Tammy Baldwin named honorary co-chair for the Presidential Inaugural

So...

What does an "honorary co-chair" do exactly? Just a symbol of inclusion?

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by: BusyTimmy @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 12:48:29 PM CST

She's in charge

of communications with the marching band.  Positions in the inauguration which might relate to statements of policy or principle are reserved for heterosexuals.

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by: M @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 18:31:27 PM CST

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Ah

Maybe she helps make posters and rainbow buttons.

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by: BusyTimmy @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 09:35:45 AM CST

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great, so she'll be giving the invocation then?

otherwise, it's a nice gesture but clearly an after-thought.  she should definitely take part, but obama should be under no illusions that this in any way balances out having a civil rights-revoking homobigot antisemite womb controller xtianist giving the inauguration.

Lurleen on Twitter

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by: Lurleen @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 13:08:05 PM CST

You forgot international crime advocate

which is my number one peeve, his association with mass killer Akinola and advocacy of assasination.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 19:25:41 PM CST

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Rep. LaHood

So what's the story with Ray LaHood?  With all the brou-ha-ha surrounding Blagojevich, then Rick Warren, the fact that Obama gave a cabinet position (Sec'y of Transportation) to a REPUBLICAN Congressman wasn't even reported, or barely.

Is he someone I should be scared of?  I don't want to jump to conclusions, but the 21st-century GOP are a scary bunch, taken as a group.  What's his story?


"There are two kinds of people in this world -- the kind who separate the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't."  -- Gloria Steinem

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by: red7eric @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 13:15:32 PM CST

LaHood is a serious homophobe

more reason to worry.....

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 20:09:53 PM CST

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some of his votes

Voted YES on Constitutionally defining marriage as one-man-one-woman.
Voted YES on making the PATRIOT Act permanent
Voted YES on Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage
Voted YES on protecting the Pledge of Allegiance
Voted YES on constitutional amendment prohibiting flag desecration
Voted YES on banning gay adoptions in DC.
Supports anti-flag desecration amendment
Limit interstate class-action lawsuits to federal courts

Rated 13% by the ACLU, indicating an anti-civil rights voting record
Rated 25% by the HRC, indicating a mixed record on gay rights.
Rated 39% by NAACP, indicating a mixed record on affirmative-action.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 20:17:42 PM CST

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a few more Hood issues: Do Obama's choices scare anyone else now?

Ray LaHood has voted with a majority of his Republican colleagues 84.5% of the time during the current Congress

Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 Not Voting

Position on Abortion: Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered

Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich: supports making President Bush's tax cuts permanent

Mandatory drug sentences: Supports mandatory jail sentences for selling illegal drugs

Immigration issues: Establish English as the official national language

On Troop withdrawl: Should the United States withdraw its troops from Iraq? No

Aids Prevention: Should aid to African nations for AIDS prevention programs fund distribution of contraceptives: No

Military tribunals: supports using military tribunals to try suspected terrorists when ordinary civilian courts are deemed inappropriate or impractical

Faith Based Initiative: supports direct federal poverty aid through religious, community-based, or other non-profit organizations

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 20:33:50 PM CST

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Do we know his stance ...

... on issues of transportation?  Are they fairly left-leaning?  Who gets to pick LaHood's replacement in Congress?  It's not a Democratic governor, by any chance?

If so, Barack essentially removed a homophobe from Congress and put him in a job where he'll have no effect on social justice issues whatsoever and might actually do some good for the country where matters of transportation are concerned ...

I'm tryin' to look on the bright side here ...

Cheers, all.

"There are two kinds of people in this world -- the kind who separate the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't."  -- Gloria Steinem

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by: red7eric @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 22:46:14 PM CST

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Illinois!!

Does this mean that Blago can sell LaHood's seat, too?  Or, more likely, does it mean another special election?

"There are two kinds of people in this world -- the kind who separate the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't."  -- Gloria Steinem

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by: red7eric @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 22:47:53 PM CST

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Oooh Look -- He's thrown us a bone!

I'm Sooooooo impressed NOT!

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by: David Ehrenstein @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 13:34:11 PM CST

Can she slap Rick Warren

For all of us?

