It figuresWhat does it tell you that PAW calls Obama out on the DOMA brief, and Barney Frank has come around to supporting it?
We’ve got to get out from under these professional queers who will accept any indignity on behalf of our community, as long as they keep getting invited to all the right cocktail parties.
My question is, how do we get DOMA repealed when even the LGBT politicians don’t give a damn? Do we have any real allies at all in places of power?

Lyndon Baines Johnsonused to go personally to Capitol Hill and almost literally kick congressional ass to get them to pass legislation that was important to him.  Our “fierce advocate” can’t be bothered to do that.  What a lame-assed, watery, pathetic presidency this is.  (And that’s giving Obama the benefit of the doubt and assuming he’s not actually an anti-gay bigot–which I’m finding harder and harder to believe.)  Presidents who really want to be fierce advocates can get Congress to act.  Obama can’t or won’t.

Getting the Message ThroughUnfortunately, my Congressman is a GOP rightwinger, but in addition to dropping by Debbie Stabenow’s office to deliver my message to her staff personally, I’ve also written to her and Carl Levin, as well as to President Obamam, the DNC, the DCCC, and the DSCC, and President Obama.
The message has basically been this:

I’m a lifelong Democrat and in the last two election cycles spent more time and money supporting the party than ever before.
But I’m done.  I’m disgusted with Democratic inaction on GLBT rights. My party and my President have been profound disappointments on ENDA, DADT and DOMA.
I’m through supporting  a party that won’t grant that I deserve the same civil rights as anyone else in this country.  Don’t count on my vote any more.  I can sit out as many elections as it takes.

And my partner and I decided to join Michigan Equality, which is fighting for GLBT rights here in-state:
http://www.michiganequality.org/
I think that’s where our GLBT money should be going: state and local GLBT rights organizations.  No more supporting candidates who tell us they support us, but don’t follow through.

Ain’t this point…whatever,I am willing to sign anybodies petition. But I am also higly amused that if you don’t click the membership button of at the bottom of the petition you are automatically admitted. At least there website is equal. But we already have the popularity to repeal DADT so I think we should go for that first.

What About the Equality Caucas?We really should find out who these people are and get them to work. get busy trying or get busy dying (politically).
“The LGBT Equality Caucus. A 52-member bipartisan group, which includes two Republicans, marks the nation’s first congressional caucus with the express purpose of advancing equal rights for LGBT people, repealing discriminatory laws and educating lawmakers on gay issues. Baldwin and Frank, both openly gay, cochair the caucus.”

BETRAYED BY OBAMAYes, the caps are intentional, even though John Aravosis’s piece in Salon is much more measured than that:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/f…

79 Equality Caucas members and they can’t pass a bill???
http://lgbt.tammybaldwin.house…

co-chaired by Barney Frank…So it is another club they can join to get reelected. Frank if a politician, the fact he is queer is about as important as they fact he has gray hair.  

Lev; it was an important step towards equality and you are an igrateYou are entirely too harsh and unpapreciative of the groundbreaking step that the President took last eve, Lev. Typically, you do not understand that these things are done incrementally.
Wihtout any prompting or pressure from us, as he assured us last night, President Barack Obama, our fierce advocate, defied all of our opponents and made a meaningful move towards our liberation that is unprecendented in the western world.
He is going to pay the costs of U-Haul rental for domestic partners of federal employees that have to relocate.
Not only am I appreciative of this gesture, but I think that we need to honour the President for this daring and bold action with recognition of our gratitude and our appreciation of the political capital that he has expended upon this.
I call upon all of us to donate towards the cost of purchasing and presenting to the President of the United States the First Annual “Rental Truck Equality Award.”
Would our media savvy and lovely  blogmistress be interested in making the presentation, with appropriate remarks?

We can win by derailing the media message of the AdministrationWe did that this week; last night’s admittedly embarrassingly meaningless gesture was just the first of a series of actions by a panicked White House if we can keep doing this.
They will eventually realise that they have to give us something substantive, our full citizenship and equality as enshrined in the Dallas Principles or face endless protests and actions of civil disobedience at any Obama appearance or DNC event if we finally decide that we are a movement and not simply a lobbying fund.

No Gay Rights = No Gay $$For the politicians, parties, and the gay orgs. We saw how quickly they responded when we threatened to shut off the cash spigot over the last few days. We need to keep it up.  

