Senate votes to abolish "don't ask don't tell"

[Ashendant]

It only cost the 'compromise' of nearly a trillion dollars for rich people and the bill to give 9/11 first responders healthcare to stop them from dying on related illnesses, but progress is progress, I guess.

You cant blame obama for the republicans being dicks.

But you can blame him for being the weakest negotiator to ever occupy the White House. No president in history has ever taken such a huge electoral mandate combined with massive majorities in both houses and still negotiated himself so thoroughly down from this position of strength. He gives half of everything away before he even arrives at the negotiating table, apparently under the delusion that Republicans will be charmed by such magnanimity, and then negotiates most of the rest of the way with little to show for it when he's done. Jimmy Carter looks assertive next to him.

Compare this to Bush who lost the popular vote in 2000, won only by a squeeker 51/48 split, faced hostile majorities in both congress, and still came away with everything he asked for between 06 and 08.

Unless Palin is the Republican nominee in 2012, I'm voting third party and encouraging everyone I know to do the same. Yes, it will mean a Republican administration for four years. Chemotherapy sucks but we have to go through it and we can't get rid of the Dem cancer of the spine otherwise.

From a outside view it seems that conservatives are a serious problem and anything that promotes them is not to be taken lightly, from europe i would prefer a democrat than a loony conservative

Of course if you vote for some kind of socialist party it would be much better