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Coyotl

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Thu Nov 7, 2013, 08:29 PM Nov 2013

Republican anti-gay bigots are getting their clocks cleaned


Anti-gay bigots are getting their clocks cleaned
Today's vote on LGBT workplace protections showed Democrats using it as a wedge issue. And the right hiding in fear


Kerry Eleveld - Nov 7, 2013 - http://www.salon.com/2013/11/07/anti_gay_bigots_are_getting_their_clocks_cleaned/


By their actions today, Democrats and Republicans both made clear that they agree on something significant: Gay rights are currently a winning issue for Democrats and a losing one for the GOP.

So winning, in fact, that as the Senate approached a Thursday vote on workplace protections for gay and transgender workers, Majority Leader Harry Reid asserted that the GOP-controlled House of Representatives was going to have to “capitulate, if they have any hope” of nominating “a viable candidate” for president or “want to hang onto the House.”

Apparently, the GOP firebrands agree. When it came time for Senate Republicans to voice their objections to the bill before the procedural vote Monday: crickets. No “Green Eggs and Ham” from Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. No showboating by the usual suspects. None of them wanted to take the floor against an anti-discrimination law that nearly 70 percent of Americans support and 90 percent believe already exists.

On the House side, an aide for Speaker John Boehner strenuously objected when the Huffington Post reported Monday that Boehner’s stated opposition to the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA) dealt “a blow” to the bill’s chances of reaching the president’s desk. ........
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