The vast majority of gays here believe Obama merits relection on gay issues

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but can you please, in return, not insult our intelligence with ludricrious defenses of his not issuing an executive order to require government contractors to not discriminate against gays.

It is nothing short of silly to think that ENDA has any chance of passing this House. First, the leadership of the House has made clear that only bills which have a majority of the majority as co sponsors will be brought to the floor. Thus ENDA would need majority support among GOP House members to even get a vote. It is not even close. In 2007, the last time a vote was taken, it got 35 out of 200 votes or 17.5% of the vote. Of the 35 yes votes at least 14 are no longer in Congress. There are now 242 GOP votes in this Congress. Even if we only needed the 50% + 1 we would need a bare minimum of 22 GOP votes which we likely don't have. Oh, and then we need 7 GOP votes in the Senate and that is if the worthless Nelson of NE votes with us. In short, there is no chance here. Obama decided, as is his want, not to issue an executive order. We, as is our want, are not happy. The lack of an EO is lots of things but what it isn't is part of some grand plan to pass ENDA in this Congress. Not when the American Taliban run the show.