Some are LGTB youth who could benefit from both DREAM & DADT!
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Supreme Ruler: Frying in hell for eternity is a steep price to pay for being arrogant (and wrong).
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