Breaking on Rachel - Three GOP Senators signal

[malaise]

that they will vote to repeal DADT. Lieberman announced that Lugar and Collins will vote for the repeal and Murkowski is the 3rd. Take that Sarah Palin!

add., gr.

[gateley]

1. When will this be up for a vote - do we know? Thanks!

[malaise]

2. Soon and very soon

Should be done by Christmas

Holy Shite - Report says Ensign will vote to repeal as well

add

[CTyankee]

4. oh thank god. what a great christmas present!

I'm just sad that it took so LONG...how many lives have been blighted by this policy! PLUS, how much damage has been done to our national security?

[RKP5637]

11. Don't get too happy about it yet 'till the vote is final. I've been up and down

emotionally so much anymore I feel like I'm on a perpetual roller coaster about all of the stuff anymore.

[CTyankee]

27. I hear you...I am constantly amazed that this hasn't just happened already.

We have to fight tooth and nail...it's the only way...

[gateley]

23. Ensign? Boy, what's up with that? It can't come soon enough, and I'd take

votes from ANYBODY on this one! Godspeed! :patriot:

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Good,

don't count eggs, but we are having good movement.

[gkhouston]

5. So whatever "deal" that was arranged months ago truly existed and hasn't fallen

apart. I was afraid the Dems were being played.

[malaise]

9. Looks like this will pass with ease

I love Murkowski's decision best. Fuck Palin. :evilgrin:

[Solly Mack]

6. k/r

[bullwinkle428]

7. John Ensign voting "Yes"? Are you fucking kidding?

L. O'Donnell's statement on Rachel's show right now, for those looking for an explanation!

[malaise]

12. Looks like a done deal

Ensign knows ReTHUGS are going to drop him anyway.

[Swede]

8. This Lugar seems to be a reasonable fellow.

A conservative that we can work with.

[eleny]

15. He and Obama worked on the loose nukes issue in the Senate along with Kerry

He's very angry about what the republicans are doing with the SALT, too.

So I wonder if he's now sticking it to his caucus because of their bad behavior on the SALT.

[NuclearDem]

21. Lugar's a good guy

I'm from Indiana, and I'm actually proud to vote for him every opportunity I can. He's one of the few elder statesmen left who can keep a reasonable head about him and is still looking out for the people. :)

[CBHagman]

34. I remember when they were trying to pass the Chemical...

...Weapons Convention during the Clinton administration. Jesse Helms was chairing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the time, but I wrote to Lugar to about the issue. I had a reply within 48 hours, and I'm not even a Hoosier.

[kas125]

45. I live in Indiana and am very involved in the peace movement.

Lugar has always responded to letters or emails, his staff is always available, he makes himself accessible when we ask for meetings, etc. He might not always agree with us, but he listens and acknowledges that we exist. Bayh, on the other hand is just the opposite. He never responds to letters, his voice mail is always filled, it took three years of begging and finally one of us getting arrested for refusing to leave his office before he'd agree to meet with us. Then he lied at the meeting, promising to return in six months and avoided answering questions while he was there. So, in my opinion, Lugar's been a lot better senator than Bayh is/was.

[kas125]

41. I'm from Indiana, too. And while I've never actually voted for

Lugar, there have been times that I was proud of things he did. This is one of those times. I can't say the same about our Democratic Senator, unfortunately.

[eleny]

10. I've never seen Lawrence O'Donnell so positive about the process

[Parker CA]

18. That's a great sign. He tends to be pretty conservative with putting his word behind something like

this. A positive signal from him makes me feel like this may really happen!

[ChiciB1]

26. Yes, That Seemed Real... But, But, But... Can It REALLY Be True? n/t

[LonePirate]

13. Will Snowe, Voinovich and Brown also vote for repeal? What about Lemieux?

Have Pryor and Lincoln decided to vote Yes now?

[alcibiades_mystery]

50. I think Kirk will vote for repeal as well

[LawnLover]

14. And if this actually happens, will

all those who were screaming that a lame duck Congress would never do it swallow their pride and admit they were wrong?

[Pirate Smile]

20. Obama still sucks - too slow, too .... something. No credit. We've seen this show before & we know

how it ends.

Lt Choi can go on a rant about how Obama is the WORST President EVAH! (that includes Bush, Reagan, etc.) as President Obama signs the repeal.

[Bluenorthwest]

31. Watch and learn

What you have been seeing is called activism. When a goal gets reached, there are plenty of songs of praise to go around, just not until then. I think it is rude to attempt to portray Dan Choi as preparing to say that which he has never said at all during his courageous part in this long battle. What a really vile thing to do to a good man.
I do understand that most straight Democrats have no idea how to get an issue moved along, and would never wish to muddy their political trouser cuffs to actually DO something, so it is hard for you all to digest what you see and hear. But note that a great victory is about to be ours, and I absolutely no one gives a fuck about who gets the credit in DC. The actual credit goes to each and every one of the discharged volunteers that suffered under this farce of a law which flowed from the heterosexualist culture.