Understanding Obama may be critical to our effortsSo is the man homophobic and struggling not to be?  
Or is he just a shrewd politician who really is not homophobic but has a ‘survival instinct’ that makes him less of a friend?  
It is the former, we need to be firm but gentle.  If it is the latter, we need to be in political ‘smackdown’ mode.
Now regarding ‘Dump DOMA’, I agree with PFAW. We need to start now.  We need a clever media campaign.  We need to think and plan instead of reacting emotionally.  
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending Obama. He said that he was going to work to repeal DADT and DOMA, and yet his administration defended DADT and is now defending DOMA.  Who did we elect for president, Sybil?  
And I’m not dissing anyone’s anger – trust me I’M PISSED.  But we have to plan.
Even if Obama was the president that we thought we were getting, IT NEVER WAS GOING TO BE AS SIMPLE AS OBAMA PASSING HIS PRESIDENTIAL MAGIC WAND AND PRESTO, WE HAVE OUR RIGHTS.  
This is on us.  Get over the hurt and let’s move on. The time is right – I think we can get all that we want.
But we have to start NOW.  We’re burning daylight.  

We protest at events and derail the messageThis hugely media conscious administration, that prides itself upon its communication skills, can be brought to finally surrendering our rights and our citizenship into our hands if we disrupt the Pollyann-ish media presentation through action.  

You might want to consider the possibilitythat he is both: a homophobe AND a crafty politician.  That’s the way it’s looking more and more to me.  
(Though actually I’m not sure how shrewd a political operator he is.  His handling of this whole mess has been incredibly flat-footed.  I’m starting to think he is simply empty, a near-total cipher who lucked onto a brilliant team of handlers during the campaign and a terrible team after the election.)
Either way, you’re right, we need to plan.  But we must not lose the anger and the passion that will sustain the fight.

and it must apply to ALLThere are way too many idiot LGBTs that will give Barney Fuck a pass on his insanity…just like they did over his ENDA bullshit.  
His complete lack of integrity was made perfectly clear to me then…and his position changed.
He must not be allowed to take his position for granted.
The first politician that needs to feel some heat is him.
And I hope to god he feels some serious heat next week at that awful fund raiser.  

They expected us to roll over and take itand Rep Frank and the HRC probably assured them that we would…

Obama may have to lose a fewIf we want him to take us seriously, we need to convey the message that his initiatives will not succeed without our support, and that the only way to get our support is to zap DOMA and DADT immediately.

Dump ObamaWhen I first saw the graphic I thought it said “Dump Obama.” And I was like YES!  It’s been six months and this is all we have to show for our efforts in getting him elected.  It’s total bullshit.  Unless something major passes soon, I”m done with this administration.  

Not if we can help it!I’m serious, the gAyTM needs an “out of order” sign, pronto.
Yesterday, I was encouraged that the online gay community were discussing cutting HRC and the DNC off.  When these people see that the well is running dry FOR REAL, they’ll get their asses in gear.  They won’t sit back and try to look pretty while Maggie Gallagher yells and controls the conversation, slandering gays left and right.  They’ll actually FIGHT.  
You might even see Joe Solmonese grow a pair and behave like a man for the first time ever.  
From this point on, we don’t need to “be like Gandhi”, keep funding HRC and DNC and hoping for the best.  We need to be more like Rosa Parks, and get REAL results, just like she did.  

The negative impact of Obama’s betrayal goes beyond our own equality1. Obama’s hopes of achieving his “progressive” agenda, especially meaningful health care reform, depend on persuading people to put aside satisfaction with their own situation to consider the wider public interest. He needs all the support he can get. But he’s just alienated a huge chunk of people who have always looked beyond their own interest to care about society as a whole. He wants to suck up to the Bible-bashers? Well, let them heal themselves.
2. While the equality battle is slowly being won in secular western Europe, Obama has just given respectability to bigots in Africa and the Moslem world who may idolize him. It will be seized upon as well by bigoted Poles and Balts and Russians as support for their own prejudice.  

Write your Story at http://www.change.govWrite your story at “An American Moment:  Your Story”.  I wrote a scathing letter to the WH about how DOMA, ENDA, and Hate Crimes have personally affected my life in no uncertain terms and I urge EVERYONE to do the same.  The more we “testify” to them at their own web address, the more our message will be heard.  I went so far as to say that I will not give $$, time, or work for any Democratic pol until DOMA and DADT are repealed and a version of a Gay Civil Rights Bill is enacted to protect me from the religionist bigots in this country. Go to: http://change.gov/page/s/yours… and tell Obama/Biden and his crew how these laws have personally impacted your life and how you are no longer going to give $$ or tolerate their B.S.  Please mention the DOMA brief and that we will not take crumbs from the banquet table after the A-listers have been satiated with the wine of rhetoric.  It’s time for ACTION.

