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Cindy McCain disses her rabid 'phobe hubby in this famous pro-gay-equality ad.
Victories for the forces of justice, progress and equality are so few and far between lately, that we gotta make sure to celebrate each one. As Gabriel just told us, five conservative DINO Senators helped the Mexican-hating GOP kill the DREAM Act this morning for at least another couple years.
But shortly afterwards – mirabile dictu! – eight Republican Senators said “piss off old coot” to John McCain and joined nearly all Democrats in putting an end to a particularly gross and anachronistic Clinton-era policy – the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” which allowed gay people to serve in the military ONLY if they lied and pretended not to be gay. (How morally corrosive, and antithetical to military ideals!)
Props for rare independence to Republicans Scott Brown, Richard Burr, Susan Collins, John Ensign, Mark Kirk, Lisa Murkowski, Olympia Snowe and George Voinovich. America needs you guys to continue to occasionally buck your idiotic party and do what’s right, let’s see a lot more of that.
Senate Leader Harry Reid just had to tweet that good news to Lady Gaga who has been a tireless advocate on this issue: “@ladygaga #DADT on its way to becoming history.”
Local Tustin boy Lieutenant Dan Choi (left) who was discharged from the Army after coming out on the Rachel Maddow show, and is recovering from a “nervous breakdown” in a Massachusetts military hospital, responded this afternoon that the Senate vote “sent a jolt of good American energy,” and that it “re-energizes” him for the struggle.
And, below, a group of Democrats and equality activists take a well-deserved victory lap:
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Meanwhile, I heard John McCain, who has taken the leadership in preventing this vital step forward, dishonoring for the nth time his own military service and taking refuge behind a series of more and more nonsensical pretexts, cementing his reputation forever as a mean-spirited reactionary long past his due date, make his statement on the radio, such as it was: First he sputtered for a couple of seconds, then wheezed: “It’s a sad day in America.”
A sad day for you, perhaps, “my friend.” Time to go home now to your pro-gay wife and daughter to be patronized, pampered, put off to bed, and ridiculed during your nap by your female offspring who will outlive you by many decades.
Meghan McCain, the tolerant, good-natured,
economically conservative,
future of the Republican Party.
Dan Choi can rejoice…once he gets out of the loony bin. And the Dream Act is history too.
That’s Rick Moore of holycoast.com doing what he does best. He comes over, glances at the title of a piece, lobs a dumb nasty little rightwing comment, runs back to his Holy Coast, and never comes back to the post. So it’s best to ignore him.
I am not trying to keep the “Blog War” alive, but, I noticed that our openly gay neighbor in LONG BEACH, along with his free thinking publisher failed to mention that John Campbell. The Irvine based congressman villified by the LOC voted to repeal DADT!
Now, I would never expect Dan and Chris to have the class to acknowlege this amazing fact, for campbell is a far right winger, who they campaigned AGGRESSIVELY against last month.
I wonder what they think now.
So I guess it’s OK to to the right thing………But only if we like you!
I’m sitting here with the other Anti-War Christmas Carolers getting ready to go across to the Westminster Mall, and shared this bit of news with them.
They say that Campbell also voted to stop funding the wars, as did Dana. I will really have to give both these loonies credit for that, it’s only fair.
Sing loud and sing proud Nelson!