Re:
“I hope that when we pass this legislation that we will understand that we are doing great damage,” Mr. McCain said. “And we could possibly and probably, as the commandant of the Marine Corps said, and as I have been told by literally thousands of members of the military, harm the battle effectiveness vital to the survival of our young men and women in the military.”
Go fuck yourself.
AbsurdBeats 
my message to the senator is that he is on the losing side of history and so is DADT! I must admit that I had given up hope on this, holy shite.
Yeah, I was not expecting this. At all.
Nice to be surprised—and in a good way!
it’s a stunner, after the last election I was settling into my usual cringe and had just given up again on consuming news but as I was looking for book-tv on cspan there is was. I see that some of the folks at TNC’s are upset about the dream act but the legwork for such progress just hasn’t been done yet and if they are paying attention to this achievement they should find sustenance. hard for many folks to understand that these issues aren’t just about making sense but about making laws. here is a funny rant from deleuze:
http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpdeleuze10.htm
Ever get the impression McCain is a really, really sore loser?
Yep.