Where do you get the ideathat he is a homophobe? I mean honestly, what evidence do you have to support that idea? Oh dear he’s not jumping up and down doing everything you want when you want him to…he must be a homophobe.

His initiatives..could pass without our support. However, the point is that his initiatives ought to be our initiatives. The very notion of killing the rest of his agenda ought to make LGBT people just as nervouse. We need employment, health care and security just like every other American.

Will you protest with usat Presidential appearances and Democratic events to derail their message til they give us what we demand in the Dallas Principles?

When he accepts homophobia as an acceptable prejudicein the people that he chooses to govern, advise and participate in his administration, it suggests strongly that he be at least tolerant of homophobia to an unacceptable degree, call it Hobamophobia, if you will…

By and large that’s trueHowever, our initiatives should also be his and the rest of the Democratic Party also, and that’s not true, of course, and the scapegoating has begun.  

We need citizenship and rightsand we have waited long enough.
If he can help fund bonuses at failed banks, he can certainly finally act to assist us in obtaining full equality
And what is the point of a prosperous nation whose Consitution is mocked by its’ government?
What is the point of bailing out GM so that it can finish its plant in CHina and keep plants in Mexico open if 10% of the population has no realistic citizenship?

How about…he’s a politician trying to balance the needs of a diverse constituency that does NOT agree on every issue, a country in trouble, a less than stable international situation and doing it all while fending off attacks from both his opponents AND allies.
Its seems inconcieveable to me that people here really have such a hard time grasping the complex nature of that situation.
Some people here forget that the President is not king. Its not even the relative simplicity of a prime minister. The Presidency is complicated, especially in a conutry as diverse and divided as the US.
Do people REALLY not get that everytime he or his party makes a decision on one issue they end up having to compromise on something else. That’s how politics works.
Essentially what people seem to expect is that the Preisdent can and should simply bulldoze over congress on all of his issues. This ignores the fact that he does not even have a consensus on these issues within his own party.
I can say one thing about liberals, we definately know how to tear down our own leadership and turn ourselves into an ungovernable mob. This is one advantage that the GOP has that the Democrats do not. They can walk in lock step precisely because they have so few people/interests that they have to cater to. We cannot stop fighting each other long enough to get anything done.
I will say this, much as what happened in 2000, we will eventually regret our inability to compromise, prioritise, and act in unison…when the GOP regains power because we tried to do too much too fast and failed to really do anything at all.

They have blurred the issueby not calling our rights, “Civil Rights”.  As long as they put us under the umbrella of world “Human Rights”, hospital visitations are about all we can hope for.  Like we are a tiny third world country with a teetsie fly problem.  We are American Citizens that want our CIVIL RIGHTS.  They don’t want to hear us.  Obama’s popularity dropped 8 points overnight due to our protests on blogs and in the media.  

I don’t prioritize one piece of pro-equality legislationover others because i think they are all of a piece and that the best approach is an omnibus bill.  so if PFAW wants to strike the DOMA nerve while it’s hot, i support PFAW’s efforts every bit as strongly as I do SLDN’s when DADT is getting attention, etc.  showing support for one bill never diminishes support for other bills.

It’s the homophobia that’s at the core of the Democratic baseNot only have the democrats refused to work on it for years but they have also baited homophobia of the Party’s base support to the detriment of the gay community, one of their most loyal constituencies. Not only have the Democrats done little or nothing on the federal level as far as gay civil rights, the Democrats have actually co-signed anti-gay legislation and laws without apology.
And yet the democrats keep coming back and keep coming back and keep coming back (like a Jerry Springer type 12-Step meeting) asking the gay community for its’ money, votes, and time and the gay community gets little or nothing on that investment, really.

what i grasp, scifigeek,is that you are ignoring the reality taht a majority of americans support the repeal of dadt.  there is no “diverse constituency” to balance, because it’s already balanced.
the hate crimes bill already passed in both chambers last session.  what “diverse constituency” could obama possibly need to balance on that one?
you haven’t a leg to stand on with such a silly argument.

