There are a mere four days left of 2007, a year that had as many highs as it did lows. Like so many of us, Human Rights Campaign has spent some time reflecting on the past 361 days. Here's a taste of Joe Solmonese's message:
..The year is coming to a close, and the traffic through the halls of Congress has slowed. Behind us is 2007, the year of hope, when our community’s voice was more powerful and more relevant than it had ever been.
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By this time next year, we could be celebrating the election of a supportive president. We know that this is what it will take to translate promise to results, and we are committed to making it happen.
Hopefully HRC will be a little more effective – and consistent – than they were with this year's ENDA debacle.
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It wasn’t just ENDA. The buffoons over at HRC danced all year with the Democrats but it was the same old one step left and four steps right reel we’ve seen for years.
Their mutual admiration society was a disaster for us; we got pushed back on every front. Democrats control both houses but didn’t even raise the question of repealing Clintons DADT. The same is true of DOMA. It actually spread to new states.
Although both Houses of Congress passed the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Bill it ‘went missing’. While these cowards caved in and gave Bush additional hundreds of billions to kill Iraqis, especially Iraqi gays and lesbians, the buffoons in the Democratic leadership somehow ‘misplaced’ the hate crimes bill. We desperately need it, the cops and DA’s demand it, civil rights and civil liberties groups praised it (because it vastly expands the responsibility of law enforcement to curb violence) and the Democrats… well, they ‘mislaid’ it.
Then HRC, Barney and Nancy paid a visit to ENDA. You knew it was going to get ugly when you saw them carrying machetes and a power saw. When they reintroduced ENDA there was a lot of blood but no meat on the bones. It too had gone missing. And then Barney had the gall to say he’d done us a favor, but then isn't that just what the Clintons said about DADT and DOMA.
Not to be outdone HRC’s friends in the Senate, led by liberal Diane Feinstein arranged to put gay bashers in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and to head up the Justice (sic) Department.
The truth is that we got trounced, and not by the Republicans, they were just along for the ride. The real bashers were the Democrats who claim to be our friends.
With Democrats like that who needs Republicans.