Thursday, October 14, 2010

Rachel Maddow Sums It Up On DADT - Obama Will Be Responsible if DADT Remains For Years to Come

Anyone who has read recent posts on this blog should know that I am so over Barack Obama and his lies and actions that are holding back the movement to full LGBT legal equality under the nation's laws that I'm about to pull my hair out. Likewise, I'm to the point of advocating all forms of civil disobedience to cause Obama non-stop embarrassment. Combined with that, I believe the LGBT community - at least outside of the ass kissers at Gay. Inc. - need to make a part that the Democratic Party as a whole will be held accountable for the lack of support and lack of action by ANY of its elected official members at the national level. That's right, if Obama appeals the DADT ruling, it should equate to ZERO votes being cast to support Democrats nationwide. Short term, this might result in a step backwards, but I see no other way to end the constant lies and broken promises which are the norm with the Party's representatives in Congress and the White House. The LGBT vote may not be huge, but in close races, staying home could well doom Democrats. As a community, we need to stop acting like Pavlov's dog and voting for Democrats no matter what abuse they throw at us. Rachel Maddow via Towleroad summarizes what is about to likely happen to us at the hands of the liar-in-chief (the following is at about the 5:00 mark):
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"Unless you believe that the United States Senate after this year's elections is going to do the right thing by gay service members — HA! — then the decision by the Obama administration whether or not to appeal this ruling is likely a decision between killing this policy, now, and letting it survive, probably forever. This is not the conclusion I expected to reach after today's report on the subject and after today's interviews...
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...Everybody says the Justice Department appealing this ruling is an inevitablity. It does not have to be. It is not inevitable. If the administration believes the law is unconstitutional, there is precedent that supports the administration not appealing it and letting the law die. An orderly timeframe for the death of a law can be arranged with the court. I hereby declare that I will never get another call back in Washington ever again for putting it this way to you, but it is the way it is. A plan that has no chance of becoming reality is not a real plan, no matter how much you say it is. You can either end it, or you can stop saying you will.
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