Let the scapegoating beginIn fact, it already has.
I mean, I am sure that we can educate America about the gay community; that it’s not simply a bunch of spoiled and rich white gay men. But the Democratic Party should have to help out a little bit with that. But heck, most of the American public is with us on the non-relationship type issues (DADT, ENDA, Hate Crimes). Work on those for now. And give the community a progress report from time to time.
And stop it with the government sponsored homophobia.
Is that too much?

It’s time to change the PIN on the LGBT credit card.A promissory note is all the President and the Dems will get from me.    Seriously, I suggest sending promissory notes to the DNC and the Prez so as to show them how much money they are missing until they come through.
If they follow through, we follow through.  By the same degrees of action.

LOL!Dammit, Maura, my monitor is now coffee colored!!
What a great new name for him: “President Rent-A-Truck.”

They can’t even get DADT repeal out of committee There were even some members of the Caucus that were not initial sponsors of the DADT repeal.  This isn’t the most important part, in the big scheme of things, but it’s supported by more than 70% of the population.  It should be the easiest by far to get enacted.

Come on, Obama LOVES gay people!Just like Vulcans cherish their Romulan brethren! Can’t you just see the fraternal adoration, the seeking of common ground, the desire to move forward for the betterment of the Federation and all beings!?!?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON’T SEE IT!!!?!?!?!

Obama Wants Cell Phone Tax RepealedThis may seem off subject but it isn’t really.  The IRS has been contemplating enforcing an old tax on the books that dates back to when cell phones were called ‘car’ phones.  Then, the phones were primarily for business and they taxed any personal use as income.
The following was posted yesterday on several news sites:

The Obama administration today asked Congress to repeal a hard-to-enforce tax on the personal use of work cell phones, appeasing the business community, phone makers and users.  A 1989 law requires personal use of a company’s cell phone to be taxed as fringe benefits, requiring painstaking documentation of personal use minutes.
The government now says the law should be scrapped altogether.

     Our Civil Rights are not as important as a cell phone tax!!!
     He has time to go to Congress with this but not for us!
Enough is Enough!  I have been working and waiting since the days of the GLF.  I believed in this man and his story.  When he said he would work for our equality I thought it was because of where he came from and what he and his had to go through, his mothers’ struggle.  But as we all know, we can’t live on promises, the bank won’t cash them on Friday and now we know we can’t rely on Obama’s promises either they are just as empty.
We need to STOP the $$$ flow completely and only vote the Person not the Party.  Let them EARN the LGBT support by what they have done, not by what they promise to do.  Some people can’t afford to give cash but can help in other ways, but however you help let them know how you are registered and why you are helping them.  And remember, the help is now on a faucet to be turned on and off!
Another necessary point is that we all must stand united including any friends and family who are willing.  Personally, I don’t think I would ever get married, or even want to, but I do want that right for all of my sisters and brothers who do want to marry.  I have seen posts on sites that people didn’t care because changing these laws had no affect on their lives.  Let’s work together to achieve our Civil Rights and Liberties and then everyone can choose which ones they want to take avantage of for themselves.
And as in the quote: It’s time the Obama administration Appeases the LGBT community!

Your Mom is going to scold mefor making you do that…lol
Yes, the champion of Rental Truck Equality…President Obama

If we can control the news cycle todayWe send a message that the HRC and Barney no longer speak for us, nor can they deal for us.
We speak for ourselves.

That’s the messagethat needs to get across, that this is the “grassroots” talking and not the professional gays.

Since last night and the “Rental Truck Equality Momorandum of 2009″Political sarcasm has become an LGBT art form…..and Keori is one of the masters……

Rich and spoiled rich white gay men ?So far they have have been the ones to be elected into congress.  It takes personal money to campaign, gay or straight.  Most are self serving, but not all.  There are a few statesmen, and I think Jared Polis.
The poor one when he started, Barney Frank, is turning out to be a disaster.

Oh, I’m liking Jared more and moreBut we shall see about Jared…
A win for Anthony Woods in California, that would truly be a win from the grassroots.
I didn’t mean that “rich and spoiled white gay men” in an ugly sense, it’s not my perception. All I meant was that is the perception of the vast majority of the Democratic Party. And the Party constituencies need to see the reality.

