Rising Hegemon
Gays and lesbians did not turn out strongly for Democrats on Tuesday. I guess half-hearted efforts just don't rally the base when you treat them as an after-thought. They stay home, or occasionally, vote for the other Party.
You've got a lame-duck session to get DADT repealed oh great 11th-dimensional chess player. Hope may not spring eternal, but a feeling of yet another imminent disappointment does.
Thankfully, there appears to be one Democrat in Iowa with the fortitude our leadership in Washington does not.
[cross-posted at Firedoglake]
5 comments:
If they can only stall another few weeks, they’ll have an even better excuse. Which was kind of the whole point.
re-election looks better in 2012.
i was reading something that recounted what obama said where he was a invited speaker at a gay advocacy group event. he promised them he would deliver repeal of DADT and other rights by the end of his second term. that tells me he thinks fighting for these rights would cost him a second term.
i've never seen another bigger cascade of fatally wrong assumptions than what's come from this white house. the midterms was a complete repudiation of DC establishment conventional thinking. their failure to fight for that middle class tax cut - that would have helped the middle class feel like obama was fighting for them. (yes, yes, i know he's already given an assortment of various tax cuts, but this one would have been high profile) we all decried this failure at the time. we knew it would doom us. how could they not see this? who was the einstein who convinced obama not to pull this trigger? when is obama going to get new strategist? they all need to be kicked to the curb and spat upon.
we also lost union workers.
Now, let's give Obama a break here. He couldn't just end DADT all by himself! He's the President, it's not like he's the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces or anything.
What? Oh, never mind.
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