White House to Gays: No Action on DADT This Year. TTYL!

[PalJoey]

White House to Gays: No Action on DADT This Year. TTYL!#1

Posted: 4/21/10 at 5:56pm

This link is from JoeMyGod, but you can find at all the usual suspects.

Robert Gibbs: White House Will Wait Until Pentagon Completes DADT Repeal Study

Updated On: 4/21/10 at 05:56 PM

[uncageg]

White House to Gays: No Action on DADT This Year. TTYL!#2

Posted: 4/21/10 at 6:34pm

I thought I saw him say this a few days ago.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[Roscoe]

White House to Gays: No Action on DADT This Year. TTYL!#2

Posted: 4/21/10 at 7:11pm

This can't really be a surprise to anyone, can it? Seriously? Even the waiters for miracles, counters of baby-steps and appreciators of the good little things have to have seen this coming.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[romantico]

White House to Gays: No Action on DADT This Year. TTYL!#3

Posted: 4/21/10 at 7:29pm

Oh Christ!

'There are three sides to every story. My side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently' -Robert Evans-

[TheatreDiva90016]

White House to Gays: No Action on DADT This Year. TTYL!#4

Posted: 4/21/10 at 7:45pm

But, now I'll NEVER get in!

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[Roscoe]

Change We Can Believe In -- Like We Believe In Santa Claus!#5

Posted: 4/21/10 at 9:34pm

Obama promised Change We Can Believe In, not Change We're Actually Going To See.

And his State of the Union address said that he'd work with Congress this year to repeal DADT, not that DADT would be repealed this year. So it looks like all those gay servicemen and servicewomen will just have to take comfort in all the good little things that Obama does for them apart from allowing them to risk their lives for a country that denies them equal protection under the law. At least their gay partners can visit them in the hospital. Can't they? Or does that constitute "telling"?

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

Updated On: 4/21/10 at 09:34 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Change We Can Believe In -- Like We Believe In Santa Claus!#6

Posted: 4/21/10 at 9:42pm

OH I GET IT NOW!

That hospital visitation thing was our crumb to shut us the hell up when this hit a few days later.

[Jordan Catalano]

Change We Can Believe In -- Like We Believe In Santa Claus!#7

Posted: 4/21/10 at 9:43pm

At least now GLBT people can visit their closeted partners in the hospital when they're injured in the line of duty overseas.

[PalJoey]

Change We Can Believe In -- Like We Believe In Santa Claus!#8

Posted: 4/21/10 at 9:54pm

No, Jordan, that would be telling--or asking--and it would mean a dishonorable discharge.

We can visit our partners in the hospital EXCEPT when they're serving the country. Or when God comes into the blender.

And don't ask why. Because the president's not telling.

[FindingNamo]

Change We Can Believe In -- Like We Believe In Santa Claus!#9

Posted: 4/21/10 at 10:06pm

Oh man, I had a dishonorable discharge once.

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[Jordan Catalano]

Change We Can Believe In -- Like We Believe In Santa Claus!#10

Posted: 4/21/10 at 10:08pm

Did it land you in the hospital, Namo? Usually when I have a discharge I need to get some help.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Change We Can Believe In -- Like We Believe In Santa Claus!#11

Posted: 4/21/10 at 10:18pm

I agree with romantico and that we should turn this over to Christ.

[Jordan Catalano]

Change We Can Believe In -- Like We Believe In Santa Claus!#12

Posted: 4/21/10 at 10:19pm

You mean Peaches Christ?

[PalJoey]

Change We Can Believe In -- Like We Believe In Santa Claus!#13

Posted: 4/22/10 at 8:34am

According to Towleroad, the fix was in since just after the State of the Union:
Report: White House Officials Nixed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Days After the President's Promise

[Mister Matt]

Change We Can Believe In -- Like We Believe In Santa Claus!#14

Posted: 4/22/10 at 11:30am

What is a "repeal implementation study" and why does it take the Pentagon eight months to complete?

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[PalJoey]

Change We Can Believe In -- Like We Believe In Santa Claus!#15

Posted: 4/22/10 at 11:59am

Maybe because the president doesn't really want to do it at all.

[FindingNamo]

Change We Can Believe In -- Like We Believe In Santa Claus!#16

Posted: 4/22/10 at 12:01pm

To be fair, isn't it the Pentagon that pays Halliburton $8,000 for a toilet seat?

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[jrb_actor]

Change We Can Believe In -- Like We Believe In Santa Claus!#17

Posted: 4/22/10 at 7:24pm

I just hope Mr. Obama is aware of this number: 2009's Total DADT Discharges: 443

http://www.queerty.com/2009s-total-dadt-discharges-443-20100422/

johnraymondbarker.com

[papalovesmambo]

what? you thought i meant this year?#18

Posted: 4/30/10 at 11:12pm

"this year some day, maybe, i will might work with congress and our military to finally repeal talk about very quietly the law that denies gay americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are, but don;t expect too much, ok, because every year is an election year and y'all are just not very popular with americans, k?"

and let's not even get started on the evil that dare not speak its name, doma.
is 2013 good for you? no? ok, how about never? does never work?

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pray to st. jude

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he was the gimmicky sort

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[SNAFU]

what? you thought i meant this year?#19

Posted: 4/30/10 at 11:32pm

2013? I wonder what the Palin/Beck Administration will do with it?

Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

[Jordan Catalano]

what? you thought i meant this year?#20

Posted: 5/1/10 at 12:19am

Doesn't the future President Palin have a lesbian friend?
We should be fine.

[PalJoey]

what? you thought i meant this year?#21

Posted: 5/1/10 at 9:17am

She can see Lesbos from her window.