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« Reply #25 on: December 18, 2010, 03:34:53 PM »
Ding dong the witch is dead!
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« Reply #26 on: December 18, 2010, 03:34:58 PM »
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« Reply #27 on: December 18, 2010, 03:38:06 PM »
« Edited: December 18, 2010, 03:39:41 PM by Hit Me One Time »
They gays just got a fine Christmas present. And an early one, to boot!

Can we get a list of which senators voted yay or nay?
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« Reply #28 on: December 18, 2010, 03:53:38 PM »
« Edited: December 18, 2010, 03:56:15 PM by Bacon King »
Quote from: Hit Me One Time on December 18, 2010, 03:38:06 PM
Can we get a list of which senators voted yay or nay?

The cloture vote is right here.

Brown, Collins, Kirk, Murkowski, Snowe, Voinovich were Republicans voting in favor; no Democrats voted against it. Bunning, Hatch, Gregg, and Manchin were absent.

As far as I can tell, the only difference with the final passage is that Ensign and Burr voted aye on the bill itself while voting nay on cloture (for some reason).
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« Reply #29 on: December 18, 2010, 04:03:06 PM »
I just thought of something really funny I could add to the end of that, lol.

Great news! Smiley
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« Reply #30 on: December 18, 2010, 04:05:33 PM »
Burr's a bit of a surprise. Has there been any indication that he'd support this? I thought he was a pretty conservative guy.
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« Reply #31 on: December 18, 2010, 04:05:41 PM »
Burr voted for repeal?  Where did that come from?

edit: Swedish Cheese had the same thought as me
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« Reply #32 on: December 18, 2010, 04:10:36 PM »
« Edited: December 18, 2010, 04:12:56 PM by Bacon King »
I know the Ensign and Burr thing is crazy, yes, but to show proper sourcing proof:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-pn-senate-gays-20101219,0,4926811.story

Right after the paragraph saying who switched parties for the cloture vote:

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I have no idea why. Why would those two support the bill? And if they did for whatever reason, why vote against the cloture motion?
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« Reply #33 on: December 18, 2010, 04:12:31 PM »
Quote from: Old Europe on December 18, 2010, 01:47:34 PM
About 17 years too late. Other than that I welcome the repeal of this moronic policy.
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« Reply #34 on: December 18, 2010, 04:13:50 PM »
Pretty map!
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« Reply #35 on: December 18, 2010, 04:16:13 PM »
The only thing I could find about Burr:

(about halfway down this article)

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« Reply #36 on: December 18, 2010, 04:42:12 PM »
Good news.

Did someone tell Manchin to get lost?
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« Reply #37 on: December 18, 2010, 04:49:00 PM »
Quote from: Taoisigh on December 18, 2010, 04:12:31 PM
Quote from: Old Europe on December 18, 2010, 01:47:34 PM
About 17 years too late. Other than that I welcome the repeal of this moronic policy.

Actually, gays have been allowed to serve openly in Sweden since 1977, so it's more like 33 years too late Wink

Quote from: Bacon King on December 18, 2010, 04:16:13 PM
Burr explained his surprise decision to vote yes on the final bill by saying that while he still feels the timing is wrong for repeal, he joined the majority because "this policy is outdated, and repeal is inevitable."

I guess that kind of makes sense. So this is basicly Burr realising history will probably look bad on those who voted against this, and since there's six years until he'll have to worry about potential RINO-hunting he said why not...

EDIT: Also someone should edit the thread title, since it passed with 65. Smiley
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« Reply #38 on: December 18, 2010, 05:41:37 PM »
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Passed in a Lame Duck as well. Double trouble.
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« Reply #39 on: December 18, 2010, 05:47:19 PM »
Burr frequently votes against closure on popular things and then, if the bill gets 60+ votes, he'll vote for it, so that he can have his cake and eat it too, so to speak. He's pretty disgusting in that way.
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« Reply #40 on: December 18, 2010, 05:48:17 PM »
Quote from: Franzl on December 18, 2010, 12:31:51 PM
Quote from: Niki the Shiwawa on December 18, 2010, 12:25:26 PM
Kirk can now continue feeding us his "zomgz i am modirate" card.

Obviously, Kirk can't win either way. If he votes against it, he's a terrible excuse for a human being for calling himself moderate and then voting against the gays.....if he votes for it, well it's obviously just a "show" to keep selling us the BS.

Perhaps you should give him....you know....a little time in office before deciding you hate him?

As I said before the election....it'd be nice if he voted similarly to his time in the House, but I still consider him the lesser evil regardless of whether he goes back to that point or not.

Kirk voted against repeal in the House this year and when he was running in the primary said DADT "worked out well". He's an unprincipled, pandering douchebag.
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« Reply #41 on: December 18, 2010, 05:49:58 PM »
Has Bubba comented on this?
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« Reply #42 on: December 18, 2010, 05:52:14 PM »
17 years too late.  Better late than never, I guess.
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« Reply #43 on: December 18, 2010, 05:53:28 PM »
Quote from: MK ULTRA on December 18, 2010, 05:41:37 PM
Smiley

Passed in a Lame Duck as well. Double trouble.

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« Reply #44 on: December 18, 2010, 05:56:46 PM »
Glad Webb came around on this too
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« Reply #45 on: December 18, 2010, 06:26:27 PM »
Quote from: Marokai on December 18, 2010, 05:53:28 PM
Quote from: MK ULTRA on December 18, 2010, 05:41:37 PM
Smiley

Passed in a Lame Duck as well. Double trouble.

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« Reply #46 on: December 18, 2010, 06:43:44 PM »
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« Reply #47 on: December 18, 2010, 06:47:31 PM »
Arkansas Senators FTW.
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« Reply #48 on: December 18, 2010, 06:49:49 PM »
Judd Gregg and Charles Grassley confirm once again that they are "sensible" conservatives. Roll Eyes
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« Reply #49 on: December 18, 2010, 06:51:54 PM »
Would libertarian hero Joe Miller have voted for this? Because Murkowski did.
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