It didn't work.
DOMA too.
Dems own BOTH!!! And dems are fighting FOR both!
God this is easy
On Dec 8, 12:08 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ACTION Alert: Call and Fax your two US Senators on DADT Repeal NOW!
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> The Federal Eye: Senate plans procedural vote on 'don't ask, don't tell'
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> By Ed O'Keefe
> Wednesday, December 8, 2010; 11:10 AM
>
> Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is likely to hold a
> procedural vote Wednesday on a bill that would end the military's
> "don't ask, don't tell" law, but the measure is expected to fail,
> according to Senate Democratic aides and advocates for ending the law.
>
> Reid said this morning he would likely file a motion later today to
> reconsider the annual defense authorization bill, a massive piece of
> legislation that includes language instructing the Pentagon to end the
> policy.
>
> But holding a vote today would keep several Republicans from voting to
> proceed, according to aides and activists familiar with ongoing
> negotiations who are not authorized to speak on the record. Republican
> senators, led by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), have said they would
> filibuster attempts to move forward with the bill. McCain, a vocal
> critic of a Pentagon study released last week on the topic, wants to
> hold more hearings with frontline military commanders and senior
> enlisted officers before voting to repeal the law.
>
> Holding an ultimately unsuccessful vote today has the potential to
> further enrage liberal Democrats and gay rights activists upset with
> Congressional Democrats and the White House for failing to deliver on
> several campaign promises.
>
> If the procedural vote fails today, "it will be impossible to raise
> money for Senate Democrats that are up in 2012," said Fred Sainz, vice
> president of the Human Rights Campaign, a group actively lobbying for
> end to the ban. "If Reid likes the majority leader title, he better
> think twice about the way this is currently set up for failure."
>
> "We're staring at failure," said another experienced activist involved
> with the negotiations, who was not authorized to speak on the record.
>
> Gay rights groups and some Democratic senators want Reid to move
> forward to consideration of a tax cut compromise and a $1.1 trillion
> bill to keep the government running before reconsidering the defense
> bill.
>
> They cite the expected support of moderate Republican Sens. Susan
> Collins (Maine) and Scott Brown (Mass.), who are willing to support
> repeal if Reid holds the vote after the tax and spending bills and
> allows for a fair debate process. Despite weeks of questions and
> deliberations with Democrats, Collins has yet to signal her final
> intentions or to clarify what a "fair debate process" means, according
> to Senate aides and others familiar with the negotiations.
>
> Democrats are focused on also securing the support of Sens. George
> Voinovich (R-Ohio), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Richard Lugar (R-Ind.),
> John Ensign (R-Nev.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), according to
> Democratic aides.
>
> The defense bill failed in September to garner the 60 votes necessary
> to move forward. Wednesday's action would be similar to what occurred
> in September and would not represent a final vote on the issue.
>
> An unsuccessful vote could lead to several scenarios, including
> efforts to pass repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" as a standalone
> bill, adding it to other legislation expected to pass in the next
> week, or postponing debate on the issue until the new year and the
> start of a Republican-dominated Congress.
>
> If Congress doesn't act, the Pentagon and gay rights advocates have
> warned that federal judges considering cases that challenge the
> constitutionality of the ban could at any time order an immediate end
> to the ban, leading to potential chaos for military recruiters and
> troops in the field.
>
> A successful vote -- again, unlikely if it happens today, according to
> activists -- would put the issue back on the Senate's formal to-do
> list, making it possible for senators to debate and vote on the bill
> before the end of next week when they plan to go home.
>
> More:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/08/AR201...
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> Have a great day,
> Tommy
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