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by: CPT_Doom @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 13:39:44 PM CST

cashing in our campaign donations for TOKENS

Biden has also gotten in lockstep to justify Warren, if they think LGBTs are gonna 'make NICE" being spit on ON DAY ONE...they must have mistaken post-prop 8 queers, with the milque toast Mattachine Society.

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 14:06:22 PM CST

My guess is Barney said NO THANKS, and Tammy didn't

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 14:30:50 PM CST

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no, he picked tammy first

because he wanted to cover the queer, woman and pro-choice angles in one fell swoop.  too bad she isn't jewish.

Lurleen on Twitter

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by: Lurleen @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 17:22:10 PM CST

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My guess is he is excluding Barney Frank

because he knew that the well read and well informed Frank would go ballistic over the selection of Warren. Which he did, bless him.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 20:38:08 PM CST

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go read some other LGBT blogs

they are already trying to calm everyone down about Gay-enslaver Warren
(that is not hyperbole, he supported Akinola's successful effort to sentence LGBT's to hard labour for just being in the same public space together....)

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 20:36:28 PM CST

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How exactly is "inclusiveness' served

by appointing a lesbian to a position with NO duties or responsibilities and NO official power or authority?  If Obama is so damned inclusive, why are there no LGBT people in his cabinet?  This is just one more attempt to pacify us by feeding us pablum.  An frankly,  though I never thought I'd say this, for the first time I find myself having doubts about Baldwin.  Who'd have thought she'd turn collaborationist?  

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.  -Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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by: QScribe @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 14:51:56 PM CST

Write or call Tammy Baldwin

I called Tammy Baldwin's DC office and spoke to a nice assistant, saying I called on Rep. Baldwin to get Obama to rescind his invitation to Rick Warren.  The phone is: (202) 225-2906. And here's the letter I'm sending:
Rep. Tammy Baldwin
446 Rayburn Building
Washington DC 20515

Dear Representative Baldwin:

It's great that you are one of the honorary co-chairs of the Obama Inauguration.  

In your role as co-chair, will you please ask President-elect Obama to rescind his invitation to the Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration?

Rev. Warren has said staggeringly unloving things about many people, including LGBT people.  He compares our relationships to incest!  Please tell Mr. Obama that by including the Rev. Warren, he has disincluded LGBT Americans like you and me.

Clearly you were chosen for the co-chair honor in particular because of your work for LGBT Americans.  As a committed Democrat who supports Democratic and LGBT causes, and who has admired your courage, I ask that you stand up for us now, to right this wrong -- and to allow us to share in the hope for a truly inclusive America.

Yours,  

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by: GroffD @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 14:58:22 PM CST

Tammy Baldwin isn't the 7th Cavalry...

As I remember she voted for the Barney Frank's Democrat gutted version of ENDA. She's as much a sellout as Frank and the vast majority of Congressional Democrats.  

Everytime Obama stabs us in the back he slaps a fig leaf on the open wound. Baldwin, a sellout, is damage control. When he first made his sick deal with Warren and saw the outrage of the LGBT communities he used another fig leaf saying that he'd 'review' Bill Clintons Democrat DADT (although thats back on the back burner again).

Biden was picked to be VP because he's totally on board with the islamophobic war for the oil riches of the muslim Middle East. He and Obama support continued US funding of the ethnic cleansing and apartheid policies committed against Palestinians. Both supported the idea of calling the Iranian Revolutionary guard a terrorist group, opening the way for war. Both support ramping up the murder of civilians in Afghanistan and cross border raids against Syria and Pakistan. McCain has the same politics.

Biden voted for DOMA. He opposes same sex marriage and GLBT equality. He and Obama are bigots. McCain has the same politics.

Biden, the Senator from BoA, wrote the bankruptcy bill that allows credit cardsharks to take bigger bites from working people and consumers. They and the Clintons  oppose socialized medicine. Obama championed and fought for the $8.5 dollars donated by Congress in our name to the retard rich to recoup their losees when they wrecked the economy. McCain has the same politics

Biden and Obama are clearly right wing candidates in a right wing party who fooled many gullible GLBT people into supporting them. Now many of those same people are trying to distance themselves from their gross errors of judgement by criticizing Obama.

Too little, too late, too bad.

The looter rich much prefer working with Democrats like Obama and the Clintons - they're greedier, they fool more people and they're able to get away with a lot more than Republicans.  

