DADT repeal aside, the point remains that the Senate Republicans, led by bitter and confused war hero John McCain, have decided to block funding authorization for troops in two theatres during wartime. Will President Obama bother to make this point, ever?

Following the orders of their Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, both Susan Collins (R-ME) and George Voinovich (R-OH) announced they will join the GOP filibuster led by John McCain (R-AZ) of the Defense Authorization bill, making today’s initial steps to repeal of Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell very precarious.

Just as Lady Gaga takes the stage to urge Maine’s Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to allow debate to proceed on ‘repeal’ of DADT, Senator Snowe’s office posts a statement to her office website that reads to me like, “No, or anyway — Not Now.”

What do you do when it becomes clear you’re going to lose on a political issue? Depending on the issue you might get depressed, you might feel cynical about the whole situation, you might get really angry. Or if you are a conservative group like the Family Research Council or American Family Association, you might lose you freaking mind and start saying and supporting things that can only be described as bat-guano insane.

“Originally posted at Squarestate.net“

As the compromise on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal has taken form the uber conservative and falsely named Family Research Council has pulled out all the stops. Yesterday they rolled out a so-called study claiming that an end to DADT will mean a free-rape zone in the military. Talking Points Memo reports:

Here’s how the Family Research Council envisions things going if Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is repealed: first, more straight soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines will be fellated in their sleep against their will. Then, commanders afraid of being labeled homophobes will refuse to do anything about it. Eventually, the straight service members will quit out of fear.

On a conference call with reporters today, FRC Senior Fellow for Policy Studies Peter Sprigg delivered the results of what he said was the first-ever study of “homosexual assault” in the military. Joined by several former military officers opposed to allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the armed forces, he warned Congress that the DADT repeal language currently under discussion with the agreement of the White House will turn the U.S. military into a terrifying free-rape zone where no heterosexual is safe.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs appeared to confirm growing suspicions among LGBT activists that President Obama, despite his ringing call for DADT repeal in this year’s State of the Union, has decided to let the Pentagon stall. In confirming the December first date of the Pentagon’s first report, Gibbs seems to indicate that legislative action is impossible in 2010.

Oh, joy, look who will get to “burnish his progressive credentials” by introducing the repeal of Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell in the United States Senate.