Senate passes repeal of DADT with 65 votes

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Intresting, if you made SD, NE, and LA red, MO, IO, WV, FL, and NH green, you'd get what a McCain vs. Clinton map would likly have looked like. (Assuming Palin was never the Republican VP candidate.)

[Verily]

Intresting, if you made SD, NE, and LA red, MO, IO, WV, FL, and NH green, you'd get what a McCain vs. Clinton map would likly have looked like. (Assuming Palin was never the Republican VP candidate.)

Montana and North Dakota, and especially Alaska? Dubious. For that matter, North Carolina? Also dubious.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Passed in a Lame Duck as well. Double trouble.

To protect the world from devastation.

To unite all people within our nation.

To denounce the evils of truth and love.

[Phony Moderate]

[nclib]

Great news! Especially pleased about Burr and his voting for this after the election (otherwise it may have been a ploy to woo moderate voters).

I think Gregg actually didn't vote, which means the only Senators in Obama states to vote Nay were Lugar, Grassley, and LeMieux.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Passed in a Lame Duck as well. Double trouble.

To protect the world from devastation.

To unite all people within our nation.

To denounce the evils of truth and love.

To extend our reach to the stars above.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Passed in a Lame Duck as well. Double trouble.

To protect the world from devastation.

To unite all people within our nation.

To denounce the evils of truth and love.

To extend our reach to the stars above.

Jessie!

[Free Palestine]

Passed in a Lame Duck as well. Double trouble.

To protect the world from devastation.

To unite all people within our nation.

To denounce the evils of truth and love.

To extend our reach to the stars above.

Jessie!

James!

[Marokai Backbeat]

Passed in a Lame Duck as well. Double trouble.

To protect the world from devastation.

To unite all people within our nation.

To denounce the evils of truth and love.

To extend our reach to the stars above.

Jessie!

James!

Team Rocket, blasting off at the speed of light!

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Passed in a Lame Duck as well. Double trouble.

To protect the world from devastation.

To unite all people within our nation.

To denounce the evils of truth and love.

To extend our reach to the stars above.

Jessie!

James!

Team Rocket, blasting off at the speed of light!

Surrender now or prepare to fight!

[Mavvy]

Awesome. This discriminatory policy should have never been enacted.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Passed in a Lame Duck as well. Double trouble.

To protect the world from devastation.

To unite all people within our nation.

To denounce the evils of truth and love.

To extend our reach to the stars above.

Jessie!

James!

Team Rocket, blasting off at the speed of light!

Surrender now or prepare to fight!

Meowth that's right!

[RichmondFalls]

Would libertarian hero Joe Miller have voted for this? Because Murkowski did.

She may be on her way to status as the Republican Lieberman.

[they don't love you like i love you]

FYI the issue with Kirk was how blatant his flip flop was on this. I wouldn't have made a big deal if he was always opposed.

Free Republic is full of hilarious comments. My favorite being something along the lines of "This will ruin our military just as it has ruined the British, Israeli, Canadian and German militaries." If this was on any other forum, everyone would assume it to be sarcasm, but for some reason Freepers expect us to take it as fact with no backing up. Quite amusing.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

FYI the issue with Kirk was how blatant his flip flop was on this. I wouldn't have made a big deal if he was always opposed.

Free Republic is full of hilarious comments. My favorite being something along the lines of "This will ruin our military just as it has ruined the British, Israeli, Canadian and German militaries." If this was on any other forum, everyone would assume it to be sarcasm, but for some reason Freepers expect us to take it as fact with no backing up. Quite amusing.

So... it would be better if he just flat out opposed repeal rather than to help overturn it?

Ideological extremists of either variety just don't make any sense sometimes.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Now when will Obama sign it?

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Judd Gregg and Charles Grassley confirm once again that they are "sensible" conservatives.

because Gregg wasn't there to vote one way or another

[CatoMinor]

Congrats, Phil!

[Keystone Phil]

Congrats, Phil!

This comment won't go over well... 

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

And Manchin interestingly didn't vote.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Good to see this pass the though.  My confidence that this would get accomplished was correct!

[Ban my account ffs!]

Congrats, Phil!

This comment won't go over well... 

Oh come on Phil... you'd look so much better with froofy black curly hair, a giant feather boa, and a stage name like 'Phillistina'

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Awesome. This discriminatory policy should have never been enacted.

It was a step in the right direction though, because allowing open homosexuals into the military wasn't going to happen in 1993.

[Franzl]

Pat Toomey says he would have voted in favor, interestingly.

[Smash255]

Good to see this pass the though.  My confidence that this would get accomplished was correct!

Yes it was, Burr and Ensign decided to play weird games by voting against cloture and then voting in favor of the bill.  The majority of your party obviously were still bigoted piles of trash.