[Pirate Smile]

33. He's been on a rant calling Obama the worst POTUS ever. Have you actually not seen that yet?

[gkhouston]

24. I'll be too busy celebrating to notice or care.

My God, I can't wait to see The Daily Show mocking Fox's coverage of this, because you know the spin against this is going to be frenetic.

[Change has come]

30. I think your post

may be a turd in the punch bowl. :shrug:

[dsc]

46. I will be quite glad to have been wrong

I still won't believe it until I see it but I really hope to have been wrong to have been as pessimistic as I have been. I do have to say that I don't see how Burris will be voting if it takes until Christmas as he loses his seat the second Kirk is certified so I think we are right at 60 only if Manchin actually votes for repeal which he had previously said he wouldn't do.

[no limit]

49. I will gladly admit I was wrong. What if it doesn't get passed? What will you say?

[LawnLover]

51. I will join everyone else in condemning Congress and Obama

for not getting it done. Failure is inexcusable.

[no limit]

53. Ok, good to hear. I hope I am the one that gets to admit wrong. Fingers crossed

[Tx4obama]

16. And Sen. Voinovich (R-OH) is a probable 'yes' too. n/t

[David Zephyr]

17. K&R.

Once the number is over 60, the bigots will have to decide how history will remember them.

For those who forget, George H.W. Bush voted against the Civil Rights Act in 1964. I don't care if President Obama gilds his corpse when he dies, he voted against the Civil Rights Act. That's his legacy.

[NuclearDem]

19. I just cried

Tears of joy! It might actually happen this time! :woohoo:

[ChiciB1]

22. THEY SKY IS FALLING...I Saw Spinefullness! SHE Said It... Rachel She Did!

Please let it continue, I can't believe I really saw what I just saw on my TeeVee! Democrats seem to be growing some SPINE. Is this a joke? Is it a hot air balloon being floated?

ONLY time will tell, but what I just heard made me feel GOOD, REALLY! But, I'm NOT going to hold my breath! Too hard to compute right now... AFTER ALL THIS TIME!

Tick, Tick, Tick!

[stevedeshazer]

25. So, which Republican idiot senator will filibuster first? My money's on Jim DeMint.

James Inhofe to place, Jon Kyl to show.

[ChiciB1]

28. I'm Just SHOCKED To Hear Them Say Ensign Considering! Are We

being set up? My mind is just running fast and wild! But O'Donnell was saying MORE than 60 votes, more will sign on! Weird all of a sudden.

Over & out!

[Tx4obama]

29. John McCain

will continue bad mouthing the repeal - but we have the votes now so it doesn't matter what he says.

[AlinPA]

43. Lieberman's close friend, McCain.

[KeyserSoze87]

32. OH MY FUCKING GOD, YES!

This is the best thing I've heard all day.

Sarah Failin, John Bonehead, Mitch Turtleface, et al., GO FUCK YOURSELF!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

35. If Collins signs on, perhaps she can convince Snowe to sign on, too, for leverage.

Also, looks like Voinovich (sp?) could be persuaded since he's retiring.

[MindandSoul]

36. I'll keep my fingers crossed until it really passes! Better late than never!

[donheld]

37. .

[BlueCheese]

38. Is this what they're talking about?

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/13-senate-democrats-express-confidence-on-votes-to-repeal-dont-ask-dont-tell/?ref=politics

Sounds promising, but we'll have to see what happens. Remember Snowe made up some procedural excuse to scuttle repeal in September, too. Maybe now that the Republicans have won the midterms, they'll let things pass?

[AlinPA]

44. Never. They will stop everything.

[Major Hogwash]

39. I doubt if Murkowski will vote it.

She doesn't care what anyone thinks of her now.

[derby378]

40. I'll believe it when I believe it

Seems like not too long ago there was similar talk about the Senate passing a public option of some sort before that all went to Hell.

[AlinPA]

42. Don't trust Collins, she will back out. (Don't trust Lieberman either). He is McCain's

sidekick and McCain controls him.

[dsc]

48. on gay issues Lieberman has had an excellent record

I do trust him on these issues.

[AlinPA]

47. We need 60.

[Winterblues]

52. There will be more as well

There will enbd up being at least eight Republican Senators join with Democrats and pass the Defense reauthorization bill as written including a ban on DADT.. That way no single Republican can be blamed for giving the Democrats a victory...There are at least eight that happen to agree it should be done away with so I believe this is a done deal..

[Mike Nelson]

54. Great! ...and do it this year...

or who knows what the opposition will pull out of their arses. I can't believe this issue is something people still "debate".