John McSenile apparently wants to be the poster boy for why there need to be mandatory retirement ages for members of Congress. The man is clearly losing his grasp on reality and action the exact opposite of how he once promised to act if the military brass found that it was time for DADT to be thrown on the trash heap of history. McCain is - in my view - a tad too hysterical on the issue and it does make me wonder once again if there might not be something to a friend's conjecture that McCain was sodomized while a POW in North Vietnam. Indeed, McCain's shrillness reminds one of self-loathing closet cases like Robert Knight and Peter LaBarbera. McSenile seems virtually obsessed with finding any flimsy reason to ignore the Pentagon report that blows his concerns out of the water. Here are highlights from Think Progress on McCain's shameless behavior as well as a video clip of McSenile's refusal to accept findings that run counter to his own bigotry:
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From the very first DADT hearing in February 2010 to today’s session, the Senator refused to consider the views of the witnesses before him. This morning — after reviewing the overwhelming positive DADT report and listening to the pleas of the leaders to end the policy in the lame duck session — McCain went further, openly implying that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen was not living up to the expectations of leadership because he did not ask the troops if they favored repealing the policy.
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Significantly, all of the leaders in front of the commission — Mullen, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and Working Group chairmen Defense Department General Counsel Jeh C. Johnson and Army Gen. Carter F. Ham — disagreed with McCain’s approach of polling the troops about the policy. “I can’t think of a single precedent in American history of doing a referendum of the american armed forces on a policy issue,” Gates said, asking, “are you going to ask them if they want 15 month tours, are you going to ask them if they want to be part of the surge in Iraq?” McCain didn’t name a single “great leader” who favored a referendum.
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From the very first DADT hearing in February 2010 to today’s session, the Senator refused to consider the views of the witnesses before him. This morning — after reviewing the overwhelming positive DADT report and listening to the pleas of the leaders to end the policy in the lame duck session — McCain went further, openly implying that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen was not living up to the expectations of leadership because he did not ask the troops if they favored repealing the policy.
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Significantly, all of the leaders in front of the commission — Mullen, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and Working Group chairmen Defense Department General Counsel Jeh C. Johnson and Army Gen. Carter F. Ham — disagreed with McCain’s approach of polling the troops about the policy. “I can’t think of a single precedent in American history of doing a referendum of the american armed forces on a policy issue,” Gates said, asking, “are you going to ask them if they want 15 month tours, are you going to ask them if they want to be part of the surge in Iraq?” McCain didn’t name a single “great leader” who favored a referendum.
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