Meanwhile the Obama team is on all channels trying to
rally the base to save the few blue dogs and dinos
who lack support everywhere. This cynical and
manipulative administration really disrespects the
intelligence of its supposed base. They vote on gay
and immigrant issues just a month before elections.
Even though they knew that this bill in the senate
was DOA. Of course they did it to embarrass the
republicans and to be able to boast that they
supported the issues, knowing it was a symbolic vote.
But the Warren appointment, couldn’t be trusted to
the senate, could it? All these corrupt hypocrites
should be thrown out. The democracy game, like the
classic three card monty, or the American dream ponzi
scheme has outlived its purpose. No difference except
the rhetoric between the parties. Everybody gets paid
by the same masters. Any progressive who supports
this administration is lying to themselves. The
banks, Wall Street, MIC and Israel control our
politics, period. Pretending that dishonest, corrupt
politicians can ever solve any serious problems,
other than the bottom line for the corporate culture,
is naive and manipulative. Any gay person still
believe that Obama stands for anything? Any immigrant
or working class member? Throw them all out and start
over. What delicious irony that it was a republican
‘Log Cabin’ group that finally nailed DADT. While our
democrat allies stuff their pockets with campaign
cash from the same corporations they supposedly
condemn. These clowns seem only competent to conduct
back room, secret deals-to maintain power while
selling out their base.

Obama is very good at having his cake and eating it
too.  He personally supports DADT (but can’t publicly
say so as he’d lost a large chunk of his base), so he
pretends that he’s only fighting to keep it as a
formality.  If he loses the cases, he’ll claim that
that’s what he wanted all along and graciously accept
the accolades of the GLBTQ community for failing to
uphold bigotry despite doing everything he could to
spite them.  If he wins the case, we’ll never hear
another word about ending DADT from his White House.

It’s the whole “Oh, yeah: the public option is great”
in public and “Don’t worry insurance-exec-who-
donated-to-my-campaign: there’ll be no public option
in the final bill” behind closed doors scenario all
over again.