I’m noting this in RedHot/my site because Brian has covered the basics of the thing itself; essentially, the President is going to wait until the military gets back to him before he tries to get the law repealed. Speaking as someone who actually favors allowing gays to serve openly in the military, let me correct two egregious errors in the article:
- Clinton was not “forced to back off”; he out-and-out caved on this issue at the first sign of pressure.
- A “comprehensive assessment” does not actually mean a “comprehensive assessment:” as Karl over at Patterico notes in a different controversy, it means something more like “to move an issue onto a back burner.”
In other words, don’t count on this changing this spring. Or this year. Or, quite possibly, this Presidential term.
Crossposted at RedState.
I think it’s time for a study on government studies, or perhaps a committee should be formed to recommend a way forward on a post-partisan task force to analyze the matter and produce an authoritative report on a series of alternative roadmaps to a package of working group products.
More substantively, Teh 0ne isn’t really, personally keen on gays at all, in the military or otherwise, but he knows they send money by the bucketload and they know how to throw a protest march. Clearly he doesn’t see this as a civil rights issue.