DADT is dead, 17 years too late. After much trial and with much tribulation, President Obama and Majority Leader Reid kept a crucial campaign promise and advanced equality in our country. Welcome to the thread.
- The Christian conservative right considers this the end of America. This is worth reprinting at length for the sheer hilarity.
This isn’t a game, and the military should never be used, as is now being done, for massive social re-engineering. The new Marine motto: “The Few, the Proud, the Sexually Twisted.” Good luck selling that to strong young males who would otherwise love to defend their country. What virile young man wants to serve in a military like that?
If the president and the Democrats wanted to purposely weaken and eventually destroy the United States of America, they could not have picked a more efficient strategy to make it happen.
Rarely can you point to a moment in time when a nation consigned itself to the scrap heap of history. Today, when the Senate normalized sexual perversion in the military, was that moment for the United States. If historians want a fixed marker pointing to the instant the United States sealed its own demise, they just found it.
It won’t happen overnight, but happen it will.
And Republicans did not just stand around and watch as our military was shredded before their very eyes, they helped it happen. Shame on them all.
We haven't had a lot to smile about lately. But seeing the conservative freakout over DADT is well worth the price of admission.
- Remember when Dan Choi gave Majority Leader Reid his ring and discharge papers? It happened at Netroots Nation:
What could happen in Minneapolis? And do you really want to miss it? Didn't think so.
- Rachel Maddow gives President Obama a lot of credit for insisting that this could be done legislatively, and therefore permanently, rather than just by the stopgap of an executive order.
- Not a link, just an observation. The repeal of DADT was exhilarating, but the failure to pass the DREAM Act was a significant disappointment. On the bright side, major Latino television stations interrupted their traditional coverage to cover the vote. Hopefully, they will have learned that Republicans for the most part don't like them, and Democrats (for the most part) do. That said, one has to wonder: what the heck were the Democrats who voted against it thinking?
- A record storm is currently pounding the Los Angeles area.
- McCainology.