Big Boost for Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal: Brown Backs Senate Bill

[WestVirginiaRebel]

ABC News:

ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe reports:

Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown today voiced his support for a stand-alone repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, bringing the bill one vote over the 60-vote threshold that it will need to reach if and when the Senate votes on the measure in the coming weeks.

“Sen. Brown accepts the Pentagon’s recommendation to repeal the policy after proper preparations have been completed. If and when a clean repeal bill comes up for a vote, he will support it,” said Brown spokesperson Gail Gitcho.

Brown’s backing means that – on paper – supporters of the repeal have 61 senators in favor of the bill. On Wednesday Republicans Olympia Snowe of Maine and Lisa Murkowski both announced their support for the stand-alone repeal. The House passed the clean repeal on Wednesday and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has vowed to bring it to a vote in the Senate before the end of the year.

However, Reid has warned that bringing the bill to a vote in the Senate is not an issue of support, but rather of time. With just over a week before Christmas, the Senate is only now kicking off debate on the START nuclear treaty and a massive $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill. It will likely be early next week before the Senate wraps up work on those two measures – and numerous GOP senators have voiced stern opposition to both bills, preferring instead to fund the government into early next year and go home for the holidays. That leaves little time for the Senate to pass the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal.

“The time for action is now. We plan on considering the stand-alone bill to repeal 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell' which was sent over by the House,” Reid said in a statement on Wednesday night. “But let me be clear. We are very quickly running out of days in this Congress. The time for week-long negotiations on amendments and requests for days of debate is over. Republican Senators who favor repealing this discriminatory policy need to join with us now to stand against those who are trying to run out the clock on this Congress.”
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I'd like to see how the Freepazoids react to this one.

[Sabre86]

They are calling for "CW2" or the abolition of the GOP.

 

Truly, Brown, Snowe, Collins, and the rest are traitors to this nation. They are destroying the U.S. military in the name of political correctness.

[Casino67]

Are gays and lesbians tearing down the door to get into the military? I think this is much ado about very few.

[Sabre86]

Are gays and lesbians tearing down the door to get into the military? I think this is much ado about very few.

A lot of good soldiers will leave as soon as they can. The queer activists want to turn the military into their hunting ground; and they freely admit it. Many are planning to join for no other reason than to be disruptive. Remember, liberals hate the military and will do everything they can to harm it.

 

You will see a lot of violence, with straight soldiers being forced to defend themselves against the queers, and then all of the straight soldiers will be sent to "sensitivity training" rather than to combat training.

[Casino67]