Another No-Show For the DNC LGBT Fundraiser

No more gAyTM for them

until they come up with something to show for it.

Are there any figures on how much financial pain the shutting off of this spigot will cause them, in proportion to their total budget? How likely is it they'd be able to take this hit and carry on as before? I guess that depends on something intangible, the pigheadedness of their attitudes, their mental resistance to progress. I'm thinking like a rational actor here, but bigotry is not rational. I wonder how much of their behavior is governed by rational self-interest versus bigotry.

Here's what I find about compromise--
don't do it if it hurts inside,
'cause either way you're screwed,
eventually you'll find
you may as well feel good;
you may as well have some pride

--Indigo Girls

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by: Hypatia @ Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 13:45:28 PM CDT

Wow, what a great question!

Any guesses, folks?

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

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by: Louise @ Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 13:59:37 PM CDT

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Its a good chunk of change...

but it probably does not hurt them too bad. As I've said before, there are lots of other constituencies that would LOVE to have the President or VP come.  

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by: SciFi Geek @ Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 15:25:38 PM CDT

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Besides...

I'm sure the WH knows that their boycott hurts LGBT organizations more in the long run. Instead of being actively engaged with the administration, they will have declared it an enemy. The job of moving pro LGBT legislation will simply get harder once they stop working with the President. In DC, access is everything. The best way to got anything done in DC is to have access to the President. HRC and others have just publically spit on the president. He now has justification to completely ignore them where as before he wanted them as part of the national dialogue.

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by: SciFi Geek @ Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 15:32:13 PM CDT

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hopefully others are paying attention

to what he's doing to the gays.

the health care constituency is next. http://www.americablog.com/200... (and Obama's already on record saying he'll pass a bill without the option).

Oh... and people who care about due process and justice issues? Obama's screwed over them too -- at the DoJ, no less. http://www.americablog.com/200...

Why should people on death row have access to dna evidence that could prove their innocence, anyway? Hey, at least it's consistent: his admin has continually pushed for preventing inmates in guatanimo from getting their due process -- they'll be sent all around the world when the prison's closed so they don't have access to the American judiciary system.

Soon, there won't be many democratic constituencies left. Let's hope the apologists get the memo.  

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by: RyansTake @ Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 14:02:25 PM CDT

It Wouldn't Surprise Me

if Obama's plan is to keep this crap going because it would mean people like Maggie Gallagher would have to get a real job.

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by: bluegrassfool @ Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 14:09:56 PM CDT

Equality Caucus

I sent a message to the Equality Caucus derploring democratic inaction on gay rights and got a return email saying it would be passed on to Reps. Baldwin and Frank (who might remember my name because Kate Clinton gave him one of my gay mysteries).

Today I got a fund-raising appeal from Jennifer Granholm's office and I sent a version of what I've been sending to every Democratic fund-raising group:

I'm a lifelong Democrat who gave more time and money to the last two elections than ever before, but I'm done supporting anyone in my party.

I am disgusted with congressional and presidential inaction on granting the GLBT community full equal rights.  Thus far, it's all talk and no real action.  When the party pushes the reversal of DADT and DOMA and passes ENDA, I will return.

Right now, the Democrats are proving to be GOP Lite and endorsing by their inaction a state of gay apartheid.

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 14:46:57 PM CDT