WARNING: My very Rated R perspective on GOP block of Senate vote to Repeal DADT
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Fails, Blocked By Senate Republicans
If you f***ing morons in congress don't understand unconstitutionality when you see it--and there is plenty of evidence that you do not (DADT violates gay servicemembers' First and Fifth Amend. Rights and, I believe, the Equal Protection Clause -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Cabin_Republicans_v._United_States_of_America), then it is up to the federal courts to declare that DADT CANNOT BE law because it is unconstitutional. (See also, e.g., the last paragraph of my blog post yesterday: http://ericschupper.blogspot.com/2010/12/house-blocks-us-trial-of-guantanamo.html.) Of course, the potential problem at the end of that judicial process is the activist Roberts Court. That Republicans like Scott Brown are holding hostage the vote to repeal DADT until there is a vote on taxes is tantamount to unconscionable. And f**k you John McCain you disingenuous little man for failing to honor your word. Sanctimonious piece of sh*t, supposing to impose your singular judgment over that of the entire cadre of 4-star commanders of the US military branches, current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Adm. Mike Mullen, and SecDef Robert Gates, all of whom testified before you that ending DADT will have little to no effect on military morale and readiness, as well as past military commanders including but not limited to former Joint Chiefs Chairman, Sec. of State and general all-around bad-ass American (except for that 2003 speech before the UN Security Council) Colin Powell. A military man and combat veteran honors his word. If I give my word, you bet your sweet ass I'll do what I say, even if I don't like it at the time I am called on to honor it. John McCain seems to have forgotten that code of honor that we veterans adhere to and live our lives by. But this is what we've degenerated to because of the f***ing moronic rules of the congregation of clusterf**ks otherwise known as the modern United States Senate.
(So you who haven't studied constitutional law or who may otherwise may be a little rusty on your civics understand, government policy which denies rights to or discriminates against a class of people -- gays, racial minorities, women, you name it -- based on their class status violates the Constitution. It is not complicated. DADT is nothing more than institutionalized bigotry and homophobia. And Bill Clinton is at fault for having enacted it in the first place 17 years ago.)
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-gaggle/2010/12/09/republicans-manchin-block-don-t-ask-don-t-tell-repeal-in-senate.html