Obama's Last-Minute Gifts

The American Spectator ^ | 12.23.10 | George Neumayr

[neverdem]

A tension always exists between the cocky rhetoric of the left and its undemocratic tactics. Were left-wing ideas as popular as they claim, liberals wouldn't need to advance them in such an underhanded way. "Progress" on the causes most dear to them usually take place not at the ballot box but in judicial chambers, or, as it happens this week, in an undemocratic lame-duck session of Congress.

A smug and beaming Obama declared at the signing ceremony for the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy on Wednesday that people will look back and wonder why homosexuality in the military was a "source of controversy in the first place." But people are more likely to look back and wonder why such an arrogant president who enjoyed total control over Washington for two years had to wait until a lame-duck session after his party got pulverized at the polls to pass the repeal.

That just shows the repeal is an elitist, not populist, victory, one which a future Edward Gibbon will mark down as yet another illustration of an insular political class's delusion and decadence at a time of terrorism. This elite has long wanted to tear down the military and turn it into a...

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Obama revealed in his signing-ceremony remarks what was foremost in his mind during his very first meeting with his generals: not defeating America's enemies at a time of war but liberalizing the military. "Ending 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' was a topic in my first meeting with Secretary Gates, Admiral Mullen, and the Joint Chiefs. We talked about how to end this policy. We talked about how success in both passing and implementing this change depended on working closely with the Pentagon. And that's what we did," he said...

[neverdem]

I'm sure the jihadis are impressed with the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

H.R.2965 Latest Title: Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010

Question: On the Motion (Motion to Concur in the House Amendment to the Senate Amendment to H.R. 2965)

Roll Call Vote

The RINOs were: Brown (R-MA), Burr (R-NC), Collins (R-ME), Ensign (R-NV), Kirk (R-IL), Murkowski (R-AK), Snowe (R-ME) and good riddance Voinovich (R-OH).

Profiles in courage: Not Voting - 4,
Bunning (R-KY), Gregg (R-NH), Hatch (R-UT) and Manchin (D-WV). I think Bunning are Gregg retiring shortly, IIRC.

Didn't Maine just elect a GOP governor and legislature? The Dobbsy Twins in Maine need to be primaried if that's true, IMHO. Maine and West Virginia should be low hanging fruit for the Tea Party GOP. The defections of Burr and Ensign surprised me.

[BobP]

Obama revealed in his signing-ceremony remarks what was foremost in his mind during his very first meeting with his generals: not defeating America's enemies at a time of war but liberalizing the military. "Ending 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' was a topic in my first meeting with Secretary Gates, Admiral Mullen, and the Joint Chiefs. We talked about how to end this policy. We talked about how success in both passing and implementing this change depended on working closely with the Pentagon. And that's what we did," he said.

KOOL-AID AND PIXIE DUST.

One big socialistic village.

I say we impeach this jackass.

It might fail as in BJ Clinton's second term impeachment but it's one thing America needs to set it straight again.

[StonyBurk]

He looks just like that hyphenated american (MEXICAN-american/
civil?-Servant /HOMOSEXUAL- male did when the drugs administered began to wear off and I began to realize what he had done. Obama looks just like it n his celebration of this legal Sodomy of this Nation and our Military.