If we control the news cycle todaythen we have finished the perception of Barney Frank as ex-officio gay leader. For that matter, we finish everyone on that podium with Obama as spokesgays.
By continuing the opposition today, by saying “too little, too late” we tell the government than no one can bargain away our rights, no one speaks for us except us.
The LGBT movement has changed from an elitist lobbying exercise into a populist uprising in a week, and one with slightly anarchistic overtones in that we all lead.

K … posted to CHANGE and fb.

No Action, No Cash,A simple message that President Obama and the rest of the congress critters need to get loud and clear.
NO ACTION< NO CASH.
Tell the congress critters, you want a dollar, co-sponsor LGBT Legislation.  If they can’t sign as a co-sponsor, I can’t bring myself to sign the check.
Simple and to the point.

The costs maybe, Maurabut certainly not the deposit on that U-Haul.
And dammit, the gas tank better be filled or the surcharge is gonna require a federal bailout!

EhAll my kids are pseudo-slobs… she knows how to clean her OWN monitor!
(Seriously, my elder’s keyboard the other day was all shimmery and sparkley with glitter- I could have whacked her nose with a newspaper…)

Keori, you solved the mystery! Obama is a “chartered accountant”, who thinks that anteaters are gay people!

And Obama’s ratings are fallingNot just due to the DOMA issue.  But his half-assed, namby-pamby style of “leadership” and desperation  to find “common ground” with bigots, plutocrats  and reactionaries isn’t playing well at all.  NBC reported last night that his approval rating among independents–the bloc that played a major role in his election–is down to 46%.  AmericaBlog has a story up that a majority of Americans don’t like his handling of the economy.  (Gee, people don’t like him and Tim Geithner giving our $$$ to their banker pals.  Wonder why.)  
This administration has completely failed to capitalize on its early popularity and its voter mandate for change, opting instead for more corporate welfare, more war and more status quo bigotry.  Unless Obama changes course fast, he will leave office after one term with approval ratings somewhere down around George Bush’s.  Which he will deserve.  
And it pleases me mightily that our community is helping to lead the charge against his smug determination to work against change.

But you don’t think OUR initiatives ought to be HIS, right?As Groucho Marx once said, why don’t you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?

Oh, QScribeWhat Administration hasn’t this happened to, though?
Even a misstep such as the Obama Administration had with the gay community isn’t uncommon at all with the beginning of a new Presidential administration (Clinton’s was DADT but also Bush 41′s Somalia mess).
But if the Administration internal polling showed this already…

hilarious!i wouldn’t mind seeing the “rental truck equality award” pop up from time to time and granted to anyone who is only willing to scrape a few crumbs off the table and onto the floor.

Obama was given a huge mandate for change.He has worked tirelessly for the exact reverse.  What other president has taken all the issues he was elected to address and flung them down and danced on them the way Obama has?  I’ve been following politics since I was in junior high, back during the War of 1812, and I’ve never seen any president show such flagrant, gleeful disregard for the constituencies that put him in office.

The fine print to the Memo:Please note that this benefit covers only the rental per diem charges not the per mile charges or fuel, overnight lodging, nor the optional insurance.  The IRS will consider this benefit to be taxable income, meaning the new form, ’1099-FU’ must be filled out for each expense.  (Please note that for these purposes, each day of rental is considered a separate expense).  
Federal employees should note that if the move should be from one marriage equality state to another and should the route not cross a non-marriage equality state, this benefit is considered possibly redundant with state level benefits and is considered not applicable, regardless as to whether that state provides such benefits.
In coherence with the IRS ruling that this benefit is considered taxable income, and to preserve equality with “true” married couples, any monetary amounts recieved as a result of this benefit will be deducted from the employee’s after tax income as a Federal Budget “scarce resource” cost conservation measure.

No Action= No Cash and No PeaceNo money from us but every bit of agitation and inconvenience that we can muster to make our opponents look ineffective

i’m starting to even re-think the idea of sitting out elections entirelyi’m now about no funding for the DNC, obama, or obama-supporting gay orgs, and no future votes for obama.  our blithely-unaware straight allies need to start caring more about our rights, even if they DON’T really care all that much about our rights.  if they don’t start caring, then they deserve all the president bushes that the backwoods morons and fundie-cons of this country can throw at them.  
let the democratic party go down in flames for all i care at this point–and it’s a real shame for pro-equality democrats–because no republican president could have realistically done worse on our rights than obama has so far.  no republican-led congress could be more uninterested.  they need to do more as a team to influence unsupportive politicians of the need to support us.  until them, fuck ‘em.        

