DADT and the DREAM Act both face key Senate votes today. Get on the phone and make it happen. Here are some key Senators if you happen to live in their states, courtesy of commenter Moses 2317:
Olympia Snowe (Maine) – (202) 224-5344
Susan Collins (Maine) – (202) 224-2523
Scott Brown (Massachusetts) – (202) 224-4543
George LeMieux (Florida) – (202) 224-3041
George Voinovich (Ohio) – (202) 224-3353
Jim Webb (Virginia) – (202)-224-4024
Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) – (202) 224-6665
John Ensign (Nevada) – (202) 224-6244
Richard Lugar (Indiana) – (202) 224-4814
Mark Kirk (Illinois) – (202) 224-2854
Joe Manchin (West Virginia) – 202-224-3954
Even if you live in some other state, pick up the phone and yell about something.
Find your Senator here.
Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
Guide for first-timers here.
J.W. Hamner
Scott Brown is just endless rings for me…. I guess he is getting read the riot act… I will try again in 10.
MAJeff
Webb’s on the floor now. He’s on board with DADT, but I’m not sure about Dream.
Buck
What if you’re from back-asswards Kentucky? (I know, shoot myself in the head)
JPL
I live in GA and the phone calls to my Senators would be a waste of time. Saxby has made statements about migrant workers because the peanut farmers depend on cheap labor.
He just want immigrants to slave away and then go home.
JGabriel
Tim F.:
I really can’t think of anything to yell at Gillibrand about, and it seems unproductive to yell at Schumer for being a publicity ho.
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JGabriel
MAJeff:
Webb supports the DREAM act. Which makes sense, since the military is a big proponent of DREAM, for the obvious reasons of both fairness and recruitment.
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mr. whipple
She’s speaking now, doing great.
SteveinSC
I had donated $500 to Jim Webb’s campaign and I lived in Virginia for 40 years. You bet I called his office!
mr. whipple
McCain on floor being a bitter DICK.
Maody
i hate john mcPantywad [speaking on the floor now.] some of those marines may well be teh GAY. asshole.
Bill ORLY
Juan is my distinguished senator, so I think I’ll save my dime. Petty, fucking pantload crybaby shithead.
Boudica
McCain really is an asshole….keeps referring to “liberal bastions” as a pejorative. Hey, John…wrong side of history!
Buck
@Maody:
May? Trust me, ARE.
Omnes Omnibus
@Boudica: He no longer cares about being on the wrong side of history (if he ever did); He knows he will never be president, and, therefore, he is a bitter, bitter man.
Maude
@Bill ORLY:
Please call and say that. Then follow with Happy Holiday!
Go on over to Atrios. The commenters on on full whinge about the senate.
arguingwithsignposts
go DREAM! go DADT! Acronyms FTW!
ETA: My senator with a brain, Durbin, is on the floor now, sounding intelligent. Mark Kirk can GFH.
dmsilev
@mr. whipple:
Some story I read this morning dubbed him McWeasel.
EDIT: It was the NY Daily News.
dms
Omnes Omnibus
@Maude: My Arizonan wingnut cousin just posted on FB that she is sick of people saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas, so that might be the thing in AZ wingnut circles these days. So I definitely say wish ’em Happy Holidays.
Maody
@Buck: figure of speech, not a maybe.
also, too, McCain’s rant on elitism is just fucking scandalous. No really, he is one rich fucker who left a wife, who has how many homes, is educated, dropped some major military hardware re crashed them, is a whiny angry white privileged fuck. fuck him and his pasty white ass.
arguingwithsignposts
Aaarrggghhh – McConnell is only slightly less stupid than Sarah Barracuda.
Boudica
The royal turtle is speaking now. I may have to turn the sound off.
mr. whipple
@Maude:
Took a look. Left.
A contest to see who can be most cynical. Bleh.
MAJeff
@mr. whipple:
He’s just being true to himself.
arguingwithsignposts
You know, Harry Reid isn’t that bad a senator, if given the chance. He faces something no one before him has faced before – about 40 assholes who would rather blow the country up than vote for sensible legislation. I give him props for weathering that shitstorm.
SteveinSC
@Omnes Omnibus: Well, now remember it is the holiest of xtian holidays, no wait Easter is, no that is in april or is it march? Well, at least we know when baby jesu was born, well maybe not so much, er is that Old Style or Gregorian or was it some time in June? Let see it couldn’t have been June, because there are no xmas trees or snow in June. Oh, fuck it just burn the goddamned heretics.
mr. whipple
@arguingwithsignposts:
Agreed. Getting 60 of these preening morons to agree to anything is a miracle, in my book.
Omnes Omnibus
@SteveinSC: The poor girl was never all that bright. She has started a business though; she sells shooting supplies and gear designed for women. Yes, she is a gun nut.
matoko_chan
Also a good day to take your funds out of BoA.
here it comes.
RinaX
@arguingwithsignposts:
Agreed. Harry has his faults, but I don’t think too many other people could have done better with this crew. Voters insist on sending assholes to Congress, on both sides of the aisle, and he has to deal with them.
hildebrand
Gah! Just went over to GOS (to look for updates on DADT, etc), and they are still whining about Obama’s press conference from a couple of weeks ago. Unreal.
arguingwithsignposts
So what just happened, did DREAM act fail?
eta: fsm, I hate agreeing with Joe fucking Lieberman on something, but he’s right on DADT.
