{"id":3545,"date":"2010-12-06T01:19:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T09:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3545"},"modified":"2010-12-06T01:19:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T09:19:47","slug":"no-senate-vote-on-dadt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/06\/no-senate-vote-on-dadt\/","title":{"rendered":"No Senate Vote on DADT"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suppose no matter how gutless a deal Reid makes with the Republicans on keeping the Bush Billionaire Bonus, Republicans still intend to prevent a majority vote on DADT.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"6dadt\"The US Senate will not have enough time to vote on lifting a ban on gays serving openly in the military before the end of the year, the Republican opposition leader said Sunday.<\/p>\n

"I don’t see how we can possibly finish the defense authorization bill, a two-week bill, fully aside from these controversial items in it… before the end of the year," Mitch McConnell told NBC’s Meet the Press.<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama’s Democratic allies have sought to use a lame-duck session of Congress to repeal the "Don’t Ask Don’t Tell" policy that bans openly gay men and women from serving in the armed forces.<\/p>\n

If the Senate vote is pushed aside by other major legislation — including efforts to prevent a massive New Year’s tax hike and a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia — it is much less likely to pass next year<\/strong>, when Republicans will assume more seats in the chamber.<\/p>\n

Republicans oppose repealing the ban, saying it would disrupt military discipline and readiness<\/font><\/strong> at a time when US troops are fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

McConnell said he agreed with fellow Republican Senator John McCain that the ban should remain in place for the time being<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Bought Bitch Mitch and McCloset are opposing the will of the American People, the military leadership, and the troops themselves to pander to the religious bigotry of the pseudo-Christian Theocon wing of the Republican Reich.  Shame!  Bring on the courts!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I suppose no matter how gutless a deal Reid makes with the Republicans on keeping the Bush Billionaire Bonus, Republicans still intend to prevent a majority vote on DADT. The US Senate will not have enough time to vote on lifting a ban on gays serving openly in the military before the end of the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-35-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}