The Advocate's Kerry Eleveld says everyone's confused. Mehlman is the good guy.
We know, we know, it’s been a minute now since we’ve had a loser of the week. There’s been plenty of candidates but we wanted to hold back until we got ourselves a real goon. That happened today.
Kerry Eleveld over at The Advocate ought to be ashamed of herself. What a jive idiot. Just when we kinda sorta warm up to her scribblings on LGBT rights and what not she goes and just inks something BEYOND stupid. And then to add insult to injury just as stupidly The Advocate publishes the dreck.
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We're not all that crazy about the conservative press, either.
Look, all we can say is after being suckered punched over and over months on end by believing everything our friend Marta E. posted on her Facebook profile about the certain demise of Healthcare Reform featured every three days in the headlines of most of the mainstream liberal press—-we’re kinda jaded at this point when these media outlets start once again to preach gloom ‘n’ doom.
So when we read in a fellow gay rag that’s picked up a story that the Dems are freaked out about House prospects in August in regards to the midterms in November, we know that the liberal press is revving up for a nice long-term high anxiety session for their readership. Which, if they really keep folks on edge sweating bullets of anxiety for the long haul like they did for Healthcare Reform, it could translate into some cute change from some of their more loyal advertisers.
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Michelle Obama speaks at 2008 Democratic National Convention
Over the weekend the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) Rules and Bylaws Committee had it’s final meeting in St. Louis to finalize Party rules and operations. We have a fresh draft of it here. The meetings were also to discuss DNC Executive Committee member elections, constituency caucus bylaws, and other DNC business.
According to DemConWatch here’s one change they’ve noticed so far:
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On Tuesday U.S. District Court Judge Joseph L. Tauro entered an amended judgment and order in Gill v. Office of Personnel Management granting,that “the judgment in this action is stayed pending the disposition of any appeal filed by the Defendants.”
The Department Of Justice (DOJ) now has until October 18, to make up their minds as to whether or not to appeal the case.
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According to Keen News Service it’s been 40 days since U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro ruled—in two cases—that the federal benefits provision in the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. But the Department of Justice has still not indicated whether it intends to appeal those decisions to the 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
DOJ attorney Scott Simpson, the lead on the case is so far declining to discuss the DOJ’s status in terms of what they’re going to do next. This leads some to speculate if in fact that the Department Of Justice is going to appeal at all. In fact, according to DOJ attorney Scott Simpson, who is leading the case filed by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, the government has not yet decided whether it will appeal.
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