I said I would call out Christine O'Donnell as a double coward if she refused to answer questions from any press outlet other than Fox News. Sure enough, she's taking Sarah Palin's advice and refusing to answer questions from mainstream media outlets, even CNN.
Christine, you are running for United States Senator. For you to refuse to answer questions about serious matters like whether or not you've been living for the last several years on campaign contributions, or whether you didn't pay your taxes, then it's obvious you just want to represent the right-wing population of Delaware -- those people who don't know what's really going on because all they listen to is Fox News and Rush Limbaugh -- and not the people of Delaware as a whole. You have no business running for this office if you are not willing to face these charges and explain them to the people you expect to represent. If these charges are unfounded, then you should have no problem answering these questions from any legitimate media outlet.
Sadly, the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell failed in the Senate on a vote of 56-43 when it was filibustered by the Republicans. It is now obvious that it's impossible to get anything passed through Congress without 60 votes. In that case I think the filibuster rule must be changed. It is unlikely, if not impossible, that any one party will have a clear 60 votes in the Senate ever again. That means that our government, as it is currently constructed, has ceased to work.
The fact that patriotic, talented Americans are precluded from serving in the military due to the circumstances of their birth is anti-Democratic, anti-American, and obviously discriminatory. This should have been overturned long ago. This is another example of legislation the Obama administration should have put forward while the Democrats had a larger majority in the Senate.
Obama should now use the option of executive order to at least end the dismissal of gay military personnel under DADT. The vast majority of the people of this country, as well as the majority of our military leaders, are in favor of overturning this discriminatory policy. It looks like he'll have to take matters into his own hands now that Congress has become so dysfunctional.
