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...promised not to be a rubber stamp for his new party, he has since shifted leftward into its mainstream. He went from opposing a government-run public option on health care to supporting one and from voting for the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 to urging for its repeal. Specter has also reversed himself to support the controversial idea of pushing health care legislation through with "reconciliation," a parliamentary process that would get it past a filibuster. "That kind of cynical political opportunism turns people off. It's what people think is wrong with Washington," says Toomey. "Not everyone...
Late last year, the White House swallowed its pride and quietly asked Joe Lieberman for a favor. Obama was getting ready to deliver on his campaign promise to repeal the 1993 law barring openly gay members from serving in the military when aides asked the man who turned his back on the Democratic Party to take the lead on pushing for the new policy. In reply, Lieberman told Obamas chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, "Let us know what you want us to do." Emanuel replied with a laundry list: work up polling on the issue; start sounding out moderate Democrats...
These days, the group is particularly concerned with gays in the military. Beyond opposing the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, the organization of lay Catholics would like to see all homosexuals banned from the military, according to a white and green pamphlet they were handing out. The case against gays in the military is laid out in a book, displayed prominently, called An American Knight: The Life of Colonel John W. Ripley, USMC, yours for just $14.95. (See a stimulus report card after one year...
...perpetual favorite among economic bloggers, former University President Lawrence R. Summers is on the shortlist for working to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act and collaborating with Greenspan and Wall Street to prevent efforts to regulate derivatives...
Another common objection to DADT’s repeal is the nebulous claim that there are more pressing issues to be addressed in contemporary American society other than the official integration of homosexuals into the armed forces. In other words, now is not the time to deal with such an issue, which lacks the urgency of the economic crisis, healthcare, the war in Afghanistan, and the continued threat of terrorism. In reality, however, there will always be something that arguably outweighs the repeal of DADT in terms of importance, and the presence of these other issues in no way diminishes...