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‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Repeal Easily Clears Cloture Vote in Senate
UPDATE: Final Vote 65-31 for Repeal

Posted on | December 18, 2010 | 20 Comments

Only 33 “no” votes on the cloture roll call because, as everyone knows, Senate Republicans are all a bunch of closet cases.

So we now approach the day when uniformed service personnel — including ranking officers — will march in the Gay Pride Parade next to Dykes on Bikes and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

UPDATE: Six Republicans who voted yes: Scott Brown (Mass.), Susan Collins (Maine), Mark Kirk (Illinois), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Olympia Snowe (Maine) and George Voinovich (Ohio). Three Republicans did not vote: Jim Bunning (Kentucky), Judd Gregg (New Hampshire) and Orrin Hatch (Utah).

UPDATE II: Apparently two more Republicans jumped on board for the final vote. Will have roll call later.

UPDATE III: Roll call here — John Ensign (Nevada) and Richard Burr (North Carolina) both voted yes on final passage. CNN has a story.

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Comments

  • MrPaulRevere

    Can’t we just give them their own unit? We could call it the Judy Garland brigade and appoint Andrew Sullivan as their Field Marshall.

  • MrPaulRevere

    Can’t we just give them their own unit? We could call it the Judy Garland brigade and appoint Andrew Sullivan as their Field Marshall.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Soren-Kay/100001270456452 Soren Kay

    Lulz…

    Just wait for the Folsom Street Fair.

  • http://www.redstateeclectic.typepad.com AngelaTC

    I think I’m battle weary. At this point, as long as it doesn’t cost us any money, I really don’t care.

  • Anonymous

    Just wait for the Folsom Street Fair.

    Yeah, it’s gonna do wonders for morale when the troops see an admiral prancing around in assless chaps.

  • Serfer62

    I want the names of the GOP senators who voted for this and I want to sponsor the opponents in the primaries…

  • http://twitter.com/kevinjjones Kevin J. Jones

    The most zealous backers of DADT’s repeal didn’t want to end the policy, they just want to apply it to the traditionally minded instead. It’s part of a growing de facto ban on conservative institutions.

    Military promotions depend upon whether an officer promotes diversity in the force, right? This change will shrink the talent pool of socially conservative veterans who run for office.

  • JeffS

    Chaps are more in line with Army apparel, Stacy, as in horse cavalry. The Navy doesn’t do horses (so to speak), so I don’t see an admiral wearing assless chaps. Generals, yes, admirals, no.

    Now, tutus, that’s a different matter……

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the list, Orrin is going to get a letter, soon.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Harold-Weatherfield/835138101 Richard Harold Weatherfield

    Rinos and Old Guard, all of them. We can clear them out next election cycle.

  • Anonymous

    DKDC.

    Don’t Know, Don’t Care.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G2JR7XZ7O2ZLKZNW3A5ZF3Q4WU redneek

    Well, the democrats got what they wanted. Coming soon, The draft.

  • Polichinello

    The biggest problems probably won’t be on the male side of the spectrum, though that gets all the attention and speculation. The real problem will be on the female side. Military duty would tend to attract lesbians more than male gays, and I can see a barracks subculture developing that would have the effect of scaring off straight female recruits.

    Still compared to the drag on efficiency that letting women in in the first place created, this measure is going to be rather small potatoes. I would have rather seen it go down, but if I had to choose, I prefer DADT getting through to the DREAM Act (DREAM = Democrat Reinforcements Eagerly Arriving from Mexico).

  • louis

    Good. Now more conservative can actually enroll!

  • Anonymous

    Oh, I don’t know. What the straight soldiers need to do is make sure the same standards for male vs female sexual harassment get applied to male-male / female-female. If they don’t, we’ll have excellent grounds for an unequal treatment based on sexual orientation case.

  • http://twitter.com/Sparks_123 Sparks123

    Stacy,

    I think you owe John McCain an apology for the harsh treatment you’ve given him over the years. Eight RINOs stabbed you in the back and John wasn’t one of them. He’s obviously not running for President again and he’ll be 80 when his term expires in 2016 so it’s a stretch to chalk this up to him wanting to appease social conservatives. In his belief that 61% of Americans and 44% of Republicans are Georgetown cocktail partiers, you two have quite a lot in common.

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    Why do Democrats hate Bill Clinton’s legacy so much?

  • Blue Hen

    There’s more than a dozen people who would love to take your advice, since they ran afoul of a situation where a protected minority was given special treatment. It’s a pity that they’re all dead, and cannot act upon it. The fact that the chief of the army prattled on about diversity after they were murdered speaks volumes as to what is going to happen.

    Further, now that this has happened, Congress and the brass are going to defend their decision. That means that the strength of the bureauacracy and the Congress will come down upon people who make them or their decision look faulty. Ask the people who accused women personnel of misconduct.

  • Huggy

    Why doesn’t this mean that the old policy of discharging homosexuals goes back into effect. DADT was considered a big win for homosexuals when Bill Clinton got it passed.

  • Huggy

    Why doesn’t this mean that the old policy of discharging homosexuals goes back into effect. DADT was considered a big win for homosexuals when Bill Clinton got it passed.

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