{"id":188132,"date":"2010-12-06T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/06\/god-help-me-i-agree-with-joe-lieberman\/"},"modified":"2010-12-06T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T23:32:00","slug":"god-help-me-i-agree-with-joe-lieberman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/06\/god-help-me-i-agree-with-joe-lieberman\/","title":{"rendered":"God Help Me, I Agree With Joe Lieberman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the sanctimonious rat-fink is saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/132129-lieberman-wants-senate-to-stay-in-session-until-it-repeals-dont-ask-dont-tell\">the Senate should postpone its adjournment to make sure that there is time to repeal Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) wants the Senate to stay in session until it&#8217;s passed legislation to do away with the military&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; policy.<\/p>\n<p>Lieberman, a key Senate proponent of repealing the military&#8217;s ban on openly gay or lesbian members, doesn&#8217;t want the chamber to adjourn until it&#8217;s acted on a defense authorization bill that contains a provision to do away with the policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that Lieberman has been a stronger advocate of repeal than either Barack &#8220;Fierce Advocate&#8221; Obama or Harry Reid.<\/p>\n<p>For once, we have a bunch of wankers in the room, and Lieberman isn&#8217;t one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the sanctimonious rat-fink is saying that the Senate should postpone its adjournment to make sure that there is time to repeal Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) wants the Senate to stay in session until it&#8217;s passed legislation to do away with the military&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; policy. Lieberman, a key &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,998,1020,1030,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-congress","category-legislation","category-lgbtq","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}