Joe Lieberman airs 'Don't ask' doubts

Dan82 · Sep 16, 2010

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42301.html#ixzz0zkihyg9C

Gay rights advocates went on high alert Thursday afternoon after Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), a key proponent of repealing the military’s "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy, said that he believes Senate Republicans can kill the defense authorization bill containing the repeal c– a step Sen. John McCain has already threatened to take.

“The question is whether the Senate leadership can negotiate an agreement with the Republicans that will allow the bill to come up and get them to feel that they can introduce amendments that they want to introduce as well,” Lieberman said in an interview with Kerry Eleveld of the Advocate, a web site and magazine for the gay community. “But until that happens, I do
n’t think the votes are there to break the filibuster, which would be a shame.”

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Emberstone · Sep 16, 2010

further proof of the long standing problem of republican establishment blocking DADT repeal measures at every turn they can muster.

ironic that there was a time pre-2008 election cycle where john mccain supported repeal of DADT...

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