Thanks to a heads up from the Joshua blog, ABC News just posted a story on their Web site that claims the White House is working hard behind the scenes in preparation for a possible nasty round of musical chairs for the US Supreme Court if two of the judges step down this spring.
Justice John Paul Stevens is one of the rumored potential retirees. At 89, the judge admitted to the Associated Press last fall that he hadn’t hired a full complement of clerks for next term, according to ABC News.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as we already know,announced last year that she had undergone surgery for early stage pancreatic cancer. She is 76.
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Obama at National Prayer Breakfast: The transcript
President Obama’s remarks Thursday at the Hilton Washington, as he addressed the National Prayer Breakfast. (Transcript provided by the White House.)
Thank you. Thank you very much. Please be seated.
Thank you so much. Heads of state, Cabinet members, my outstanding Vice President, members of Congress, religious leaders, distinguished guests, Admiral Mullen — it’s good to see all of you. Let me begin by acknowledging the co-chairs of this breakfast, Senators Isakson and Klobuchar, who embody the sense of fellowship at the heart of this gathering. They’re two of my favorite senators. Let me also acknowledge the director of my faith-based office, Joshua DuBois, who is here. Where’s Joshua? He’s out there somewhere. He’s doing great work.
I want to commend Secretary Hillary Clinton on her outstanding remarks, and her outstanding leadership at the State Department. She’s doing good every day. I’m especially pleased to see my dear friend, Prime Minister Zapatero, and I want him to relay America’s greetings to the people of Spain. And Johnny, you are right, I’m deeply blessed, and I thank God every day for being married to Michelle Obama.
I’m privileged to join you once again, as my predecessors have for over half a century. Like them, I come here to speak about the ways my faith informs who I am — as a President, and as a person. But I’m also here for the same reason that all of you are, for we all share a recognition — one as old as time — that a willingness to believe, an openness to grace, a commitment to prayer can bring sustenance to our lives.
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Did Michael Signorile really go on CNN today and the first thing to fly out of his stupid mouth was attacks on Obama? Did that jacked up queen really just do that? Like, WTF? Obama just said in front of the entire nation not less than 3 days ago that he was committed to repealing DADT. The top two military leaders are meeting this Tuesday to discuss moving forward on DADT. Like, what? What more do you want Signorile? Shut up. Especially when you knew this whole time that the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network had been restraining the president since day one. See our post on here about when Signorile along with Dan Choi and Dan Savage in a CNN interview during National Equality March weekend in DC tried to act like they didn’t know after Hilary Rosen spilled the beans (Memba Dis)
Girl, what’s up with the fake indignation act? Aren’t you tired of that act? You’ve been already outted on national tv—on this same CNN show. Don’t you remember?
Okay. Breathe. Calm down. We can’t type anymore. We’re—we’re just too worked up. We’ve just had our fill of these tired tired tired gay white establishment thugs and thuglettes and their negativity—-yesterday. Oh yeah. Anybody check out today’s New York Times piece on Obama and DADT? If not, here it is: Varied Forces Pushing Obama to Act on Gays in the Military.
Please. Watch this crap. Tell us what you think it.
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The effects of drinking too much hatorade on "Lez Get Real" blogger Paula Brooks
There’s NO WAY we could not offer commentary on one of the most recent posts from popular lesbian blogger Paula Brooks of Lez Get Real. She was actually our original choice for RENWL’s Gay Inc Loser of the Week. But things got interrupted. In any case, apparently Miss Brooks is encouraging LGBT residents of Massachusetts to stay at home rather than vote in Tuesday’s very critical special election. No, this is no joke. Read this segment of her post:
Now I don’t live in Massachusetts, but if I did, I would be telling President Obama I would gladly put on my walking shoes again… if he would only show me the money as it were, and do something about getting Mary Ritchie’s $15,000 back to her a little more expedient fashion… like withdrawing his Justice Department defense to Mary’s case… and to stop betraying my hopes for equality at every opportunity he gets.
However until he does… I would be telling every LGBT I know… come Tuesday… they should send Mr. Obama a loud and clear message about his dicking around with our civil rights and STAY HOME IN MASS on Election Day…
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Geoff Kors talkin’ shit again
This always happens right as we get ready to leave our PC after being online for a spell. Just as we were about to click our way to our desktop to shut down for the morning until later on in the day, did our eye catch something rather odd. Wait, is that Geoff Kors writing for the Huff Post, again? What in the world of rich gay white male crazy nonsense could he possibly be babbling about this time?
Well, we found out. Apparently Kors has decided that reaching out to communities of color and other minorities is a good thing. Too bad it took him the entirety of the No On 8 campaign, $40 million in donations down the drain, him and his staff’s single-minded destruction of the 2010 marriage equality effort and a federal trial that he originally objected against to finally arrive to that conclusion. But hey, better late than never.
In his Huff Post essay today Gay Marriage: From a Federal Case to a National Movement—the part that we find hardest to choke down is this passage:
Here in California we are working hard with allies like the California NAACP, Chinese for Affirmative Action, the Equal Justice Society, and religious and civil leaders in many communities, supporting and championing their priorities and throwing our weight behind their efforts.
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