Posted on 12/16/2010 11:42:12 AM PST by OldDeckHand
Senator-Elect Pat Toomey has just issued a statement supporting repeal of “Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell.”
“As I’ve said previously, my highest priority is to have the policy that best enables our armed services to do their job,” Senator-Elect Toomey said. “Our civilian and professional military leadership have now spoken and said we should repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. I would support a free-standing measure to do so.”
If Majority Leader Reid keeps his word, the freestanding repeal measure passed by the House yesterday will be voted on in the Senate in the lame duck, before Sen.-Elect Toomey is seated. Still, the support of a credible conservative like Toomey is a sure sign that repeal is likely to pass.
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WTF, what is it with these idiots?
So make them who support this to share showers, sleeping bags and rooms, let them see queers holding hands on base and let them walk in and see two homo’s going at it and then F-IN vote
need Mccain to drag this out with amendments, hell close down Govt if need be.
calling him now and have called many of them saying that this needs to be dragged out till we take control.
Murkowski’s office was rude and arrogant where as Demint Mccain was good to talk to and as for the idiots in ME and MA well they got an earful and let them know they will not get away with destroying our military.
it’s high frigging time that the GOP takes a stand and speaks out about he homo agenda as staying silent is what they want us to do.
I for one will tell anyone meet about their perverse agenda and hope all on here do too, plus call a bunch of GOP senators and let feelings be known .
call him and tell him what you think, trust me I have just now.
if the GOP appeases them on don’t ask then they can go screw for anything off me .
The GOP will be dead
There will be significant problems stemming from the repeal of DADT, but they are not likely to manifest themselves quickly, or immediately in the form of resignations. Why? Because unemployment is at 10%, and the VAST majority of service members are obligated members. IOW, they have a contracted service obligation that wouldn't allow them to quit even if they wanted to.
As the economy improves (if it improves) you're likely to see a downward tick in reenlistment, and you'll see a spike in retirement, which is probably the worst piece of collateral damage. The military is going to lose talent at the Sr. officer and enlisted ranks, which of course is not good in a time of war.
Gay activists were instrumental in destroying Santorum in 2006 and spent millions attacking Santorum and defeating him. I suspect you knew that.
Toomey doesn’t want the same treatment from those special interests. Duck-and-cover time.
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
Pat Doo-mee = Sphincter II
Toomey is not a conservative.
What a scumbag.
I want my vote back.
Toomey IS Conservative! His ACU Rating is 97%, higher than Rick Santorum’s rating which was in the 80s. If Toomey is a RINO, then so is Santorum who voted for a lot of Bush’s big government expanding bills.
I can’t believe we’re going to automatically denigrate him already.
(He is just another weak Republican...afraid of the press)
“Pat Toomey gets the fact that he needs to work with a lot of folks, that there doesn’t need to be unanimity on all issues in the party,” said Washington lobbyist David Urban, an influential GOP moderate and a host of the event.
Urban was Sen. Arlen Specter’s chief of staff from 1997 to 2002, when the outgoing Pennsylvania senator was still a Republican. He stayed loyal when Specter became a Democrat last year, and he returned to the GOP fold after Specter lost the May 18 primary to Rep. Joe Sestak.
Urban is helping to connect Toomey with moderate Republicans in the capital and from the Specter camp. He calls Toomey “more of a fiscal conservative than a social conservative.”
Toomey has tried to show that he is no ideological fire-breather.
For instance, Toomey said he would have voted last year to confirm now-Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, though many Republicans opposed her. He also has argued that Republicans should stop driving away supporters and candidates who favor abortion rights. Toomey even has said some nice things about President Obama.
In a May 2009 op-ed piece in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Toomey argued for tolerance among Republicans on party members’ abortion views. He outlined a vision of a GOP with room for vigorous debate on how to achieve the “unifying idea” of individual freedom and limited government, but “I would certainly not suggest that those who disagree with the pro-life position be banished from the Republican tent.”
Last summer, in an Inquirer opinion piece, Toomey argued that Sotomayor, Obama’s first nominee for the Supreme Court, should be confirmed because, he said, she was “mainstream” in her legal thinking.
“When a president of one party is elected, the proper role of the opposing party is not to go on politically charged ideological campaigns against judicial nominees,” Toomey wrote. “It should be limited to determining whether a nominee is well-qualified and within the legal mainstream.”
I’m just not willing to indict him as Benedict Arnold yet.
The Representatives in the House are elected to represent their constituencies. It is my understanding that the Senate is a deliberative body in the interests of the entire country. They are not sent per population. I.E., there is no excuse for making the wrong choice here.
I’m stunned anyone is surprised, Toomey is the one so called “Club for Growth” backed candidate who ever won anything and now people can see why.
He has no more in common with conservatism than a worm has with a Elephant, and yet he eeked by with support from conservatives in an off yr election.
Basically, he just tossed conservatives overboard and is chasing after Arlen Spector voters.
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Thanks..suckers
You have been conned.
If this decision is based on what military leaders said, does that mean the USMC and USAF, whose leaders contradicted the SecDef and Chairman of the Joint Chief, will be free NOT to have it repealed as to their branches?
I am really totally surprised at Toomey. PA may as well have kept Specter.
The Constitution Party has existed for a while.
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