Pretty much the exact opposite of Bushwho had absolutely no mandate and ran to the right with bare majorities. Bush had pretty low approval #s on 9/10/01, if I remember correctly.
And, yes, that is the inetersting part, Obama has a far bigger mandate than Clinton ever had yet…well, he’s pretty much acting like Clinton.
And you know what’s coming?
It’s all teh gays fault.

To be fair, thoughWhile every President that I’ve ever read has had problems in their first year or even first 2 years (as with Reagan and Clinton) the good ones turn it back around.

Bravo, Lev Raphaelgood move!

Here it isThe Rental Truck Equality Award
First Honouree: President Barack Obama
http://ewacars.com/md/ihc108.jpg

The Republicans have been self-immolating for months.Instead of jumping on  the opportunity for political advantage, the Democrats seem inclined to follow suit.  Those of us who have been urging support for third parties may soon get our wish by default.  Third parties may be the only ones left.

fantastic, but oh, how i wish i had photoshop on this machine!because i would change the slogan from “number one family mover” into something more along the lines of “number one equality provider”, or “number one equal-rights machine”, and maybe had some fun with the rest of the text.  anyone want to give it a shot?  

His intiatives run on our moneyAnd the gay ATM machine is broken. Its been down ever since he compared GLBT relationships to incest and pedophilia.
Until you shut him down, to the point where he realizes just how badly he fucked up, he will never do anything differently.
Oh, the argument about how we can’t abandon him because the house is on fire? The house is always on fire. There is no end to the excuses you will find for inaction if you look hard enough.
I say its time to concentrate that energy onto something productive, like sending this Administration a powerful signal that they will not succeed without us.

As I see itThe problem with Obama is that he’s a pragmatist.  He likes to weigh all sides of an issue before making a decision.  Unfortunately (for both him and us) the shock and anger in the lgbt community caused by the DoJ DOMA brief required an immediate reaction and response.  Pragmatists aren’t good at that.  Gut reaction simply isn’t their forte.
Look at the people Obama had at the memo signing last night.  Which one of them would you choose to be the President’s advisor on lgbt affairs?  Which one of them is not a pragmatist?  Frank?  Solmonese?  Yeah…right…
Which brings us back to our problem:  Obama needs an activist as well as an advocate speaking to him on our behalf because as it stands now he’s not getting the full picture.  The reason he has such a tin ear on our causes is that he’s only hearing from the pragmatic professional gay echo chamber.  
What Obama needs is an activist who has his/her finger on the pulse of our community and who has the balls to tell him when he’s done something dumb or it’s time for quick action.  Until then we’re just going to continue this circle dance with both him and us becoming more and more frustrated.

What’s scary is…Obama has proven to have very little backbone for stirring the pot.  His pragmatism can be a great asset, but it’s also proving to be a liability in terms of conviction and strength.  Obama surrounded himself with an extremely 1993-era Clintonian operation.  They all think (and I’m assuming Rahm most of all) that LGBT issues remain anathema, even as nationwide polling show strong support for just about all of our causes.  They also think that the way to get things done is to appease Republicans, who really should be having ZERO say in anything at the moment.
It’s almost laughable at this point how blind this administration is to the realities of today.

State is where it isOnce the political leaders see their constituents at home are changing…maybe they’ll be more progressive or at least once more people are more progressive on LGBT issues, they will elect representatives to Congress who support issues that are important to lgbt people.

Barney the Basher disagrees.

“… I made the mistake of relying on other people’s oral descriptions to me of what had been in the brief, rather than reading it first… Now that I have read the brief, I believe that the administration made a conscientious and largely successful effort to avoid inappropriate rhetoric.”

What an unprincipled sucmwad. But then, if he had principles, or even knew what they were, he wouldn’t be a Democrat.
March on Washngton to Dump Clinton’s DOMA, Dump Barney Frank and Dump the Democrats (and their Republican bed partners).  

I don’t call that pragmatismThere’s nothing pragmatic about being inept and slow to act when action is called for.
I don’t believe Obama waited so long to respond to our outrage because he was carefully considering his response, but because he simply doesn’t give a damn. If he DID carefully consider his lame-ass, empty response, it wouldn’t say much for his intellectual ability.

Oh that’s CUTE!I want one…  

I know it’s redundantbut here’s my reply to the D.C. fundraiser, It prints out nicely as a window sign or . . .for the next time you’re on the street in front of the HRC or Mandarin. . .
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wusc…
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