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by: donal1944 @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 15:48:20 PM CST

Baldwin is not a sellout.

You have fallen into Obama's trap.  By appointing a generally well-liked gay legislator to this worthless position, he knows some lgbts will take out their anger on her.  Don't do it - don't fall for Obama's trick!  Obama is the responsible party here.  Let's not forget that.

Lurleen on Twitter

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by: Lurleen @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 17:26:52 PM CST

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Baldwin is not a sellout

just to re-enforce the point
ENDA had absolutely no chance of passing  the senate in any form, but the opportunity was there to get heat from the Democratic leadership if she didn't vote on it in the end.
She at least made a principled stand, and very publically.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 20:06:21 PM CST

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Barney Frank's ENDA was a deliberate sellout

to the Chamber of Commerce bigots who make money underpaying us and firing us for specious bigoted reasons when we complain. Anyone LGBT Congressmember who voted for that is a sellout.

Your theory that Obama appointed her to deflect our "anger on her" is wildly innacurate. And it wasn't a trick. He's always shocked when we have the temerity to get angry about his bigotry and he always puts a fig leaf on his open sores.

Obama himself is not a sellout to the GLBT communites. He can't be. Like most leaders of the Democrat or Republican parties he's just your ordinary run of the mill bigot. Frank and Baldwin not only can be sellouts they most certainly were in the case of ENDA.

She made a token stand and then, as even you admit, buckled under pressure from the bigots and sold out. Nothing could be clearer.

The road to our equality is the road away from the Democrat and Republican parties. They are not our friends. They're the enemy.  

The looter rich much prefer working with Democrats like Obama and the Clintons - they're greedier, they fool more people and they're able to get away with a lot more than Republicans.  

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by: donal1944 @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 02:15:45 AM CST

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Balancing Warren at the Hetero-Inaugural

To balance Rick Warren,
maybe play Cole Porter's "What a Swell Party This Is", as Melissa Eteridge does the Tango Maureen  with Fred Phelps.

btw. What a Swell Party this is, would make a WICKEDLY funny parody for the Inaugural for those with lyric skills.
I may even try my hand at lyrics since the song is now stuck in my head.

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 15:48:25 PM CST

the Tango Warreeen has a fun sound to it too

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 15:49:34 PM CST

Troy Comic took on Warren and Obama

   http://www.queerty.com/what-do...

from queerty.com
"What? Do We Have to Draw You a Picture?

Living in West Hollywood, we're big fans of Troy Comics, which sends up the ridiculous, faggy and sometimes heartwarming world of Boystown. We love Troy Comics creator Michael all the more today for coming up with this spot on editorial cartoon that sums up how we feel about Barack Obama's choice to have Rev. Rick Warren officiate his inauguration. Full view after the jump"

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 15:51:59 PM CST

Swap spit 4 SPIT

LOVE conquers H8
Turn your back to Warren and KISS the partner you choose for the entire Invocation to show our displeasure for being SPIT ON.on DAY ONE!
Swap spit for SPIT,
if I'm going to receive spit, it won't be from loathsome Rick's mouth.  

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 16:47:11 PM CST

the Tango Warr-eeen

this is weird, it's weird
very weird, f*ckin' weird
I'm so mad that I don't know what to do
..........
Feel like goin' insane?
Got a fire in my brain?
And your thinking of drinking gasoline?

As a matter of fact, honey I know that act
It's called the Tango Warr-eeen

~RENT Johnathan Larson paraphrased

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 17:02:34 PM CST

Adding Insult to Injury

Obama promised we might not agree with his decisions but he would talk to us about them. The time for that CONVERSATION with the parties who would be angered was BEFORE the invitation was made publicly to Rick Warren,,,that didn't happen. the Congressional Inaugural committee also knew and said NOTHING. So this vile invitation of Warren was revealed AFTER it couldn't be recinded, and LGBTs were not only blind sided by Obama, but by Reid, Pelosi and Feinstein. This left many gays and lesbians feeling Obama and congress members KNEW they would P*SS US OFF....and didn't CARE.

that NOT CARING is a two way street, members of Congress and Obama will find when they shove gays away, it's WAY WAY WAY harder to bring us back. If you didn't know this, you don't know any gay folks. Insulting and Injuring us....REALLY bad ju ju follows that crud.  

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 22:20:39 PM CST