ETA 2: and now there is John fucking McCain standing in the well spouting bullshit. where is AsiangrrlMN with her rusty farm implements?
Maody
@arguingwithsignposts: yes. 55-41. who didn’t vote?
SteveinSC
@arguingwithsignposts: Yes it failed! Those fucking assholes will use these people, they will grandstand against them, but they won’t even help their kids who grow up here. This is fucking unbelievable. DADT is up now. Who the fuck knows?
By the way, where the fuck is my pet calendar I bought/ordered?
arguingwithsignposts
@matoko_chan:
even cudlips can agree on something. BoA was in my rear window years ago.
hildebrand
It is not going to be a merry Christmas for many of my students, now that the Dream Act has failed.
Pryor, Tester, Nelson and Baucus voted no. Bastards.
suzanne
Oh, for fuck’s sake.
The Party of Compassion (TM) screws over brown kids.
My surprise could fit on the head of a pin.
change
One down, one to go liberals…
change
DREAM killed, and DADT will safely, securely remain the law of the land.
I love being a Republican. We always win in the end, don’t we?
amk
DADT passes cloture 63-33. Yesss.
That old fart mccaain can go suck an egg, a rotten one at that.
change
@amk:
That’s only the cloture vote. Just because they move forward to debate, doesn’t mean it will pass.
I wouldn’t start celebrating just yet. The football will be pulled away again…
change
@amk:
That’s only the cloture vote. Just because they move forward to debate, doesn’t mean it will pass.
I wouldn’t start celebrating just yet. The football will be pulled away again…
change
@amk:
That’s only the cloture vote. Just because they move forward to debate, doesn’t mean it will pass.
I wouldn’t start celebrating just yet. The football will be pulled away again…
change
@amk:
That’s only the cloture vote. Just because they move forward to debate, doesn’t mean it will pass.
I wouldn’t start celebrating just yet. The football will be pulled away again…
change
@amk:
That’s only the cloture vote. Just because they move forward to debate, doesn’t mean it will pass.
I wouldn’t start celebrating just yet. The football will be pulled away again…
amk
@change: Yes. I did say that was a cloture vote count.
Ian
I think they can find 51 Senators to vote for it, mind you…
JGabriel
@change:
Despite what you hear on Fox News, Change, the stuff that comes out of your ass isn’t really called win.
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hildebrand
@change: Peddle your nonsense elsewhere – there are real world consequences to Republican heartlessness, and the Dream Act going down is a cruel and ugly blow to young people who just want to make something of themselves. We, as a nation, had a chance to the do the right thing – and folks like you decided to once again go backwards, screwing the people in the process. Piss off.
4tehlulz
@change: ‘sup Quisling?
TooManyJens
@change:
Hey, if that’s what you need to tell yourself to keep from curling up in a ball and weeping because America’s about to get a little bit more equal, knock yourself out.
change
@hildebrand:
Blah blah blah. Everybody knows its just stealth amnesty for illegals. Thank God for the Senate.
Blame the PREANTS who brought them here ILLEGALLY for their troubles. Blame the PARENTS.
We need to send the message that there aren’t any bennies for illegals, period.
change
@hildebrand:
Blah blah blah. Everybody knows its just stealth amnesty for illegals. Thank God for the Senate.
Blame the PREANTS who brought them here ILLEGALLY for their troubles. Blame the PARENTS.
We need to send the message that there aren’t any bennies for illegals, period.
amk
Oh, didn’t know “change” was a teabagging rethug troll. Should have guesses straight away with its 4 consecutive posts.
Eat the “change”, change,
arguingwithsignposts
i look forward to change being assigned to a detail with a bunch of gheys in afghanistan. In fact, i demand video.
JGabriel
@change:
It means the GOP homophobe block would need to find at least 10 Dems to either vote against repealing DADT or vote present/not vote. Probably 13 or 14, since Collins, Snowe, and Scott Brown all appear ready to vote in favor of repeal.
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4tehlulz
@arguingwithsignposts: Like change would ever step foot in Afghanistan.
change
Even if this does pass, we can bring back DADT in 2012 when we control the Senate and the Presidency, just like we’ll repeal Obamacare.
In fact, have you liberals ever heard of the Repeal Amendment?
It’s being introduced in the State Legislatures of Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia as we speak, just to start.
4tehlulz
@change: Confirmed for neo-Confederate traitor.
JGabriel
@change:
Because that’s what this country was founded on: making people inherit and pay for their parents mistakes.
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4tehlulz
@change: Confirmed for neo-Confederate traitor.
also, again, lol “we”.
JGabriel
@change:
Why stop there when you can bring back slavery and monarchy?
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Maody
@4tehlulz: we really shouldn’t be using neo in that sentence. just say onward fucking dominionist confederate soldiers – that’s change. asswipe.
4tehlulz
@JGabriel: Give him time. He’s* already trying to refight the Civil War.
*Not that he’d do anything that entails something other than taking the credit for other people’s work, of course.
KDP
Now that DREAM failed (sigh) and DADT passed through the supermajority required to get to an up or down vote, should our calls be directed to the following?
Ratify START treaty
Demand rules change for 112th. No supermajority for cloture, no secret holds, no absent filibuster.
Moses2317
Thanks, Tim F. This is a truly great victory!
Winning Progressive