Wow! Let's give Elaine Donnelly a medal for showing just how ridiculous and bigoted DADT is... What a bucket of crazy she is!

My favorite part of the article was the idiot who cited esprit de corps as a reason to keep gays out of the military... but couldn't spell it. Talk about blowing your own credibility!

Steve, you always manage to crack me up!

She always struck me as a cross between June Cleaver and Baroness Thatcher on a bad day...

It's pretty easy to get excited over someone so blatantly bigoted and groomed to be in that position. Where do you start?

However, I'd like to point out that I always took for granted I was gay/trans when it came to the military as I figured that was my ticket out. If there was ever a draft, I would tell them in a second that you don't want me and this is why. Anything to get me out of the possibility of killing another human being. I know there are several LGBT people that want to serve their country in the military, and I don't think their rights should be stepped on, especially instigated by people like Donnelly. But, I just wanted to say there is an advantage to being in an excluded group sometimes.

I couldn't believe the bigoted things this idiot was saying. How did she get her "job", and why hasn't she been fired yet?

I couldn't believe the bigoted things this idiot was saying. How did she get her "job", and why hasn't she been fired yet?

Steve, this is just wonderful. In so many ways the military has been treated as though they were on a special plantation that only allows certain types admittance. In the sixty years, this year, since military racial integration began the buffoons of bigotry have lost a lot of ground, but still, no one who is on the plantation wants anyone else there.

I wonder if Phyllis Schlafly's head exploded?

The idiocies of rightwing DADT supporters like Bill Clinton, Elaine Donnelly, Sam Nunn and the majprity of Congressional Democrats is not the central question.

That question is the linkage between opposition to DADT and opposition to the Bush/Clinton genocide in Iraq. In the case of DADT they're linled by the policies of Democrats, not the Republicans, who are solely responsible for DADT and for refusing to repeal it during the last two years. Similarly the Democrats promised to end the war but it turns out they were lying. No surprise there - it's what they do for a living. After they got elected they voted FOR war funding and refused to impeach Bush. They also refused to set a date in 2007 or 2008 for total withdrawal.

Now we know why. Obama, who's politics are at least as rightwing as McCain's (union busting with NAFTA, socialized medicine, FISA, bribing 'faith' based cults) now promises to continue the war, with it's awful mauling of GIs and mass murder of Iraqis for at least two more years. He opposes DADT because he'll need cannon fodder. The wanton murder of our GLBT brothers and sisters by US armed Iraqi jihadists will continue.

The antiwar movements recent Cleveland convention decided to demonstrate against both war parties - we'll be in Denver and Minneapolis. In January we'll immediately take to the streets in national actions to demand the immediate and total withdrawal of US forces from the Middle East and cutting the US purse strings that pay for the apartheid practiced against Palestinians.

When we're picketing the White House we'll also be chanting "Hey, Hey, Obama (or McCain) how many kids did you kill today." I hope everyone at Bilerico joins in. We'll need a series of massive demonstrations to end the killing. Join us.

McCain is a rancid right-winger with the Rev. Pat Robertson attached at the hip.

Obama is Bill Clinton (DOMA, DADT, NAFTA) in drag with the Rev. Donnie McClurkin attached at the hip.

I liked the comment from her about looking at women's breasts, as if that doesn't affect women in the military....

Oh, wait, Donnelly's against women in the military too. What about Black people? Is that not chic anymore to be in favor of racial segregation?

After having what I think is a pretty bad experience at the VA yesterday I'm not sure that lifting dadt alone will be enough to ensure lgbt soldiers are treated well during and after military service.Amy

Elaine has found one bastion of support amidst the the firing squad of critics who spoke out after the hearing.

From the Family Research Council's email blast to their supporters on Thursday evening:

For the first time since Congress beat back Bill Clinton's effort to bring homosexuals into the military in 1993, there was a hearing on the topic yesterday on Capitol Hill, which FRC's Vice President for Policy Peter Sprigg and several Witherspoon Fellows attended. The Democrats in Congress are laying the groundwork for action next year, when they hope Barack Obama will be president, to overturn the law which codified the military's longstanding policy excluding homosexuals. Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, and Sgt. Major Brian Jones, a veteran of the Army's elite Delta Force, ably defended the law in the face of shockingly disrespectful and even abusive questioning by members of the House Military Personnel subcommittee. Particularly egregious was the behavior of Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.), who said that Donnelly's concern about the impact of HIV-positive soldiers was "dumb" and that her testimony about behaviors common among homosexuals was "bonkers." Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-N.H.) used the silly line, "When did you decide to be heterosexual?" The false assumptions that people are "born gay" and can never change, and that homosexuality is equivalent to race, permeated the questioning. Yet no one explained how it would benefit the military to recruit service members who plan to commit acts which are criminal under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

It's so easy to make fun of Elaine though. From the first time she wrote me about one of Steve's posts claiming it was "defamatory" and she'd take legal action to her performance at the hearings - she's acted like an idiotic pig. Talk about throwing pearls before swine.

I finally saw the entire hearing on the House Armed Services Committee Website: http://armedservices.house.gov/hearing_information.shtml
Scroll down to Wednesday, July 23, 2008. Right now, it's at the top.

I noticed that submarines have been mentioned a few times. I had to laugh because I served on submarines. Only Rep Shea-Porter knew better because she has a son on submarines. (I think it was her son.)

Donnelly must never read Dale Carnagie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People." Her actions can be used for an example of how NOT to act at a Congressional hearing. I think I heard the "High Nut-Job" alarm go off several times during the hearing. We should be sending her thank-you letters for how much she helped us.

I've wondered for a long time about the consistency of appearance among rightist zealots. Note the pursy-lipped faces and polyester-looking hair of Falwell, Helms, Hatch, Dobson, Robertson and the rest. And the women tend toward a circle-pin lesbian type. Is there a grooming and body language manual floating around available to anybody who wants to become part of the gang?

At least the leftist nutjobs show some greater variety.

I would say that Elaine Donnelly sounds and looks like a transgender woman, but that's insulting to transgender women. Suffice that nobody should go to Capitol Hill looking as rough as she did.

Of course, people who are several fries short of their Happy Meal, as Donnelly is, should also not be testifying on Capitol Hill.