Might GOP Work Against Civil Rights….Again?
Regarding DADT, there seems to be the votes for repeal this weekend in the senate. But given the track record of conservatives opposing civil rights over the decades, nothing can be counted on. For some in the GOP to play the START treaty against repeal of DADT underscores the intellectual bankruptcy that is the Republican Party.
But hurdles remain for the bill. Although Mr. Reid will try to avoid it, Republicans could call for amendments, which would delay a vote. Further, White House officials and Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, have suggested that some Republicans are threatening to block the New Start treaty if the military repeal (DADT) goes forward. Such a maneuver “takes us way back to an earlier day when people used to do things like that to stop civil rights laws from passing,” Mr. Lieberman said.
No.
Take a look backwards on those who want to use the filibuster on every item as a way to slow or end a bill. You will note a trend.
It has not been the Democrats who have stalled DADT, but the knowledge that the GOP would throw up political tactics.
Just look at the fact that even now conservatives want to use START to block DADT.
Maybe we could just send those bigots to an island.
Who has had a super-majority in congress since the election of Obama? Who doesn’t care about the rights of gays? You keep blaming the conservatives, but the conservatives control nothing. I know it is a great disappointment to find that those you have supported don’t give a crap about you, but that’s just the way it is.
This is not a divisive issue with the american people. Most support repealing DADT, but democrats don’t. If they wanted to do it, it would be done–and not during this murky period. Were they too ashamed to vote to repeal DADT before the election?
Perhaps gays should move to Isreal, a country which is proud of all citizens who wish to defend their country.