DADT Vote on Hold

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Slate

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid was all set to bring "don't ask, don't tell" (and its parent defense authorization bill) up for debate last night. But Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) has asked him to hold off until after a vote on the tax cut deal. "Everyone on the Republican side wants to see the tax package completed first," Collins said yesterday evening. Collins has also set some other terms for consideration of the defense bill. She has requested 15 guaranteed votes on amendments and four days to consider the bill. Reid secured the 15 amendments, but only offered a couple days of debate. Collins pushed back, saying that she wanted double the time and assurance that "the Republicans get to pick our own amendments as opposed to the Majority Leader." If the Senate swiftly deals with the tax compromise this week, that could leave time for debating the defense bill next week. Talking Points Memo notes that things "look much more promising for DADT repealers now than they did even earlier this week."

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[saigon68]

1. doesn't fit with the Christian ethic in the country

Look mommy those men are sodomites </sarcasm>

[COLGATE4]

2. Collins is playing the Rethuglican stalking horse on DADT - pretending

that she 'may' vote to let it be debated, while stalling the vote so the clock runs out. Remember that Olympia Snowe did much the same thing before. Just a sucker deal. As always.

[groundloop]

3. And Reid is playing along.

[AlbertCat]

4. "Everyone on the Republican side wants to see the tax package completed first,"

Who gives a rat's ass what the Repugs want?

WHY do Dems insist on doing what the Repugs want?

Is it because the Repugs were so gracious and polite and deferred to Dem demands from 2000-2008?

To quote Dick Cheney.... "fuck you".

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. Perhaps because a DADT repeal won't happen without some GOP support

[uppityperson]

6. No repubs will vote to overturn it until they get the tax deal passed? I hate politics

and most of the politicians playing this shit.