Comments on: Hastings says White House, colleagues pressed him to drop “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” amendment

By: Sunday Roundup « Politics, Opinion & Advice

Sunday Roundup « Politics, Opinion & Advice — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:19:37 +0000

[...] strange news on the gay rights front this week, as Representative Alcee Hastings (D-Humanity) introduced an amendment in the US House of Representatives that would have halted enforcement of DADT — only to [...]

By: Jim Lacey

Jim Lacey — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:52:35 +0000

With all due respect to Rep. Hastings, I would beg you to believe that no one’s heart hurts worse than the President’s on the bigoted issue of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”. I fully understand why everyone who wishes to see this outrageous policy outlawed would expect it to have been addressed from the day President Obama said, “So help me God.”

But may I respectfully suggest there’s far more at peril here than even the thousands of wonderful servicemen who have been unceremoniously evicted from the military because they are gay, there are rather 50 million Americans without health insurance and 14,000 more losing their policies DAILY.

The President cannot afford to add even a single point to his disapproval rating at a time so critical, and that he’ll definitely do by moving at this time on ANYTHING other than health reform.

It is a time for not only Blacks but all destitute Americans to understand that this man is inches from engineering the greatest reform in American history in a century. If he should somehow fail, it is likely his entire administration could suffer.

We all need to look beyond our personal selves just now. For every gay kicked out of the Army there is a gay kicked out who also has no insurance. For every gay kicked out who has no insurance there is a gay kicked out who has no insurance and is missing two legs. For every gay kicked out who has no insurance and is missing two legs there is a gay kicked out with no insurance, missing two legs, has no job, has no degree but the one he invested as a career in the military, etc., etc., etc.

You get the point.

We all need to see how incredibly close we are to catching up to rest of the free world of which a huge number have national health, meaning they pay NOTHING. Obama’s plan isn’t extreme. We all still have to pay something. It’s just if you’re poor you won’t have to pay 3x what you don’t have and be left in the cold.

People in our country with no insurance have a great deal more to cry about than gays who have lost the investment of a lifetime. Cold as that may seem to sound, it is not — at least not compared to those who are sick and have no money to see a doctor.

By: savant

savant — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:04:29 +0000

A former judge impeached for for corruption is using the word “honesty” that is really funny.

By: alceegoestotwist

alceegoestotwist — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:11:21 +0000

Meethinks we’ll soon find out about Alcee’s meanderings at Twist on Miami Beach sooner rather than later. Come out, come out, Alcee!

By: barrelhead

barrelhead — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:47:27 +0000

This man should not be an elected official. He is one of the great scumbags in American politics, and certainly has not stopped exploiting the system. Hastings was one of 6 federal judges to be removed from office in 220 years! Then due to gerrymandering, he is able to win a black majority district which is D+28. In his time as a Congressman, he has used tax payer dollars for the MOST expensive vehicle Lexus makes. I can certainly understand the need for a vehicle, but he has no right to waste taxpayer dollars on this. The $30k he could save is a job someone in his district could get.