closing and the bush tax cut. he was known for getting things done, that includes working with democrats. that is until he got closer to running for president and after president obama beat him. after he lost the run for president, he put away his mavericky cape. later, criticizing president obama became his new m.o. on you name it, the obama care, the filibuster on the repeal of don t ask, don t tell. and president obama s second term, now it seems that senator john mccain may have dusted off that maverick cape and he is back to getting things done with democrats. take, for example, this past may, democratic senator claire mccaskill. they agreed on the budget until
would be a greater target for an army. to capture a woman would hurt us even more. will the soldiers will willing to protect that woman even more so will that compromise the mission and they have debriefed male and female soldiers about this and they have said no, these missions are not compromised. so if we have a situation where we can do where they can do the military tasks and we as a group can perform the military tasks, then we should do them and shouldn t be worrying about where are they going to be defecating when they re stuck in a humvee together in the middle of kabul. such silly issues. it s not sill you and i ve done a lot of research and talked to a lot of men and women in these positions. look, i ve always felt that these kind of political identity projects in the military should be left to military leaders, whether that was women serving in combat, the repeal of don t ask, don t tell. i am fine to leave that in the hands of the people who know exactly how this is go
of command. we need to look at whether the chain of command can deal with the multitude issues that arise out of sexual assault. we have training issues given women s prize in the military, the repeal of don t ask/don t tell. as the executive director of the women s network said, we re not going to train our way out of this issue. we do have to look at taking it out of the military chain of command, not allowing the military to reverse decisions about sexual assault. about giving victims some recourse so that they don t think so that the stigma of reporting and the fear of reporting won t prevent them from reporting the 70 plus numbers of sexual assault that occur on a daily basis. i think that this has to be taken very, very seriously and
apply in this case and what was gohmert s official business? he was having dinner with his stepsister and her husband and decided to drive them to lincoln memorial sightseeing. how is that official business? police also said that gohmert was rude and irate. he was ranting. louie gohmert rude and ranting? that s tough to imagine. that s what repeal of don t ask, don t tell does. it says, i have to be overt. tell me one person, one terror baby that s been born. can you tell me? the explosions won t happen for 10, 20 years. this is a massive beginning of a new ottoman empire that president obama can take great credit for. you are attacking the messenger. and we wasn t to eliminate the word lunatic from the federal code? huh?
gay service members and their families were not enough to move most republicans to supporting the repeal of don t ask, don t tell. the difference here i think is that, a, there s a lot more to be known, the politics are changing, but the military as an institution is saying, it is greatly disruptive to us as an institution where people need to follow orders if our orders and privileges are delivered unequally. we can t function as an discriminatory organization. i think it s difficult. people think of the military as this gigantic institution, which it is, but think about just life on a base. it is so stark, i think it brings into such shopper focus the problem with doma. there s been not a peep out of the elected republicans this week. not a peep. i said let me defend my fellow republicans. you have to start somewhere. it s true.