Delaware Liberal

Gay Republicans. I don't get you. You know they hate you, right? Anyway... There is this. John Fluharty was offered considered for a job in the Department of Homeland Security. He declined the offer. removed himself from consideration. 

McCain surely deserves credit for his surprise vote. There was an audible gasp when he voted "no" and flashed the bird at McConnell. Murkowski deserves more credit. She stuck to her guns in spite of Trump's bullying. Collins deserves even more credit. She was a "no" the whole time and that allowed Murkowshi and McCain to come along. But as Josh Marshall, the most insightful and intelligent commenter on all of this points out, the activists and non-activists who showed up at townhalls and made endless noise are the real heroes.

Watch the video.

SARAH MCBRIDE: Well, what's clear is that for the roughly either 6,000 to 15,000 transgender people who are actively serving in our military right now, this policy change would have sweeping impacts on their lives,

their careers, their families. This is really a mean-spirited, unpatriotic, and dangerous attack on people who are bravely serving their country right now. And while it's still early in terms of what the policy will actually shape up to be, what it threatens to be is an attack on as many as 15,000 active duty transgender service members, people who are bravely serving this country, something that I will remind President Trump he failed to do after five deferments to Vietnam.