Not all of them, of course. But…yeah. A lot of ’em.

Yesterday’s vote against the repeal of don’t-ask-don’t-tell was, despite all the protestations about procedure and “how dare they introduce this just weeks before an election,” was about bigotry.

And not even on the part of the public, a majority of which supports repeal. This was about Capitol Hill Republicans and their hard-core conservative constituents who just don’t like gays.

Including this Republican Senate staffer—an aide to senator Saxby Chambliss, who is himself a terrible, terrible person—who wrote “All faggots must die” on a gay-oriented blog…..