Frank: 'Zero chance' for LGBT bills next year
Lou Chibbaro Jr. | Nov 08, 2010
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2010/11/08/frank-%E2%80%98zero-chance%E2%80%99-for-lgbt-bills-next-year/ (http://www.washingtonblade.com/2010/11/08/frank-%E2%80%98zero-chance%E2%80%99-for-lgbt-bills-next-year/)
Gay U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who won re-election last week in one of his toughest challenges, said LGBT legislation would have no chance of passing in Congress under the Republican-controlled House next year.
In an interview Tuesday with the Washington Blade, Frank also said he was confident that the Senate, of which Democrats retained control, would join President Obama in blocking any anti-gay bills that conservative Republicans might introduce over the next two years.
"Next year there's no chance of anything happening," he said of pro-LGBT legislation. "There's zero chance."
Have a feeling the Republicans might exploit this to it's fullest.
By continually presenting bills that appeal to the frightened red-necks but with an anti LGBT element, they can claim the will of the people is being blocked by the Dems.
Example, protecting public toilets.
It's a sad reality that the progressive forces in most democratic countries are dominated by people so obscessed with their own rhetoric they seem incapable of actually thinking about how to present argument.
People, It's time to make our presence felt.
Gennee