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Notice Burr's convoluted explanation:

Burr explained his reasoning to reporters after final passage.

“It's just that we’ve had a generational change and I have vehemently objected to making a policy change of this magnitude at this time. When cloture was passed, that settled that,” Burr said. “It’s not accepted practice anywhere in our society, and it only makes sense. But again, I was vehemently opposed to the timing of this.”

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No wonder he had such a hard time getting reelected. He will have a harder time in 2016.

1 posted on 12/18/2010 3:34:36 PM PST by Brices Crossroads
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Might be time for a primary challenge.....


2 posted on 12/18/2010 3:36:03 PM PST by GenXteacher (He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
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Why was Kirk a surprise??? He’s gay.


3 posted on 12/18/2010 3:36:08 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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He will lose the primary for this.


4 posted on 12/18/2010 3:37:05 PM PST by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: Brices Crossroads

I think the “gay” RINOs have all come out of the closet.


6 posted on 12/18/2010 3:37:36 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Merry Christmas to all of my FReeper FRiends!)
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I knew he was a tad jelly spine on imigration. Thought he was OK on DADT.

Thats it for me - I’ll vote for the D in 2016.

At least when I get stabed in the back I’ll know it was the enemy.


7 posted on 12/18/2010 3:38:26 PM PST by PeteB570 (Islam is the sea in which the terrorist shark swims. It aids & comforts the shark on it's journey.)
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This is messed up. They really heard nothing on election day.

I guess this is a social issue that is getting in the way??

Bye bye effective fighting force, hello Pink Corps.


8 posted on 12/18/2010 3:38:54 PM PST by GeronL (#7 top poster at CC, friend to all, nicest guy ever, +96/-14, ignored by 1 sockpuppet.. oh & BANNED)
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To: Brices Crossroads

Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)

ART. 125. SODOMY

(a) Any person subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy. Penetration , however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense.

(b) Any person found guilty of sodomy shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.


9 posted on 12/18/2010 3:40:30 PM PST by SubMareener (Become a monthly donor! Free FreeRepublic.com from Quarterly FReepathons!)
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Don't know if it would make a difference or not 'But' .. Wouldn't any vote determining military practice be better served if it were law that those voting actually Served in the military?

And I DO mean .. Served!
(No Kerry's allowed)


11 posted on 12/18/2010 3:44:10 PM PST by plinyelder ("I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." -- Ronald Reagan)
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Well since now they can “tell” ... seems to me they ought to wear it as a badge like a medal. How about a nice little frilly ribbon for uniform lapel ... that would look nice.


14 posted on 12/18/2010 3:48:55 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (You are just jealous because the voices aren't talking to YOU!)
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So now we have a military of poofters. Once they real men flee, they will draft squads of light in the loafers fools.

Goodbye America, and thanks to the GOP scum that made this possible.

I knew this country was dead. The Senate will be the undoing in 2012.


19 posted on 12/18/2010 3:50:36 PM PST by dforest
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I predict Senatewhore Brown will come out of the closet and run as a dem-o-rat.


23 posted on 12/18/2010 3:52:02 PM PST by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: Brices Crossroads; surroundedbyblue; shurwouldluv_a_smallergov; Judith Anne; rkjohn; PadreL; ...
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Please ping me to note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of general interest.

25 posted on 12/18/2010 3:53:14 PM PST by narses ( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
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These 8 took the advice to run up the white flag on social issues.

Then the democrats (with their help) shoved it right up America's back side.

Nice flag waving guys.........you're all so, so.........liked by the MSM now (for a week).

27 posted on 12/18/2010 3:54:10 PM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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A further prediction: within 6 months, a male homo will demand a sex change at taxpayer expense, and be assigned to one of the female military units.


28 posted on 12/18/2010 3:55:16 PM PST by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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“.....with the closeted gay members of Congress, like Aaron Schock, Lindsey Graham, or Mark Kirk. ...”

HillBuzz December 18, 2010
http://hillbuzz.org/2010/12/18/the-cost-effectiveness-of-repealing-dadt-and-acknowledging-the-reality-that-there-are-already-many-many-gay-service-men-and-women-in-the-military/


37 posted on 12/18/2010 4:04:05 PM PST by Matchett-PI (Trent Lott on Tea Party candidates: "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them" 7/19/10)
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Restoring the Republic is a work in progress. We made a great start in 2010. The work continues into 2012 and beyond.


38 posted on 12/18/2010 4:05:51 PM PST by FrdmLvr (Death to tyrants)
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“Another surprise of the day was Kirk, who was just elected to the Senate.”

Surprise to who? I fully expected Kirk to support repeal, regardless of what he was or was not publicly saying. Kirk is, and will continue to be, a very liberal Republican.

Sometimes a “half a loaf” candidate is the best one can hope for. But I suspect, when all is said and done, Kirk is not so much half a loaf than “that last end slice of the loaf that you really didn’t want to eat but did anyway because you didn’t have anything else to spread your peanut butter and jelly on” Republican.


39 posted on 12/18/2010 4:07:31 PM PST by DemforBush (I got three passports, a couple of visas. You don't even know my real name..)
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Get ready to see male soldiers holding hands, cupping buttocks, kissing, etc...in uniform.

Get ready to see gay, pink shorts wearing and hair-ribboned loved ones welcoming their soldiers back.

And all of this will lead to a ban on any type of display of affection...which will lead to open acrimony, etc.

Don’t even want to think about the lawsuits and assaults resulting from soldiers (both straight & gay) serving in the foxholes of Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Satan must be throwing a party tonight.


41 posted on 12/18/2010 4:10:41 PM PST by papasmurf (sudo apt-get install Lee Atwater)
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If these eight douchebag politicians didn’t vote yes for this would this have passed?

Also, ask yourselves. Around the world, in all militaries, do you think that Russia has a homo brigade. China, Iran any muslim nation for that matter, again, do they have homos serving openly in there militaries?


42 posted on 12/18/2010 4:10:42 PM PST by rambo316 (Rush is Right, Odumbo is an Imposter.)
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based on all of the experts who have looked at this, this is something that should be done

All the experts ... are LIARS. Just primary these RINOs into the dustbin of history.

48 posted on 12/18/2010 4:23:08 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bailout)
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