Again, MY junior Senator , hard at work:
"After determining she didn’t have enough votes in support of a temporary suspension of the ban on gays in the military, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand tells The Daily Beast she has secured the commitment of Senate Armed Services Committee to hold hearings on “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” this fall. It would be the first formal re-assessment of the policy since Congress passed it into law in 1993.
A statement from the Gillibrand’s office, shared exclusively with The Daily Beast, notes that “265 men and women have been unfairly dismissed from the Armed Forces since President Barack Obama took office.” Full story from
You know, if I were advising The President, (which, seriously Barack, I am free these days.. sitting by the phone.....) If I were advising the President, I would tell him NOW is the time for him to come on National TV and demand full out right MARRIAGE EQUALITY on the Federal level for all Americans. The right wing would go Krakatoa , nothing would get said or done on television for days and days, it would be almost Jackson like coverage... WHILE everyone is watching the shiny coin that is marriage equality he and Nancy and Harry slip though some all out single payer health care , shhhhh... don't tell anyone.
I mean it's really , win/win....
I for one will be GLUED to the c-span when these Senate hearings take place. Maybe even turn it into a drinking game, if they are replayed at night. You have to take a shot everything a Senator with a deep Southern Accent says " homoSEXual" or the word " shower".... Jeff Sessions alone will get you drunk. But, hopefully it will give brave Americans like Dan Choi and Victor Fehrenbach the stage to confront the men that are kicking them out of the military. Men , who for the most part, were MUCH too cowardly to serve... ( Lindsey excluded .. BUT, single, Southern , tidy and over 40... don't ask what Senator Graham? )
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