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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:07 PM Original message |
So apparently DADT repeal is pretty much dead |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. While I do not know whether or not it will pass, I wouldn't call it dead yet. They are now talking |
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AlinPA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:17 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. It's dead and has been all along. Why would the republicans allow the President to have |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:20 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. It wouldn't be all the Republicans. It would be Collins and Snowe. But you are right that it is more |
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MNBrewer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. So dead that rigor mortis has set in |
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bullwinkle428 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
2. All of those promises we heard a couple of weeks back - "we have all |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
3. There are going to be an enormous number of people disappointed if DADT |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
4. After the elections... |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
7. Good thing the Obama administration appealed the court ruling that declared DADT unconstitutional. |
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xultar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:22 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. We were trying to tell them we don't have time and they fucking appealed anyway |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:29 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. They appealed because it's the President's duty to defend Congressional laws. You wouldn't want a |
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Jakes Progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:34 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. Look up the word duty. |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:36 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Look up the words "faithful execution of the laws" |
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Jakes Progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 11:27 PM Response to Reply #23 |
38. Please stop. You are embarrassing yourself. |
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MNBrewer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:35 PM Response to Reply #11 |
19. not exactly |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 06:33 PM Response to Reply #11 |
35. Do you think *ANYONE* actually believes you about that anymore? (NT) |
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WiffenPoof (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
10. Apparently... |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
12. Yet Another Football... |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:41 PM Response to Reply #12 |
28. And the sad thing is they only need 51 votes to pass legislation, not 60 like they keep insisting. |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:49 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. We've Gone Through The Scenario |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 09:00 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. It's really very simple. |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 09:27 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. I Recall... |
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terrya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
13. If it doesn't happen legislatively, we pursue this through the courts. |
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MNBrewer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:33 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. THe only useful thing the LCRs have ever done |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
14. 'a fundamental failure of leadership from the top down, starting with President Obama.' |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
15. Everybody who knows says it is dead, give up, forget it |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
16. Could be. But Aravosis has a history of misrepresenting matters, |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:35 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. As much as I disagree with Aravosis on a great many things, he's probably right about the majority. |
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MNBrewer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:36 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. memories are the only valid source of information? |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:45 PM Response to Reply #16 |
30. actually that was me |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
20. "I don't like Mondays." |
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terrya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
24. Hell, the Democrats should attach DADT repeal to the tax cuts. |
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xultar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:39 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. You think Obama wouldn't have given away the baby, the bathwater, the soap, and the ducky |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:40 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. 'and the ducky' |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:40 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Wouldn't work. Wouldn't get more than a few Republican votes, which wouldn't make up for losing 20 |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
29. At least we got extended tax cuts for the wealthy |
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AmandaMae (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
31. disappointing and disgusting. They fail us once again. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
32. it's a travesty. |
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terrya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
34. *sigh*...I might be a naive idiot, but...it may not be dead yet |
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