Now that the House has passed a stand-alone version of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal, the only question remaining is how the Senate will screw this up. The votes are there! Right there! Don't go murmuring about "time" restraints!
Lt. Dan Choi, the prominent anti-Don't Ask Don't Tell activist, has been hospitalized following a breakdown. "My breakdown was a result of a cumulative array of stressors," he writes, including the Senate's failure to pass a DADT-repealing bill. [via Towleroad]
Today we were disappointed by the failure of the Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal. Lots of grumbling and moaning abounded, but one commenter has an active plan. A plan to make some things change in this country.
Barring some extraordinary legislative feat, a repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" appears to be dead, finally. "Moderate" Republicans didn't get their ever-shifting demands met before Harry Reid brought it for a vote today, and it lost.
Harry Reid may attempt to push a repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell onto the Senate floor today, a move that few expect to result in an end to the ban on openly gay servicemembers in the military.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Navy sailors serving in the Arabian Sea today that despite the push from him and other Pentagon leaders, the military's ban on gays serving openly is likely to continue into the next year.
The second day of Senate hearings regarding a "Don't Ask Don't Tell" repeal went better for shameless filibuster-leader John McCain. But that's only because he fully embarrassed himself yesterday. But are the individual service chiefs really against repeal?
Jon Stewart tread on familiar ground tonight, lambasting Senator John McCain for continuing his backpedaling and doublespeak on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Curiously, though, it was Joe Lieberman who got a tip of the hat. Watch inside.
Today we looked at crusty ol' Gramps McCain's unending support of Don't Ask Don't Tell, frustrating everyone who read it. One commenter decided to do a little psychological digging to get to the real heart of the three-time centenarian.
A proposed repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" enjoys the support of a national majority. The Pentagon has thoroughly studied and endorsed it. It wouldn't bother soldiers. DADT has been ruled unconstitutional, anyway. But John McCain needs more.
The Pentagon has officially released its several hundred-page study on whether allowing gay soldiers say "I'm gay" aloud would destroy the American military. And its survey results show: Most soldiers do not think that this would destroy the American military.
According to a Pew study, Americans are increasingly supportive of "gays" and "woman gays" serving in the United States military. They're also buckling like weaklings to the anti-family onslaught.
Today we looked at a crusty old man who is scared that leering gay men will ruin troop readiness. Y'know, because it'll make them all uncomfortable-like! This sentiment stirred up a lovely rant by one of our own commenters.
Sick of all this gays in the military jibber-jabber? Well, rest easy, because the whole controversy has been settled on The Daily Caller. The solution? Lesbians are totally fine in the military, but gay men (hereafter "gays") are absolutely not.
Senate Democrats will keep a "Don't Ask Don't Tell" repeal in the defense authorization bill next month. This is your last chance, gays, and supporters of gays, so consider telephoning your particular plutocrat. Then we can stop talking about this!
Tonight, Jon Stewart spent a few minutes discussing, in detail, just how ridiculous and archaic—not to mention ever-evolving—John McCain's stance on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is, marking Stewart's harshest critique yet of McCain's increasingly indefensible views. Watch inside.
Remember how Democrats would simply wait until after the election to pass all of their bills, during a pressure-free lame duck session? Did you buy that? Because they're already dropping most agenda items, including a "Don't Ask Don't Tell" repeal.
According to the leaked results of a Department of Defense survey, a majority of service members wouldn't oppose serving or living alongside gays and lesbians. "Some" (not a majority) said they'd quit if "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" were repealed.
Barack Obama invited some special friends for a first-of-its-kind, in-person White House chat today: liberal bloggers who are always mean to him! And the first report back suggests that they discussed Obama's legislative strategy for repealing DADT. He has one!
Today we looked at a beautiful politician who figured short people can't be in the military, so why do gays be allowed in? Many of you responded. In particular, one with a quippy one-liner, another with a moving personal story.
